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Our country is full of incredible makers
dreaming of turning their talent...

into money -making careers.

It would mean everything to be able to
do this full -time.

So, with a team of fantastic
professional mentors... I know your

know what you're capable of doing.

I run a one -of -a -kind bootcamp,
showing them how to do just that.

Perfect. My proudest moment. Yes.

Now, I'm on my way to catch up with
those who have made their dreams come

Hello. There he is. Hello, mate.

I'll be hearing about their amazing
achievement.

I've been able to put down... This is my
full -time job.

And finding out how much money they're
making.

A little bit under £40 ,000.

Around £50 ,000. £50 ,000? Yes. So join
me and meet the fabulous makers who have

transformed their lives and made it at
market.

You can totally say I'm living the
dream.

I think that's fair to say.

All kinds of makers from all walks of
life have been to my boot camp.

And today we'll be catching up with two
who have put the lessons they learnt

into practice and reaped big rewards.

Later, mentor Sunny will be checking in
with Andy from Devon, who wanted to

build a career as a keepsake jewellery
artist.

It's absolutely crazy how things have
worked out. It is a full -time, seven

-a -week business.

First, though, I'm going to drop in on
metal artist Lyndon in Essex.

This is not far, actually, from where I
grew up. Grew up in Southend.

Nice to be coming home, but this time
I'm going to see Lyndon.

When I first met Lyndon at my boot camp
in the summer of 2023, he was hoping we

could help him give up his job as a
welder and fabricator to create a new

business and dream life.

If I can...

be at home with my family more often,
down the workshop. That's definitely

it is for me, and especially my son. I
could possibly employ him in the future.

I think he's going to be a manual
worker, very hands -on, so if I can

into something that... He struggles with
academic stuff, doesn't he? Academic, a

little bit of ADHD, and I think if he
can put his efforts into something like

this, brilliant.

To help Lyndon get the sales he needed
to build a successful family business, I

set him three challenges.

First was making a volume bee, something
he could make quickly and sell

affordably. He decided to make a single
metal rose, mounted on a base.

Priced at £50, it was crafted from mild
steel and stood 15cm tall with eye

-catching bronze highlights, which added
stunning decorative details to the

leaves and petals.

He began using pre -cut steel shapes.

The first stage is to prepare the metal
for the petals and take the oxide off.

It makes it look nice and shiny,
otherwise it'll look very rusty.

With the petals prepared, Lyndon applied
the bronze details using a TIG welder,

a machine that is especially suited to
the intricate cosmetic detail often

required on sculptural pieces.

It's using the heat to melt the bronze
that just lays on top.

I think the contrast between the bronze
and the mild steel, I think it looks

really pretty.

So the bronze has been laid on now to
the outside of the petals.

I'm just now to use the wire brush to
remove the heat marks.

There's the difference with before and
the after.

You can see we're all nice and shiny,
catches the light when you look at it at

different angles.

With the petals taking shape, Lyndon cut
and added texture to the rose's stem.

He then attached a bolt to hold the
petals in place.

As Lyndon worked to build his
metalworking business, he was guided by

professional blacksmith Adrian Wood, who
runs a successful forge in the Tees

Valley. combining contemporary sculpture
with traditional blacksmithing

techniques. When you're making these,
are you looking at doing these for

media? Would you consider making a reel,
for instance, of how you make these

things and putting a sort of a process
together?

I've never really thought about it at
the moment, but now you've said it,

absolutely. Is the social media side
something you find quite daunting at the

minute? Yeah, I'm not really... Social
media, I don't really understand it much

at the moment, and it's...

It's hard for me to think that what I'm
doing is good enough to get out there.

And, yeah, that's where my worries are,
really. I'm sure we can sort that out.

Whilst Lyndon cracked on making his
volume piece, I sat down with Adrian to

about his second challenge.

Before he arrived at my boot camp, I
asked Lyndon to make a high -end piece,

item that carries a much more expensive
price tag.

He brought along a spectacular steel
dragon.

Standing 90 centimetres tall, it took
him 100 hours to create and was priced

£2 ,200.

Where do we start with Lyndon's high
-end piece?

