Phew

March 13, 2009

I have spent a really enjoyable day at Whitby Community College working with a group of students who had prepared their designs for ‘dog’ brooches.  We have been sawing, drilling, cleaning and soldering copper all day and I hope they are pleased with their achievements.  They all still have some work to do to finish […]

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Day off……. really

March 11, 2009

Today I am having a day off!  One of the things about being self employed and running courses is that I often (make that usually) work through the weekends as, logically most people want to take a course during their weekend leisure time.  I enjoy doing things this way around as it means I can […]

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What a treat…..

March 10, 2009

One of the benefits of being a maker is that occassionally you get to treat yourself to something.  Today I have worked hard to finish off a couple of consignments of work and posted them out to galleries.  I went out to the post office in the village and it is a lovely sunny day […]

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At the weekend

March 10, 2009

Last weekend I had a student, Christine Dandy, here in my studio for two days of art clay silver workshops.  On Saturday she made herself a pretty pair of earrings followed by these four lovely charms.  On the Sunday she went on to make a variety of beads.   We threaded them onto one of […]

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New earrings

March 6, 2009

I have just finished off some new earrings using some of my lampwork beads and pieces I made a couple of weeks ago – before my trip. The lilac ones are combined with dangles made in art clay silver.  The others are all made using bronze clay dangles.  They are all on sterling silver wires.

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Day trip

March 6, 2009

Last Friday I went to the British Museum for a day out.  I had pre-booked tickets to the two big exhibitions Babylon and Shah ‘Abbas The Remaking of Iran.  I have wanted to see the glazed brick lions from the Ishtar Gate for years and was really disappointed to find them facing in the wrong […]

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Journal of the Brigantine Flora of Whitby

February 24, 2009

I have spent a very enjoyable day reading a journal of voyages made between 1766 and 1769 by the Brigantine Flora.  I understand that the notes and readings (or are they measurements?) would have been made during the journey and then written up afterwards, maybe while the ship was at anchor.  The entries about the […]

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Almost Spring?

February 24, 2009

At the weekend I decided I had better get on and try the bronze clay.  I have had a sample since last autumn but only recently bought the firing pan and charcoal.  I have to say thanks to The Little Bead Shop as when I ordered charcoal from them it arrived in a stunning black […]

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New beads and bronze clay

February 20, 2009

Mid week I realised I needed to make a start on some new work for a gallery I show in.  I am now thinking about the colours of later Spring and early Summer, even though it is still quite a long way off judging by the state of my own garden.  I have experimented with […]

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More beads

February 13, 2009

I seem to have spent too much time catching up on paperwork today, but it needed to be done and now is up to date again.  I did try rivetting a few piece of aluminium together which is something I have been meaning to do for a while.  I still need more practice though before […]

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