Barbara Gray Blog

Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Remember yesterday we stamped Mel’s beautiful finch stamp on a sheet of the new, yet-to-be-launched-on-Sunday-at-6pm-on-HOCHANDA Rainbow River Designer Paper? And I said we’d try the same stamp on the same paper design,  but on parchment instead? Voila Just in case you haven’t figured it out yet,  all the paper pads come as parchment too. So you get the colourful, original, wild backgrounds  – but on the parchment itself. Stamp on the front, the more matte…

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Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Blustery but sunny day here. The leaves are tumbling. The ginkgo leaves are the last to fall in our garden, so we should have a bright yellow carpet of them by the end of the week. Will keep you posted…. All this natural loveliness right outside the kitchen window! We’re lucky – and we know it. Speaking of beautiful colours…. The new Designer Paper and Parchment is in the building! Being launched next Sunday…

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Hi there, Thanks for popping in. It’s a busy day here at Clarity. A load of us are up here in Harrogate,  setting up for the Parchment Show  which takes places tomorrow, Saturday 21st October,  at the Cedar Court Hotel from 10-3.30. You can get tickets at the door (£8.50). There will be a wonderful exhibition of traditional parchment art, and many very talented artists will be displaying their art. And what are we up to?  Clarity, Groovi and Pergamano…

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Hi there. Thanks for popping in! Sat in a hotel in the Harrogate vicinity, all ready for the Parchment Show Set-up tomorrow. Show’s at the Cedar Court Hotel on Saturday. Yep, day to get up here, day to set up, day to do the job, day to get back home and recover. It’s a good job I love the people I work with! Who cares about being sandwiched in the middle of the van cab  for 7 hours, when you’ve…

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Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Do come in and stay a while… the kids are on their way back to the States this afternoon, and the house is pretty empty again. Dave is working in the garden, and on occasions like this,  a little arty playtime is a good distraction. Out with the 8″x10″ Gelpress plate Out with those fantastic strip stencils Mel designed. CLICK HERE FOR YOURFunky Island Strip Stencils Strip. Now there’s a word which makes me shudder!…

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Happy Monday! Thanks for popping in! It’s a beautiful sunny day, and we’re on our way out to Brighton as soon as Gracie gets back from the hairdressers! She’ll only let my friend Carron near it, so by the time she gets home twice or thrice a year – she NEEDS a trim !!! In the meantime, Mark is out for the count upstairs. The Jetlag hits you hard when you come east from California. The fires are pretty shocking, aren’t…

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Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Cor dearie me!! All this partying is hard work! I shall be glad to get back to work for a break! NOT. The birthday celebrations continued this morning with  Breakfast at the Spa!  After which we finally waved tataa to Mum and Dad.   Aunty Esther and I took a slow stroll down Mount Ephraim to the Pantiles. We had no choice there, because Mark had gone off with my car keys! But the sun came…

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Hi there! Thanks for popping in! Well, you know I said yesterday I’m rubbish at keeping secrets because of the beautiful new Designer Papers I had to show you? So not true!! I have been hanging on to this one for months! Mum’s 80th today. Coffee and Cake at our house was the plan… And I have spent days making the tea party table lovely,  titivating and prettifying. I was up at 7.30 sharp this morning, started making posh sandwiches…

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