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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

27 March '12

Latest News

Somebody's switched spring on! We've had some fantastic sunny days with temperatures more like summer than spring. Long may it last!

It's been ages since I last put any 'news' up here. I usually announce the first curlews - well they've been around for a month or more now. The first daffodils - they're here too. So I've been remiss. I'll try to do better - promise...

So what's happening in the world of boxes. Well, right now I'm working on a large box for a visitors book which has a secret opening mechanism and I have to admit it's proving a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. I had the mechanism totally planned on paper, I'd even made a mock-up in pine but on the real thing it's not working! I will make it work.

As for jewellery boxes - I've got a pretty good selection in the jewellery box gallery at the moment. Desk boxes - they're a bit thin I know but as soon as I've finished this visitors book box I'll get some more of those made. Ring boxes - these are continuing to sell steadily and the new method of personalising them is working very well. Should that be - personalizing? I am conscious that I'm talking to America too!

I must try too to add a few words to my blog. When I started it I used to write something every day - I knew it wouldn't last... but actually I find it easier writing about the boxes on a daily basis rather than once a month or so.

That's enough for now. As ever -

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