Recycled dinner fork rings, a design, a concept and now a reality!

This is a quick one, as i am on one... I have just found one of my original drawings for recycling a fork in to a set of rings. I remember toying with the idea of making a single ring accompanied with the original fork as a simple and effective recycled gift; or to create a couple of rings; or to create a set of four rings for close friends or family members. Then i remember closing the sketch pad and now 10 years later looking at it again as if it was yesterday.

I have just made the fork ring you can see above an i really love it, despite the lame sketch! In fact i am going to design a webpage for the ring / concept this evening and it should be up and ready by around 2am knowing me, which in turns means that tonight's great idea will create a sleep deprived monster tomorrow morning. Hay ho.

tatty byes

les

The new Handmade and recycled Hairy Growler website.

Well we made it to the future, 2010. Twenty Ten sounds good to me. To celebrate such a futuristic sounding year we are living in i have 'knocked up' a new Hairy Growler website. Please all flock to the website. I have made several new changes, including new pieces of jewellery, new and improved images of my work, new categories, a new recycling workshop area, etc.

In addition i am proud to announce that we have a excellent creative writer on board who is going to make attempts to juice up me limited vocab! Stephanie Robinson. Check out her style at www.stephanie.jane.robinson.blogspot.com. To begin with she has re-written the new website intro and we are rather pleased! yipee.

I shall be back soon... i know, barely believable, but there is a nugget of optimism in my typing.

toodlepip

les

Handmade sterling silver flower rings. Completely recycled from 140 year old dessert for handles!

I am standing here again thinking i better go to bed rather than do this! But i thought it would be nice to post this photo of the rings I've been working on all evening. Freshly chopped from gorgeous sterling silver antique fork handles (140 years old!) These two forks were given to me at the art and craft mkt in Cambridge on Saturday. All the lovely person wanted in return was a photo of what they were turned into ! I am really pleased with these rings and i will definitely be creating a small range / collection. I shall offer these for sale at the market next Saturday and if i get a chance i will pop the on to the website. Each ring will be priced at £68. Obviously i will create any size requested. The remaining prongs from these forks will be turned into lovely earrings as a thank you to the kind customer you donated the forks. The forks themselves would have been worth a great deal of money if they were part of their original set. As individual forks they are undervalued and relatively unwanted by antiques dealers and collectors. This makes them the perfect raw material for me!

I will try to include a quick pic of the earrings. Oh, and i have been busy knocking up another website dedicated to the birth spoons and Christening spoons i create. Please visit it if you get a chance, its a little boring compared to my Hairy Growler website :[ well see what youse think!

Here goes.. the link www.thebirthspoon.co.uk