heat and composition

there always seems such little time in the world - umm i mean ... well whatever, ongoing complaint i guess, despite the longer hours of daylight, the total lack of tourism on the island. so i have been making lots of stuff - and that is always gratifying.

these are based on scapulars, a charm to protect you from the front and back. the base is a very old copper pot, cleaned to reveal time texture, then fused silver and finally fused gold, then its oxidized and the gold comes through.

scrap strap mania

more scapular - these are silver fused on copper roman glass beads and pebbles.

size

roman glass and silver

geometry - silver and pebbles

scrap strap and plaits with no ends 

silver and pebbles

Not sure why this posted 2x but me and blogger have compatability issues :) 

o and my shop link, as i removed the widget while the shop is on holiday

https://www.etsy.com/shop/infinitystop

images to fill the void

i tried this earlier on my phone, but the image quality was so bad i deleted it - now it will probably just put the images all on as it wants, i do wish apple and google would resolve their issues.

some charms

kangaroo leather charm bracelets, had fun making the silver and copper stoppers

morning fog

some necklaces made with copper components and silver and tourmaline

beach stones - roman glass and silver

john's haystack

venus and scrap strap stack

beach stones, brass and copper

charms

byzantine cup coins with tourmaline

looks like august but there is lots of weed killer being put about this year

macrame beach stones tin an brass

amulet pouch - tooth - horse hair and silver melted into textured copper

icon charm

thats all folks, my etsy shop is on holiday til the 1st of july 

i will try and blog more regularly 

would have been easier if i could have done it on the phone, o well

image saturation and an amazing walk

well i was going to add these a few at a time with some commentary and explanation but blogger yet again has decided to do what it wants and i'm too exhausted to fight it - but we really did have an amazing walk today - the weather is heaven and flowers abundant. got lots of things on the go and im having a free shipping sale on etsy for a week - after which i will have to put my shop on holiday for a while to sort out some things here and enjoy the spring.

caterpillar convoy

spring is defiantly here

though we are still plagued by totally mad south winds every few days - its been an intense winter of them - otherwise it smells fantastic

google is playing silly buggers again - just when i thought it was all dandy

had a lot of fun making this, it was an order, i was sent a 

morrocan amulet to make into something else - stupidly i didn't 

photograph it in its original state. essentially the leather comes 

from the original piece.

a lot of water this year

some soldering i have been playing with, silver copper and brass

with pebbles

alpaca and brass with amazonite (i think) still to add the hooks

alpaca and brass with sterling hooks and some lovely kyanite i

got from down under

the wild and scraggy mountain top

a pendant - fossilized bone from treasurehider - brass and leather

thank you all for your comments i really do appreciate them, at the moment i'm a bit of a reluctant blogger as i cant find the hours in the day for all the stuff i want to do and the little mishaps and boring stuff of functioning - cooking shopping etc that consume huge amounts of time.

loads of eye candy

a gris gris pouch

saddle stitch bone and stone

'crows feet' tiny pebbles - found crow leg bones, verdigris copper and plait

a beautiful walk on a horrible day

perry the poser - i swear he ran in for this shot and as soon as i 

lowered the phone he came over to see

table top eye candy

macrame pouch with tiny beach stones

a pendant of beach glass cloth and a roman thingy

phylakto - a protective amulet with lovely little rough cut rubies

another one

back of the first one, it warrants a view

this f_ing wind is driving me nuts

my favorite place and one i covet including the pine secluded 

meadows on either side of it. that tower thing is actually a aqueduct 

for a water mill below

more table top

perry always looks out of all the windows and in all the cupboards

colour

kayla at the top of the aqueduct

bone components _ i decided i needed to snort calcium that day

small amulet combo