Designing my life
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Designing my life
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Email me @ mwhpboth@mweb.co.za or fill in the form
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Want to hear what I have to say? You came to the right place.... Alright so it has been a long and hard trek through the year! I have done a bit in the past two months. This would include a massive amount of work in the Tech and quitting my 2 years and eleven months of being a C N A employee. This was due to a great opportunity that has arisen in the form of a new shopping center that opens the 25th of October. This meant of course that I would be able to home in on my jewelry development as well as being able to work at the Tech on my moderation pieces! So I took the plunge into the world of the high rollers and went for the big time...a jewelry store! Due to the fact that I attended the De Beers Design Forum, I had a very good chance of getting a good offer. So good it seemed that they phoned me twice to come and work for them! Really the Lord looks after His flock. The hours are perfect for me as I would be able to attend Tech during the day , for the duration of my fourth year, and be able to go and work from 17:30 to 22:00. Alright this might not seem to be the ideal situation but I do get paid allot better and I will be able to better my chances in the industry. Now comes the great mystery...will I be able to go through to my fourth year? I do hope so! This will enable me to teach others in my field of expertise and be able to ascertain a higher salary, when the time comes. At this point in time I find myself between a rock and a very, very hard place. The pressure of third year is getting to me. Setting is definitely not my strong point and I have allot of it waiting for me. My pieces that I have created are all waiting to be finished off. It seams that I love the design process, by that I mean the creating process through which you finalize the product, but when it comes to where there is a third left of the bridge to cross I loose my enthusiasm. The other problem is that I tend not to agree with complements...say you like a piece I would feel you are trying to say that there is something definitely wrong with it and that you are trying not to hurt my feelings. AND I am sitting next to the class leader in the technical department....not the most inspirational thing at the moment! Then there is also the fact that I have not taken to year as I should. There was, at the beginning, no structure to our projects. This was partly due to bad planning and bad execution of the plans...in part the lecturers and in part the students' fault. I would also wish to apologize to all those people whom I have let down this year...I have really not done my best so far, but will definitely not make the same mistake again. In fact I have surprised myself lately. During a casting of one of my pieces, a enameling project which entailed a pillar of figures as a base, I made a huge error by casting Bronze at a lower temperature as I should. This error resulted in a miss cast, but the Lord once again provided a miracle...one of the part time lecturers saw the piece and got inspired to create a trophy. So it came to be that the miss cast piece was donated to his old high school as a academicall trophy! So there is always a silver lining....I ended up inspiring a whole school in bettering their school work. Yes, the Lord teaches us a wondrous amount of good.
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