Creating a hoard...

©2016 Barry Smith - Highly reflective faceted backs of mini fragment bowl - reflecting heaps of light and colours in the studio

A little while ago I indicated that I was commissioned to make a horde of pieces from a covered silver-plated EPNS serving tray. A couple of the pictures in the post showed that I had cut up the tray (top and bottom). I am now just about finished the work.

This post shows: two Daily Word sets; two spiral rings; two spiral bracelets; two pendants; two pairs of found earrings; two leaf forms; and offcut-scraps turned into fragment bowls.

©2016 Barry Smith - Daily Word sets plus a few extra peace words - made from the base and sides of the serving tray

©2016 Barry Smith - A small horde of silver-plated recycled jewellery

©2016 Barry Smith - Pendants - formerly handles from the lid of the serving tray

©2016 Barry Smith - Couple of sets of found earrings made from the scraps of the lid decoration

©2016 Barry Smith - Spiral rings made from the decoration from the lid of the serving tray.

©2016 Barry Smith - Spiral bracelets made from the decorative edge of the base of the covered serving tray

©2016 Barry Smith - Leaf forms - one with serenity stamped on it as requested

©2016 Barry Smith - Some small fragment bowls made from the side of the base of the serving tray - you can see the remnants of the solder where I seated the decorative rim off the body of the base.

By Sunday I will have finished the remaining part of the commission - to make a set (three) of small fungi form bowls. But now it is time to head to the kitchen and make the first pizza for 2016 and accompany it with a glass or two of red.

A lovely bunch of bracelets

I started making a few bracelets as I wanted to give one to a friend and work colleague as a gift. She is the sort of person who always goes out of her way to organise things in just the right thoughtful way. She has a fairly tiny wrist so I needed to make a small adjustable cuff bracelet from the rim of a recycled wine goblet.

But as you know one thing always leads to another; and so I ended up experimenting with how I might use the handles I cut from trays. Below are the results of two different approaches.

©2014 Barry Smith - Bracelets made from recycled silver-plated copper and EPNS

 A simple adjustable spiral.

©2014 Barry Smith - Bracelets made from recycled silver-plated copper

And a bracelet with a riveted piece from a old silver-plated copper tray.

©2014 Barry Smith - Bracelets made from recycled silver-plated copper

©2014 Barry Smith - Bracelets made from recycled silver-plated copper

And of course I made the cuff bracelet for our friend (the one at the back); and a couple of other to go with it.

©2014 Barry Smith - Bracelets made from recycled silver-plated EPNS goblets

©2014 Barry Smith - Bracelets made from recycled silver-plated EPNS goblets

I liked the fluting in the very heavy and thick goblet that produced the bracelet above. I'm not sure if that happens to you - you start one thing and it just snowballs - but I like that part of the creative journey.