danglies.

zip and phone charms.

=]

toby.

Charmingly Vintagey

There's a fly on my strawberry - necklace

Screwdriver the ballerina - kilt pin

Odd - kilt pin

Shelly - necklace

Wee love you - necklace

You've been framed - necklace

Miss Sparkled - necklace

The holy turnip cat - bracelet

Pelican included - bracelet

Beachcombing with Mr Rabbit - bracelet

8 prongs in total - earrings.

Please click on the images to see in more detail.
The name for the jewellery is under each piece.
Which do you like best?

Vintage charm jewellery made to order, email info@naturalattrill.co.uk

winners....................

Firstly:
'Cousin' Goth has won the jewellery spotting prize. There were really 11 pieces there but he got the closest, guessing 8...
please let me know your address, and what kinda zip-charm would you like??


Secondly:

BIG THANKS - I have been awarded this by Sybille of Magpie Magic, a fellow jewellery person, who also makes lovely knitted, and crocheted things too!
and
I shall be passing it onto Emily from Tilly Plum, who i have done the school christmas fair with, (see my post - november 2007) the last couple of years... check out her blog!!



Also dont forget to keep looking at the made4aid blog!! I have a felt brooch (below) for auction there at the moment!! All proceeds being sent for relief work in the refugee camps in Darfur.

Toby.

new vintage charms jewellery. =D

toby.

hahahaha.......be kind....

if you could, it would be great if you ignored the completely random title....mr. snail took over, and crawled all over the keyboard... (though do take his advice),,

Please come along to the summer exhibition!

If you can't please tell me what you think of my 'new' range!

It is made with a combination of my handmade polymer-clay beads/discs, vintage beads, findings, and chains, and semi-precious stones.....

cheers.

:D

Made4aid....

CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE

Made4aid is a wonderful website created by Sally Alsford of Lettuce eating, and Niddy Noddy blogs. It is a website/blog selling handmade/vintage things donated by various crafts-people. I have donted 3 pieces of my jewellery, and I'm really looking forward to when they go up for auction!!

Also i have a little competition for you all -kinda like wheres wally- whover can spot the most pieces of my jewellery in the above mosaics will win a zipcharm with a charm/beads of their choice!!!

If more than one person finds them all - they will be put into a draw to find the winner..

Comment on this post to enter, and the deadline is 2 weeks away: the 27th june.

happy spotting, and hopefully donating (!) :

toby.

Lucy....

These are 2 pieces i made for Lucy traves with some charms of hers, and her grandma's beads, i swapped them for some jewellery that she gave me!!

Thanks Lucy!

toby.

=]

chips 'n beads

chips 'n beads - kilt pins.

Jewellery made to commission

email info@naturalattrill.co.uk

charmy bits:

Tri-spoon necklace,


Key to the broken forks necklace,

Trowelling around zip charm, SOLD

Flutterwing Necklace. SOLD



toby.

= {)

my ones and onlies......

The bits i wear :0

This is my wadebridge east.... the sign itself is a junk-shop find, and wadebridge east was a train station nr. bodmin, which closed to the public in 1964, and closed completely in 1978 (i think)... and i wired it upon a chain! =p

This is a 1950's enamel, marcasite and diamante lobster brooch, that i wear on my...erm...tweedy (!) jacket. I bought it a couple of months ago from my local antiques centre; picture house antiques.


This is my Vivienne westwood brooch! I bought it at about a 10th of the retail price, second hand from ebay! (it's genuine and everything..=) i often wear this with a polo shirt and necktie... rofl,,

I bought my bullet from ebay. =) it steal at three pounds something... lol i put it on a 'new' chain, and erm.... "next please!.."

This is a my very own octopussy. He came all the way from Hong-kong (via eBay) and now lives around my neck / here generally....

I bought the mini paint set from an art gallery in cornwall for 50p, epoxy-ied it shut, and it is now enslaved...FOREVER!!!!

