Belated Happy New Year to you all, I hope you had a good one! And Father Christmas brought you everything you wanted.....not too many Gyles-Brandreth-type-jumpers....showing my age now. ;-)
Anyway - I thought you might like to have a little look at what I got up to at the weekend. I was lucky enough to get a place on a one day silversmithing workshop taught by Angela Kennedy, who makes gorgeous jewellery, and we got to try all sorts of silversmithing techniques. These included: cutting, sawing, planishing, soldering and punching to name but a few. And after 'a few' chocolate biscuits and plenty of banging, sanding and polishing we all created a lovely set of hammered dangly earrings and a domed 'peephole' pendant with bail. It was a wonderful day and I thoroughly enjoyed it! These are my efforts shown in the photos - hope you like them?
And on that note, please excuse the dodgy photos, silver is an absolute bugger to photograph - I think I need to refine my stick it on a piece of paper technique. LOL! I must try and take some better ones when I get chance. But I can't wait to have another go with my hammer - and maybe incorporate more silver work into my jewellery making.
OoooOOOooo the possibilities!! :-) Have a good week bead fans!
HP xxx
