Melinda Mulcahy introduced these original, inspirational and whimsical personalised gifts encapsulate your love in precious fine silver in 2009 and have fast become some of the best selling products with internet and catalogue giant Not On The High Street, to date. They have been featured in numerous UK press and independent blogs including:
Editors voted "I pick you" plectrum in Top 10 Valentines gifts for Men 2011.
Self taught in the art of fine silver crafting, over the last 3 years Melinda has honed all processes, often mistaken for sheet metal, when in fact it's a clay product.
Concepts for each design are based on fanciful ideas like with the Daddy's Stash dish, designed to collect the change often shrewn on her Husband's bedside table. In fact, most ideas start as a whimsical thought for someone she knows like the Postcard with Love, originally sent to her Mother who lives in Australia, the golf ball markers for her golfing mad Father & Brother who also live in Australia, the plectrum for her guitar playing Husband and the shabby hearts originally for her young children and their friends.
Fine Silver precious gifts are made from a 100% recycled .999 Fine Silver clay (more pure than .925 Sterling Silver) which is in fact a bi-product of the motor industry. Each creation a lovely weight and texture often with slight natural imperfections, shape and size variations occur during the firing process, which lends a rustic handmade uniqueness and charm, to ensure no two are the same.
There are 12 different hands-on processes:
- A stamp is made with an individual's personalisation.
- The precious clay is sculpted into shape and stamped.
- Each creations is left to dry over night.
- Carefully hand sanded as these items are like egg shells when unfired.
- Fired in a kiln at 750°C for 4 hours then left to cool.
- Once cooled it is brushed with a metal wire brush to remove the remnants of clay.
- An oxidising formula is applied to highlight the design.
- Elbow grease is applied for rigorous hand sanding taking 30 minutes working down through 6 different sandpaper grades
- Each item is tumbled in a barrel with a cleaning agent for 2 hour.
- Final polishing with silver impregnated cloth
- Finishing touches are added like a keyring, necklace etc.
- Items are individually wrapped in soft tissue paper for protection before complimenting gift box is tied with ribbon ready for dispatch.
Always read the terms and conditions before purchasing. All Personalised items are commissions that are made to order which can not be resold, therefore are non-refundable/non-exchangeable.
Fine silver can only be stamped on one side.
