ah thank you! hope all is good - thanks for the help with the tree by the way, it is still alive :-) x

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clip 6 - a ring being polished by a spinning felt ball loaded with dark polishing compound. ball moves away to show it is now shiny
clip 7 - me standing in front of my workbench holding up a sign that says "I made your jewellery"

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clip 5: a bunch of freshly soldered silver rings - they look pale and misty at this stage

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clip 4 - a rough silver oval with a stamped eye held in a pair of pliers - I am filing its edge

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clip 3. a silver ring under my blowtorch - as the flame runs over it, it is soldered closed (solder flowing looks like a little ball of metal melting and disappearing onto the ring)

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clip 2 - silver on a wooden surface, a hammer and some steel stamps. there is wire for the rings, some is shaped into circles and some is still straight, a length of silver sheet stamped but not yet cut and a few bits of silver that are stamped but not yet shaped

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clip 1 - three dainty silver rings - stamped shapes soldered onto bands - an eye (oval), a sunshine (round) and a rainbow (half circle). overlay text says "wild + sapphire jewellery handmade stamped rings"

#silversmith #metalsmith #jewellerymaker #craft #handmade

thanks Emily ❤︎ - should I do diagonal cuts toward the ground or perpendicular to the branch? does it matter? x

these will be with me at the fore st flea in #exeter this Sunday ... but the colours of the stones are a little different than this picture (more muted and cooler toned)

Because I'm not very good at colour balancing photos yet.

But I am pretty good at making rings so swings / roundabouts I reckon

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this sounds stunning and such a good idea 🙌

this is so helpful - first the no-transplant thing is super appealing - I'm pretty sure im going to try that, and also I can see its definitely a space saver. thank you! 🙏

Ah that looks lovely! I'm like you, if I have spare seedlings they have to go somewhere..... :-)

Yeeeeep 🙌