Goodness me, that dragon.

It's unbelievable the amount of work
that he's put into that head. He's

got some lovely textures going on in
there.

He's finished it beautifully.

Really has. The size, the proportions,
the horns, everything. I would say my

main criticism of the head and the neck.

There's a real disconnect between the
two. The texture and the... Yeah, yeah.

And if he'd just brought maybe some of
that texture and some of that technique

down into the back of it a little bit,
it would fit.

Lyndon's hoping to get £2 ,200 for it.
For the amount of work that he's put

it now, I think it's where it is.

Would somebody buy it?

Maybe not. You need that cohesion
between the two pieces to make it more

saleable.

Back in the forge, Lyndon was working
away on his volume piece, hand -shaping

the petals on his metal rose.

I just go around in a circle, giving
them a little twist, just to get them

started.

And then I'll do the rest by hand.

If I get it started, it makes it a lot
easier for my hands to work.

And then give them a little crush.

Starts to bring it into shape.

Now I just get the neem leaf pliers and
just roll these round.

That's the main part of the rose head
done.

With the petals shaped, Lyndon put the
finishing touches to his metal rose.

By welding three leaves to a metal stem,
cleaning them with a wire brush,

and shaping them.

I just pop the leaf into there. It's
usually just one hit.

Like so.

put it in the corner giving it a tap
there you go just adds that little bit

shape to the leaves and then because
it's only thin rod you can then

them to whatever shape i want them want
them bending down that can be done and

there we go and now ready to be welded
to the main stem

Lyndon's steel rose with bronze
-detailed petals and leaves took him

an hour to make.

And with material costs of around £10,
he gave it a price tag of £50.

I love it. I love the colour that he's
put into the top of the leaves. I think

it's a really nice, unique, saleable
thing. It really makes it. It really

What do you think about an asking price
of £50?

£50 is around the right price for a
rose.

There's a few elements that I would
potentially look at. uh changing

even look at sort of machinery or
tooling that could make those leaves pop

little bit more it's just those little
things those little attentions to detail

that will elevate the piece of work to
make it definitely worth that 50 pounds

would love to see at least the petals or
something made of copper so you'll be

able to sort of braze essentially the
copper to the steel and mix them

I'll give it a go. Add a new dimension
to it. Oh, there's so much potential.

Fantastic. Brilliant.

Thank you very much. I hope so.

We'll find out shortly how Lyndon's
roses are selling now.

But for his final challenge at the boot
camp, I asked him to make his favourite

piece to find out if the thing he loved
making the most could also be a

bestseller.

He chose to craft a 55 centimetre tall
metal owl.

Featuring feathers with a delicate
bronze detail.

Standing proudly on a 25cm steel branch.

How you doing? Sorry to interrupt you.
No, no. I just wanted to see how you're

getting on.

Really well, I think. I'm just starting
to make a batch of feathers.

You say it's a feather, but... At the
moment, yeah. So hopefully it will look

like that. There's lots more details.
I've put some little slits in there. How

are you doing the gold stripe?

I use a flitting disc to cut like a
groove, and then I use a TIG welder to

bronze inside the groove, and then you
just use a flat disc, flatten it off.

So it's not going all the way through,
it's just pouring the surface and then

filling it with the bronze. That's a
really nice little detail. Thank you.

I was interested in how Lyndon made his
metal owl, but mentor Adrian wanted to

know how he planned to make money from
it.

Where are you looking to sort of sell?

It'd be nice to sell at galleries.

Have you identified any galleries in
your local area?

There's a couple in my immediate local
area. I've contacted them. I haven't

received anything back yet. It might be
worth just taking one or two of the

things down with you. You can kind of
sell yourself and the product while

there. If they can buy into it, they'll
then look at their potential customers

that are going to come along and buy it,
and they can sell you.

Lyndon's Metal Owl had a make time of
100 hours.

So in order to show Adrian a finished
piece, he brought one along that was

closer to completion.

I have some blanks here which I use for
the face.

I've already cut out the holes and some
bigger holes here. So I will weld some

ball bearings into these holes to make
the eyes.

