Despite the lock-down I got a bit of a treat over the Easter weekend. Two years ago the excellent Martin of Martin’s moths gave me 5 emperor caterpillars. These had hatched from eggs laid in his moth trap. Martin did a very good job rearing the caterpillars and ended up with quite a few, so Read more about Easter Emperors[…]
Just a reminder I have 4 panels in this exhibition & I’ll be there Sat morning as I’m handing out one of the certificates for the children’s art competition (so exciting) Related posts: Back to class Let there be light Progress report
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[…]
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[…]
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 was the Butterfly Conservation Upper Thames members day at which I was scheduled to give a talk. I thought I’d be fine, I’d written my talk months ago, I had my notes & was feeling calm. That was however before I arrived at the hall and found that it was massive and that Read more about BC ing[…]
Last Wednesday I went to a talk organised by the Abingdon Naturalists (that’s natural history not taking your clothes off in case you were wondering). The speaker for the evening was Berkshire Moth recorder Martin Harvey & the talk entitled: Moths: what we know & what we would like to find out. During the course Read more about The moth trap cometh[…]
In my diary I keep a list of local places I’d quite like to visit. This Saturday we didn’t have any fixed plans and the sun was shining so we headed off to explore Worton Organic Garden. The farm is hidden away near some stables & well off the beaten track. There is a restaurant Read more about A wander to Worton Organic Garden[…]
So whilst still trying to figure out the correct size for a few remaining panels for artweeks I have been working on leading a couple of dragonflies (this as you may remeber was a commission, a copy on a previous design of mine but in a different colourway for a friend and while this needs Read more about Progress report[…]