scratch studs

Met a new friend today, Abi is opening a new shop...Ecoco... very soon. And she will be stocking my stuff which is very exciting!

Here's one I made earlier...

I'm trying to use every last tiny bit of copper...
I use reward stickers as templates...makes me feel like a good girl

shaping and filing

cleaned up

heated until cherry red...

preparing the borax

painting on the borax

little stars are ready

wire on the jig

flux and solder...and potato...

leather mallet to anneal and shape

bees wax to protect and add a bit of shine

the finished earrings!

Tidy Workshop - still quite a messy mind

Spent a long time tidying my workshop today. It involved a lot of shrieking and flinging stuff across the room because of spiders, jeez, I'm such a girl. But I salvaged lots of cut off bits of copper that are tiny but still excitingly usable. Also finally got round to sticking up all the postcards I've collected over the years...now my walls are covered in Frida Kahlo, Karel Appel, Basquiat and Louise Maclary! Plus a few little pics of my own...

rosette corsage

star earrings made from old copper pipes

bangles made from plastic bottles and fabric

Corsage ruffly button brooch

Bashed with love... this heart brooch used to be a copper water pipe in a previous engagement... be the envy of your friends with a bit of old plumming pinned to you!

Little silver stars for little pink ears...

Help! I just can't stop making stuff out of things...

Fabric, copper, plastic, silver, you name it i'll make a piece of jewellery out of it.

I try to recycle as much as possible, and there's nothing I love more than turning an big old water pipe in to a weenie pair of earrings or chopping up a skirt to turn in to a corsage.

My next project is an old kitchen sink so watch this space!!