THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!!! We just passed the 500 milestone, and we can't thank you enough! To everyone who has Subscribed, Commented, liked, shared or spread the news about Scottish Mudlarking in any way... to Juliet, Lynn, and Ilona, we are especially grateful to you for your amazing support, and for hel;ping us to make our wee idea become a reality, you are all STARS!! Thank you everyone,our sincerest and best wishes to you all, Nicole & Craig
Hello from Scotland! Thank you so much, that's very kind! With this kind of encouragement, we'll certainly keep making them! Thanks so much for watching and for these very encouraging words! :D
Awesome! Thank you! The jump ring opener is such a simple but amazingly useful tool! We'll, I hope, slowly grow the ETSY shop by adding new things from each video! Thanks! :D
Thank you so much - thats so kind of you to see the "invisible", most often overlooked, work! I hope that, with each video, it gets a little better - I have an image of quality in my head that I always aspire to! One day perhaps! Very kind, thanks!
lovely video craig n nicole.enjoyed the history scenery and finds.nice to see what you use them on.its refreshing that you only take what you need and leave stuff for others.keep them coming.best wishes.x
Very kind, thank you! Really great to know you are enjoying the videos. We plan to do a bit more to show what happens to the finds in the coming weeks. We try to strike a balance when we go hunting for nice things: take a little rubbish away where possible, and leave plenty of the nice things for everyone else! :D
I love your finds and the history is so interesting too. The bracelet is wonderful and has inspired me to maybe have to go myself someday if I ever find enough suitable sea pottery. I’m so glad I found your channel as it’s nice to find lovely, genuine and un egotistical likeminded folks. Keep up the great work.
Thank you! So much positivity! Thank you! Fingers crossed that pottery finds you and you have a great time making something wonderful! We're so glad you found us - really pleased to know you are enjoying what we do! :D
A very lovely video. I watch you and other mudlarkers picking up all the beautiful sea glass, but I can’t help noticing the agates and other precious stones. I make handcrafted precious stone jewelry. Very pretty bracelets. Hello from the pacific coast of Oregon, USA.
Thank you! Very kind! I just finished editing a video where we collected a load of agates - mainly carnelians... You're right, there are loads of them around - some of the beaches, especially just as the tide falls back, look like treasure chests full of gems! Greetings from Scotland! :D
Still playing catch-up with i your videos. This one doesn’t disappoint. It’s calming, beautiful and informative. Thanks for the History and jewelry making lessons. Love it. Looking forward to the next one! 🦋
I am really enjoying learning the history of the area’s as well as the process of making things. I’m glad to know what the tool is on your thumb. Keep up the great job!
Thank you! Great to hear you like the videos! If you like the music, its freely available in RU-vids copyright free audio library, I think the title is in the description! I write music for some of our videos, but the library is a real help when time is tight! :D
Thank you so much... I really enjoy doing the history aspects, so its always great to see they are liked! We plan on doing a wee bit more on the jewellery making, and a wee bit crafting too!
I just discovered your channel and love it. I love Scotland and if I could I would live there. My family ancestors are from Scotland and I feel drawn to this lovely land and people. Thank you for letting me share your adventures. Also your bracelets are lovely. Best wishes from Louisiana in the United States.
