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This month's Challenge is a Miniature Christmas Village house.

Kipling made a tinsmith shop out of copper and Andrew made a steel blacksmith shop (because of course he did.) These are meant to be added to a miniature Christmas village display.

As is now tradition we talk about some esoteric eggels and share our favorite Christmas decorations and we talk about Dolly Parton again.

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Challenge will be posted for live voting on November 30, 2024

December’s Challenge is set to be a sleigh candy dish.

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This month's Challenge is a chess set.

Kipling made a set of different flowers out of copper and Andrew made steel gnomes. Kipling is a better chess player but can he make a better set of pieces? We have been making these for months

As is now tradition we talk about some esoteric eggels and share our favorite halloween decorations and we both added something new to our shows.

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Challenge will be posted for live voting on October 25, 2024

November's challenge is set to be a Christmas Village building.

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This month's Challenge is a Trivet.

Kipling made a brass celtic knot and Andrew made a steel pineapple. Yes they both work as trivets or hot plates.

As per usual we talk about some esoteric eggels and share our favourite recipe and Andrew Asks a somewhat related question to our work..

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Challenge will be posted for live voting on September 25, 2024

October's Challenge is set to be a Chess Set. (Kipling makes one side and Andrew makes the other.)

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This month's Challenge is a Animal Brooch . It had to be an animal we had not made before, and it had to be small enough to be worn as a brooch.

Kipling used copper and epoxy to make a loon brooch. While Andrew made a wire frame silhouette of a wolf with scrolls inside out of a coat hanger.

As now tradition, we talk about our shop woes and wonders and share an esoteric eggle about our favorite chores.

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Challenge will be posted on August 19, 2024

September, the challenge is set to be a trivet or hot plate.

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This month's Challenge is a Metal House Plant .

Kipling made a copper money plant from scrap copper cutoffs using a broken texturing die and Andrew made a steel Venus Flytrap with multiple heads and sharp pokey bits..

As now tradition, we talk about our shop woes and wonders and share an esoteric eggle about some vintage music.

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Challenge will be posted on June 27, 2024

July and August, we combined into one Challenge, that is set to be a jewelry brooch.

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This month's Challenge is a Bird Bookend.

Kipling made a brass and copper woodpecker with fancy cutouts and Andrew made a hummingbird with small flowers on a heavy metal base.

As now tradition we talk about our shop woes and wonders and share some esoteric eggels too.

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Challenge will be posted on May 30, 2024

June's Challenge is set to be a fake house plant.

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This month's Challenge is Fairy Doors.

Kipling made a whimsical fairy doors based on the four elements and Andrew made a more traditional door with forged hardware.

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Challenge posted on April 29, 2024

May's Challenge is set to be a bird bookend.

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This month's Challenge is Bookmarks.

Kipling made a bunch of different bookmark designs using new patina techniques and Andrew tried his hand at copper inlay on a flattened piece of wrought iron.

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Challenge posted on March 25, 2024