It’s been 2 years since I did a spoon making course at Touchmark Studios. Since then I’ve worked on a couple of projects making silver spoons for different uses and its been interesting to try my hand at something other than jewellery making. On the course which we did with Silversmith Matt...
so, many weeks later I am sharing some results with you. They didn't come out well, or at least nowhere near as good as I had hoped, but I have to remind myself these were my first attempts at mugs for over 20 years and a first attempt at slab built ones. I have to say though that I learned a lot....
For all sorts of reasons I havn't been to Jewellery classes for a while and I havn't managed to make enough work to fill my kiln and fire it so I've been feeling like I have nothing to say here on my blog page. Also my potters wheel has died so I was feeling quite despondant, but then I got...
There has been a lot of disruption around our garden. The neighbors recently cut down some enormous trees and the fence between us has collapsed after the ivy and other growth was cut from it leaving no place for our bird visitors to hide, roost or forage for food. As a result we have been...
So January has almost passed us by and I feel like I’ve spent most of it cleaning ! We had some building work done before Xmas and I have spent the the time since then decorating and having new carpets fitted. So I’ve been looking at colour schemes and accidently came across this -...