This Week at IAStudios

Hello everyone.

This week was hot. Too hot. Unacceptably hot. We have only just about resolidified after becoming the human equivalent of an ice cream unceremoniously dropped on the floor. Without going on some kind of rant about how people in airconditioned offices need to stop complaining, or about how climate change is definitely a real and serious scientific fact that more people should care more about, I think it is safe to say that we suffered this week.

The temperature in the forge was oppressive, but we had a market this Sunday and we needed more stock, so the fires were lit and ice-lollies were stashed in the freezer. Elliot and Joe were working on stock for the market and Dan was finishing off a standing order of tongs. Elliot was making more of his keyrings - skulls, Thor’s hammers and leaves. Joe was making a batch of roses.

Ludlow market is the first town market that we have attended and we were happy with the amount of interest shown in our products and the courses that we offer. We got talking to a few of the other traders and also really enjoyed talking to the public about our work. We learnt a lot, what works, what doesn’t and what we shall change for next time, but all in all we were really proud of our stall at the market. We shall definitely be returning to Ludlow in the future.

Cheers to another (hopefully less hot) week.

~IASTUDIOS

Elliot, making the face of one of the skull keyrings

The skull keyring after the details have been punched/chiselled in

Some of Dan’s Tongs this week.

The IAStudios stall at Ludlow Market