Mudlarking A LUCKY PIXIE & Items Used By KINGS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- This week we returned to the Thames Estuary. We went looking for tiny metal treasures and found some unexpected but amazing things (well to us haha) We found objects that tell tales of Kings and Queens. Join us mudlarking some amazing history!
We also craft some things with the items we found. One of which is the start of a new huge project :)
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the essence of quietude in these frightened times. i find great solace in your work, enough to cause me quote Leonard Cohen: Suzanne takes your hand as she leads you to the river
she is wearing rags and feathers from salvation army counters
and the sun pours down like honey on our Lady of the Harbor
she shows you where to look amid the garbage and the flowers
there are heroes in the seaweed they are children of the morning
they are leaning out for love and they will lean that way forever
while Suzanne holds the mirror......
(i hope i got that right......and thanks. i like judy collins rendition)
We love Leonard Cohen! This fits so perfectly thank you :)
That bead is so beautiful it must be worn. Love your pixie he looks like a cross between Mr. Magoo and a Ferengi!
Haha he is a strange little fellow :)
Yall had a awesome day..wowzer
Cool finds. The little pixie is so charming. The bead was once a beautiful necklace. 😻😻😻
Pawns could be glass bottle stoppers and vulcanized black stoppers. That pixies is adorable! I love that fancy bead, it’s so special.
I think stoppers maybe the way to go possibly :)
I know I'm late to comment on this video, but maybe you could use bottle stoppers as pawns for your chessboard? You could flip them upside down and attach a marble, or a small piece of seaglass of similar color on the tip. Thank you for sharing your adventures! Love your channel ❤
Great idea! Silver and Bronze will be very beautiful!
Love watching you Mom and Oscar. His grin melts my heart. I love all the info you give.
Wow, this was such an incredible history lesson. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
Nan from Florida: your knowledge about items on the shore is amazing!!!!
It's Mother's Day in America, Happy Mother's Day Fleur!!
Thank you :)
The little collar studs would make perfect pawns for your chess board x maybe if you mount them on something just to make them a bit taller ??😍😍😍
They would and be about the right size :)
Happy Mother's Day Fleur!! 🌹🌹🌷🌷
Thank you! 🤗
I had a metal day today ; ) it's a lot of fun with the magnet . Liking the toothpaste creations a lot.
It is always exciting to find a patch of metal, never know what you will find :)
Love from the old lady in Texas God bless you alway
Such beautiful finds!
That big piece of flint is at the very least a blade core. The long groves in the stone are from removing thin flint blades to use as knives or arrow points. It's like a 6000 year old box of razor blades :)
It's called a garter belt that holds stockings up great finds ladies Happy Mother's day 🌹 from USA
Thank you for my daily escapism, and means of sanity!
That tiny pointy metal thing you found at 29:54, is a lable fastner for fabric. The lable is tied with a string to the little metal piece, that’s why there’s a hole in it, and then you push it (the metal) through the fabric. I still see them being used today, because I sometimes work with fabric.
Twilfit is still going here in Sweden, cool to hear their origins. It will fit, well of course.
Love the vid, hugs Madde
Thank you so much for that information :)
And I loved the chess piece! What a great idea!
The holey bricks would have been used as a liner around the fireplace to draw air and warm it as a kind of central heating.
I just watched a video and they found old Roman hollow bricks out on the mud flats using hovercraft.
Wonderful finds 😉
Thank you :)
A map with postage tags attached would be interesting
vulcanized bottle stoppers for pawns!
Good idea
Stoppers do seem to be a popular choice :)
Such great finds and History !!
Loved the stopper and bead. Thanks for the day out. 🦋
So glad you enjoyed it thank you :)
Great to see you out on the beach, estuary. And a beautiful bead find Fleur. One wonders at the skill of the makers. Sue and Ian, Australia
Thank you very much, the bead is so very intricate :)
I am so with you on the flint Fleur, it's all interesting, but which is history? You have found a worked piece before though, so I feel you'll know it when you see it. The GPO seals...those are your pawns for the Mudlark Chess Board, one for a base and one vertical, especially since they seem to have a couple of colors. I always enjoy your videos. Happy Mother's Day Fleur! (USA celebrating)
The flints are so hard to identify but I keep trying haha, thank you :)
Love your channel more than the rest. I've been following NW more or less from the beginning but love yours most 🙂🌈🌈
Thank you so much Ellie :) :)
A pixie! And the forget-me-not glass bead! I am over the moon for you!
