FASCINATING AIDA - Cheap Flights

Just booked a Ryanair flight to Ireland so this hit the spot , fecking funny!!!!!

Thought of the day

"Never,never,never put contact lenses in after preparing chillie peppers. Ouch and and even more ouches!!!"

The Smiffies came to play..

Messing about with clay.

Samuel

Becka, Samuel and Ted all came to play as it's half term. Ted wanted to make a Lancaster Bomber  hanger and a control tower but we managed to dissuade him and convinced him that a cat would be much better. Samuel made a figure  and becka made a lovely lidded pot with a gremlin on top, sorry Becka don't know what else to call it, it's a very nice gremlin!!!

Toastracks

     Busy making toastracks last week, very fiddly to make and under-glaze but I love making them and whilst doing so a lovely couple came in and bought one, thank you whoever you were you made my day... I have collected old china toastracks for about 25 years and have a huge collection ......

February already...

Can't quite believe my last blog was last year... the studio really was too cold for a very long time so I just closed it down and hoped for the best. It was fine and nothing froze up thank goodness, so now I'm up and running again and the temperature in there in  double figures, just! Had my 2 electric fires on last week and it went up to 15oC  positively tropical I'd say!
    Anyway have had a few classes and sold a few pots and left some of my smoked porcelain jewellery bits at The Barn Gallery in Southwell so things are on the move again and am really looking forward to the year ahead.

    I am in the process of trying out a few new techniques with coloured slips so hopefully I'll have some new work to show very soon. Here are a few pics of my Thursday evening session ....with Grace,Amber, Gwen and Lucille.... 

Stand By Me......

This clip sends a tingle up your spine and tears to your eyes,amazing how music can bring about such  spirit...see how it makes you feel! click on the following   http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2539741
    
   

Snow,Snow Ice and more Snow..

I love the snow but getting really fed up now. My car won't start and I'm walking miles on compact ice, in those conditions the 2 mile walk to the studio is a real slog. Please melt now.!
   Went in 2 days ago and the studio windows were thick with ice and it felt like a box with no light,very clostraphobic. Anyway I set the kiln so all that ice will have melted and pooled on the floor today, Great!
    Did a bit of making at home but now I have to transport some very fragile dry work into studio at some point....also made quite a few bits of jewellery so now have to find a few outlets for the new year...

Thick ice on studio windows

   

     The countryside is so so beautiful in the sun, all so sparkley and bright, it was -7 yesterday and even colder the day before, some parts of Nottinghamshire reached -14 which was much colder than Moscow apparently. There are going to be plenty of burst pipes soon.....



Hoarfrost.

              Applied to sell through" madebyhandonline.com" hope they like my stuff,...fingers crossed.!