A big hello and welcome from Scotland! Thank you, we do feel very lucky living where we do, though, as I write this, its a dreich (miserable/awful weather) day and I'm happy to be inside! :D So glad to have you with us, thank you for coming along, thank you! Best wishes from the kingdom of Fife. :)
😲☺️🤸🏼♀️🤸🏼♀️ YIPEE 🎆🎇!!! 514 subscribers 🍾🥂!!! So, so very happy and excited for you both 😁👍. You've really put your heart and souls into this channel, and I'm VERY proud to be part of your RU-vid family 🥰. So many people who watch channels on RU-vid haven't the slightest idea how much time, effort and work it takes to create videos. It can LITERALLY consume all your life's time, energy and finances, and leave you with no personal life( let alone rest and relaxation 😏). It's a delicate balance, and you both look like your holding up and enjoying yourself (I sure am🤩😁!!). Beautiful 😳😍 bracelets , Nicole!!! And a new Etsy store 👏👍. I hope things will get better in Scotland for you guys soon 🤞🍀. I understand how much you'd like to branch out and show us more of your FABULOUS country and I'm sure YOU would also like to get away and adventure, too😉. Stay safe and healthy my friends, and CONGRATULATIONS, again🎉🎊!!! ☺️🤗🤭😘
Thank you so much for all your support, kind words and encouragement, right from the start! We're very privilaged to have you with us as part of our RU-vid family - thank you!! Yes, you're absolutely right... a 15 min video seems like a small thing, but the hours!! hahaha!! So many hours go into these 15 mins, but we LOVE it. We have really thrown ourselves at the channel, hopfully improving with each video... Its so nice to see that our enthusiasm comes over - we try to do something a wee bit different to other channels, a wee bit more condensed, and a few moments of pause to share a little about the things and places we encounter. We hope its a nice addition and something a wee bit different in the RU-vid community. I hope things are good where you are and that they continue to get better... Scotland seems to be doing OK'ish, but its still not possible to be away from home for more than biology allows!! We'll get there and when we do - the skys the limit... Or, maybe Sky is the limit! We'll see how far we get and we'll be so happy to have you along with us! Stay safe and well, and thank you so much for your emotional and material support!! It will never be forgotten! Our best wishes from Scotland!
I really enjoyed this video, Mudlarking and Designing. Great idea to see you finding the pieces then watching you make the jewelry, it makes the piece more special. Well done you. Have you considered doing Mudlarking Holiday's, people can stay in a B&B then meet you both for a Mudlark. You can make money while Larking yourself, when the world is back to normal I would be very interested.
That's great! Thank you! I'm really glad to know that following the journey from find to jewellery is enjoyable! We plan on doing this a wee bit more often, now that we have the connection to a new ETSY shop. Its so funny you should say that about a B&B... We spoke about something like that a year or more ago... then just at the begining of the year we started to think about it more seriously (maybe we're way too laid back), well, that's just about the time the world turned on its head, so we put all such plans to bed... We'll definitely be thinking about something this again when the green light goes on! Thank you, great minds, eh! ;)
Lovely video really enjoyed it , again the local history so interesting we love the idea of the local folk pulling down the wall at one end 😂 and his lordship building at the other! Such a pretty braclet you made and completely unique , take care lovely people xx
Thanks, its always lovely to hear from you! really glad you liked the video! HAHA! Its a fantastic story - I love these wee things out about our surroundings! Thank you, its so rewarding to get such positive feedback! You too friends! Stay safe! :D
You will soon reach the thousands of viewers you are both really informative and such clever use of the finds too .I love beach combing but really only find nice pebbles and shells near me .I live too far away from any kind of beach with good stuff 😢😢 keep up the good work and stay safe 🤗
That's so kind, thank you! We're really lucky to have so many great places on our doorstep - very happy to be able to share them with you! Stay safe, thank you!
Thank you!! The ring is called a "jump ring opener" - its the most used and propbably the most helpful tool I own - so a great bargain at about £1 - you can get them easily on the big E shop, or the big A shop! ;)
@@scottishmudlarking I love your videos! One can always learn something new. And this little tool seems to be something I really need but never knew it existed. Also thank you for that!
We didn't make it to the castle beach on our last visit (spent too long picking up kiln stilts at the stream on the other beach). Will definitely have to pay it a visit next time
Its so easy to get stuck at that side of the beach collecting nice things! The castle is great - usually very quiet, its tucked away but well signposted. Thank you, and happy hunting!!
