Raindrops are falling on my head…

New Copper Cloud Decorations

They keep falling… Today I’m quite excited to launch a new product – my copper cloud decorations. These came about through a challenge I set myself recently – to make something from the scrap metal on my bench.

It didn’t necessarily need to be that start of a new product range or anything I would sell. It just had to be something. I see a lot of designer/makers setting themselves challenges like this and I guess they do it to get themselves out of a rut, or to try and think differently and approach something new. I guess it’s like standing on your desk, Dead Poet Society stylee and seeing things from a different perspective.

So on the day I set myself the challenge I had a load of scrap copper on my bench. Bent bits, straight bits, curvy bits, long bits and short bits. For some reason I was drawn to some wire that had been curled round to form a loop. I hammered the loop and it looked good.

I made another loop and then another and I ended up with lots of loops in a row. For some reason it made me think of clouds so I started forming a cloud shape from the looped wire and soldered the ends together to complete the shape. I made a few this size.

A cloud made from copper wire      A cloud made from copper wire

They were quite small clouds and I didn’t really know what I was going to do with them but I liked them and they got a great response on my Facebook page and Instagram feed. My sister in law suggested making the clouds into a bracelet, so I got some thicker wire and made a larger one, but it didn’t work as a bracelet.

Does the wire copper cloud work as a bracelet? Nope!

So I started forming ideas of making a cloud mobile from small clouds.

A clouds made from copper wire

But I really liked the large clouds and decided to make more of those as they looked really good as individual pieces. I drew out a rough cloud template, annealed some lenghts of copper wire and set about making more large clouds, using the illustration as a guide.

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I then started playing around with buttons and wire and came up with this idea of using raindrop shaped buttons to embellish each cloud:

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Things were starting to take shape and rather than making a mobile using lots of clouds, I settled on the idea of individual hanging decorations. Here’s one of the finished ones in action:

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That’s shot against my lovely sea view, but here is a better picture that shows the cloud not in silhouette. This one is hanging up in my studio window catching the light as it moves.

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I made a few in this style with the twisted wire to hold the button in place but after a while I decided to alter the design and just use simple loops so that the rain drops hung on straight uninterupted lines, like this….

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Each cloud is completely unique, as they are all individually hand formed and textured. I love the patina on teh copper and again each cloud is different. I want to try the couds out with vintage glass chandelier drops too, but the ones I have at the moment are too large, so I’m going to keep a look out for smaller ones.

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These Copper Cloud Decorations are now available to buy in my online shop.

They’re £18 each – why not check out the listings and pick out your favourite.
I ship nationally and internationally.

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