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These look like likely candidates for the next auction I have not cast these yet, but they are similar

There's a possibility I may be doing small pendants/earrings using various breeds of dogs

When is the next Fugee auction?

And this is the sapphire one I did think of doing it by weight, but the raw silver costs just over a pound a gram, and with most items weighing between 1 and 2 grams excluding chain, add on between £2.34 and £8.00 depending on thickness and type of chain, then the stones cost about 33p for CZ and around £2.50 - £4.00 for a real sapphire depending on size. Add the box in at £1.50 and you'd be talking anywhere between £6.00 and £10, going up to about £15 for the heavyweight baroque ones with the big natural sapphires in. I'm not sure people would pay that. However, I was desperate for a silver chain roughly 24" last month for one of the originals (sadly it was nicked along with the chain and several others and my Nokia N95 ) and the local jewellers charged me TEN POUNDS for the thinnest curb chain I've ever seen. Had I bought it from the wholesalers I use in the jewellery quarter it would have cost around £3.00 I might leave it, do a few more items of a different nature and bung them in the next Fugee auction and see what happens Did I say I can take casts of almost any object?

And this one is of a celtic trefoil, made into a brooch, but just as easily made into a pendant.

As previously mentioned, I have been busy making silver jewellery, however I have been approached by someone regarding selling them and I don't know what to charge The items are 99.9% silver (purer than sterling), although the pendant chains are sterling, as are brooch backs. The sapphires are real, the emeralds are not, as firing real emeralds turns them cloudy, CZ emeralds appear to melt and lab created approved for torch firing for some reason "bleed" into the silver I am yet to try rubies, the one and only amethyst I used cracked and was replaced by a peridot in the leafy crucifix. So far, the two Irish crucifixes have been bagged, a baroque type heavyweight silver sapphire crucifix, a shamrock brooch and I still have people asking if I can make this, that or the other I haven't charged anyone, but obviously I will have to cover the costs eventually. This is one of the emerald that 'bled' This is the one that was oroginally fired with a square cut amethyst. This was originally fired with a large natural emerald 6 weeks or more ago, but during firing the emerald went cloudy and fell out and the setting shrank so I put in a smaller peridot and turned the setting into a rough heart. This was one of my first attempts. Two others were stolen out of the car, along with about 5 loose chains for hanging them on. I was more than a bit gutted. This is my current favourite, my celtic knot necklet and I wear it everywhere

Waking up with Willow snuggled up alongside me on the bed with his head on the pillow next to me, and ickle pickle under the duvet snoring away with her head on my calf

Unfortunately Sean stated he didn't want a Tudor rose, I think what he has in mind are two roses, one lancastrian, one york both overlapping. I have given up with looking for manufactured moulds and instead I am going to have a mould made for me specifically for this encompassing the two roses together. Many thanks to all who made suggestions and read the post, it's nice to know I'm not the only one who was struggling!! Hopefully if I'm successful I will post pics of the item before I pass it over to Sean, as I am just starting to put together a picture album of my celtic brooches/necklets and stone set crucifixes that I have already made.

Basically I've been making silver jewellery in my spare time recently and it has become so popular that I have several people requesting pieces from me I've had a particular request from someone whose wife has just lost her mother and her mother's brother. As her damily is half yorkshire/lancastrian, he has asked me to come up with a brooch which has both the yorkshire and the lancastrian rose in it. I have been looking everywhere for a silicone type relief mould, preferably smaller than an inch and a half diameter and bought this one but Sean says he doesn't want the tudor rose. I was going to overlap both roses, with the design being in fine silver with enamelled red and white petals. Has anyone seen a mould of each online I could purchase? Many thanks for reading, Emma.

So sorry to hear about Rory, I too will miss his escapades, he was an amazing character (I too remember needing tena lady after the pizzing pocket episode) Sleep easy Roar-ee, you will be greatly missed

I'm so sorry for your loss Run free at the Bridge Netty sweetheart

Thankyou all for remembering I had a "different" day However for once I didn't get the usual tat, instead I got money, silver clay to smith with and a England rugger top So I now making a solid silver celtic brooch and I will "fire" it in the morning - who knew silver and gold smithing was this easy, eh?? (I've already made a solid silver crucifix with a sapphire in the middle of it)

I miss you as much today as I did 10 years ago, thank you for all you taught me and rest easy knowing I loved you as big as the world, and still do. I've ben sat here reminscing the good times, the day we caught you in Mum's kitchen scoffing the sunday dinners she had just started to dish out, and how we had to walk you out of the french windows in the back room because you wouldn't back up and the kitchen was too small to turn you round in The day I left bacon sarnies out in the yard and you nicked them Your unconditional love of peaches The evening I took you up the track to chat to mates in the next field, knowing you hated jumping so I climbed the stile/hedge to chat to them and stupidly held your reins over the top of the hedge cos you were still in the other field. Well, that was until you decided you wanted to come with me and jumped it at a standstill The afternoon I took you for granted as an old plod, took a mate to meet you and you were so excited you bucked me off in the field and once I'd got my breath back I laughed for hours, secretly I was so proud you still had your spark The day you taught Charlie horse and Denny (another gone too early) to cross the ford. I let Denny ride you and Charlie rolled with me on him I love you Gem xxxxxxxxxxx

