In the beginning there was a Big Bang. Anticipating severe contradiction, let us assume there was. The earth began to form. In the centre it was hot with lava, in the middle it was warm igneous rock and on the outside mud, sand, earth and stone. Somewhere in the warm part graphite turned into diamond. Diamonds surfaced and were thought of as a luxury as far back as 6,000 years ago, when they were mined in what is now India. Now 70% of the world's diamonds are distributed via Antwerp. Approximately 60% via Indian/Belgian Companies. This is where I find myself today, working for one of these companies. My adventures here have been many, some more pleasant than others. In any case - it's very different than everything else I have done.
So that is my work. I'm also studying Jewellery Design and Goldsmithing by night. Coming up to the end of year one in a three-year course. My skill set so far includes: working to measurement correct to one five hundreths of a millimeter, filing, sawing, flattening, pulling wire, polishing, making chainlinks and soldering as well as a History of Jewellery course, and elementary Sketching.
In the past I have lived in Ireland, Limburg and Antwerp, I have travelled to the UK, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, Switzerland, Morocco and Senegal and I am currently planning a trip to India next year.
I live with my 2 Russian Hamsters: Munch and Leo who speak fluent English and a bit of Dutch and am currently looking into keeping a tortoise. My boyfriend Joe provides the perfect sarcasm to combat my crazy and often random hyperboles and my French sucks.
