Hi there. Thanks for popping in! Spent the day with Rosie today, hatching cool new plans, and revving up for her TV shows on Thursday. She’s showing off a set of lovely delicate Claritystamps; the detail in these is astounding actually. Floral Figures I really love to use them in backgrounds. Let me show you what I mean…. Remember recently we launched a new collection of large outline stamps? A stag, a toadstool, a bird, trees and a leaf. Well,…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Just got home from the TV shows. What a whirlwind that was!! Sell out in 20 minutes? When there was plenty to last for 5 hours? Never saw that coming! Decided to come do a little simple inky stuff, to calm me down. Trouble is, I left all my craft stash up at the studios with Paul, so he could grab anything he needed. That’s a joke. I’ve got enough in this room to open up…
Hi there! Thanks for stopping by today. The first Sunday of every month, and that means it’s time for TV! If you missed any of today’s shows, you can go to the Hochanda website and watch on Rewind. 2pm to 4 pm saw Tina showcasing her brand new beautiful A4 Square Groovi Plates Floral Swirls & Corners 1 and Floral Swirls & Corners 2 Personally, I think these are just sublime. Absolutely beautiful. Clearly many of you did, too! We…
Thanks for popping in. Can’t stop long. Got a Dad to go congratulate and give a big hug to! 80 years young. Still a handsome chap! And Mum is doing great too. Happy days. So the four of us, the Grays, are celebrating this evening. Just a quiet meal. Then tomorrow it’s telly time. Actually, if you want to know how to rustle up a really colourful and chipper cock in minutes, do tune in at 5pm tomorrow. We all…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Friday’s blog a private peep, right? All this week I have been absorbed in the Nursery Rhyme art from my past, the first real artwork I took through from start to finish, and then launched commercially. You know how memories sometimes bubble to the surface? Well, this morning a worthy contender popped up, and this one I would like to share with you. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin… I wasn’t involved…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Dave and Paul have headed off up to Port Sunlight for the Show this Saturday, (set-up tomorrow) but I have stayed behind to prep for the TV. Added to which, it’s my dear Dad’s 80th birthday on Saturday, so there’s another even more important reason for staying back! I wanted to talk about the Nursery Rhymes themselves today. As has been mentioned, I wrote several of them myself, because the old Mother Goose ones…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Do you ever wonder how much time we spend preparing, doing or making something which is over before it’s even really begun? A sunday Roast for example. Hours in the kitchen – devoured in minutes. Or Christmas! Weeks in the preparation – over overnight. We decided to make a little VT, a video tape, for this Sunday’s imminent One Day Special with the Groovi ABC. Dave spent all evening yesterday rustling up the background…
Hi there, Thanks for popping in! We are all getting revved up for the weekend now. It’s been a busy one! Remember yesterday, I was E for Excited about the up and coming Groovi One Day Special on HOCHANDA this Sunday/Monday? Well, today I wanted to show off the little ii-book which we have had published to accompany the Groovi plates. And a very useful little ii-book it is too! Each verse is included, as a kind of key to…
Hi there. Happy May Day! Thanks for joining me today. The love bird is in residence, the sun is out, Dave has stopped the leak from the bedroom radiator (don’t ask), and I have come upstairs to my little sanctum to chat to you. I’m always a little anxious before a TV weekend, even so much as a week in advance! It’s the way I’m wired. I’m sure anxiety and excitement are nearly the same thing, just from a different…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in today. A rather overcast Sunday, but lovely nonetheless. We’ve had a super afternoon! We have a new feathered friend in the garden – a lovebird! When we first saw him yesterday morning, I dashed over the road to the neighbours, because they have an aviary, and I thought he must be an escapist. But no. Not from there. They only have budgies. He (or she) has been trying out the box Dave made last year, but…