And also I'll cut with a grinder and
I'll put in some feather detailing.

and I'll do that now before I weld them
together, otherwise you can't separate

them.

After completing and attaching the owl's
face to the body, Lyndon moved

on to finalising the piece.

Just a quick look to make sure he's not
wonky.

Yeah, that's fantastic. I'll just
reinforce now, do a few more tacks to

sure he's nice and secure, and then the
final stage is building around the back

of the head, nice small feathers so it
looks... in keeping with the head, then

it's off to lacquer.

Lyndon's owl was absolutely stunning and
was packed with personality and detail

in its characterful face.

He painted it with a clear coat of
lacquer to protect the metal and add a

It was priced at £1 ,800 and Adrian and
I were both impressed with its finish.

It's an incredibly busy piece. There's
so much going on within it. Yeah. The

lovely little detail. And this has got
an asking price of £1 ,800, which I kind

of get. Yeah, absolutely.

The level of work that you've put into
it, the detail, the amount of sort of

steel and the decorations that you've
got on there with the bronze TIG

Yeah, I can see it. I can definitely see
that price.

It was fantastic sharing Lyndon's
passion for metalwork.

As he headed home to Essex, we drew up
an action plan to help turn his pieces

into the business he'd one day hoped to
share with his son.

First, we challenged him to promote
himself more on social media, doing

his making.

Next, Adrian wanted Lyndon to approach
galleries with his work in person.

Finally, we both wanted him to consider
new tooling and have a go at new

blacksmithing techniques to help improve
his pieces.

With Adrian's support, Lyndon had two
months to put his action plan into

practice and start building his
business.

And job one was investing in new
equipment.

I've got my fly press delivered.

Adrian advised me to buy one of these so
I can make my leaves quicker and more

uniform.

Hopefully this will change everything
about my roses and any other future part

which I can make quickly using this big
kit. So hopefully this will get it

unwrapped.

It didn't take Lyndon long to put the
fly press to good use, and the new tool

wasn't the only thing helping out in the
workshop.

I've got my little boy, Sam, working
with me today. He's doing a good job,

doing a very good job. Another bit of
good news is a commission.

Two commissions have come in for
animals, coming by email, which is

He also knuckled down to getting himself
out more on social media.

I'm going to try and make some clips and
some pictures to try and boost my

social media presence. At the moment,
I've got a very, very low presence. I

think I need to just go for it. Put some
videos out there and see what happens.

As he tried to kick -start his business,
Lyndon did everything we asked of him.

And after two months of hard graft, he
reported back to us with brilliant news.

I've made £2 ,700.

2 ,700.

I'm very happy with that, if I think so.
Yeah.

I'm certainly looking forward to making
this into a business. This is where I

want to be. This is what I want to do.

Lyndon needed to deduct his costs from
his fantastic sales figures, but he was

definitely on the right track to
creating a brilliant business.

Two and a half years later, I'm on my
way to his workshop in Essex to hear all

about how he's done just that.

and how much money he's making now.

Hello?

Lyndon?

Hello, there he is. Hello, mate.

Oh, it's so good to see you. It's nice
to see you again. I've got so much to

show you. Lead the way. Come with me,
come with me. Look at this place.

There we go.

From the outside, I had high hopes for
Lyndon's workshop.

And now I'm inside, it doesn't
disappoint.

I'm blown away. I didn't know what to
expect.

I knew it was going to be good, but
you've got a good setup here. I build

much everything on here.

I use the shear over there to cut my
rod.

I've got the drill press, my vices.

Yeah. And I've got the room next door,
which is where all my parts are kept.

And I've got my nice new bead roller
there.

Beautiful. It's a proper running
organisation now, isn't it?

Yeah. Considering from two years ago
there was nothing, I'm really, really

proud. Yeah.

When I first met Lyndon, he'd only sold
one item.

Now he's got a brilliant workshop and an
amazing new business.

This is dispatch.

This is dispatch area.

Yeah? Yeah, so parts, completed items,
wrapped up on here, out they go.

You're kidding me. All these tubs behind
you, this is all... Parts. Your

organisation. You've got this sorted.
It's got to be perfect to make it work.

It's been two and a half years.

