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July 14, 2009

Seaside break

I had a lovely relaxing and fun weekend away at the seaside, wish I was still there! The weather was warm and mostly sunny in Skegness where we stayed, so it was nice to be on the beach and I loved feeling the sand inbetween my toes! 🙂


We spend most of the time at the Fantasy Island area where there was a theme park and a big market. I was excited about looking round the market after reading on the website: “Come and get lost in our maze of colourful stalls!”, and thats exactly what we did! There were lots of bars and restaurants to choose from, and lots to do and see. One of my highlights was visiting the Skegness Nature Land centre, where we saw baby and adult seals, as well as poorly seals on the mend in the seal hospital that had been rescued from local beaches. We watched them being fed and they did some tricks. The baby seals were sooo cute, I want to keep one!!



Also at the Nature Land centre we visited the tropical house, floral palace, and butterfly farm. The colours and patterns on some of the butterflies were gorgeous, and some were as big as your hand span. I was lucky enough to have one butterfly in particular keep landing on me, although I think it was my purfume it was attracted to!


Whilst on the beach I found this interesting collection of shells and pebbles. I wanted to do something with them but wasn’t quite sure what, until I found an idea by Lauren Ceramics to sort them out in order of size and then frame them. Click here to view Lauren’s post about her shell collection. Isn’t it great? I can’t wait to arrange mine into a display.



For those of you who read my blog regularly you will know that I have recently got a new workshop. Well here’s the plaque I made which is now hanging on the outside next to the door. I’m really pleased with it, just need to get back in there and start making lots of new work! I’ve got a lot of stock to build up ready for my next show at the International Bristol Balloon Fiesta in August, and also for my Open Studios exhibition at The Evergreen Gallery in September.

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  1. lovely shells, look forward to seeing what you create with them. They're pretty on their own too.

    Fantasy island….that brings back memories. I went to a new years eve rave there 13 years ago! It's along way to go for one night from Reading, still it was fun from what i remember.

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