Set for some hard work

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1st step silicone molds of electroformed Hydrangeas

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I love my bamboo work bench!!!

So much stuff

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Food

So I am very interested with casting food. I made a silicone mold of a popcorn but not sure I like how it came ot but i bet it would look really cool enamelled in white. I am also making Marie biscuits which by the way originally were made in Durban in a Factory in the early early times(I will get the exact date) Obviously that is only one type of marie that was made in that factory, the name Marie is it's generic name so no one has the right to claim it. Marie biscuits are made all over the world!

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Plastic stuff

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Funny rings/pendants

I have already made one happiness ring. It is like the one on the far left. I am still waiting for my letter punches to arrive here in the post so that I can make more and different types including some of the little people with them. I ordered them from Ireland. The ring I have already made is stamped with Happiness on the shank.

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Edited post:

Here is the ring I was talking about above.

Drawing with wire

I would like to try drawing with wire and creating shapes and flowers that are out of preportion and i suppose I could say free. Free from their predictable shape and far more expressive and raw.

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dried orchid

This orchid that is dried out now was a wild one from marlene's orchids. I want to cast more orchids like the one I did in February and use their petals etc to make some interesting jewellery.

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Spoons

I have been wanting to make shanks out of the ends of spoons. My mom has got spoon colections and this idea came to me whilst we were having pudding and I was examining the silver spoon I was using. the spoon on the left which is not very clear we dated back to 1902. Nick has a book full of hallmarks and hteir time/ era and we found the hall marks and where they were from in on this spoon in the book. this spoon comes from sheffield in England.

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own work- Hydrangeas

This is another section of my work, my hydrangeas. I cannot wait till December whne I buy my own hydrangea bushes and plant them. They change colour according to the acid balance in the soil.

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Little people

I am doing many things at the moment and one of them is creating little people out of silver which I carve. I need to make more!

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hydrangeas in progress

Ideas of how to place the flowers onto the shank. I enjoy how they wrap around the finger but it would possibly only be comfortable on this finger.

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Enamelled hydrangeas

I really like the colours that came out on the 960 hydrangeas. They are not as bright as fine silver but more rich or deeper than fine.

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Silver hydrangeas and plastic ones

I have been making more silver hydrangeas but this time out of 960 silver to make them a little harder when they are finished. will see how the colours change! You can see the light green and ourole colour on the plastic hydrangeas aswell.

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Dyed plastic

I died this plastic with a dye that was purple and a dye that was green. The photo is unclear so I will have to take a better one but the colours came ot soft purple and soft green. It depends on what plastic you use

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Plastic sample

The hydrangeas that I cut from the plastic were from this bottle.

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Plastic hydrangeas

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Plastic flowers

So I have been experimtenting with making my hydrangeas out of another material and I have been using plastic. I quite like how they mix with the metal ones in this picture. I am going to die them to another colour.