Since you were last at our business boot
camp.

Yes. How has the business developed over
that time?

It's kept me very busy. I'd only sold
one rose when I last met you at the boot

camp. Yes. And from then, it's up into
the very, very high hundreds now.

Hundreds? Just short of a thousand
orders now in that time.

Wow. It blows me away. What products in
particular have helped grow the

business?

Well, I must say, it's the one that you
actually asked me to.

You said you'd like to see the Copper
Rose.

This was your volume piece, wasn't it?
Yes, this was the one I built at the

camp last time.

You'd like to see Copper Rose. I made
Copper Rose, and I must admit, thank you

so much, because that has been the most
popular item.

With material costs of up to £25,
Lyndon's new Copper Rose has a price tag

£60.

Along with the other versions he's
developed, he's sold a whopping 500

since he was at the bootcamp, as well as
other flowers priced at £45 to £130.

But it's not just the volume pieces that
are bringing in the money. How about

the high -end pieces?

Are they selling?

Yes, yeah, they sell as well. Yeah, very
pleased, very pleased.

I love Lyndon's larger, more sculptural
pieces.

So it's good to hear they're selling
too, with his bonsai trees going for

to £800 depending on their size.

It's the volume pieces that are driving
the growth of his business though, and

he's going to show me how he makes his
best -selling copper rose.

He starts by cutting a piece of
stainless steel to length and shaping it

vice with a hammer.

Then it's time to make the leaf.

And Lyndon's son Sam is lending a hand.

So, Sam, how are you going to turn that
into a lifelike leaf?

Well, this is the tool that my dad made,
and so basically you put it under... Go

on, show us.

Yeah. You put it under that, you line it
up, and you just smack it,

and it just makes a detail on the leaf.

Yeah, but this is the beauty of organic
things like plants. They're all a bit

different. Yeah. None of them are all
the same.

And then you could do the sides.

Or make a leaf.

With the leaves shaped and the leaf stem
cut, Lyndon welds them together and

cleans them with a wire brush.

Next, he welds a bolt onto a pre -made
flower stem that will hold the copper

leaves in place.

Then it's time to weld the flower and
leaf stand together.

So I made a dummy flower head.

Okay. That will be screwed onto there.

And that is going to give a
representation of where that copper will

So you can eye up where the leaves go.
Exactly. Because if I put the copper on

there now, the welding might damage the
copper which is already on there. Yeah.

If it's a painted flower, it could get
damaged.

So I use a dummy rose and then I use
this.

And I just eye it up, stop the form.

So this is where your creative, artistic
eye comes in and you're kind of eyeing,

deciding whether the leaves go on the
left or the right, the shape of it. The

shape. This is, yeah.

And then I can use that as a guide, hold
the leaves together, give it a weld,

and then move on.

It's brilliant to watch Lyndon work
again. And after welding the flower and

stems of the rose together, he places
and secures the petals and is letting me

have a go at shaping them.

Bending this up. You can pull that all
the way up, start off with, and then

you've got lots of space.

It's quite easy. I find it easy as it
is. Hold it with one hand and then just

use... You've got a little bend that
way, a little bend.

And that's it, and back. A little bend
there.

There we go. It's all yet.

Do it to how you want to do it. Make it
your own.

No, I want to make it.

I told you to be happy, Lyndon.

I'm happy. I'm not the only here.

Keep squeezing, keep squeezing.

I'm trying, Lyndon.

Helping Lyndon shape the rose petals has
made it even clearer to me what a

talented maker he is.

Don't be afraid to get some pressure on
that with your left hand.

I'm not sure I'm looking forward to
getting his verdict on my efforts.

Lyndon, I think, I know your critical
eye has been watching over me. I've

been so nervous, but look, for a
beginner, come on. I don't think that's

bad. I think that's pretty good.

Lyndon's new Copper Rose comes with a
price tag of £60.

I'm delighted he acted on my suggestion
to create it, along with promoting

himself on social media, where he now
has almost 2 ,000 followers, watching

fab how -to videos.

But have the other pointers Adrian and I
gave him helped him to build his

business over the past two and a half
years?

