My favourite toaster died a few weeks ago, vintage, high quality, excellent design and cooked toast perfectly (unlike its Russell Hobbs replacement – second hand but not vintage, very uninteresting and evaporates every ounce of moisture!). What to do but make a jewel from the poor burnt out box. There is much jewellery currently out there made from recycled stuff but it is not something I have felt compelled to explore. However in this case I thought the object deserved attention to detail and a new life. I have many collections of ‘things’ and ‘objects’ that I imagine would make great jewellery pieces but I have trouble hacking into stuff. This time I forced myself as space in my little house and workshop is limited.
The hack almost killed me – physically (until I found sheet metal shears ) and emotionally! My collections of stuff are no longer safe!
Front of brooch – bit blurry
Back – the white is oversprayed enamel paint that has splattered on back – nicer than the front I think!
For those of you too young to remember the ‘W’ stands for West! Love the logo, love the quality, very sad it has bitten the dust!
