Thank you Mr.X. A customer of ours commissioned a button pendant/necklace to match the cufflinks that his partner bought for him, from our website, as a birthday present. It hadn’t occurred to us to make a matching pendant to our button cufflinks and button ear studs and thought that it was a good idea.
We initially thought that a single button on a chain may be too simple and offered Mr.X a number of alternative ideas, including a necklace with the sterling silver button hung on a chain with various gemstones, similar to our star necklaces.
We thought that the button would have looked great with gemstones.
We also came up with the idea of a more elaborate necklace with some African blackwood hand carved beads at either side of the silver button
This necklace shows the hand carved wooden beads that we suggested would work well with the sterling silver button.
but Mr. X decided on the simple button on a chain. We think that it works well. Thank you Mr. X for reminding us that sometimes less is more!
These new cufflinks are on show at the Dazzle Oxo Tower Christmas exhibition and have now also been added to our website.
Our new Face cufflinks.
These new “Face” cufflinks are great fun and we are having a wonderful time developing ideas for them, as you can see below.
Our new Face cufflinks, now with hair!
Although we like our little bald-headed cufflinks, we thought that they would look even more charismatic with hair. This also fits in with the tribal look of African masks that we had seen in various ethnographic museums, which originally inspired the cufflinks.
An African tribal mask. Sourced from ba-bamail.comAnother inspirational mask. Image sourced from cancuna.comAnother African mask this time with hair. Image sourced from ebay.com
Getting the right kind of hair is proving to be a challenge. We have tried different materials including fur, which looked wonderful but fuzzed up very quickly. Silicon rubber strands were interesting, as they are available in all kinds of wonderful colours but these broke if stretched too much. We have finally settled on wild boar hair. It is tough and rigid enough to be practical, it is not too bristly and it doesn’t fuzz up.
Our new hairy cufflinks, before and after a trim!
Unfortunately, they have had to have a trim. Although we really love the long-haired version, they would be very impractical to wear as cufflinks, so it was time for the chop! We are coming up with other ideas for using the long-haired version though. One includes John’s idea for a little kinetic art figure so watch this space.
Although he has had to lose a lot of his locks we still think that he looks like a real character!
John is now wearing the cufflinks to test them out before we let them loose in to the world.
Our new 6mm Cabochon cufflinks.
We love the simplicity of these cufflinks and because of their simple design, the opal triplet stones are shown off at their best. On our website there is also the option to choose from eleven other different stones.
We occasionally get asked to make matching His & Her jewellery, especially for weddings, so we thought that matching earrings would perfectly complement the 6mm cabochon cufflinks.
His and Her matching cufflinks and earrings.New 6mm cabochon opal triplet earrings.
As with the matching cufflinks these earrings can be made with other choices of stones, including amethyst, amber, pink corundum, other colours of opal and more. For a full list please check out our website.
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