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[…]
Rejoice! The bank holiday is nearly upon us (and you cannot be grumpy with a 4 day working week) although the weather in Oxfordshire continues to be confused (we had warm springlike days last week and then snow on Monday night). This is balanced out however by the windowsill succulents who as well as having Read more about In which my succulents are happy but I have stuff to do[…]
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[…]
I’ve been being kept really busy for the last couple of weeks working on some doll commissions for one of our neighbours. She approached me about using this book that she had as a start point and creating some wedding themed dolls for some younger cousins who were coming to her daughters wedding (incidentally her Read more about Wedding dolls[…]
This is the beginning of one of the dolls I’ve been asked to make by our friend Claire, it is one of a pair although it’s mate is a brown bunny (cut out, the pattern said fake fur but I thought that would be a nightmare so brown suede it is). This is my second Read more about Doll making – The contruction[…]
So for the last week Jam & I have been working non stop on bunting for my friend Beth’s wedding. Unfortunately I got really ill on Monday & Tuesday last week, so we were behind schedule with everything to do. You may remember the fabrics a pale pink, cream and mint green. Jam was an Read more about Bunting – finished at last[…]