Lyndon, whilst you were last at the boot
camp, we did send you away with a bit

of an action plan, some key points to
work on. One of those being to try and

sell your work in galleries, trying to
approach some galleries to see if

take it on. Yes. How did you get on?
Very well. I was very lucky to put three

my items into a sculpture park, two of
which have sold.

and have moved on. Wow.

Yep. Congratulations.

Thank you. My owl, which was my
favourite from the boot camp, that's

and another sculpture park is going to
be taking pieces in the future.

Wow. My volume pieces and larger pieces.
So, very happy. Mate, that is

absolutely brilliant.

Lyndon sold his owl for the £1 ,800
price tag he put on it at the boot camp.

It's a fantastic achievement.

and forming good relationships with
sculpture parks is a great way of

sell his high -end pieces in the future
another thing adrian wanted you to work

on was your tooling to try and speed up
efficiency and make things more

efficiently yeah i've made three sets of
tooling specifically for my bonsai

trees this is so clever so it's
basically this is the male and female

two -part dies am i right i'm thinking
then you can get a laser cut flat blank

of the leaves yes put that in the fly,
have this tooling in the fly press, drop

that in, crank that, and you'll get all
of this texture embossed in.

Every time. I can completely appreciate
the amount of work in designing and

thinking and developing and making
these.

It must have taken you a long time.

It really did. Yeah. Yeah, each one,
there's been three, four throwaway

versions. Absolutely. Because they never
come out perfect.

These ones are working.

The rest are in the bin.

Lyndon's taken on board all the advice
we gave him and two and a half years

after coming to my boot camp, I'm
looking forward to finding out what

that's had on his job as a fabricator
and his finances.

The last time we were together, your job
was a fabricator and this was a hobby,

maybe. Has that changed now at all?

I'm now doing three days a week
fabrication and the rest of the week

time, from my business, for whatever
work I've done in my life, I've always

away. And to have the chance to be at
home, not a lot of people get that

to work with family in the way that I'd
like to do.

Do you mind if we talk about numbers
now?

Is it fair to say this craft or this
skill that you've now got is earning an

income for you?

Yes, I've been very proud to say it's on
average about £25 ,000 a year.

£25 ,000 a year?

which I'm blown away by. Wow.

It's incredible.

My business plan is to completely
reinvest, improve techniques, improve my

tooling. And you've created such a
unique environment here where your son

come and get stuck in and have fun and
learn amazing skills, learn from you,

just be in this environment. And I think
it's a beautiful thing. It's really

lovely what you've created.

And I wish you the best of luck. Thank
you very much, sir.

Going from a hobby that earned nothing
to making a profit of £25 ,000 a year

after taking off his costs is a truly
amazing achievement.

The fact that Lyndon's only working on
his business two to three days a week

makes it even more spectacular and is a
real testament to his talent and

determination.

What I've been through for the last
couple of years has showed, really, it

working.

Fathers get the chance to spend time at
work with their children, so I'm very

privileged in that respect.

The amount of orders I've taken, I'm
very grateful for, and I can see it's

to keep going, it's going to keep
growing. I'm very proud.

It's working.

It's working.

The second maker we're catching up with
today is keepsake jeweller Andy from

Devon. She came to my boot camp in the
summer of 2024 after taking the very big

decision to give up her job as a
furniture sales assistant to pursue her

for keepsake jewellery.

I'm a keepsake artist. I encapsulate
things like cremation ashes, pepper,

I just love the idea of capturing a
memory and creating something really

precious from it.

Like Lyndon, I set Andy three
challenges.

and for her volume piece she decided to
create a keepsake channel ring, which

she hoped to sell for £114.

Made from a pre -bought tungsten carbide
ring, opals and an inclusion of hair

from a loved one were sandwiched between
layers of UV resin mixed with coloured

pigment.

I'm going to fill the channel of the
ring with the resin, just trying to make

sure that it's not... pouring over the
edges just because it just gives us a

more work to do later on if it goes
everywhere.

After filling the channel of the ring
with two layers of coloured resin Andy

began adding the opals.

