Wow, back in one piece... well lots of tired little pieces stuck together with baked on dirt and mud. But back. I happily returned after having a fab time to lots of website orders, so big thank you and i promise to have all of the pieces created and posted out in the next 10 days!! The stall was good as usual and without my main man Tony working his bottom off i would have had a brain box meltdown. Not so good.
This lovely pendant entitled "Tweet" was one of a selection i created to showcase at Glastonbury. They went down really well and i will definitely be creating a small range for the website. The pendant displayed above was priced at £78. It is crafted from one sterling silver crown coin, English and dated 1887. The coin was flattened out in my usual manner. Once stretched out to the desired working shape i simply drew the design on with a fine nibbed marker pen (a design i have been promising myself to do for ages!! Its been sitting in my sketch book for ages and ages) This rough sketch is then embellished and used as a approx guide line for my piercing saw work (the best bit! yipee) From here the pendant was filed, sanded, polished matte, and finished with a wee bronze star and amethyst stone.
This pendant and the other members of the 'tweet' collection will be on the Hairy Growler website as soon as i possibly can!
I will do a few blog entries in the coming weeks. Its good to air the internal, thoughts that is, not belly wind, although this is good too, but in private. Saying that its not good to bore peeps so i will try to keep a lid on most of it. I am going to make a little sign above the laptop "Stop that." The little sign does sometimes make an apperenace in my mind but mostly i ignore it, like now. Better go and do some work. Well when i say work, playing with bits of silver :)
bye
les