Category: Journal

Let’s get down to business. By this time of the commission I feel a little like the Bushman that have been trekking an Eland for days. The final strategy is in place, it’s now just having the mental strength and capacity to execute the kill. A few weeks have gone by with the first meeting…

This week brought all sorts of wild ups and downs – business and personal. Since opening the shop the ebb and flow of panic and trust has left me exhausted most evenings. Just yesterday I stood chatting to a beautiful woman who has been doing jewellery classes as a hobby for about ten years. The…

Every week I promise myself that I’ll write the next Monday write up sooner rather than later. But every Monday I sit at my desk and only start writing after a day of work, dinner and a cup of tea or two. This is a hard piece to write just because the passion behind creating…

I had every intention of unpacking the jewellery making process and explaining the behind the scenes, the how to get from point A to B. Then I got in my car and geographically went from point A to B instead. I’m currently sitting staring at a fire, some good tunes floating into the warm Cederberg…

Good morning! Why is it a good morning you might ask? Well, the night that brought horizontal rains (at times the rain even rained up back to where it came from) and wind gusts up to ninety kilometers per hour has come and gone. The windows in my house rattled something fierce and a loose…

I go through stages where I feel I have a lot of worthwhile things to say and at other times I wonder if it’s even worth raising my voice. I’ve been wanting to write about some genuinely heartfelt things but haven’t had the energy, at all. As if my emotional tanks have all been spent…

Stefni Studio is officially up and running outside of home premises. The past two weeks were spent setting up shop and manufacturing space and it has been quite a push to get things up to standard. I have two main mottos in life ‘keep things simple’ and ‘everything within capacity’ and although I stuck to…

It’s Monday evening and I’m staring at a blank screen. Actually been staring at the screen for a few days now. I had every intention of letting the words fall out of me after moving studios, telling you all about the new venture, I had so much to say yet every time I opened the…

I don’t believe that when we do things we have done before it necessarily means that it’s going to be the same. Each previous experience came with a certain set of circumstances, just like the next experience will come with a certain set of circumstances. Maybe I’m trying to convince myself that this time around…

Over the years I have been witness to a lot of love stories. Mainly because I’m a jeweller and part of what I do is making sure the guy has a ring to ask the girl to be his forever. But I have also been witness to close friends, random acquaintances and past lovers finding…