Hi there, Thanks for popping in. Happy 17th February! Is it a special day? Absolutely! Today I woke up. And so did you. A lot of people didn’t. I just looked it up: about 150,000 around the world die every single day. Nothing to do with Covid – just a fact of Life. So today’s our lucky day! Smile! According to the experts, about 385,000 babies are born in the world every day too. So you know that old adage…
Hi there, Thanks for popping in. Came into work at Clarity Towers this morning, to catch up with the crew and have a couple of meetings. Everybody’s hopping about, juggling plates, keeping things going, a-picking and a-packin and a-making! Hundreds of orders are going out every day, but there were thousands placed in the half-price member’s sale, so it takes a while to plough through that little lot! It’s a mammoth task, mainly because it was a blanket sale across…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Just a quickie to shine a little light on a set of big beautiful stencils, which I designed recently. 9inches in diameter. Fantastic for journaling, background work, partial art and framed work….not to mention pottery! Here’s the Passion Round, framed. Definitely one for the wall in our Welsh B & B one day!! Here is the set, in case you fancy making an early start on a few birthday gifts or Christmas pressies. I…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Woke up to pinky gray skies again at sunrise, and decided to try to recreate the colour and clouds on paper. So here goes. A step by step, Pinky Gray original. Come on! If you’ve got the ingredients, have a go! It isn’t that difficult. It’s a process, a sequence. I bet many of you have got all the ingredients in the cupboard already. The key ingredient is our coated Clarity card. The Meadowdance…
Hi there! Thanks for popping in. Just spent a couple of very lovely, chatty, crafty, arty hours with a dear friend on Facetime. Many of you will know Sam Crowe from oop norf. To know her is to love her. It was great to catch up with her. She’s a smashing woman. Fun and crazy. Here we see here in action at the last Open Days in Ditton… When we get talking about art and projects, we could go on…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Friday’s Blog a private peek, right? Well, when you run a family business, work and play are so often inextricably linked. As is the case here, with Dave. You may recall that a while ago, he bought a Windmill Press – a Heidelberg Platen Press, to be precise. Did I tell you he went and bought a second one? Yep! We’ve got not one, but TWO of these huge, beautiful vintage printing machines. We…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Been doing a little bit of stretching here. Stretching my brain. Using my loaf more. Why? Well, waves of some kind of bleakness keep rolling in, and I thought it best to address it, change the flow. It’s not boredom. I don’t do bored. It runs deeper than that. It’s a kind of ennui. (Dictionary definition of ennui: a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement.) Sitting in…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. The snow is falling here in our garden. Big, soft, gentle flakes. Frau Holle, God’s housekeeper, is making the beds in heaven, and shaking the eiderdowns out at the window….Call me soft, but that’s the story my Mutti told me, and I’m sticking with it. I mentioned the next Facebook Live Moment of Clarity, which is on Friday, 19th February at 3pm (that]s next friday). This is where we bring the exhibition to you,…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Thought you might enjoy a quick update on our little – not so little – Vikings. Highly intelligent, super agile – and mad as a box of frogs. One minute, it’s chill time. Then in a split second – … this is the moment when pictures speak volumes… Yep. Ragnar is F for… FEARLESS indeed. And when he eventually fell over backwards, he did so very gracefully – didn’t even touch the tree of…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Monday’s blog is Trees and Flowers, right? So as the Children through the Seasons ODS on Hochanda draws to a close, allow me to shine a little light on something I briefly alluded to this morning in the 8am show. Here are the 8 stamps sets, A boy and a girl for each season, illustrated by darling Linda Williams, originally as Groovi Plates. Very popular! In the words of Mr Kipling, exceedingly good cakes…