Hi there. Greetings from sunny Port Sunny! Arrived here at the hotel late last night, and can’t get in to Hulme Hall to set up until later, so we are faced with several options: put the finishing touches to the next TV proposal, go to the huge outlet centre up the road and grab a bargain, go for a walk round Port Sunlight, hang around in the hotel room drinking coffee, track the seating arrangements at Westminster, watch this nation’s…
Hello there! Thank you so much for all the very real, honest and positive comments on yesterday’s Mindfulness Blog. I think we are really onto something here. As a group, I mean; not just me. Isn’t it amazing how many of us are in the same boat? But you never find that out until you open up and share. How’s the positive thinking going today? You can start your day over at any time, you know. If it has gone…
Hello there. Thanks for taking the time to drop in. Mindful Wednesday, right? We certainly got off to a flying start with the Teapot Blog last Wednesday! So many wonderful pictures of colourful teapots have been landing in my email tray! If you didn’t catch the first Mindful blog last week, and you are wondering what I am on about, then please refer back. All will become clear. We talked about colouring in an intricate picture as a way of…
Hi there! Thanks for dropping in. YouTube Tuesday it is! I thought I would revisit an old Gelli Plate technique, but ramp it up a little by adding another layer to the mix. Items Used: 8 x 10 Inch Gelli Arts Gel Printing Plate 9 x 11 Inch Clarity Mega Mount Speedball Brayer 9 x 11 Inch Brick Wall Clarity Stencil 9 x 11 Inch Leafy Swirl Clarity Stencil Daler Rowney System 3 Acrylic Paints Phthalo Blue Burnt Umber Buff…
Happy Bank Holiday Monday! The suns shining in through the window, the bluebells are a-ringing in the woods, but I just wanted to share a quick step-by step with you from yesterday’s TV show. It’s using the new Shepherd’s Purse stamps, which Mandy drew for us. They are so lovely to use! Weed or flower? Apparently it’s a weed, but one man’s weed is another man’s flower. Cut a 7″ x 7″ piece of Gelli Card back to 6″ x 6″…
Hi there! Thank you for popping in, and thank you also if you took the time to watch and support the Claritystamp TV show this morning ! Wasn’t Dean great?! I nearly lost it with the squeaky table1 And Sam’s meat and 2 veg just about finished me off! Well, here’s the step by step I promised you yesterday, using the super Birdhouse Stamp Set. We sold out so quickly, didn’t we?! But the strategy worked, and I was able…
Hi there! Thanks for taking the time to pop in. I have packed everything ready for the TV show tomorrow morning, double and treble checked everything, as is my wont. Shall I show you how military style prepped I really am? Hang on… There’s a Pizza Box with the art samples for each set: There’s a box for each demo with the demo sequence number, (I’ve even got a spare one, No. 7, just in case). And each box has…
Hello there. Thank God it’s Friday, eh! Friday’s Blog a private peek… Bank Holiday weekend, too. YAY. Dave and I have been doing You Tube recordings together today, up in the art loft. That’s a first. Usually, Jim and I work together, but there’s soooo much design work still left to do for our new parchment products which we are launching in June, that Dave has stepped up to the plate as our new Sound Engineer. Can you believe I got…
Hello and welcome to Blue Blog Thursday ! I was hoping to be able to use the free download from Yesterday’s blog, the beautiful teapot that our Melanie drew. But if I am to follow my own instructions around calming the mind, then I want to be in a less deadline-hectic space than today. So let’s do something else; let’s have a look at some rather lovely new stamps which are being aired on TV on Sunday morning, 9am –…
Hi there. I am so glad you have popped in today. Especially this Wednesday. Because today we change what we do here every Wednesday going forward. Remember last week, I talked about Mindfulness? If you didn’t catch it, the title is MIDWEEK MOVEMENT (teehee…) Or should I say Tea-hee? Get the kettle on…. What is Mindfulness? In short, it is the art of staying focussed in the moment, in the Here and Now. In other words, being mindful of what…