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The other side 21 Aug 2013 | 03:35 pm
Last week we spent a few days over on the east coast in Scarborough. The light and the general feeling of the coastline over there are markedly different from here in the west; sometimes it's a bit t...
TX Creative Textiles Exhibition 17 Aug 2013 | 10:25 pm
The annual TX Creative Textiles exhibition is now on at Castle Park Arts Centre in Frodsham, and, as usual, it is well worth a visit. This year the group worked with a local group of published poets ...
tching! 1 Aug 2013 | 12:29 am
I took this rather lovely thing out of the kiln on Monday. It was quite cool to the touch and survived being cleaned up with no problem. But the kiln shelf underneath must have been warmer than I th...
And the sea glass is on 20 Jul 2013 | 09:30 pm
The internet has been behaving today so no more crawling around on the floor (I am informed it was off at 2am but since I am generally asleep then I'll let it off...) So I had a nice peaceful afterno...
Slow Progress 20 Jul 2013 | 01:29 am
They look a bit more interesting now, don't they? I had hoped to spend a peaceful afternoon stitching on fragments of sea glass but instead I spent the time on the phone to our internet service provi...
Restocking 15 Jul 2013 | 10:36 pm
I've had a little run on my seashore art cards during this last week or so. And the lovely thing is, I actually have time to make some more! The process is a bit longwinded but I do enjoy it. So on...
Things I might have time for now... 8 Jul 2013 | 06:14 pm
Walking on the beach (instead of creating work about it) Catching up with all the people I've promised to have coffee with when it was all over Teaching my boys to cook something more adventurous th...
I've finished! 7 Jul 2013 | 02:26 am
Finished my degree that is... apologies for the complete lack of blogging over the last few weeks but it had to go, along with cooking, laundry, in fact any housework at all, and even, at times, sleep...
Drawing the horizon 23 Apr 2013 | 11:37 pm
I'm still plugging away, firing more and more glass strips. I laid out all the ones I'd done so far this morning. It's getting there, but not quite what I want yet. I lined them all up a bit better...
Today's post is brought to you by the letter R 15 Apr 2013 | 01:17 am
In June I will be taking part in the de-junk, re-junk! exhibition of art made from... junk, of course! The exhibition brings together a variety of work from Merseyside based artists and this year it i...
