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Peter Lloyd, working from his small workshop in Cumbria UK, searches out unusual and beautiful English hardwoods to create jewellery boxes, ring boxes, work boxes, writing slopes or special commissions; a box to hold a treasured heirloom, a christening box, a chess set, a presentation piece, or a very individual corporate gift.

Whether it be a desk box made of oak from HMS Victory, a jewelry chest, a little jewel of a ring box or stationery box of burr elm, each of these handmade wooden boxes is a celebration of its wood.

Burr Elm Jewellery Box

4 January '12

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A very happy new year to you. What a windy start to the new year! Only one roof slate down so far so I think we've been let off fairly lightly.

I'm pleased to say that all the Christmas boxes were finished in time and arrived safe and sound , even the one that the postman hid in a safe place and forgot to tell the recipient...

I should of course be settling down to some concentrated box making but I've had a shelf unit hanging over my head (not literally) for a few months now and I finally decided to get on with it and make it! It's the last piece to go into the 'breakfast room' of our B&B (have a look at Chris' website - www.hallbankgatebedandbreakfast.co.uk ) and I think it's going to look pretty dramatic.

I can't spend too long on it though, I've got a three boxes all commissioned for the end of January - a box in some gorgeous burr oak for a very special photo album, a box in the last of my burr walnut for a visitors book with only one fairly special visitor in it and a commissioned box for Tullie House which is Carlisle's art gallery and museum, for their permanent collection. I need to get a wiggle on!

There's more news - from a different perspective on my diary page. Peter