A cloudy day is perfect for blogging

After a short blogging hiatus due to work load and illness, i’m happy to announce that we’re back and would like to re-introduce our label to those checking in on a long awaited up date and also to those visiting for the first time. So here, below is an extended excerpt from an interview i recently gave:

About Run Wild Horses style
For the most part the Run Wild Horses style is know of "modern vintage". I take vintage and vintage reproduction materials and re-work them into modern, fresh and unique designs.
I draw inspiration from the materials themselves. I spend many hours searching markets, vintage and ops shops and online looking for unique vintage components, and will often sit on the floor with all my boxes and containers of parts and bring the pieces together at that tine, rather than planning out a collection from sketches and trying to find the materials after. When working with vintage materials you need to have some flexibility with your designs because there is no guarantee that you will find the piece your looking for or need to finish the design.
Recently i began to focus more and more on the materials used allowing the designs to create a story, my one creative interpretation of whatever ever theme i happen to be working in at that time.

Playfully Vintage Collection

Shhhhh It’s A Secret – The outlook for Spring is BLACK

I have a secret, but you have to keep it to yourselves, well at least just for a little while….lol….a spy camera took these photo’s today. They are of our new spring collection entitled BLACK, also found was a secret stash of black enamel charms, vintage acrylic crystals and cameos, watch faces, and lengths of silver and black chain. But see the full collection and find what all the shhing is about, you’ll have to wait until the 1th of August 2008. ****tip-toes quietly out of the studio, holding secret stash and spy photos…lol****

Give old brass an new charm.

I love to collect old brass..stampings, charm... made from old dies is the 40's, 50's and right upto the 80's. Made from costume jewellery, toy and others orignally design for use in furniture. I buy these from all over the world but most of them come from the US and not in a very attractive state when they arrive. Most are covered in tranish and years and years of dust and oil. but that's part of the fun...sorting out the the usable piece from the junk.....cleaning them up and wondering what desing in can incorpate them into.
I hope to run a series of online workshops during the summer, on selection, cleaning and using brass charms and stampings in basic jewellery design.
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OLD EARTH COLLECTION at in.cube8r Gallery

OLD EARTH is a collection of necklaces and brooches featuring pendants made using materials from or inspired by earth and all things in and on it. The pendants feature vintage cameos, cabochons, charms, stampings, old photo's, cards and a selction of my photography as a background.

Items from this collection are exclusive to in.cube8r Gallery, with prices starting from $20

Still homeless for now...

It's been such a long time since i've had a chance to write a blog. We are still in transit, our new studio is about 6-8 weeks away so we are still camped out at my parents farm. I've had to take over part of my parents lounge rooms to set up a makeshift studio, and personly i think my younger sisters are sick on me trying up the one internet connection in the house with my work. But we hope to be moved and settled in soon.


There are lot and lots of changes, great new design, new stockist, also our first newsletter will be out by the end of the week......keep checking in....byebye