Yesterday’s #SBS (Small Business Sunday) Winners Event held at Edgbaston Stadium in Birmingham was a fantastic day! I am still shattered from all of the excitement and can’t stop grinning from ear to ear! It was lovely to meet so many other winners of Theo’s SBS competition, and to put faces to names of so […]
Another fantastic day at this annual Christmas fair yesterday, the Contemporary Craft Shopping Experience was a huge success for me and it was a very enjoyable day. With plenty of customers coming through the doors all day and the smell of mulled wine coming from the cafe area, there was plenty of festive cheer in […]
I had to share my new hazel twig fence with you! I love it! It was so much fun, especially collecting the branches from the woods. My dad had made a fence in his garden and as soon as I saw it I had to make one too. The fences aren’t very practical, just ornamental […]
You will need: Balloon Newspaper Flour & Water Bowl Scissors Cardboard (i.e. cereal box) Toilet Roll Tubes Crepe/Tissue Paper Strong Glue String Marker Pen Coloured Paints Sweets Foil Tube Mix a small amount of flour with water to form a watery glue paste. Cut strips of newspaper ready to be applied to the balloon. Blow […]
Thank you for visiting my post about DIY Tin Lanterns… You may also be interested in my individually handmade ceramic homewares, accessories and gifts in my shop – take a look! I’m in love with my new recycled tea light can holder! It was so easy to make, and the best part is anyone can […]
While at my uncles farm house in Shropshire last weekend, I tried his home made sloe gin and it was delicious so I’m going to make some of my own. With autumn approaching, the sloes will start to appear in the countryside. The hedgerows will show a colourful harvest just waiting to be picked and […]
I graduated in 2008 and haven’t ever featured any photos of my Degree Show on my blog, so here they are! My installation was quite a large arrangement, I had a family of 4 different sculptural vessels, a bowl, 2 framed prints and another ceramic piece which I called ‘Rocking Form’ because it had a […]
It’s too cold, wet and miserable to be out in the workshop, so I’ve decided to stay in the warmth and prepare for my next craft fair this Sunday – The Contemporary Craft Shopping Experience at the Warwickshire Exhibition Centre on 22nd Nov – This event has been really well advertised and promoted and should […]
I was delighted to be contacted by a teacher of Billing Brook School in Northampton a few months ago, who wanted to ask if I’d mind her students using my work as inspiration for a project they were going to be doing. It was a special school for autistic children aged 13-18, who were looking […]
I’m really looking forward to this! My last craft fair of 2009 will finish this year off nicely at the Contemporary Craft Shopping Experience, being held at the Warwickshire Exhibition Centre near Leamington Spa on Sunday 22nd November. There will be approx 200 stalls and all items for sale will be handmade only. This is […]
There are so many to mention but here are my top 5… In 2004 I went to work with Kate Malone at Balls Pond Studio in Islington, London. How was I lucky enough to do this, might you ask? Well I was at college at the time and had always been an admirer of Kate’s […]
After driving down to Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire at the weekend to collect my ‘family of 3’ organic garden sculptures from Showborough House where they were on exhibition in the garden from April to June, they have now been cleaned and packaged up ready to be collected again tomorrow. My sculptures are going to be exhibited […]