13:00 I now know that you likely made the cod marble necklace I commented on a few videos ago. Mea culpa. It's really nice to see all the things being made by the people I watch on their mudlarking/bottle dump scratching videos. I haven't yet seen a pottery shard bracelet being made, so this is great!
When I was a child I went to a Montessori school for my first two or three years. In art class we went to the beach accessed through their yard and collected glass. We made little book cases with glass mosaic on each end. Beach Glass has always been a little magical to me. You find a lot of Spongeware on your travels as compared to the Thames Foreshore or even most of the English Mudlarkers find. Was it made in Scotland? Canada also manufactured Sponge Ward but it is very uncommon and collected undamaged here. I have never found shards anywhere.
Thank you! What a lovely thing to have done! I think the things we make as children stay with us forever - I always remember looking back on the school building in Winter months and seeing the colourful tissue-paper "stained glass windows" we made - these moments are, as you say, magical! We do find a lot of spongeware in Scotland - we made a video on the topic or pottery and local potteries, of wich there were many, a few months ago - it was for an event, and we plan on posting that here as a companion piece to a video we have planned on pottery. The reason we find so much spongeware (and transferware) here is because Scotland mass produced and internationally exported an unimaginably large amount of pottery up until the 1920s when a combination of global and local events coalesced to end the industry... You're right... now I think about it, we see a lot of Willow Pattern from London Mudlarkers, but its just clicked how little spongware we see from down south! Thanks!!
An interesting video! Would you mind sharing what tools/supplies you used to make the bracelets? I have some jewelry I would like to make for personal use. Thanks for the visits to Scotland!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!! Tools are straght forward - haveing a few various sized pliers is a good start, and a jump ring opener is a must! After that, it depends on what you want to do - our glass drilling video shows how I use a rottary drill, for example. As for supplies - I order large scale, your best bet would be craft suppliers on ETSY, Amazon, or Ebay (none of whom sponser us). Good luck! :D
I don't know the technical terminology but both that beach (Pathead sands) and the main Kirkcaldy beach have loads of pottery fragments on them. some a clearly delcate and printed and others are white and industrial looking.....
Kirkcaldy has all the seconds from the Links pottery who dumped it there until the 1920-30 when the Esplanade was built! Ravenshead has a lot of waste from the Michael Nairn Lino Works :)
Many thanks for all your lovely comments! The ring is a "jump ring opener" - its small, its not expensive, but it is so incredibly useful! Glad to be able to share that with you... All best from Scotland!
Thanks so much for asking! We have a video on 'How to drill sea glass' it's the one with the marble on the cover - give that a wee watch, lots of tips in there!
Hello from Scotland! :D Thank you so much for coming along on our wee adventures... I think so, we seen some pieces with shiny resin coating, giving it that kind of appearance. We prefer to let the pieces 'weather' into a satin finish.
Awesome seeing all your comments! Love it! :D Thank you! The wee cowrie shells are lovely, you can find them all over, though they are much more common on the West coast and north western Isles. We're still hunckering down close to home in the east, but we are really looking forward to getting over to the West - hopefully before too long... They are such pretty wee things! Noted in 'things for the future'! :D
Thanks so much! :D We do that to all the pottery - its cleaned using a light detergent, in a mild mix with lots of water. We leave that for 24 hours. After that we soak for 7 days or so - just plain water changed once a day. This avoids salty residue from coming out of the pieces later on - it can form a light white layer on the shards.
I'm new to your channel and found it very interesting. I didnt quite catch the name of that white pyramid shaped thing. What is it and what was it used for?
Thank you for coming along with us! Really great to know you enjoyed the video! The pyramid object is called a "kiln stilt" - we plan on doing something more detailed on these and other stilts before too long. These kiln stilts were used to stack unfired pottery pieces while keeping them seperate during fiering - if unfired pieces touch, they will bond. So these, and other stilts, allowed more pieces to be stacked into a kiln for mass production, while keeping them spaced so that they all (or most of them) fired evenly.
