Hi lovely, I attempted this yesterday I made 20 triangles all same size, and went to work soldering, not gonna lie, this is defiantly a soldering challenge but it’s currently sitting in the pickle I will have a look after breakfast at the state of it lol and yes will look for a flat cut out x

I found this flat one, linked image but I personally…

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Hi all you lovely people, i now have a creative space and jusr jumping back into things feels amazing, but im on the stage 3 final piece i decided what i wanna make/TRY to make but…. have no idea how to do this i need to make the shape of a D20 dice, i so far have made the little triangles to try and build this, but wondered if anyone had…

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yep agree hun, onwards and upwards, <3 ty so much

yayyyy i got a house, its beautiful its in somerset near westone super mare, so was all excited and happy then lost mum on sunday evening, my sister found her, this year can seriously do one. <3

yeh, not gonna lie there was tears <3

Gini, omg this lady broke my heart today in a good way she sent me a care package for so many goodies im beyond greatful you did make me cry but it was tears of gratitude this community @Lucy has built is amazing, gini thankyou so much from the bottom of my heart, and you also reminded me of Venice lessons of rendering which I’m going to take…

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i have never tried it hun, but sounds funa and i would be very greatful, i dont know what to say other than thankyou the kindness is overwhelming x

omg, these are beautiful, so intricute, and thankyou so very much its such a kind gesture and will bring a lot of enjoyment thankyou emensly <3

omg hun this is so kind of you, yes i know how to chain mail and absolutly love doing it, i can not get into my house to get anything as the 2 ceilings that collapsed where asbestos, so everything upstairs is contaminated, i dont have any supplies with me as we arnt allowed to go back in, we are still in temporary accomodation, there is…

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hubby bought me a wax kit to play with until i can have my bench back and roof over our heads, sorrey for delay claire, yes would be a great post to see what others do as a hobby/play time x

thankyou hunni, i do hope so also x

i love this and yes i should def try that tbh, you made me lol tho thankyou for that i wonder if other metalsmiths had a side hobby?

Yeh I’m trying to paint water and it’s darn hard lol, just messed the sky up arh well

Ty hunni x

Everything upstairs is gone, downstairs stuff seems ok but we can’t go back into the house until it’s been made safe, hubby got me done watercolor paints so I can do that but yeh I’m very tempted to get some basics, but while being in someone else’s house don’t wanna risk damaging there table ect x

apprently they are finding us some where else, but me and the hubby are close to saying ****it and go private, i have heard on the grape vine they are planning on selling the proprty as is in an auction so at the minute we are still in limbo

yep, we are all safe so we are indeed lucky, this forum is an amzing way of staying positive, plenty to read, life certainly works in mysterious ways, onwards as one would say, hopfully improve my drawing skills lol

sorry been AFK for few months we lost our roof in the storm in jan/feb, which lead to bedroom ceilings collapsing, and us being moved to emergency accomodation, we cant go back in the house as the ceilings where abspesos, and contaminated god knows what, went past the house yesterday and they only managed to get scafolding up on half of the…

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One goal for me this year is to realise its ok, not to be ok, and to just keep putting one foot infront of the other x

oh maybe 2 goals lol, i wanna crack the code on prong setting rings x

wow hunni its beautiful it looks very regal, well done hun love it x

oh wow these are beautiful hunni, was just reading your suggesting of 3 layers you could also use the 3rd layer to mimic leaves or vines? but these rings are beautiful x

thankyou so much hun gonna have a look now x

please help i got 2 pairs of cheap dividers, hubby wants to buy me some decent ones, anyone recomend some please the cooksongold ones are what i have and they bend at the bottom x

Hi hun I love your dogs they are beautiful Loki said hi from Cornwall

hunni where are you based i have some garnets in my stash happy to send you some to play with and try babes x

Sending Virtual hugs x

omg travis, Thankyou so much, you gave me a big confidence boost there and finished it up like 30 mins ago but wanted to share x still can’t quiet get my head around that I made this, it feels magical x

omg, Travis, you’re amazing, this image helps so much and makes perfect sense now I know how to set the top bit, sending a virtual hug x

Hi all,, finally back at the bench learning, and my mum hands me a square white topaz to turn into a ring, sure I said, got home and was like wtf do I do with this lol, ok so I’m used to making normal round ring shanks, but this style needed a different style shank k can’t find a video on how they are made, I experimented making a ring in her…

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ohhhhhhhhh dearrrr lordy, gonna have to look now x

Not gonna lie was quite intimidating. as for me this was a proper gemstone, if that makes sense, so was scared incase I messed it up but defiantly try, I gotta buy more now lol x

I’m so proud of myself spent so long making the bezel, all shinny and setting this amethyst rose cut has me

Hooked on this style of gemstone just love it made is using the chunky ring lesson with the chunky bezel strip x

thankyou hun, yeh so many people see different things with this I love a simple conversation piece x

thankyou i see a couple of areas i would like to push down further but scared for the shell xx

Yeah a fun talking point, I was more curious if I could set a shell, heheh x

Well, I love it, husband thinks it’s ugly, and my daughter said it looks like a fanny slug from storm troopers!!!!! Was not impressed, I might add. I love it, but is it rly that bad? i love cowrie shells

ty so much shaun

fingers crossed lol x

Uploaded my 7 images but forgot to change the beinger intermediate bit how can I change this x

thats such a great and simple cost effective way thankyou x

wow looks amazing hun xx

Also another great idea thank you x

Ha, cookson just started doing that, never done it before, gonna have to have a look now lol

i need to make more of these now lol and been asked to make a boxing glove how the heck I’m gonna do that without lost wax hmm

Aww bless thank you hun x, btw we are all badd ass

i found a couple i like, more the movement of the image if that makes sense, but my question is, it states 7 samples, is this on a piece of metal or can my samples be, ideas for wrapping wires, as I love wire wrapping and has sparked some wire wrapped ideas, I see we need to upload 7 images so photos of said ideas in metal, some hammer…

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So had a brain fart last night, and wondered if I could make this and turns out I can, for my daughters bf who has a weight lifting compition next month, so pleased I planed something out, and it worked

these extra large safty pins comes in packs of 50 and mega cheap

hahahah sorry babes, but good thing is you can pin them all together in one piece, and add to it with new ideas

thankyou hunni x