Category Archives: Diy

Its launched so now it has to happen

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Tom Green

This week I have posted a new video on You tube. This latest one shows how to make a ladies handbag loosely based on an American Lunch Pail shape. Not being American myself  I have no idea whether they actually … Continue reading →

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Calling my bluff

Posted on December 26, 2016 by Tom Green

As anyone who like me spends a lot of time working with artists will tell you there comes a point when you find yourself saying “I could do that” along with “How difficult can it be” Unfortunatley I may have … Continue reading →

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Are Coconuts getting smaller?

Posted on November 27, 2016 by Tom Green

Now there is a school of thought that says everything seems bigger when your young but I am sure I remember coconuts  being bigger. I always enjoy a bit of blacksmithing, but don’t often get a chance. There is something … Continue reading →

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A leopard skin Mirror

Posted on November 20, 2016 by Tom Green

I recently made 19 illuminated makeup mirrors with black and gold surrounds for a customer which ended up in the Boots Christmas Advert, and during the course of conversation I was asked if I could make a mirror with a … Continue reading →

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Support an endangered craft

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Tom Green

Another unusual day in my workshop, I wanted to start off by making a joke about how I need to control my apprentice but firstly I don’t have an apprentice and secondly someone would take it out of context and I would … Continue reading →

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Its a strange way to earn a Living

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Tom Green

Every now and then I get involved in an art project and for the last week I have been lighting a series of seven sculptures by Mark Humphrey which form the Canary Wharf Remembrance Art Trail which opens today and … Continue reading →

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Wooden Box wins First Prize

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Tom Green

 As Halloween rapidly approaches I thought I would recount an old story that happened to me a few years ago. My local Authority every year puts on a town show every September and as part of that they have a … Continue reading →

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Can I charge more if its art?

Posted on September 11, 2016 by Tom Green

Every workshop has too have a few steady clients,  bread and butter products that keep coming, and one of mine involves the manufacture of Professional Makeup Mirrors which are then sold by http://www.fitzrobbie.co.uk or available to hire through http://www.trafalgarlighting.co.uk . In … Continue reading →

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There is nothing like a challenge

Posted on September 4, 2016 by Tom Green

There’s nothing like a challenge and my latest project is most definitely one of those. Over the years I have made my fair share of wooden wheels for horse drawn carriages, usually something fairly substantial, with wheels in the region … Continue reading →

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Is it a Flower or is it a lamp Post?

Posted on August 29, 2016 by Tom Green

Now even by my standards this is an unusual project. I have started work with a lighting designer who has been engaged to light a new sculpture about to be installed in a public park in the near future. The sculpture is based … Continue reading →

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