whirly dragon

I’ve been really bad about posting, I meant to post yesterday and just forgot. Now I have three luttrell posts backed up and I just keep forgetting because I’m obsessing over finishing it rather than actually blogging about it – soooo close now, working on the final two creatures!

In other news, my family came for dinner yesterday and Trouble was a complete tart, he even managed to charm my dad, who is normally indifferent to cats. Luckily we locked him out of the dining room because last night he went mental for the remains of the venison pie and tried to start a fight with Gareth whilst Gareth tried to eat pie for dinner. Branston did his usual thing of looking extremely handsome then brutally attacking my stepdad whenever he went goey over the handsomeness – I would say Branston is a bad cat, but to be honest it’s not like Peter ever learns not to touch the grumpy bugger!

Oh, and I got five tickets (one adult and four pensioners) tickets to take my assorted parents to see Ian Anderson’s Christmas concert at Durham Cathedral, so I’m very excited.

And branston continues to set a stellar example of dignified behaviour, poise and elegance for the kitten…

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Starfish

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And we are ready for another roll along!

Plus, the worlds least dignified ( and scruffiest) cat

Who is currently having a big sulk because the kitten pounced him.

Tiamat

AT least I think Tiamat was the three headed one?

I must admit I’ve been a bit slow posting and have built up a backlog of photos from this project, so I’m starting to get a bit confused as to what I’ve posted and what I haven’t. It doesn’t help that the cold I’ve had since Tuesday has turned my brain to porridge – I went out for the first time in three days just now, almost walked out of Boyes without paying for the pins I had in my hand, and then almost walked under a bus. I’m not at my cleverest right now!

Watlington

Some replicas of items from the Watlington hoard, made for the ashmolean. Photo courtesy of Sarah Doherty, because I forgot to take one before handing them over.

it was very weird setting out to make part of a torc, rather than a whole one…

A cautionary tail

Because this is what happens when you fail to properly read the assembly instructions on your ikea flat pack dragon…

a bit feather brained?

 

Little Dragons

I’ve been trying to clean up my workshop and finish some UFOs, Including these six little silver dragon pendants, whose purpose, sadly, is long passed.

They’re based on an Anglo-Saxon book mount. There is one with an eye missing – this happens sometimes with granulation work when one of the beads just doesn’t stick (just look at archaeological jewellery), I could fix him, but I’m keeping him just the way he is because he’s definitely the cutest and he’s mine.

I don’t have a use for these three though. So since I don’t do patreon, or have one of those annoying windows that pops up asking for money every time you try to read something *stares hard at frockflicks*, I thought I’d leave this picture here, and say that if anyone would like to buy me a birthday present, then they’re thirty five pounds (including uk post, anywhere else will be a bit extra). They’re hallmarked sterling silver, and quite chunky.

The eagle with a splitting headache

and he says he’s got a right pain in the bum as well.

Last bit of the left hand side border.