Hi there Thanks for popping in. It’s been quite a Monday, I can tell you! It started very early with a serious rainstorm. Like a proper flash flood, such as I have only ever experienced in America. Grace is always encouraging me to download an app which gives you ambient sounds, like the sound of water. Apparently, it relaxes you. I imagine the app offers waves gently lapping up onto a sandy beach, not rain pissing down stair rods at…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Just a quickie before the 2-hour Clarity TV show on TheCraftstore.com, to highlight what you can expect. I shall be putting these fabulous little fashion statement Claritystamps through their paces, offering loads of little tricks and tips on how to create dropshadows, how to make quick and easy cards, how to introduce texture into the background stamps and so on. Even the scraps are cool! There’s so much to show you! It’s actually absurd…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Remember the pottery project a while back ? When I asked you to guess what it was going to be? Well, it did get better than that…. Then it got worse again…. So I made a bowl to experiment with the colours and oxides, and make sure it would work. AKA Playing For Time. But then Dad got ill, so pottery was off the radar. I was back and forth to the hospital by…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Grace left for New York this morning, and the house is very quiet. She’s such a bundle of good energy and joy! Despite extending her stay, just like her brother who had to get back to SF to work, she wasn’t able to see her Grandad either, because he is still in hospital. It’s been almost a month now. Who could have foreseen this? But he’s in the right place and getting stronger by…
Hi everyone! Paul here, I hope you are all well. I am up at The Craft Store studios (aka Hochanda) getting all set to launch a brand new One Day Special at 6pm designed by the lovely Linda Williams – Time for Tea, Coffee & Cake in stamps! You may recall back in March we launched the Groovi version, and if I recall rightly it flew out the door. After the show, we had many requests for them to be…
Hi there! Thanks for popping in. It has been a while since I switched on my computer. In fact it’s been a while since I set foot in my art room above the garage, which has been our communal Shac Shac home for so many months. This morning I woke up and thought about you; it’s time to explain to my pals why I have “disappeared”, gone off the scene, stopped blogging. When you usually live your life so openly and…
Hi everyone. Paul here. I hope you are all well and have had a good week. I have some very good news to share with you today………………… Finally, after months and months and months of waiting, the Nested Square Picot dies have finally landed – yipeeeeeeeeeee! If you are new to Clarity and all things Groovi/Pergamano/Parchment, then you may have heard the words “picot cutting” or seen it being demonstrated when we appear on The Craft Store or showcased in…
Hi everyone. Paul here. I hope you are all well and staying safe. Another busy start to the week here at Clarity Towers – I can’t believe that it is Tuesday already! I have spent the past few days helping out in the picking and packing department. Whilst the team are working through the Half Price Members Sale orders, I am rummaging through the orders and picking the quick and easy orders. Now when I say quick and easy orders,…
Hi everyone. Paul here. I hope you are all well. It has been another scorcher of a day down here in Kent, although it seems that it depends on what part of Kent. The other day I left the office and it was hot, hot, hot. 10 minutes into my journey the roads were soaking wet, you could feel the drop in temperature. 10 minutes further down the road and the roads were bone dry! Anyway, I thought I would…
Hi everyone. Paul here. I hope you are well. Well today it was back to school for me and many hundreds of our lovely Clarity & Pergamano friends. I am sure that if I had taken a register of all the attendees, it would have taken me an hour and the class would have been over. Can you imagine if we had actually all been in the same room, we would have filled a small theatre and no matter how…