A whole lot of leaves, a whole lot of inspiration

 

I'm currently making 7 sets of my Daily Leaf Words. Most people would know that the sets are made up of a shallow silver-plated hammered bowl that is capable of holding 7 silver plated leaf forms - each stamped (as in the opening photo) with a different word: hope, joy, peace, love, dream, shine and wonder. The idea is that the owner randomly choses a leaf each day; and the word on the leaf might act as an inspiration-guide for the day.

The leaf forms are cut from good quality silver-plated placemats - you can see one marked up below. However, because I was cutting silver-plate I decided to make not only the daily word leaves but also: giveaway leaves, leaf pendants and leaf earrings. I cut up four placemats and a few small silver-plated trays.

I cut over 140 silver-plated blanks of varying sizes - fit for purpose - some for earrings, pendants and daily words in photo below.

Following are further photos of stamped blanks.

A photo of what the final folded forms are going to look like before finals hammering, opening, grinding and polishing etc. In sequence: earring , pendant, daily word and give-away words.

I hope to further progress all 140 plus pieces next weekend.