So my big glass news for the New Year is that I will be exhibiting some of my glass at Oxford Artweeks as part of a multi exhibitor show at Appleton Village Hall! All this came about as a result of going to an artweeks meeting back in cold cold November. The meeting was for Read more about News for the New Year[…]
We are enjoying the final days of the Christmas holidays here at Castle HQ. Jam and I have been enjoying lots of relaxing as well as getting a few important house jobs done. Earlier today we stripped the first wall in the kitchen (the walls are being painted the 2nd sample – the greenish colour Read more about So that was Christmas[…]
We headed up to see my brothers this weekend, the meal above was on Sat lunchtime which still left us a lot of time for all the following: Building profiterole towers Dressing up with props on sticks Rudolf gets a make over curtsey of our kid… Puppy snuggles “Now den which chocolate would I like?” thinks Read more about Weekend of family and fun[…]
I was so excited when I sent my moth wings to be fired, after working through the design I was really pleased with the painted wings. I just had enough time to do a small suncatcher (below) to use up my paint & then it was time to say goodbye to my pieces as they Read more about Back from the Kiln – not quite right[…]
There was no lie in again on Saturday for me as I had to be round at Trish’s at 8am to travel up to Winchester where we were doing a Jewellery course with silver clay and glass with Louise Simmons from The Jewellery Academy. Before the silver clay was handed out we had to work Read more about Silver clay and glass[…]
I study from home on a Friday, this week I went to make a cup of tea about 2pm (and check that the hens were okay (because it was a windy day and I was worried they would get cold). On looking out of the back door however there was no sign of the hens Read more about Hedgehog A&E[…]
This weekend I returned to Ardington to do another glass painting workshop with the lovely Nicola Kantorowicz. I had a very specific project in mind ever since I got involved with the Oxford Moth Project earlier this year I’ve been pretty fascinated by all the different colours and patterns of moths. While looking through my Read more about More painting on glass[…]
This weekend I had booked onto a weekend workshop to start my first ever commission! You may recognise the design as its the same as a panel I did last year, the brief however was to change the colours to purples & pinks. I originally considered using the pink that I’d used for my mermaid Read more about Weekend efforts[…]
During the day of all Hallows eve myself and Friend Sian took our ‘proper cameras’ (the ones you have to manually fiddle with before you take the shot) to Harcourt Arboretum to visit the trees and hopefully catch a bit of the magic of the season on film. These are the results: As you can Read more about Harcourt arboretum[…]
This weekend we finally made it on our very delayed trip to Glastonbury for my birthday. We drove down on Friday night after work & stayed in really lovely B&B The Pilgrims. The room was really good value & also included a fab breakfast the next morning, not to mention the most excellent Halloween attire, Witch in the flowerbeds anyone? Read more about Glorious Glastonbury![…]