We hosted Christmas at home this year which was brilliant And as you can see from this photo very relaxed! After almost a week of good cheese, a bit of mulled wine and the now traditional barmaids mince pies we were in need of a bit of fresh air. And where better than the White Read more about White Horses[…]
It’s the one I had been waiting for, the Christmas fair at Cogges farm, Witney! If you’ve never visited Cogges it’s a lovely old farmhouse (parts date back to the 13th Century) just outside the historic market town of Witney and the Cotswolds. The house is open from March and as well as looking round Read more about Cogges farm Christmas fair[…]
I interrupt my making marathon to bring you an update on makes for my Christmas fair stall. So far I’ve been concentrating on stars and Christmas trees and the results are looking good These are pretty tiny so getting the cutting and soldering right is crucial. Even with most of my stars and trees finished Read more about Making marathon[…]
It’s been very quiet on here for the last couple of months, partly due to us moving house (very exciting but also quite a lot of disruption to the normal state of things) and then due to me taking a few end of year classes both at Creative Glass Guild in Bristol and then a Read more about Back to class[…]
We had a short week in work & headed down to Devon to visit mum & dad on Wednesday night. Mum had promised us a surprise on the Thursday morning & it turned out to be a lunchtime trip to Hotel Endsleigh (she had found a deal, we don’t usually hang out at such luxurious Read more about Weekend off[…]
Last week was a short week at work for me as I had the day off (and a pressing engagement) on Friday with some tropical butterflies at RHS Wisley! I was on a macro photography course with insect photographer extraordinaire Adrian Davies. The course took place in the morning where we were allowed 2 hours Read more about Photographing butterflies[…]
Just popping in to share with you my latest creative projects. In December I gained two new nieces as both my sister in law’s ended up giving birth within a day of each other! Both sets of babies and mothers are doing well so I decided to make them both a blanket to keep them Read more about Common threads[…]
This year for Christmas we were lucky enough to go and visit James dad, step mum and their two little dogs who live near a town called Fougere in France. We took the car across by Ferry a couple of days before Christmas so when we arrived everyone was really getting into the Christmas spirit. Read more about En Francais[…]
As the temperature dropped Elvis the caterpillar slowed down, ready for his next life stage, to change into (hopefully) an adult inside his cocoon. But first he had to make a cocoon. He stopped eating and crawled to the bottom of his container onto the soil that I’d put there for him. For the first Read more about Metamorphosis[…]
This weekend I headed off to see Vince and Sue at Glass Jewels to do some more fusing. For this course we got to play with powders, metals, frits and lots of layers! Usually when fusing you lay the frit (ground coloured glass) and any other decorations onto the bottom sheet of glass & when Read more about Advanced fusing[…]