Welcome to One Seed Wonders

Welcome to One Seed Wonders

All My Latest Posts

 

AND

 A Link 
to
the Holiday Collection
w videos
(showing how pieces work as separates + how they work together as unified sets)


NOW for THE POST

WELL THE ORIGINAL BLOG POST'S FIRST LINE DIDN'T WEATHER WELL

(I changed it ... you can only good-guess what it said)

because

Today is no longer March 4th 2022

 

what can I say 

because

now

it's today

so 
YAY
&

A Warm Welcome

 

(the next post will be about my new cordless jump rope)

see other things I'm working on here

at
my other website is brendaintoronto.com
where
to
begin ...


I chose to open oneseedwonder's door today because the date cops a strong directive

a little like May 4th 

[May the Fourth Force Be With You]

but

MARCH FORTH

*(cue music) with sounds of a heaving, splintered, weather-worn, wooden door on rusty iron hinges creaking ... sending the tiniest dust puff fluffs flying off ... sparking joy as they float in cumulus cloud formations ... landing lit on webs within the ethereally soupy cavernous bowl of my studio ... in the middle of the night ...

(the mood is powerful yet surprisingly light and airy)* That is all ... for now.

 

The Chain Gang I Signature Collection has launched. I have ideas for Chain Gang II so stay tuned.

 

More will be rolled out on OneSeedWonders' bench in the heart of west downtown Toronto as collections are completed. It's a one-person operation ... so whatever whims of fancy strike at the moment will be what's at play and on displayI hope you enjoy seeing and reading about them. I'll be venturing forward with a Granny Vlog so you can see my hands working away and hear my latest thoughts as I show you how I do the things I do.

If you have any questions, please feel free to message me on the Signal App at 6478215307 or e-mail.  AND you can also DM me on Instagram here.

 

I want to take this moment to thank, Gary, my brother, for encouraging me to set up shop and for saying I can never have enough tools. 

At this moment, he is the only one on my e-mail list ... so do please sign up, too. Join the family and keep us company.

When I was first learning how to make jewellery (and while he was living at sea on one of his sailboats, prior to the day the pandemic swooped in and stranded me at home and him off the coast of the Bahamas), he commissioned my first piece. 

A single anchor earring.

I accepted the challenge (not knowing how I would ever be able to fulfil the request, but with necessity as my mother of invention, and an assurance this one contract could serve to help me corner the entire pirate market, I dove down deep to see if I could do it 

 

AND I did

Thank you Gary! 

it was similar to what you see in this pic

where we are

 post storm ... rainbows ruling

photo taken by Dad who is in heaven with Mom and our younger brother, Wayne

I gave it to him on his birthday

 along with a hand-painted and custom-lettered shirt I got from Tania who is an artist living in Greece and is now my super supportive friend on Tizzit, (she edits the newsletters before they land in your mail slots)

we met on an TIZZit, an amazing Membership of Makers, based out of Australia led by Deb

 

Here's Tania's Etsy shop 

with the pirate shirt 

(so cool my comment is at the top - everyone loves her work and working with her) 

One of the reasons I like the shirt so much is that it will just keep getting better and better the more worse for wear - stained & ripped - he can wear it forever.

Go Tania!

Thanks for making this day more special for us. 

Here he is in a sailboat shirt just before opening up his new pirate t-shirt ... but first showing his earring off, for posterity, in a clink at the click of a pic.

 

Some of that Anchor-Making Process

        



        
Claude at The Beadery, on Queen Street West, showed me how to twist pure silver wire, using a drill, so it looked like a little braided rope. I'd stopped into his shop before heading to a silversmithing class at Central Tech in Toronto.




I tried this at home and know it impressed Gary.
He told me Claude was using a Dewalt drill, the same kind he uses on all his pro jobs!




I showed Gary the piece before it was finished, and he said, "Stop. Don't do any more to it.
I love it.
It's done!"
Whaaa...

What I learned.
Always work with your customer on commissions. 
You can learn from them & you want them to be satisfied.



The anchor is a symbol of hope.

It sends a message of hope for the future and signifies a bright and happy life.


This sentiment is dedicated to Ukraine and it's people and all affected by the war.
It's also dedicated to the People of Gaza, now. Let there be Peace in the World.

 
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
 

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