I always thoroughly enjoy your charming and info-filled uploads. Thank you!
Have you ever considered magnetizing a few cocktail forks & seafood picks by attaching a tiny, but powerful neodymium magnet in order to facilitate speedier gathering of metal?
Thank you so much! I used a fishing magnet but I just succeeded in picking up loads of magnetised stones :)
The slightly triangular, greenish metal piece might be a 1920s/1930s dress clip. Most of the ones I've seen are base or pot metal set with glass/paste jewels.
Thank you :)
Ok, so the pawns definitely need to be partially made from general postbag seals 😂 you seem to find plenty of them!
Yes we have quite a few now haha :)
Happy Mothers Day Fleur. What interesting finds. I missed Sunny cat. Hugs, Diana
Thank you so much! Sunny will be back :)
@@MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers Your videos take me through a portal into a magic place where all is right in the world. Thank you for that.
Your pawns can be marbles!!
What you are holding very fancy and Victorian as you say. They were garters and there were elastic or ribbon attached to a fancy belt that went around the hips. They held up stockings for women. I hope that helps , Susann 75
The big A looks kind of like the stylized A. Of Anheuser Bush beer company in the states
You could tie ribbon bows of different colors around the necks of your chess pieces.
That freaked me out with siren going off, used to live next to an airfield in the 80's as a child and it was the same not great with all the protect and survive going on in those days.
Yeah it was a disturbing sound not sure what it was for! :)
@@MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers are you near Canvey Island in this video? They have a flood warning siren that sounds just like an air raid siren (or at least they used to). Maybe they’re testing it out again?
Need to pull all rock out as you can see things hide. 🙂
So I wonder what H.Pool and Co. would think if you brought that button in?? Would they be excited? I think they would, can’t imagine there are too many buttons from that time around. I think you should contact them!! Let us know what happens!! ❤️❤️❤️
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If the tube of toothpaste lid has the Royal feathers on it,would it have been for the royal family?or appointed by the royal family?They did do that a lot,like Harrods,appointed by Her majesty????Are they not belonging to the prince of wales?Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
I think it was by appointment to the king or Queen which I think means they used it :)
Kate, at minute 5:00 you missed a small button.
That was me and hopefully I picked it up later :)
At the 5:00 mark, that would be the legendary "Siren Head" monster calling for victims. There are videos online to explain how he lures them in........
:) :) :) It was a disturbing noise!
Girdle?
It was a kind of corset you wore in the 50`s here :)
Not being critical of this but it this the way everyone dresses in England ?
Your pixie looks like Quark from Star Trek Deep Space Nine. (He's an alien Ferengi character who bought and sold merchandise.) You could name your pixie Quark.
We love Star Trek :)
Mudlarkers, historians, archeologists, artists, entertainers, and on and on! Thanks you for sharing!
Hahaha thank you :)
If you found a Star Fleet badge its because the lucky pixie wants you to live long and prosper.
Hahahahaha :)
Pixies are part Vulcan you know. 🖖🖖
The buckle you wasn't sure of , looks like a military strap adjusting buckle on a , maybe rifle strap or other military thing like a belt that held canteens , knives. Sense I can't send you picture of anything maybe you could look up the world war 1 solders in field dress and you will see one.
I think you are right it does look military :)
The wee post office bag seals would look nice posing as books on a shelf in your dolls house x
Lovely idea :)
Oh that little pixie is the cutest ever and just perfect for you :) Love the apothecary stopper - so glad you also see a mouse face in it !!! Looking forward to seeing Mrs Toothpaste once she is all made up!
Thank you! I can`t not see a mouse`s face haha :)
Wonderful video. Once again, Fleur is smiling like a cat in the cream pot. Love the piano music. Very soothing after a long day of work.
Thank you very much! :)
You might be interested to watch the excellent Bernadette Banner (historical dress expert) on her YT channel about corset wearing. She is quite positive about them on the whole. And she is just generally fab at historical sewing.
Love the upcoming chess set project idea and also the toothpaste dolls. Thanks for another great vlog.
I think Kate has watched some of her videos :)
Your are such a delightful young lady. I'm sure you must make your mother proud daily. Thank you for another lovely video.