Just making sure that the opals don't
actually go any higher than

sort of the level setting of the ring
because if it does then once I put the

layer of resin on and cure it and I sand
it down and polish it There are going

to be little patches where the opal is
sticking out. I am just going to cure

this under the UV lamp.

I just rotate it very slowly as I go.
I'm using a UV -based resin, which means

that with a UV light, the resin liquid
will turn into a solid after curing

the light for a few seconds.

To help her make money from her work,
Andy was mentored by professional

Sunny Bailey -Aird.

And whilst she focused on making her
channel ring, I sat down with Sunny to

about her second challenge.

I asked her to bring her favourite piece
to the bootcamp to see if what she

loved making the most could be a big
seller.

She decided to showcase a pendant
encapsulating fur from her pet cat,

had recently passed away.

Excluding curing time, it took her
around an hour to make. And with

costs of £35...

She gave it a price tag of £61 .50.

What are your thoughts on Andy's
favourite piece?

It's crispy clean. It looks nice and
tidy.

The only thing I would like Andy to try
and change is...

to instead of buying in components, I'd
love to see Andy dip her toe into the

actual making of the mount. She needs to
do these stories as much justice as

possible. And the stories deserve
nothing less than handmade.

How can we help Andy at the moment? Any
key points for her? Her main market is

where she's from. So we want to try to
expand that. Obviously, the first port

call here is social media.

Sharing the story online is going to do
nothing but draw more eyes to her work.

And that's the most important part.

Back on the jewellery station, Andy was
adding hair to her keepsake channel

ring. I like having the responsibility
of working with things that are so

precious to people.

You can really tell how much somebody
meant to somebody.

This is a final layer of resin, making
sure that it isn't the channel part,

because anything that does come over the
sides accidentally is going to be

sanded and polished back.

When she arrived at my boot camp... Andy
had been making keepsake jewellery for

three years.

It was something she started following a
day out with a former partner.

Around 2021, I was really fortunate
enough to kind of attend this really

beach day and I thought, you know, I
really wanted to capture this memory. So

I've acted sort of like a handful of
shells. I made some resin jewellery and

from there it's gone from shells to fur
to ashes and I just love making it.

After hardening the top layer of resin
in her ring under a UV light, Andy moved

on to applying the finishing touches.

Just making sure that the surface of the
ring doesn't have deep scratches.

The next step would just be to polish
and then we're pretty much done.

With material costs of around £30 and a
make time of 90 minutes, Andy's channel

ring was beautifully made.

With kiln and workshop costs to consider
as well, She gave it a price tag of

£114.

I think there's so much potential for
this design. The really simple way that

can elevate this is essentially take a
mould of the base ring without the

get it cast up into silver, and we can
outsource that. And then that

just increases the preciousness and the
customer's perceived value of the piece

is instantly higher.

At the moment, this is priced at £114.

Do you think you'll still be able to
make that for the same price out of

We might have to increase it a touch,
because mould making, getting the cast,

and obviously the precious metal itself
is going to come at a slightly higher

price, but it's not going to be earth
-shaking.

For both of her first two pieces, Sonny
wanted Andy to raise the level of her

work by using higher quality materials.

And for her third task, he gave her a
special mentor's challenge that was

designed to make her do just that.

I picked this challenge for Andy because
using nicer materials is going to in

turn elevate her designs and it's also
going to come on a higher price point.

have to make sure that she's doing the
stories justice.

To try and create a higher end piece,
Andy decided to make a domed glass

keepsake pendant.

Ground fragments of glass known as frit
and ashes were mixed and fused together

inside a glass cap and set in a pre
-bought silver mount.

After cutting the glass cap, Andy
assembled the frit and ashes mix.

These ashes are actually donated to me.
They are horse ashes.

So I've got a tiny, tiny bit of ashes.
I'm just going to very gently tap

I don't want it to get anywhere else.

The frit and ashes mix needed topping
off with a glass cap.

which would form a glass stone after
being fired in the kiln.

As she was experimenting with the
process, Andy made a number of them to

sure she had one that fit inside a pre
-built silver mount.

I'm just going to make a few more and
then it's going to be ready to go inside

the kiln.

All right, Andy.

Oh, hello.

