Another ruin hunt - Glastonbury Abbey

So in the summer, once final year work at uni was over, I once again managed to convince some of my friends to go on a ruin hunt with me.

One of the places we went was Glastonbury Abbey, which is amazing and has so many different parts to explore, definitely a place to take a picnic and spend the entire day like we did!

Glastonbury Abbey has connections to the legend of King Arthur and was originally founded in the 7th century and after extensions, fires and rebuilding was suppressed during the dissolution of the monasteries.

There is something so beautiful and peaceful about ruins. When I become an architect working with a ruin would be a dream come true, being able to work with something so beautiful and inhabiting it with something new.

During my final project at university my tutor commented that my building would make a beautiful ruin... I'm not sure if that is a compliment or not but it would be amazing to be able to see.

Compulsory shot through the non existent roof... We were lucky to have such a beautiful day. Gothic architecture makes for some of the best ruins due to the detail in the stonework that erodes and has a new amazing qualities.

There was a lot of lovely natural forms as well! And a cool, but a bit scary witch/scarecrow.

I would definitely recommend a visit. Especially on such a sunny day!

Trees

So one of my recent little projects has been using new earring findings that I haven't used before, a hanging hoop. I have never been one for hoop earrings so to start with I had no idea what to do with them. I found myself inspired by tree of life dream catchers and decided to give it a go! And here are my first results!

Of corse I had to integrate some steampunk into them with my beloved watch parts. These take a little while to make but I am going to experiment with different beads and make some more clockwork trees for etsy.

I have just put up these little lilac trees up.

Clockwork keys!

I only have one application left to finish now! So close to being able to post more regularly again! And I have some new ideas up my sleeve that I will post about next week.

Recently I made one of my cousins a pair of earrings for her birthday!

I had some balsa wood keys that I had painted black and then never used, they were perfect for her and I added details of some watch parts and beads.

I have managed to find some new balsa keys and padlocks to create a few new pairs of earrings for my etsy shop, which will be up soon!