Note : A technical glitch meant that this didn't get posted on time, but better late than never. I've been and come back, so will have another blog ready soon on the amazing time I had in Cape Town.
Another new
year, a new collection photographed, and I’m busy packing my suitcase for my
annual trip to Cape Town to find and bring back more lovely hand crafted
accessories for my Lagrasse boutique.
Last year’s accounts and stats are done and dusted (my best year yet,
thank you all) so I can fly off happy in the knowledge that the boring stuff is
dealt with and it’s all about design and creativity from here on.
This year’s
South African visit involves accompanying my SA host, Binky, on a road trip (a 3000km round trip no less) to
collect beautiful baskets from a women’s township project in
Kwazulu-Natal. Binky collects and sells
traditional and contemporary basketware, and this project is where we will be
collecting some of her most impressive baskets, giant gourd-shaped works of
art, much appreciated by Conran, Anthopologie and Mahatsara in Paris.
To whet
your Beverly SMART appetites here are a few pictures of some of the South
African jewellery from my new season’s collection, taken from the recent
photoshoot of the Spring/Summer 2013 collection, now online.
Who’d have thought recycling water bottles
could make something so beautiful?
And here the necklace is a recycled bicycle
inner tube and the earrings are paper mâché.
Resourceful, ecological and eye-catching.
So, back to
my packing…
A bientôt!
