London and Tigertail

Hi every-one,

It's now my half term so me and my mum went down to London for the night to see my Grandad, and to visit Electrum, a contemporary jewellery gallery on South Moulton street in central London. The gallery was amazing! I spent the first 10 minutes or so constantly saying " Wow, mum come look at this!", there were things made out of everything from precious metals and diamonds to twigs and newspapers! Some of my favourite pieces were some giant crocheted wire things that go round your neck ( they're called 'ruffs' or something aren't they? )

Also we toured round all the 8 or so charity shops in Muswell Hill (where my Grandad lives)

and bought a tupper-ware-box-full of buttons! There are some lovely ones in there like this gorgeous victorian black glass button and 7 or 8 of these really cute little cobalt blue glass buttons.

On arrival home i decided that i wanted to make some tigertail necklaces to go with the bracelets. Here they are, if anyone wants to buy one, they are about 39cm long, both the chilli and heart charms are glass, they are strung with seed beads on tigertail. Please email me at: info@naturalattrill.co.uk if you are interested, I can make them in different sizes/colours.

Today my dad (laurence) gave me a new drill bit so i could drill some holes in my purple shells, next i'll be trying the ones that caroline gave to me!

My next project is to make some lariat bracelets with my mum for our friend Sybille.

Toby

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