I'm seeing lots of activity on over. I
couldn't contain myself.

What are you working on at the minute?
I'm pretty much just sandwiching the

horse's ashes between two bits of fret,
just hoping that when it's fusing in the

kiln, it really fuses in sort of one
hole.

That's what I'm really hoping for.

The stones took four hours to form and
then needed to be left to cool for

several more before being ready to be
glued in to pre -bought silver mounts.

With such a long prep time, Andy brought
along a finished pendant to be able to

show Sonny and I a completed piece.

It was priced at £120 to £140.

The thing that jumps out to me is the
contrast of colours you've got in there,

you've got that...

crispy almost crystal ball like glass
and then you've got that deep greeny

and you can see the ashes super clearly
and you've actually smashed the actual

making of the glass too memorials mean a
lot to you but there's another side to

encapsulating these memories have you
ever thought about celebrations you

go into newborn babies you can go into
honeymoons commemorating any journey or

part of life if you will

Andy's skill and passion for keepsake
jewelry was clear to see, and as she

headed back to Devon, Sonny drew up an
action plan to help her start getting

sales she needed.

First, he asked her to make her own
mounts and rings by hand, and also use

instead of resin to make her pieces more
high -end.

Next, Sonny wanted Andy to share what
she does online to reach out to

beyond her local area.

Finally, she needed to think about
developing collections of keepsake

for celebratory events.

With Sunny's support, we gave Andy two
months to work on our advice and get the

sales coming in. She started by making
her pieces more high -end. I've ordered

powder glass, I've ordered fine and
medium frets.

and I'm going to experiment with sort of
getting the colour right, and then I'm

going to start incorporating the ashes
again into that.

And instead of trying to make the stone
to fit the setting, I'm going to make my

own settings that are going to fit the
stone. I'll go through the whole process

of, you know, like what a typical
jeweller or silversmith would do.

Andy also worked on creating a
collection of pieces to celebrate other

events, like babies and birthdays, as
well as promoting herself on social

Last night, I scheduled a post to be
released this morning, and I've seen my

face and my work all over social media.

In the eight weeks after my boot camp,
Andy worked around the clock following

our advice.

And when she came back to fill us in on
her latest achievements, she'd done

herself proud.

Do you mind if I ask how much you've
made over the last eight weeks?

I've made just shy of £1 ,800.

Literally just the action points alone
has allowed me to sort of go down that

path. This is just the start, so look at
this eight weeks as just the beginning.

You can take it wherever you want.

Andy had to take off her costs from her
fabulous sales figures, but Sunny was

bang on.

She'd created a business with huge
potential.

18 months after she first came to the
boot camp, I've asked him to head down

Devon to visit her at her new workshop
and find out how she's fulfilled it.

Andy, hello, mate. Hi, how are you?

Good, you? I'm OK, thank you. Come on
in, come on in.

When she came to the boot camp, Andy was
making her pieces in the spare room in

her house.

Now, as well as this brilliant new
workshop, she's also got a consultation

next door.

where clients can come in and tell her
their stories.

Andy, your space is incredible.

But am I right in saying that the
business is moving alongside that? Yeah,

absolutely crazy how things have worked
out. People are researching my name

online and finding my pieces. And also
I'm hiring people and I'm paying people

commission to help me with my own
designs and my own collections.

So yeah, it really is working out
absolutely great. It is a business. It's

full -time...

Seven -day -a -week business.

So which pieces do you think the
bootcamp have been your bestsellers?

We wanted to make a higher -end product,
so one of the things that we wanted to

work on was fabricating things from
start to finish and not buying pre -made

stuff and working with glass. So I've
kind of put them both together and

making my own glass rings and pendants,
which has been a bestseller.

Andy's new glass rings are priced from
£130 and her pendants from £140.

It's great to see her embracing Sunny's
advice, and she's also created a new

personalised ashes and gemstone dust
pendant.

It has a price tag of £250, and she's
going to show Sunny how she makes it.

This is basically going to be the start
of a pendant. So what we tend to do, or

at least the concept of this one, is to
put ashes and sort of crushed up

gemstones inside.

