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Silver jewellery, traditionally made in Rugby

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Tidying and fixing. I'm trying to clear out my spare room so the boys don't have to share. I have a LOT of stuff, mostly things from which I will one day make something - once inspiration hits. In other works I have a lot of junk, and some literal rubbish, but all of it has potential. This metal trunk was made in Bombay and then traveled from Liverpool Lime St on Scottish Railways. I just gave it a clean and a damp cloth made it glow, so it will look wonderful polished - honest! It's been standing on its side in a corner and it was going to become a cabinet but now I think it needs to be a table, but it'll sit on a frame because I don't want to change it. Right now it is displaying work by @chloebartist_nature @isobel_shackleton and @alixalmond plus a found leaf skeleton and a saved chunk of oak, a clock which sometimes works, and some turned wood bowls. The second pic is a thoroughly wrecked lacquered writing box which I'm trying to save. It had been re-hinged with silver duct tape which I removed this evening.

We've been making tiny 3D Christmas stars*. It's dead easy, if a little fiddly. Cut a strip of paper (about 1cm wide from the long edge of A4 paper works well) and carefully tie a knot in it near one end - don't let the strip crumple and ease the knot into a pentagon shape, then flatten. Tuck in the short end & then fold the long end round and round the pentagon - as you fold it you need the strip to be parallel to an edge of the pentagon. Tuck the end in. Push in on each straight edge of the pentagon to puff it up and turn it into a star. If that didn't make sense 🤔 there are lots of tutorials online! Now to try it with some of the used wrapping paper I hoard... (*Also refilling printer ink without gloves and not moisturising)

You still have until 10pm, people. If nothing else, it's a chance to go out and see the last full moon of the year, and the decade. #useyourvote #haveyoursay

I got a bit of studio time today. I didn't have the right tool for the laburnum seed pod I'm making, so I made one out of a nail. Maybe it'll be a necklace? Sometimes I'm more focused on the desire to make the thing than what the thing will become! Maybe some things will just be sculpture - do people buy sterling silver sculptures? Who knows! I'm also showing off my new tool shelf made yesterday at #ladiesinsheds at AgeUK! (Bath St, Rugby)

It's official! I've been accepted on the #creativespringboard course for February. Thank you to @jessi_illustrates who encouraged me to get in touch with @kerricolliercwrt even though I didn't think I would meet the criteria. 🙂

When I win the lottery I shall buy these buildings off Rugby council & turn them into workshops, studios, gallery, shop, and cafe of course, for all #rugbyartistsandmakers Overlooking Caldecott Park, it would be lovely!

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Park Road, Rugby, Warwickshire

Shop: Simply Salvaged, cabinet 35, NN7 4LB.
Email: ditherella@gmail.com

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