"Seeds of the universe ever endeavor to grow
Tiny pieces of everything into the water they go
Everything changes for the strangers on the shore"
By American singer James Taylor, it's the chorus to his song, "Yellow and Rose". I have taken the words literally because they explain, so well, the things we find on the shore. The song is actually about the British convicts who were sent Botany Bay.
That is really really beautiful! :)
The apothecary stoppers might make interesting chess pieces.
I love how you find things ,then tell their story afterwards.it makes the finds so special and turns them into treasures..I also love the little craft bits you put into the end sometimes too.🥰
Thank you so much! We found an object in this coming video which has an amazing back story involving ghosts and war! :)
Your Star Fleet badge might be part of a 20's or 30's shoe clip.
It seems it is either a shoe clip or the end of a belt, not sure we will ever know for sure :)
I no longer turn over seaweed as it disturbs the organisms sheltering under it waiting for the tide to return.
My granny crocheted matching gloves and slippers just like the ones your wearing when I was little I love ❤️ yours they are beautiful.
Thank you so much, a very talented granny :)
All the suggestions on here for your chess set are so impressive! If you’re a watcher, Subscribe...if you’re a watcher or a Subscriber, press “like”...if you get a moment, add to the comments...and if you like what you see, tell your friends! It helps promote the channel, and helps Fleur and Kate soooo much! Let’s give them a boost to get them over 10,000 subs!! ❤️ from The unofficial cheering section from 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
That brown heart stopper looks like Feathers McGraw from The Wrong Trousers 🤔 Another fab video!
It really does haha :)
Those seals will be perfect pawn bases. I LOVE the queen. Quite imperious.
Thanks so much :)
Your chess set could be glass vs. metal. You could use the glass bottle stoppers as pawns since they are a very similar shape and size to each other.
It’s Mother’s Day here in the US, and seeing you two together, doing what you enjoy doing, laughing, and just sharing time together made me smile.
All the best to you both always ~ 🥰🌼
Thank you so much :)
Lovely finds today, Ladies. That bead is beautiful and definitely my favourite find from today. Fabulous start to the K&C chess set. Could you use vulcanised bottle stoppers as pawns, maybe with a frozen charlotte or mini dolls head on top. Very enjoyable video with lots to keep me entertained on a Sunday afternoon. Thanks you. Jeanette
Bottle stoppers are a good idea, we have loads :)
Happy Mother’s Day. Turn your pixie into a necklace and ware it every time you go mud larking hon. Awesome finds guys as well as many super crafting pieces. God bless and stay safe and well 🙏🙏🙏🙏🥰🥰🥰🥰👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️ 🌸🌸🌸🌼🌼🌼🌼🌻🌻🌻🌻
Funnily enough I did think of that :)
I've always thought that collar studs look like pawns. Also, your buckle may have gone to a military webbing belt.
That does seem to be the consensus about the belt :)
Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri Sat Sund............................................ OK Mudlarkers, countdown to treasure hunting :)
Thank you Colin, glad you enjoy :)
Those little mouse bottle stoppers would make cute knights for a chess set.
Why not use bottle stoppers as bottoms and add stuff to the top actual chess pieces will take years probably to find.
Maybe bottle stoppers wearing lead post seals as hats, could be the pawns...
I think bottle stoppers are the popular answer :)
:) :) :)
I absolutely love going with you on your adventures 💕. You bring me lots of joy.
Oh thank you! :)
The big amber stopper looks like Feathers McGraw from Wallace and Gromit-when he puts the disguise on to rob the diamond 💎 🤣🥲
It really does haha :)
Thanks for sharing not only your finds but sharing all you find out about them
Thanks for watching! :)
H Poole and co are the inventors of the Tuxedo as far as I remember
I'm not an expert but I think the changes in tides and storms (amongst other things, I'm sure) erode certain areas and then drop all of the bits that weigh the same in the same place. Tom Burleigh mentioned he has observed this phenomena too.
Yes like things definitely gather together because of weight and floatability so to speak :)
Happy Mother’s Day, Fleur. Your Lucky Pixie worked his magic for you. Love the beautiful videos. Your becoming quite accomplished video makers.
Thank you so much for that, we are hoping to just keep improving :)
Kate greetings from Texas. Kate are you still in school
No Kate is no longer in school :)
I'm not a fan of UP CYCLING the old dolls or any old item. I think they should be left as they are found. Kept in bowls, jars etc. Just my view.