The middle bit is going to be the thing
that resonates with the customer. So it

might be a shape for heart, it might be
a paw print, it might be a smiley face

if they really wanted.

But once we file it down, we'll be able
to see, obviously, the contrast between

the gemstones and also the silver.

The customer's shape in the silver
square is created using CAD, or computer

-aided design technology, from which the
piece is then cast from a wax model.

After soldering the pendant and ring
that will hold the chain in place

Andy moves on to filing and sanding to
remove any scratches and imperfections

from the casting process.

But rather than holding the piece in her
hand, Sunny wants her to brace it

against her bench peg to speed up the
process.

If you're loose, you can't apply enough
pressure. Yeah.

Whereas if you brace it, now you can get
stuck in there.

So you brace it against there and you
come in with four.

Oh, yeah, I can see, yeah.

So much better.

So I've been spending so much time
trying to...

Trying to figure it out because it was
just taking me so long.

Yeah, man, get stuck in there. Don't be
shy.

That's a great tip from Summit.

To fill the spaces around the silver
heart in her pendant, Andy mixes crushed

gemstones and ashes.

One spoon of the obsidian.

I'm going to do a scoop of this in there
like that.

So I'm going to give it a shake just to
make sure I'm happy with the colour

itself.

Eh, quite like that.

I think that's nice. Yeah, it's nice.

After carefully placing the mix around
the heart... I'm going to use a really

fine brush just to push all of the
excess into the gap.

Andy secures it in place with three
layers of an adhesive which is more

than resin.

We see it filling the channel.

I'll wait till it cures and then we're
ready to polish.

After filing, sanding and polishing the
pendant, Andy moves on to creating an

inscription on the back using an
engraver she's been able to buy from the

profits of her business.

Just for the purpose of this, I'm going
to put mum.

So, start it.

It's going to be a little bit hot.

It's actually come out really, really
well.

I personally like really squiggly font,
and I think it just looks, like, really

gentle and nice.

And the fact that this is on the back of
a pendant that would contain, for

example, potentially someone's mum's
ashes, it just gives an extra

element to it. So, yeah, I'm really
happy.

With material costs of £130 and a make
time of up to five hours...

Andy's new personalised pendants are
priced at £250.

It's great to see her throwing herself
into making new designs and higher -end

jewellery. She's also made some pieces
for celebratory events, but I'm keen to

know if she's been promoting herself on
social media and find out how much money

she's now making.

quite a lot to do after boot camp and
one of those challenges was to

try and get your work out there online
show some of the process to social media

followers etc have you been getting over
that so i think one of the things you

said to me before was to make reels um
and to share like stories and stuff

online a little bit more which i have
done um but i'm still in that process of

learning um you know, like learning the
actual skill.

And I think when I know a product very,
very well and I can do it from start to

finish like very quickly, I'm happily
able to sort of record and make like

social media content.

And that's been proven really
successful.

I'm getting like thousands of
engagements, which is great.

And they're translating into orders and
visits to the website, which I can track

through analytics.

Amazing.

It's clear that Andy has been working
hard for the past year and a half.

And I'm looking forward to hearing
exactly what that's meant for her bank

balance. From what I can see, you're
absolutely smashing it. And it seems

you're, well, you can see you're glowing
from sort of the enjoyment and all the

work that you've been putting into it.

But with a business, there also needs to
be a pound note involved as well.

Have you been making some money for
yourself?

So, currently at the moment I'm making
around £35 ,000.

Proper money, well, it's a business.

Yeah, it's a full business.

I can finally say I've made it. So I am
happy.

To go from almost nothing to having an
income of £35 ,000 a year after cost in

just 18 months is a phenomenal
achievement.

And it's proof of Andy's drive and can
-do attitude.

These have been the most stressful but
intense but rewarding 18 months of my

life. It's turned what was a hobby into
a full business and it's put me in

exactly the position that I wanted to be
in. I'm really looking forward to every

single day that comes because I get so
many opportunities to do so many amazing

things and I'm forever grateful.

Andy and Lyndon's success is well
deserved.

They've taken the advice from their
mentors and with an enormous amount of

work, turned it into businesses they can
be very proud of.

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