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Decisions Decisions Decisions

Once all assembled decisions are being made on the surface textures and colours in patination & plating with the brooches. I do this be labelling each piece; working on 15 at a time I am able to lay them all out in front of me, working with variation I also decide the domed netting pattern, colour and stitich.

Some pieces are highly polished before the plating and patination process

Others have a simple matt finish base ready for liver of sulphur patination

I must remember to wrap and box all the highly polished pieces ready to take to the platers all organised with labels to indicate the plating metal, I don't want to acidently incur more minute scratches on the surface, they took enough time to remove!

All backs have been completed this week ready to file and polish. Due to the riots in Birmingham the school has had to close early for a couple of days so we have lost valuable working time, a little bit behind with my schedule due to this so will have to work super hard next week to catch up! Means polishing all weekend...

Electroforming is coming along better this week, luck is on  my side. These pieces are to be shaped and then electroformed again for rigidity ready for patination, gold/silver wire embroidery and assemblage into the frames.

We have been setting out the props in the exhibition hall this week in our spaces and seeing if things work. Tables beside the chaise longue are for my assessment only to display my sketch books and maquetes for the Viva. I need to in keep my prop with everyone else's plinth colour so we all coordinate, as I must remember this is a group exhibition. I am thinking a sheepskin rug draped over the chaise longue to add a bit of shabby chic to the display.....?? 

Displaying

I have stripped the chaise longue down of its top cover and revealed a suprisingly in-tact brown faux leather; I love the fact it is worn and decoloured in places as it adds to its authenticity and age. I need to buy some upholstery tacks and place them in, preferably brass, ready to take into the Jewellery School next week

A friend who from Germany doing the long-distance MA with us found these beautiful boxes on the street for me and brought two of them back in her luggage, very kind of her. The boxes come complete with age stains-perfect! What a love finish the tassle makes.

I thought they would be especially useful for displaying some of my pieces perhaps as they have built in cutlery racks.