My love of the little spiky creatures is so well known that a colleague once randomly presented me with a book of hedgehog related poetry. Unfortunately, it didn't have my favourite one which is by A F Harrold. His poem always reminds me of someone close to my heart so it is only fitting that it was the inspiration for my latest pendant.
I am really happy with how it turned out, though there are a few technical aspects I need to work on improving.
It is a rolled piece of Art Clay Silver (I didn't like working with it as much a PMC3, but it is a bit cheaper) cut with a rectangular cutter and stamped with a little hedgehog stamp (This was a bugger to find, most hedgehog stamps are very very twee, cutesy and, bizarrely, Christmas themed) and part of a larger flower stamp.
I could have made the pine cone charm myself I suppose but it would have been very time consuming and fiddly. It was easier to get a sterling silver one from eBay.
I now have some stamps of different creatures, owls, squirrels, birds and the like. I was thinking of doing something similar to this but with a squirrel and an acorn. I am going to use the owl ones to make some earrings.
I am really happy with how it looks on too but I won't scare you with a selfie :)
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