Winter Sale Now On…15% Off!!!

To thank my lovely customers and friends for all their support over the previous year I’m having a sale over at The Birds In The Meadow Shop, it’s 15% off everything in store till 31st January,  including all jewellery collections and homewares. Everything is handmade by me from recycled, salvaged and vintage materials, and most items are one of a kind.  Don’t miss out on an eco friendly treat; due to the quirky nature of the materials I use many designs can never be repeated – once it’s gone, it’s gone!

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Holiday Last Posting Dates

Are you the UK and need to grab that gift super fast for Christmas? Choose shipping option Royal Mail specialdelivery® next day upon checkout. You’ll get next day delivery* right up until 21st December if you place your order before 2.00 pm!

*You’ll need to be certain that someone will be at the address to sign for your parcel if you choose special delivery.

Rock Around The Clock…

“…When the working day is done, girls – they want to have fun, Oh girls just want to have fun!”

There’s something about old vinyl that makes me want to start jumping around, singing into my hairbrush – perhaps it dates me but those shiny black discs make me come over all nostalgic.  Sigh. In my search for scratched records to cut up and recycle into jewellery I’ve found many 45’s that I couldn’t bear to break up, and until now they’ve sat there in a forlorn pile, gathering dust. There just had to be a use for them, and now I’ve found it! I’ve been making them into clocks.

What could be more appropriate? As a way of listening to music they may have been overtaken by other formats but as objects they are deliciously evocative of time. Where were you when the above record was released – were you even born then?

I still listen to my old vinyl and cherish it as I’m sure many do, and I would never recycle a record that is still playable – to someone, I know, that record is an old friend and I’ll leave it in the second hand shop so that they can find it. But any distressed beauties come home with me -  a pretty centre, a great title, a cool band or song or just something that’s funny or seems evocative, because these lovely, scuffed old relics deserve a second chance.

Want to buy a record clock? Just click on the pictures above and you will be taken to the appropriate part of the shop, or click here… Rock Around The Clock

New Vintage and Steampunk

At last I got my tool box out this week and actually made some new things! It felt good to have my pliers in my hands again. Here’s a couple of new jewellery pieces… I just got them uploaded to the shop.

The above necklace is called “Open the Garden Gate” and is made of vintage and salvaged materials. It’s a one off!

My favorite though is this bracelet, which I called Temporal Anomoly. Again, it’s made mainly with salvaged and vintage parts, including a lovely champagne watch dial and little bits of mechanical gubbins from inside the watch.

I’m so tempted to keep it for myself… but I wont. If I kept all the things I make for the shop and then don’t want to part with, our poor little flat would be even more of a magpies nest than it is right now.

Shop Holiday Dates

Orders made in the shop between the 9th – 16th April will not be processed until 17th April at the latest… I’m going away, and although the shop will remain open for browsing and purchasing I won’t be able to send out your parcels ’till I’m back!

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