Finally, a few plastic bangles.... bought from afflecks palace in manchester ( - a very big thing with lots of little shops inside it... =D )

Happy..erm..thursday....

=]

toby.

incredibly(, upcycledly, silverly) spesh....

...al...!

This necklace is made with some of my collection of vintage sterling (a couple are 80% from the continent) silver rings, 6 silver trace chains, 6 sterling silver vintage st. christophers, and a silver toggle!

[click on image to make biggerer]

I really like the way this necklace hangs when worn. The weight of the rings makes that half hang in a more fluid curve, where the lighter chains hang more vertically, which in turn, make the saint christophers hang towards one side!

Let me know what you think!

Toby.

=]

Elasticapated....

...bracelets. =]

Made with reclaimed beads.

If you like these and want something similar, i can make them to order. Email me at: info@naturalattrill.co.uk

Toby.

The Avalon gallery of Marazion...

......Has just taken some of my work!! They are a small gallery in Marazion, which is near Penzance Cornwall, and they have been open scince 1991! - here is some info. about them....

Above are a few of my pieces that they have.

If anyone's near there, please pop in and tell us how my jewellery's looking!

Toby.

Bearing it all....

....A few new pieces that i have just put in the Bear Co-operative, Rochdale road, Todmorden.

If anyone likes what they sees, and wants something similar, don't hesitate to ask : info@naturalattrill.co.uk or you can buy from the Bear direct!!

(probably not practical if you live in somewhere far away...)

Toby.

twelve year old toby from todmorden....

.....what a load of alliteration.... (i'm 14 now anyway)...


I have had a mention on BBC radio Mancheser! I am in a feature about Yvonne Chadderton's jewellery courses, she is on air between 02:03:55 and 02:08:59 and i am right at the beginning of the slot.
here is a link to it on the BBC iplayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p002qd6p/Becky_Want_14_04_2009/

enjoy!
Toby.

charming bits and pieces...

....here are some more vintage charm pieces, what do you think?

Cascade

Cascade has been designed as a set, but can be purchased individually.
The chain and all findings are sterling silver, the crystal beads are vintage - from the 1940's, along with chandelier drops and amethysts.
Please do click on the photograph above, it will enlarge, and you will see the jewellery in detail!
Cascade by 'Attrills' is for sale at Makepiece, 2 Dale Street, Todmorden, OL14 5PX
phone: 01706 815888
email: info@makepiece.co.uk

tweety pearls and gardening

Spooning around in the garden is a hard bangle style bracelet, featuring garden themed charms.

Tweety pearls is a customised vintage brooch.

Jewellery made to order.

Email a title, as a starter for a commissioned piece, and see what you get!

Maybe have a new piece created incorporating some of your own little treasures.....

email: info@naturalattrill.blogspot.com

Happy Birthday Toby!

I'm off to London for a couple of days, so thought I'd post this now, to say
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOBY !! (for tomorrow)
xx

The workshop

Toby has just come home from school, still in uniform! and has gone straight downstairs to the cellar to work. I thought it might be interesting for you all to see where he works. He has a space in his Dad's workshop. He also has a space in my studio, for all his beads and charms, and a desk there where he makes most of his jewellery, but we'll show you that another time....

In the pic above you can see a fireproof box that Laurence has made for him, a safe place for flames!


Here, inside the fireproof box, you can see Toby annealing the metal with his torch.



Toby carved out a hole in this large piece of tree trunk, he is hammering the metal into the dip (forging) to make a spoon.

Here you can see Toby filing down the edges of the spoon.

In this photograph, you can see the jewellers workbench that Laurence has made for Toby. He cut a semi-circle out of a spare piece of kitchen top, then cut up an old leather jacket and stapled it under the semi circular cut out, to catch any bits and pieces that might fall. He has also made a jewellers 'peg' which you can see jutting out the middle, this is used to rest things on whilst working. There's also a 'ring sizer' standing on the top.

more....

