Jewellery Workshop Delights Craft Club

By Ms Hannah Burne, Design and Technology Teacher

The co-curricular Craft Club responded with excitement when Year 8 student Olivia Christian offered to hold a polymer clay jewellery-making workshop just for us.

Supplies were ordered, and Olivia brought in her special equipment, tools and tailor-made instructions for the club to use.

With Olivia demonstrating and providing helpful advice, the students quickly set to work. They enjoyed mixing the different shades of clay to make custom colours, rolling their clay out to the correct thickness and then shaping earrings using moulds, cutters and their imaginations. The students all appreciated having an expert in the room to answer their questions and help them achieve success.

Last year, Olivia caused a stir when her earrings were featured on TV show The Project. She runs her jewellery-making business Ola Sea online and sells her jewellery at local markets when time permits.

Recently, she began a collaboration with the Gungahlin RSL to make thousands of red poppy earrings to be used to raise awareness and funds for Remembrance Day. We are certainly very proud of her efforts.