Summer got sold I wanted to look at a 13 year old friesian mare but by the time I found the advert someone had put a deposit down on her As for dealers...... There's a 17hh bay horse on horsemart and the dealer owns a coloured mare and a bay gelding (I think he's got five for sale) well last saturday week I rang him and he answered in a strong northern ireland accent and said "I'm in a pub in Ireland, ring me back on Tuesday". I rang him back Wednesday and he told me he was on the boat heading back to ireland. He asked which horse I was interested in and I told him and he said "Oh, he's great, you can put your granny on him, but I have another bay who took a kick last week in the field and is lame, I'll let you have him cheap if he's still lame when I get back. Ring me on Friday" So I rang him Friday and he said "So when do you want to ride him then?" I said how about in half an hour? (bearing in mind he lives 12 miles away from me). He said " Half an hour?!! No can do, I'm not around, can you make it Saturday 9am?" I said yes and asked for the address and he got cagey and asked me if I knew where the old people's home was and the mobile home park and when I said yes I knew coventry he said "Oh well meet me on the corner of the caravan park at 9am and I will take you to him, ring me first". Needless to say, I didn't bother.

I still keep coming back to look at the pollen sufferer I am trying to be realistic in that I'm 5 foot 2 and he's 16.3hh However 14 is a nice age http://www.horsehunter.co.uk/advert_image.asp?FileName=uploads/57691.jpg&Title=Still for sale"]Linky://http://www.horsehunter.co.uk/advert...ale"]Linky://http://www.horsehunter.co.uk/advert...ale"]Linky://http://www.horsehunter.co.uk/advert...ale"]Linky Linky I am trying to find a 5* plus home. Summer is 16.3 and 14yrs he is very quiet in the school you could put anyone on him. He is a tb with a cob mentality so very forging. Im only selling him as i feel we have taught each other as much as possible. He loves hugs and kisses and lots of attention, he is 100% with all traffic that we have ever seen ( motorbikes, tractors, trailers and lorrys). Good to box clip and shoe. He is very light in the hand and never strong i have owned him for the past 5yrs so want to make sure the home he goes to is perfect as he deserves it. The only other one recently that I really liked the look of is this one: Linky Linky She is 16hh and 9 years old and is being advertised as a second horse. Nice m/w irish type..nicely forward with plenty of breaks..good 2nd horse.. will work nicely in the arena, good to hack, traffic & open spaces 1st or last.. enjoys jumping 2'9.. good to do in allways, handle, shoe, catch, etc.. shaffle mouth.. since being with us she has shown no stable vices.. open to any vet. I don't want a grade A, don't want one with whistles and bells, I just want something easygoing for hacking and cuddling lol.

I think the one I viewed was the Grim Reaper's horse On a score of 1-5, five being up to weight, he was a two. The woman said he dropped weight every winter and it takes til summer to get it back on, if she gives him hard feed then he's fizzy and no good for teaching disabled kids He boxwalks, kicks shyte out of the stable if he doesn't get a feed when the others do but they claimed to feed him adlib hay. B---sh-t. There was no bedding in his stable, which stunk like a latrine (allegedly because of the boxwalking, I bet because he eats it if given the chance). Edited to add that he's 12

I fell off the wagon a bit and have gained about 5 pounds In my defence I have had a rough couple of months, problems at work, at home (splitting up is never easy, especially when the other person won't leave, then googles your username and hits the jackpot when he finds about 2 years worth of posts on another forum, mainly slating him, drags you out of bed at 1am and STILL won't leave). I am hoping to make up for it in the next month. I knew giving up Lush for lent was a mistake, I should have given up food

Happy Birthday Ooky!!!! (Did Matt give you the bumps?)

Melp I'm so sorry for your loss. Sleep tight gorgeous girl, no more pain

My heart goes out to you all for your loss, I'm stunned I will always remember him up Borough hill in his jumper. God bless you Winnie Squiggs, once met, no one ever forgot you and you were loved by many, sleep tight xxxxxxxxxx Sam, Mark, Marie and Ash, I'm so, so sorry

I just got back from viewing one in Burnley, had I have known I was going past Oswaldtwistle, I would have volunteered a pound run back down. Now I remember what I used to hate the most about looking for another one

Thankyou for the advice, I've decided to leave it for a few weeks as there has been a setback with selling Grandad's house. They were supposed to complete but now they are mucking Mum around, demanding she pay the indemnity on the rear access and other things as well and Mum's frightened stiff that they will back out after she's paid out left right and centre to pander to their needs Not being money grabbing at all, but the solicitor pointed out to us the other day that it couldn't have been a worse time to sell the house, shares etc and after totting it all up he thinks in total that because of the recession we've actually lost out on about £61,000 And my first thought after typing that was I wonder how many bales of hay that is, and how long it would take Lesley to get through them?

Happy belated birthday Marie, Willow says happy birthday to his bestest Granny and he loves you "a ghra ma chroi" (I hope I spelt that right ) I hope you had the most amazing time, love Emma, Ellie and last but certainly not least, Willow xxxxxxxxxxxx

So sorry I missed this Ooky, big hugs for you and all of your family I hope both your parents continue to improve as swiftly as possible xxxxxxxxxxx If you need any help, just holler you know where I am and before I forget, Tommydog sends his love and says he's well over the anaesthetic and has been having fun with Aunty Em making her chase him offlead in the big paddock (and his teefs don't hurt no more!!!).