Toby bought this lovely old rolling mill, second hand, for £50, using the profits from his jewellery sales! He buys silver jewellery and cutlery, anything he can find, in charity shops, car boot sales, ebay, etc, and melts down the reclaimed silver, then rolls it into sheet himself using this mill, ready to make his own creations!

Another investment from the jewellery sales, this little kiln, though Toby hasnt had much time to use it yet. He has made one pair of earrings, enamel on copper, with diamonte, a commission at Christmas time.

A photograph of work in progress, lumps of melted silver, some has been through the rolling mill, rings half finished, copper stamped 'love' discs, the beginings of spoons....alsorts.......

turniptime

Turniptime is a necklace designed in similar style to a charm bracelet using an unusual vintage diamond shaped chain as a base. If you click on the image it'll appear larger so you can see the necklace in more detail.

snail trail and brooch

Here are a couple more pieces to show you, both for sale at The Aardvark Gallery in East Sussex.

For jewellery made to commission, email: info@naturalattrill.co.uk

for Gothette junior

craft and design magazine spring 2009

Click on the pic above to enlarge image and to read more easily.


This is part of an article about jeweller Yvonne Chadderton http://www.yc-jewellery.co.uk/ , featuring Toby, in this months Craft&Design magazine.
The photo and age are a little out of date now though!

hands up!

Jewellery made to order.
email: info@naturalattrill.co.uk

Fit for a mouse.............

........what do you think?

Cheesy flowers on sterling silver earwires.

Beattybooty

Bootbee Beatrice necklace is for sale, along with lots more! at Aardvark, St. Leonards on Sea, East Sussex. This gallery was recently featured in Coast magazine.

http://www.aardvarkonsea.co.uk/

Who do you think will end up wearing Beattybooty, maybe someone who likes gardening?

(Click on photo to enlarge)

As Requested by French Fancy............

Me with my new black hair... (and a very stripey desmond cat-face.....)
=]

blackhairreddotsnewshop

News:
- I have dyed my hair black.
-I have a rather immense pair of stripey skinnys which i bought today at the "funky dragon" lol.
- More red dots - I've sold 6 pieces of jewellery at the valentines exhibition!
- Even though the exhibition is over now, Water Street Gallery are keeping a selection of my jewellery in the gallery..hooray =] !! and they have invited me to submit more pieces for an open exhibition this summer.
- I had a phone call from a bespoke jeweller, who is opening a new shop in town, in March.
She asked if they can have some of my jewellery for the shop (=] again).

Toby.

2 red dots

Here are photgraphs of Natural Attrill jewellery on show in Water Street Gallery. They have arranged them really well, and the exhibition altogether looks fantastic, a collection of paintings, ceramics, glass, wood, all kinds of artworks.

If you click on the pics they enlarge and you can see the jewellery in more detail. The first 2 are displays inside the gallery, and the last is in the window, can you see the 2 red dots = sold!!

All the other pieces are still for sale, if anyone is interested please email me info@naturalattrill.co.uk or contact the gallery direct through their website: www.waterstreetgallery.co.uk

Valentines Exhibition

click on image above to see in more detail. At first glance this looks like quite a normal pretty necklace, but see... there are tiny elephants, and guns, giving a quirky twist to the piece. SOLD

Natural Attrill jewellery has been included as part of a Valentines Exhibition in Water Street Gallery!!

It runs from 6th - 14th February, and there's a private view on Thursday 5th Feb 6.30 - 8pm Please come along, it would be great to see some blogging friends there http://www.waterstreetgallery.co.uk/

If you cant make it to the gallery, here's a few pieces to show you, what do you think?

=]

I have just got my first commercial commission - i am designing a range of 6 pieces of jewellery which are to be manufactured in hong-kong, and attatched to matching greetings cards!
No pictures as of yet...
Toby.