I love how creative you both are, and I feel inspired by your craft projects. Maybe you could use glass bottle stoppers turned flat side down, for the pawns of you chess set. Maybe glue a cod marble on the top. Black could be green stoppers, and white could be clear. Just a thought. I’m sure whatever you make will be fabulous.
That is a good idea as we have so many stoppers we do not know what to do with them haha :)
Those seals look like they could be beautiful floor tiles in a doll house....or stepping stones.
Thank you for bringing us along on your adventures.
I live in Gold Beach, Oregon. We collect agates on our beach by Kissing Rock.
Is there an address where one can send you a treasure from Kissing Rock? Please advise.
Thank you for being a joy in my life.
Fun video. Thanks for making my Mother’s Day interesting.
You are very welcome :)
The pawns could be tooth paste lids with cod marbles on top. You find plenty of both of those items where it might be possible to make enough pieces for your set. Just a thought 💭🥰
Great idea!
That would be lovely :)
I think you both should make a photo book called The Beauty of Found Objects 😉a very Victorian sounding title, but then again, you both must have Victorian souls, seeing how you mudlark and then create such beautiful things with your found objects! Plus you both are always dressed so smartly in your videos, I absolutely love 💘it!!! 💘
HAAPY MOTHERS DAY CABOODLER... IM ASSUMING KATE IS KIT...LOL
Thank you :)
@@MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers My pleasure beautiful ladies
I love the little pixie! He is so adorable! I really love Kate’s outfit in this video, it looks super comfy, and green is my favorite color.
I loved the outfit too. What would you call the trousers?
@@dadams9158 not sure, but I want some lol
They are tartan dungarees :)
@@MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers I love them and you wear them so well.
I'm gonna google them to see what I come I come up with here, near me in Georgia, USA.
The triangle object you found maybe a clip for fitting suspenders through. Usually higher up on the back. Made of metal or even plastic.
The holey brick pieces would be nice for making prints in art journals.
The wheel, or frame, would make a fine mud larking wreath .
I think the name Kate might have been looking for , when describing the corset metal piece, is garter belt.
Have you tried crumbled denture cleaning tablets for the inside of the bottles with openings too tiny for a brush?
Oh how I enjoy your videos! Thank you!☺️
You two are so sweet and adorable as are your imaginative creations. I love how you are so inspired by some of your finds that you get right to it crafting! Try Backgammon discs to mount your Chess pieces instead of a topper.
Thank you so much! We do enjoy thinking and making our crafts. I will admit my favourites are doll crafts though :)
Yeah 👍😊 I was rooting for you to get that bead out. 😊 Cute little pixie. Love your other bead and most of all l love 💓 the apothecary bottle stopper. TH-cam fan from Ct. USA Lady's garder?
Dang...I thought I had this brilliant idea for pawns!!! Seems like I got beaten to the post several times over!!! Those pesky vulcanite bottle stoppers🤣♟❤️
on the corset thing. Modern military body armor properly worn, fits like a corset. The chest piece weighs so much that the only way to wear it without being completely miserable is to button it on and have someone else cinch it till it squeezes on your ribs. This takes some of the weight off of your shoulders, which otherwise hurt from having 15+kg of gear hanging off of them. being body armor there is zero stretch, so it's a balancing act between spreading weight, and still being able to breathe.
Garter belt held up stockings. I could use a lucky Pixie. The wide "Buckle" could have been from some sort of strap to be tightened over cargo. Trucks have modern straps of that sort. They may have had them on wagons.
Your crafting is the icing on the cake after a wonderful day hunting treasure 😊❤
I have beads similar to yours and they are called lamp work beads. Perhaps it is one also. You both show such enthusiasm that it is contagious as I watch. Thank you for sharing your adventures.
@43:50, that could be made into part of a typewriter or used in a miniature dollhouse as a settee inside of the doll’s house nursery. Love the toothpaste doll and Queen! So inventive. Just an overall quaint little video. 🥰❤️
39:18 I think she looks like Princess Leia in the first Star Wars 😀
It just occurred to me for your chess pieces, as a base you could use bottle tops that you save for candlesticks and build them up with cogs and other metal bits and top them off with doll heads for example. each one could be different
I think the word that you were trying to come up with for your little clasp is actually for a garter belt. As always I love your videos you guys are the absolute best much love and luck to you all.
Thanks, :)Brilliant video as always. Great toothpaste tube doll - do you have to give her a head? She looks really intriguing without!