Is Self Employment a hobby or a job

Have you ever been at a craft fair and have peoplestop at your stall and admire your work and make a comment like “nice hobby” or how long did that take to make and when you tell them they say “you obviously have a lot of spare time”

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Rough Rock Shop Improved

After a long time of trying to work out why the site was running so slowly at times we realized that the shop plug-in we were using was the culprit. For some reason we just couldn’t upgrade this plug-in to the latest version as I kept messing up. So, we decided to use a different […]

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The finished cabochon machine

A new Diamond Cabochon machine – conclusion

Over the last two days I completed the build of this new machine. As it’s a clean machine as explained in my last post, it won’t need drip trays to collects water or anything like that, so it was decided that the machine would be mounted direct to the bench in a static position. This […]

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Details view of cabing machine shaft showing threaded end with nut

A new Diamond Cabochon machine part 1

A new addition to our stable of homemade Lapidary machines, this one will be a 4 wheel cabochon machine using for rubber expanding drums fitted with REZ belts which will be charged with diamond paste of different mesh.

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Great day at the craft fair today

Yes today was a great day at the craft fair, it was well attended and I got a few nice comments about the hessian we bought recently to use as table covers on my stand, it went very well with the rocks and trees. I met a very interesting chap who wanted to have a […]

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Stamford Artisans Guild Craft Fair 15th May 2011

Just wanted to let you know that we wil having a stall at the Stamford Artisans Craft Fair on 15th May 2011 which will be held at the Stamford Arts Centre between 10Am and 4PM. We will have a range of cabochons available for jewellery makes and tumblestones of various types and of course our […]

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Rough Rock Shop is back

We took the rough rock shop down as we realised there was a software error that indicated items were out of stock when they weren’t. We have figured out what the problem is and will monitor it while build the new shop, this doesn’t create a problem in the transaction process or anything like that. […]

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Cutting the Printstone

Looking Forward to being a busy Lapidary in 2011

In addition to working semi precious stones like Tiger Eye, Blue Lace Agate and the many others we have in stock I also want to revisit my big stock of Flint and get to know it better and maybe couple it with the copper wire to produce a range of “not too expensive” jewellery but keeping it in the same class as our Sterling Silver wrapped jewellery. I also like the Flint because it’s a material I collected myself from an excavation site, so there is more of a bond to it than the bought in rough that we have.

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Close up view my wire wrapped Ents upper torso

Wire Wrapped Ent

Well I finally finished my wrire wrapped Ent, he no longer looks like a Peperami with arms and legs. I worked out how to fashion his face and a beard and he also has leaves now as well, so yes he looks more like an Ent now.

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