Fabulous, can I buy direct from you or would you prefer I do it via Etsy?
Type: Posts; User: Melanie De Castro Pugh; Keyword(s):
Fabulous, can I buy direct from you or would you prefer I do it via Etsy?
Peter, are you still selling your anticlastic stakes? I've not been on the forum for far too long, I'm afraid, circumstances have not been good lately!
What he said :-) Except I use a purple marker...
My little glass and silver dragonfly was in there too, was soooooo pleased! I just wish they would credit the maker instead of just "Facebook followers"...
I'm in South Wales but registered with London, mostly because I liked the leopard's head mark :-) but also because I could use all four of my initials, instead of just three! I had a swan neck punch...
Hi Vikki, I'm hoping to dip my toes into the jewellery party waters too this winter....
I have been told by several makers that the things that sell best are earrings in the £6-12 price range....
I just send mine in a small clear plastic box with a hinged lid (think it was the box an antique watch arrived in) padded with kitchen roll. I have glued a business card to the lid as well, so if it...
I just buy steel rods off ebay to use as formers for making jump rings etc. Very cheap, and failing that, old metal knitting needles!
Melanie
http://www.spinysharklythings.com
Well done Lauren, have fun with your new toy :-)
Melanie
http://www.spinysharklythings.com
Hello! :-)
Melanie
http://www.spinysharklythings.com
Hi Nammie, I use copper clay quite a lot using a butane/propane Go torch that was about twenty quid in B&Q, I think they burn hotter than the butane refillable ones. For firing I usually give copper...
Hello!
Melanie
http://www.spinysharklythings.com
Here's my effort, a silver ring with a micro-hammered texture to represent the raindrops hitting the pavement, set with a rainbow of gemstones to represent, well, the rainbow! I used garnet, citrine,...
So have I now. Cheers, Cornelius! :-(
Melanie
http://www.spinysharklythings.com
Thanks Rob, I feel like a valued customer again now :-)
Melanie
http://www.spinysharklythings.com
I was so upset because I was supposed to be demonstrating the making of an engraved silver pendant at an exhibition, which obviously I couldn't do :-( Hate to think how many sales I lost...
...
I have had monstrous problems just getting a little bit of silver, some chain and three pairs of Shamballa earrings. Ordered them Sunday 24th June, had a phone call on the Tuesday to ask if I'd got...
What a dilemma! Thought your solution was spot on, though.
Makes me wonder (again) what to do with my first engagement and wedding rings, a very nice 0.6 carat diamond set in a heavy platinum...
I never realised strip solder was different widths for identification purposes....
I get the solder-flowing-happy-face thing too. Every successful solder joint still feels like a minor triumph. And...
Welcome, Janetlee, hope your workspace is all you hope for! I work in a bright purple shed that sits on the roof of our (well, his) garage :-) It's small but perfectly formed. I used to work in the...
Welcome from me too! I use the cheapest slow cooker I could find for pickle, it was about seven quid on Amazon. When I worked in the kitchen in my pre-shed days I kept an old saucepan with water in...
Nice to "meet" you!
Melanie
http://www.spinysharklythings.com
I got one a couple of months ago and love it. Tried texturing some 2mm sheet copper with it before bolting it down, looked like the two of us were wrestling with a Transformer...
Melanie
...
Thank you all so much :-)
I managed one whole day (Tuesday) of being self employed and got myself hospitalised on Wednesday with diabetic ketoacidosis! Still languishing on the high dependency...
I'm going to order a sheet as soon as I get out of this damn hospital. Don't think they'd like me attaching a bench peg to my side table and start sawing stainless.
Melanie
...