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Once their treats were paid for, Arian had carried his drink and pastry over to the table that Isha had indicated, setting it down carefully before slipping his rucksack off his shoulders and setting it carefully on the ground.

"Well you said that you want to learn the basics of jewellery making so I thought I could split it into two parts if you're okay with that" he said quietly, stirring the whipped cream absently and taking a sip of his latte before continuing.
"First I could show you how to make individual components such as the links, drops, spacers, caps and mayhaps a couple of clasps, a set of basic ear wires - that sort of thing." He took a couple more sips of his latte, his quiet voice starting to take on an animated note, another of his slight smiles on his face as he added "Then I could show you how to assemble them into pieces of jewellery. Oh that reminds me" Breaking off Arian rummaged in his rucksack for a moment before bringing out a notepad and flipping through pages of sketches of potential pieces of jewellery ideas before coming to a page with his slightly messy handwriting, carefully tearing it out and sliding it over to Isha.

"I kind of took the liberty to jot down the sort of tools that you'd need to get started such as pliers, cutters, sorting tray that sort of thing" he explained. "Although we can just use mine for the lesson - lessons."

Then it occurred to him that he'd practically been rambling on at Isha and his voice tailed off, taking a few more sips of the latte before adding, his voice slightly embarrassed "Sorry for rambling on at you, they were pretty much just some ideas I'd been thinking through." He finished "But we'd take it however you want to work it."

Arian was a little startled when Isha asked him to go ahead and start, having taking it that their meeting today was just to outline how the jewellery-making lesson would go, discuss the shape the lesson or lessons would take - that sort of thing.

On the other hand, he tended to keep a few bits and pieces in his rucksack - some bits of 18-gauge soft wire, a few bits of beads, a chain nose pliers, his favourite round nose pliers and of course his notepad where he sketched jewellery ideas - it came in helpful if he wanted to craft up bead links, but would do for an impromptu lesson here and he figured the staff wouldn't mind as long as they tidied behind them.

"I ah thought we were just going to talk about the shape of lessons" he admitted quietly to Isha as he rummaged in his bag, "So I only really have bits and pieces on me. But I have enough bits that I can teach you how to make wrapped loop bead links if you'd like to do something here and now." He smiled a slight but rueful "My full jewellery crafting kit's kind of big. Well bigger than my rucksack."

"I ah wouldn't have minded doing more than one lesson" Arian admitted, feeling a little flustered that he seemed to have misread the whole thing. "But I can show you the contents of some of the stuff I have on hand" he rummaged through his rucksack again as he spoke before pulling out the wire, his notepad and the two sets of pliers. "And what they're used for."

Another quick rummage and then he pulled out a small bag of mixed beads followed by the wire cutter that he used when snipping the wire. "And I have enough stuff on me that we can actually work through some examples of some of the basic stuff" adding "Which in this case will pretty much mean bead links, although with enough of them and a clasp you can pretty much make a simple bracelet or necklace out of them. Think that will work for you?"

"Well that list I gave you pretty lists all the tools you'll need for the basics" Arian said smiling. "Although it'll probably best to buy them from a bead shop rather than a general craft store." He added "I'd recommend the Beaded Garden as a good bead shop, although Sparklespot's pretty okay too and I can jot down the address for both if you like."

He shook his head at the 'dangerous' comment, laughing slightly but quietly "They're not really" he said, his eyes amused as hw looked over at the bag of mixed beads "And a necklace's a great thing to work on making."

Pushing the bag towards Isha he added his quiet voice animated "I'm not sure how many beads are in there, but why don't you pick some that you like out and then I'll show you how to combine them with this" he indicated the wire "To make the links and then afterwards we can work out another time to meet again."

Arian nodded as he glanced over at the beads that Isha had chosen "Yes they will" he agreed before rummaging in the bag himself.

Withdrawing four beads, the first two a pale jade, the second two lampwork beads one white and silver-swirled with silver spots and the second a mixture of blues and greens and silver spots, Arian set them on the table before reaching for one of the pieces of wire.

"This is eighteen-gauge wire" he said, adding. "It's soft enough that you can actually bend it by hand" before demonstrating by bending the tip. Picking up the white and silver-swirled lampwork bead Arian measured it against the wire. "For simple bead loops you need to make sure that it's about the length of the bead plus one inch" he continued, showing Isha as he cut the wire, before slipping the bead on the piece of wire and showing him how to bend the wire on each end so that it formed a neat but simple loop.

He demonstrated again, this time on one of the jade beads, set it next to the lampwork beads and pushed the two pliers and the wire cutters towards Isha. "Here you give it a try."

"I've had practice" Arian admitted. "And I guess I've come along from my first attempts." His smile was rueful as he admitted "My very first attempt at jewellery-making was back in school when we spent one class making beads out of Fimo which we were going to string, but I ah left mine in the oven to long." His cheeks reddened "So mine weren't in a fit state to do much of anything with" and they'd ended life being ignominiously dumped in the school workshop's bin.

"Here," reaching out for Isha's attempt he used the wire cutters to carefully snip the other's first attempt away, before offering him a fresh piece of wire. "When curving the wire round to make the loop it's best to do it in one go - rather than trying to do it slowly, but it's something you get used to."

He demonstrated with a bit of the wire that he'd snipped away from Isha's first attempt, before showing Isha the end of the round nose pliers adding "The ends of this are rounded see - which makes it easier to make curved shapes." Holding out the pliers he added "Want to give it another go?"

"I guess my secondary school was like that. High Class" for a moment Arian's eyes looked distant. "I was at a public school for my secondary before I moved here - I guess that they'd be called private schools over here, kind of like the UK version of Azure Valley - although I went to MeadowView here." And had on the whole enjoyed the time there for the most part despite the fact that he could have done without having to wear the shorts that made up part of the uniform.

He blinked and shook his head, "But my primary school was a state one" before adding "And you're right those burnt Fimo beads are what probably started off my interest - weird as it sounds." Well that and his Nain he added to himself, acknowledging silently that his granny had been a big part of it too.

He watched as Isha tried again, noting that the other was handling the pliers much more gently this time round. He looked over the bead carefully once Isha had finished and then smiled "It's much better this time," he said. "Personally I would close the space between the end of the loop here so it's flush against the wire, but this is a really good second attempt."

"I'm not the best person to talk about parents" Although Arian's voice was it's usual quietness, the distant look was back in his eyes as he tugged absently on the end of his braid.

After all the rather strained relationship that he had with his own father wasn't something that could be held up as a good example of father and son togetherness and the last time Arian had actually seen his father in person had been at some point prior to his move to the States two years back.

He blinked at the sound of Isha setting the pliers down on the table, focused on the bead that he had been inspecting. "Well the loop's a little too small for a chain, but that's easy enough to fix." he admitted before rummaging around in the bag of beads for a few moments before fishing out a pretty looking jump ring which he attached to the loop on top of the bead.

"There it should be able to hang from a chain now - just slip it through the jump ring." he said, adding "This one's shop bought, but the plain ones are relatively easy to make and maybe something we can do for one of those other lessons if you like."