Hi there! Thanks for popping in. Finally we have completed our prep for Sunday TV – and with a day to spare! What a caper! We have been working with the most exquisite stamps illustrated by Cherry Green, and just got totally engrossed in them. We don’t usually spend 4 days prepping! But Paul and I have actually had a blast. It’s certainly been a learning curve with a few things. You know when you know how to do something,…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. And thanks for watching Tina’s Pergamano shows if you did, and thanks for your custom, if you decided what we had on offer was for you xxx Tina did a wonderful job as always, and here is a step by step which I blogged a while ago now, when these clever snowflake duet plates first appeared. I absolutely loved this idea of making baubles out of the snowflakes! My idea? Nope. Inspired by lovely…
Hi there, Thanks for popping in. Another great day in Prepland. Even got to pottery today, for a very cool session on the “slate vase”. More will be revealed… But to the prep. It’s a bauble thing from 2-4pm on Sunday. Very beautiful stencil set of mini baubles. So I decided, in the spirit of Christmas, we need a branch to hang our samples from. Wasted an age looking for the secateurs (aka pruning scissors), then laboriously cut a branch…
Hi there! Thanks for popping in. Just had the BEST day with Churchy ! We were prepping for Sunday’s TV shows. 2-4pm then 6pm. Fabulous stencils illustrated by our Mel in the afternoon, and a collection of exquisite stamp designs by a new and very talented illustrator, who has joined the Clarity family: Cherry Green. Lovely lady. Great artwork. I look forward to introducing you to her on Sunday evening. I have invited her to join us for the opening…
Happy Monday!Thanks for popping in on this lovely summery day. 1st July and the sun is shining. And just when you thought it couldn’t get any better – our ANNUAL HALF-PRICE SUMMER SALE FOR CLARITY CLUB MEMBERS starts today too! Hundreds of half price Clarity products – stamps, stencils, Groovi and Fresh Cuts – to choose from. If you’ve been wondering whether to join one, two, three or all 4 of our tutorial clubs, now might be a perfect opportunity…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Sunday’s blog a step by step today. Here is one which shows you loads of little tricks and ideas, from making your own matching glitter paper to using every last scrap of the die cut! The Fresh cut dies I used here are one of three very beautiful dies illustrated by our ever clever Mel. I love them, not only because they are so classy and quirky cool, but also because they are so…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Hot, innit! Had a fantastic pottery day again today, doing Raku with a bunch of lovely people. Boy oh boy! Do those teachers work hard! Hats off to Eunice and Helen for keeping going all day in the blazing sun! Most of my little pots came out beautifully, and I was delighted with them. But the big piece, the piece I have been working on for weeks went howwibly wong…. How can something so…
Hi there! Thanks for popping in from the garden to join me for a quick chat. Just got home from the TV studios. Thanks for watching and supporting today. Great sales, and I hope the shows were entertaining, too! I shall blog one of the demos tomorrow; perhaps one of the ones I didn’t get to…. Blimming traffic! Unbelievable on a Friday afternoon in the home counties, honestly. M11 closed, so detour round to the A1. Bumper to bumper to…
Hi there! Thanks for popping in. Now please don’t throw your coffee at me, don’t throw me under the bus here – I am only the messenger – but did you know that the CHRISTMAS SEASON started today! I know, I know. It’s June, for Pete’s sake!! But heyho, Pete’s decided it’s Christmas on Hochanda, so Christmas it is! And who better to sing in the festive spirit, than our darling Tina?! Wait till you see the beautiful little Christmas…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. It’s Wednesday, so I stepped out to pottery this afternoon for a little while. Started a new project today: a vase. It’s an experiment, based on the slate vases we used to make back in the day, when stamps didn’t pay the rent during the summers! They were very lovely, heavy, and hard work to make, but very popular. The whole Gray family made them. Mum and Dad, Steve, Dave and myself. We couldn’t…