World Tour UK - pictures added

Not comprehensive, but this list contains some of the most common symbols found on spoons today.

* ANCHOR - A settled love, eternal devotion and security
* BELL - Together in Harmony - Happiness, Wedding or Anniversary
* BALL IN CAGE - Love held safe, or, Number of children desired
* BIRDS - Love birds, or, Lets go away together
* CASTLE - Used to represent Wales
* CHAIN - A wish to be together forever, or, Number of children
* COMMA SHAPE - Soul
* CROSS - Faith in Jesus, or, A wish for God to bless
* DAFFODIL - Used to represent Wales
* DIAMOND - Wealth or Good fortune
* DOUBLE SPOONS - A couple together forever
* FLOWERS - Blossoming love/Courtship
* HARP - The music and song of Wales
* HEART - Love/My heart is yours
* HEART Double - Steadfast Love/sharing the same feelings for each other
* HORSESHOE - Good luck
* KEY - Key to the heart
* KEYHOLE - My door is open or, I will look after you
* KNOT WORK - Eternal love, or, Together forever
* LEAVES - Growing Love/Love Evergreen
* LINKS - Lives linked together, or, Lives intertwined
* LOCK - Security, or, I will look after you
* MAP - Represents Wales - in a direct way
* SPADE - Willingness to work and provide
* SPLIT BOWL - Sharing
* TWISTED STEM - To live and become as one, or Togetherness
* WHEEL/SHIPS WHEEL - Promise to stay on a safe course/steering a safe course

So we just need some good all round pics now.

Sounds like the keyhole could be rude in the wrong context? Hope they use all the Wales symbols.

Many thanks for showing the pics

I am looking forward to seeing the beads on your bracelets before I will decide, if or which one I will get.

lovespoons and english teaparty for me.. ;-)

Not grabbed by any of them yet - but soooooo chuffed we get to see early pics - more sterling work by the beadthrilled team

I have looked up Martin Bruun's bead designs and hate them all except for the Sea Lion. I am not holding out much hope for the Tea Party bead now.

Hmm I'm with you there BB - I so want to love the English Tea party as I've baked for so many, but I fear I won't like it at all. As Soren has designed the lovespoons that might be a possibility, but so far I have no WT beads, and fear it may stay that way!

ooo I'm so pleased as I try to pass out lovespoons from wales to you lot occaisionally so to have my own welshspoon bead will be lovely xxxxxxxxxx Thankyou for all the news!!!

Dorabella wrote:Hmm I'm with you there BB - I so want to love the English Tea party as I've baked for so many, but I fear I won't like it at all. As Soren has designed the lovespoons that might be a possibility, but so far I have no WT beads, and fear it may stay that way!

This makes me feel so sad - there is only one UK bead (Love Spoons) that I might want to buy. I wouldn't have been able to wear some of the previous guesses but I would have admired some of them (Mini for example) a lot more than these.

I think I will need to see them IRL. I hope the glass isn't orange.

Somewhat larger but still not the real thing...

So we have definitely got:

* CROSS - Faith in Jesus, or, A wish for God to bless

* HEART - Love/My heart is yours

* LOCK - Security, or, I will look after you

and there is a rabbit at the Tea Party.

I don`t like the celtic kilt....but I wonder how it would look like if you take the twister for the fantasy necklace and put the kilt on instead of the black glass bead.....

Brilliant idea!

alexis wrote:I don`t like the celtic kilt....but I wonder how it would look like if you take the twister for the fantasy necklace and put the kilt on instead of the black glass bead.....

It is the Mad Hatter's Tea Party.
The picture description is not complete on the 'bad' picture I could obtain, but it refers to Alice in Wonderland. The bead likely depicts a part of the event where the Hatter and March Hare try to put the Dormouse in a teapot.

I think I love the spoon!

Thank you for the Picture.
I love the Spoon and perhaps the teaparty.
The kilt is not for me......

Thanks Sita, for the sneak peak

alexis wrote:I don`t like the celtic kilt....but I wonder how it would look like if you take the twister for the fantasy necklace and put the kilt on instead of the black glass bead.....

Yeah, thank you for spoiling my surprise...

Thanks very Much for posting the pictures

Well, I was expecting to be disappointed and I certainly am. Another stripe... how boring, and the silvers just look like a cluttered mess to me. Come on... PLEASE DESIGN SOMETHING NICE.... I know it's a waste of time saying this as all the beads for the world tour designs are probably all decide on and either already made or in the process of being so.

At this rate I'm not expecting anything good from the People's bead 2011 either as all the best thought out designs don't get chosen.

Moan over

I think they used the Italian lovelocks lock for the Spoon bead. Looks a very similar design to me.

I'm most of all just grateful that we didn't get beads that were too "touristy" so overall I'm quite positive about the beads.
Although it's a bit hard to see the details I think the Tea Party is on top of my wish list and the love spoons also look very intriguing.

TFS the pictures. They look huge to me (the beads I mean), why no tiny little precious silvers?