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Words of the 'About' kind

The 'Me' Things

The consciousness that I loosely refer to 'me' in the egoic sense was born to this world in Generation of X, a Pig year with Virgo rising on the horizon in Glasgow, Scotland and mostly identifies as a left handed human person....

After failing to get into a graphic design course there was a good decade being, as the 'Big Yin' would say, all windswept and interesting. Fell into the re-enactment/living history world and did some stuff as an extra. Auto-didactic skills were acquired, among them making mail armour all of this was back in the pre-internet days.

Life twisted and turned like a twisty turny thing and the turn of the millenium saw a change to the experimental 'industrial' mail with rubber o-rings or combinations of rubber and metal rings. Round about this time experiments took place mucking about with silver jump rings and idea of silver mail took root and those roots went deep.

Rolling forward through College and Uni as a mature student and onto a job as a Graphic Designer that went down the toilet resulting in a dramatic career change into Customer Service that led into Data Analysis and then into Business Analysis. While navigating all of this workstuff a workshop was built in the loft and there was a lot of experimentation with hefty dollops of wisdom from the online jewellery community via YouTube, a couple of night classes to cover off the stuff that I had problem with, latterly Instagram, but mostly from the awesomely creative person that has chosen to be my better half (and a variety of cats).

Spiritually happy to be filed under 'pagan', but if you want more detail you can add Animist, Polytheist, Jungian, Modern Druidry and Chaoist perspectives and a side order of Reiki to the mix and see what you come up with.

Posh Metals

In the UK there is a legal requirement for any object that is going to be described as Silver or Gold to be hallmarked based on the overall weight.

All of the Silver used in the things will be 925 Sterling Silver and any Gold will be detailed in the description.

I believe that it is important to hallmark each item that is made as evidence of quality of materials there may be times when for specific reasons you may ask for an item to be made without a hallmark. In these instances the names Silver and Gold will be replaced by the terms White Metal and Yellow Metal.

Base Metals

Depending on how life feels at any particular moment the option to include Copper or Brass is always there as an option. Get in touch if there's something you have in mind. There's a functional vibe to these metals so most of the 'useable' things will be made from these metals.

There's a few flavours of bronze available based on the combinations of Copper and other metals from the Classical Bronze ratio of 9 parts Copper to 1 part Tin though to Corinthian bronze being a combination of Copper - Silver - Gold. This is all home made and done in very small batches so the exact ratio can vary a bit.

The Design of this Web Thing

This website is built on the princilpes of website design as exrpessed so eloquently at the Motherfucking Website page.

Also it has to be said that the website designer is a lazy talentless git.

Of Cookies and other Things

This website has a very simple Cookie policy - there aren't any Cookies. Don't get me wrong while it is wonderful glad you've stopped by to have a look at the things, What good is there tracking you, you're free to come and go as you please in complete anonymity. Fly, be free.

It is a continual aggrivation when opening a website to be offered the perpetual notifications. "No, no and thrice no!" would be the option were there but a thrice no button for to make the clickings of so that's something else that you won't be subject to either. If you want to come back here and haven't done a follow on one of the social things then you'll just have to make a remember in your headparts. You're an adult, sort it out yourselves.

Hosting Things

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If you're in need of some really good IT things then check them out, they're really good folk.