silver clay jewellery and metal work (in the jewellery sense

Yeah, that sounds like something I would be very interested in. I've told myself firmly, "No more craft hobbies!"

if anyone has links to good crafty communities on DW

There is a comm that basically an encouraging place to talk about what you're up to craft wise. It's called get_knitted but it's not just yarn. People talk about all manner of crafting or writing.