Your friend is very talented Tim.. I particularly like the necklace with the wedding bands..very meaningful..

They are all lovely pieces your friend has made Tim and I love the your braided wrist band especially. The wedding rings in a pendant is a clever idea and it suggests that the design could also be developed into a ying-yang style as well.

When I first took up jewellery making evening classes, it was my intention to melt down our matching wedding rings from my ended marriage but never got around to it. In fact I gave my daughter mine and she lost it pretty quick. I still have my ex s band so will make something of it one day, but maybe into something for my children.

A ring from a broken up relationship is a loaded weighty article. It carries the weight of the past with it. I would never make it into something else. As a matter of fact I wouldn' t even keep it.
Tim, I like your friend's jewellery very much

I do cross stitch.

Hi Amoangelus, how funny I was just sat here thinking its time I got my cross-stitch stuff out again, after a break of.....oooohhhh....too many years! It's an omen, I must do it!!

And dont forget to take some pics of your work and post them here!

I'd like to convert my ride-on lawnmower into a hovercraft, but I can't find fans big enough at Hobbycraft to raise 0.4 tonnes. They did have enough material there though to make the skirt for it, and the brushed rust-coloured velvet looks lovely when set against the Qualcast green. I even got a free swatch of turquoise corduroy...

I know the feeling. When I was a child I used to put roller-skates on, nick the family hand-held petrol lawnmower, start it up, and let it drag me down the street and into the school grounds of a weekend. My friends would bring theirs and we'd race them. You had to angle the handles down, watch out for the raised rotors at the front, and then - just let the drum skid on the tarmac to get traction and off you go.

Can doing noxious, silent farts in bread shops - in the lunch-time queue for a pastie - be classed as a craft...

... whilst weaving fruit baskets...?!

I'm not a creative person, I am not an artist. But the art of Luis Royo I liked a lot, they are very feminine and powerful at the same time.
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