Welcome to my new website. Phew, it’s been a real labour of love and is still a work in progress, but I’m really proud of how much I’ve achieved so far. I wanted to progress from the limitations of my Cybersilver Jewellery Designs website with something that was more adaptable and progressive for my new name, but that also meant teaching myself how to create a new style of website and that has been quite a challenge for me….so little time and so much to navigate.
Why the new name and new website? Well, if you follow me on Insta or Facebook you will know how much I love all wildlife, but badgers in particular, and how much they feature in my work. Although I grew up in the Oxfordshire countryside, I had never seen a live badger and had little hope that I ever would, BUT one evening, a little over a year ago we discovered a stripy visitor to our garden. A young female badger was enjoying the fallen apples from our apple tree! Over the following months we had more and more gorgeous stripy-faced brocks coming to our garden, squeezing under the fence beneath our beautiful Weeping Willow, until last summer we counted a total of thirteen badgers under the tree. I love these creatures so much and they bring me so much pleasure. The Weeping Willow is also very special to me. I bought it as a dying twig from Woolworths 18 years ago and planted it in a pot. It survived and thrived and three years later it was the first tree we planted in the bare garden of our new home. Over the last fifteen years it’s grown into a lovely tree with a gorgeous canopy in the summer – the perfect setting for our beautiful brocks.