46 Days to Christmas – Snowflake Stencil set
Hi there
It’s Sunday, the sun is shining, it’s the week before the Open Days – and that means there’s one important thing to do today – RAKU !! I’ve managed to make a few birds and owls, but now they need re-firing RAKU-stylee!
So before we tog up and go get set up, here’s a super simple Christmas offering: nothing elaborate or expensive. Just a great snowflake and sentiments stencil set. These are absolutely brilliant for inky arty printing and gel plate work.
As I was gearing up to write this blog, and shine a light on snowflakes, I asked Dave this morning, whether he thought we’d ever see deep snow in this country again, down here in the south east…
What do YOU think? When was the last time you remember deep snow? Tell us below, but add where you are located too. I know Scotland still gets plenty of snow, right? Down here, I recall December 2010. It was the winter we moved into this old house. We just got the last of the boxes hauled in as the snow started falling. And it fell for a week. Snowed in we were. It was wonderful.
Right. No more procrastinating. Time to get the raku kiln fired up and get organised! I’ll let you know if it works out ok! I’ll let you know if it doesn’t, too!! So many factors to consider in this process. Nothing predictable about RAKU pottery!!
Love and Clarity,
Barb x x x
14 thoughts on “46 Days to Christmas – Snowflake Stencil set”
I remember that snow couldn’t get to work for a couple of days & it hung around for ages where it had drifted so badly against the hedgerows down here in Kent& East Sussex. Can’t wait to hear how the pottery turns out – hope it all goes well & you have fun.
Hi Barb, I hope the pottery/Raku process goes well. I remember 2010, coming from South Africa, where you very seldom saw snow unless you were in the very high mountains, it was a bit of a shock to the system (had only been here 9 years), and that was in East of England just 50 miles north of London. I love this stencil, I know I have it, and time to find it and put it to good use. I think we may have snow this year, because it feels to me like it has been quite mild up until now. Have a good day everyone. Bx
Hope your Raku session is successful after all your hard work so far producing the birds & owls. I bought one of your birds in June & it is sitting on its log on my bookcase beside my ATC & PTC swaps for this year. He will be definitely moving with us !!
It’s good to see the samples showing the mix of stencil & stamps again.
As to snow I can’t really remember a recent time when we have been actually snowed in for any length of time as we are on the edge of Birmingham in the West Midlands so more heat generated. Once we get out of our side road & up on to the main road it is normally clear not like the 60’s when everything stopped – we started walking to school which was just under 3 miles away & we were met by a prefect who told us to go home as school was closed. Next day we were hauled in front of the Headmistress & asked where we were the day before !! Thankfully she believed us & nothing more was said. Funny how things come back to you from nearly 60 years ago 😂
I read somewhere yesterday that the last time we had such a warm start to November was 2010 then the snow came on 27 November and there was snow on the ground somewhere in the UK from that day until the following March. I know we couldn’t get our car off the street for a couple of weeks so I trudged to the bus stop to get the bus to the train station to get the train to work.
Still I remember as a child, I think it must have been 1963 from what I have read since, the snow piled feet about my head having been cleared from the roads so we could all walk to school.
Enjoy your pottery I’m off to dig out my snowflake stencils
Forgot to add I’m in Yorkshire
Here in Norfolk we hardly ever see more than a smattering of snow. Love the look of the snow in your photo, give me a warm fuzzy winter feeling just as it should be at Christmas. Takes me back to when we lived in Rayleigh when we woke up one morning to see snow up to the back door handle and at the front up to the windowsills. Absolute magic. Couldn’t get to work and the office didn’t believe me until 3 days later I showed the photos. What a hoot.
Hope the pottery goes well.
Hi from Elmira, Ontario Canada! We are experiencing the first snow of the season and leaves are not off the trees! The children are excited though.
Maidstone winter 2017 had heavy snow which lasted about a week. My daughter took her old sledge to take her two children to nursery rather than risking the car. That was just off the Loose Road in Boughton Lane.
The last time I remember trudging in snow was picking up our first cats ashes which must be 17/18 years ago. I remember it was too precarious to get the car out of our road. I do remember it in early 1960s coming over top of my wellies !
Good luck with Raku xx
Finally found the picture of our snowy garden (which I sent to the local weather man at Look North, for York) it was January 2010. Hope you and Dave had a great time. It was my fella’s birthday yesterday and his lovely family sent us a Betty’s afternoon tea ‘box’. WOW. Hope Dave got lots of lovely stuff too.
Love
Maggie (York UK)
I live in Redditch, Worcestershire and the last thick snow I remember was in April 2018. I had won tickets to a concert in Glasgow and travelled by train up to my cousin there. No snow in Glasgow but the temperature was minus 9……. Meanwhile back in Redditch there was thick snow! I travelled home the next day and once I got to Crewe the snow appeared and got thicker the further I went until I got home to find very deep snow…..!!! The concert was great though and we had a lot of fun!
I grew up in Sheffield and we always had snow where we lived. It wasn’t a question of will it snow but how often and how deep!
I have this stencil and love it. It makes a great background with a sponge and blue oxide dabbed on then just stamp away.
We live at the top of the hill in our village in the Berkshire Downs. There have been a few occasions when we couldn’t get out although the main roads were fine. My husband thinks winter 2019, when he was working in the village, he was the only one to make it into work, so that means all the roads in were bad.
At least the raku will keep you warm! Just got back from a Remembrance Service and it was cold.
Looking forward to next weekend. Xx
I wrote this yesterday but it has only just let me post it!