On Wednesday this week I took a stroll on my lunch hour to meet up with Trish and head to Art Jericho, to see a fantastic exhibition called The Magic of Trees which featured beautiful glass sculptures by Helen Slater as well as paintings by Rose-Marie Caldecott and Photographs by Ben Ramos and Jenny Blyth. Read more about Mid week glass treats[…]
This Sat was a bit of a packed one, we had to be in Appleton for half past ten to meet my fellow artweeks artists & see the spaces we’d been allocated. Meeting all the other artists was great, they are a really talented lot & I’m now even more excited to be showing some Read more about Super Saturday[…]
I took Friday off work as I had a rather important appointment to keep in beautiful Stroud. Back in the summer Sian & I visited Bothy Vineyard to see a collection of sculptures. While we were there I came across a really beautiful goddess sculpture, unfortunately for me she was £3000 (worth every penny, but Read more about The many wonders of Stroud (with added beautiful sculptures)[…]
We headed up to see my brothers this weekend, the meal above was on Sat lunchtime which still left us a lot of time for all the following: Building profiterole towers Dressing up with props on sticks Rudolf gets a make over curtsey of our kid… Puppy snuggles “Now den which chocolate would I like?” thinks Read more about Weekend of family and fun[…]
There was no lie in again on Saturday for me as I had to be round at Trish’s at 8am to travel up to Winchester where we were doing a Jewellery course with silver clay and glass with Louise Simmons from The Jewellery Academy. Before the silver clay was handed out we had to work Read more about Silver clay and glass[…]
This weekend we finally made it on our very delayed trip to Glastonbury for my birthday. We drove down on Friday night after work & stayed in really lovely B&B The Pilgrims. The room was really good value & also included a fab breakfast the next morning, not to mention the most excellent Halloween attire, Witch in the flowerbeds anyone? Read more about Glorious Glastonbury![…]
On Saturday I headed to the always lovely Oxford Yarn Store to spend 3 hours learning the basics of cabling (fantastic as because you aren’t at home so you do actually get 3 hours knitting & also the ever wonderful James was on hand – decked in cables – should anything go wrong). We started Read more about Learning to cable[…]
On Sunday Zoe and I headed off on adventures for my Birthday. Instead of buying me a present to unwrap Zoe had given me the gift of visiting a historic house Strawberry Hill (with bonus sculptures – more of them later) and lunch. The house was built back in the 18th Century by Horace Walpole as a home Read more about Stroll to Strawberry Hill[…]
This Saturday Jam was sitting a computing exam, rather than sitting at home waiting for a text I went for a coffee and then garden centre visit with my lovely friend Sian. I was after a few more plants for our living room windowsill and managed to bag a few crackers as well as the Read more about Plant shopping with Sian[…]
Today was the nicest day we have had for ages, which made our trip to the Wychwood forest fair even better! There were a myriad of delights but the main thing that lured us there was our favourite puppetry company Hand to Mouth theatre were performing the most excellent Piggery Jokery, so clearly we had Read more about Wychwood forest fair[…]