Let it be known that a color correcting filter has been placed over it to make her hair the right shade of blonde, but her skin is absolutely the wrong tone, and I hate itEnraged I had the audacity to outline her lips and face in expo marker and I can’t undo it. Will try to fix it somehow at some point.
I know - another heart. I still love making them and, at this time of year, I get a lot of requests. Each is unique - sometimes on purpose, sometimes to cover up an accident - drill scratch, hole in the wrong place etc. The heart itself is vintage - new old stock from the 1970s - a lucite core with a thick copper plate. They are still available but, eventually, I’ll have to find an alternative. I’d love to find similar wood hearts - that could be hinged with a secret internal compartment. If anyone knows where something like that can be sourced - let me know. Dimensions would be 1 ½ inches wide/high and about ¾ of an inch deep so they could be cut and hollowed out.
The next one I’ll be making will be a bit different - a central “window” with a flashing red LED - with batteries that can be replaced. It will have to be a symmetrical design with a feature taking up that much real estate on the heart. I’m starting it tonight and I’ll post a video of it to show the “flash”.
Well, part solo. The Etsy Strike of the past week made me decide to set up a shop on my own webhosting to see how it goes. I’ve made sure to continue my 20% off Pride jewellery, and I’m also offering a 10% off coupon for everyone’s first order. Check it all out, yo <3
Crafting Globes by Hand with Bellerby & Co. Globemakers
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Bellerby & Co. Globemakers (@globemakers) is one of the only companies in the world still handcrafting globes — everything from molding a perfect sphere to personalizing the maps to painting details — and they have no intention of stopping. “A globe is a true representation of the world,” says Jade Fenster, longtime partner in life and work of company founder Peter Bellerby. “A globe may inspire you to travel. It makes you understand where you belong on this amazing world. And sometimes, you might just reflect on its beauty and fragility.”
After learning how to make a globe for his father’s 80th birthday, Peter founded the company in his living room in 2008, and it has since grown to 20 cartographers, woodworkers, illustrators, engravers and painters in a former warehouse space in northern London. “Everything is bespoke, and using old-school methods means that each globe ends up being entirely unique,” says Jade. After placing an order, several months will pass before customers receive their globes — size options range in diameter from 9 to 50 inches (23 to 127 centimeters) — but the wait is always worth it. “It’s rare to be able to purchase something that is made just for you, and will always be one of a kind.”
The newest sizing in our floor standing globe collection. These photographs are the colouring called Gagarin - and this example with a matte finish. The base in this photo is rounded with fluted detail in Walnut. This was a bespoke request.
Our floor standing globes spin in a hand-cast and hand-engraved brass meridian which can be moved so the globe spins at different angles.
Included in the commission of the globe are 20 cartography (text) edits as well as a hand engraved message around the brass meridian. For a further charge we can add hand drawn illustrations, travel routes and further bespoke cartography.
For examples of other base designs and colours please take a look at our website - www.bellerbyandco.com - or email [email protected] for more information.
Kintsugi (golden joinery) or Kintsukuroi (golden repair) is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
