A couple of weekends ago I yet again entered the inspiring home & studio of Vince & Sue (Glass Jewels) to have another go at glass fusing We were also introduced to iridescent glass which was beautiful: When fusing you are looking to create a kind of glass sandwich. So for each piece we had Read more about Fusing jewelry[…]
For today’s wild moment myself and a very talented Yoga friend headed over to Port Meadow during out lunchbreak to break out some wild yoga poses. It turns out the yogic pull was so strong that as well as doing downward dog, the mountain, corpse pose and the butterfly we were also investigated by many Read more about Wild day 24 – wild yoga[…]
Saturday saw me heading to the beautiful Oxford Museum of Natural History (with added swifts in the above pic). first on the agenda was the Friends of The Earth Organized Bee Fest which saw lots of local bee stakeholders come together to share ideas on how to save the bees. After the discussions were over Read more about Beefest & Chris Packham[…]
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 weekend I had booked onto a weekend workshop to start my first ever commission! You may recognise the design as its the same as a panel I did last year, the brief however was to change the colours to purples & pinks. I originally considered using the pink that I’d used for my mermaid Read more about Weekend efforts[…]
During the day of all Hallows eve myself and Friend Sian took our ‘proper cameras’ (the ones you have to manually fiddle with before you take the shot) to Harcourt Arboretum to visit the trees and hopefully catch a bit of the magic of the season on film. These are the results: As you can Read more about Harcourt arboretum[…]
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[…]
I don’t tend to write much about work on here, mostly because this is an out of work blog and so filled with out of work things, but this evening’s activity is too good not to share. I work as an environment coordinator and the best bit about that role is organising events to get Read more about Insects at home and abroad at Oxford Natural History Museum[…]
On a very damp Sunday indeed volunteers for the first project by Inquisitive about Nature (a group of enthusiasts who “believe that people’s access to science should not be limited by wealth or social status. We aim to facilitate young people designing and executing science projects to make a real contribution to science.” gathered at Oxford’s Read more about Oxford Moths training day[…]
So you may remember a couple of weeks ago I attended a sock workshop at Oxford Yarn Store, it was to finally convince myself I can do socks and it was great to knit with a tutor who could pick up anything I was doing wrong or unintentionally making more difficult for myself. I signed Read more about A lace class[…]