Pinterest Silver Board

I love Pinterest. It is quite possibly the greatest way to waste time and not feel to bad about it. I can lose hours of my life scrolling through the Humour boards, looking at tattoos, getting house envy and hair envy. I have been trying to use it productively too, I've got a Silver board and I've been collecting ideas for the start of term.

For my real job I've bought some personal development books, really boring ones. One of them was about talking to people and sounding confident. I feel like I've wasted some quality time reading this book, it was awful. Apart from one point, about having a "thingamajig" something to entice people over and to give you something to talk about. I read this as "Make a brooch" I have a black jacket that I tend to wear only to weddings and meetings, both situations where you might have to talk to strangers... Why not have something to go on there, spice it up and give me something to talk about at the same time?




This is my Silver board




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Its got some of my projects pinned, from my blogposts here but is generally a collection of the weird and random things I've found so far. I want to do more with the doming blocks so it might just be another experiment!

Silver Recap - Year Two

My third year of silver class will begin in a couple of weeks time so I just wanted to do a quick recap on what I've made over the last year. For once I've used the summer break to actually think about what I want to make over the next term but I'll save those plans for another post! 

To start with I made a quick pair of star stud earrings that I now wear every day.

Next up another pair of quick earrings! A theme starting here, these ones are two small circles, punched and then domed.

After Easter, I started a necklace. In a similar style to the Epic Bracelet of last year, I used square wire to create loads of different sized rings. I then soldered them together, I had originally set them all out and marked where they would all join but the marks rubbed off so it changed shape every week! Once all were soldered I just had to level it and sand it to make it super shiney and then add a chain.

Soldering in sections

Once the smaller sections were soldered, it was time to join them all together

I finished just in time for a meal out in York.

The last project was a quick ring. Again using the doming block and a couple of scrappy bits of silver. I made a dome out of a small circle and then a little blob to go in the centre. This was then soldered on to a ring. Done.

I tend to wear this one with the stacking rings I made in my first year.