Hi there Thanks for popping in. Was just working on a quick little demo for tomorrow’s TV show on Hochanda 2pm-4pm, to highlight the Framework shapes stencil set. So basic, so simple! But really effective when overlaid too. Just in case I don’t get to them tomorrow, here’s how they work… They fit inside each, so you can overlay colours. Use ink or paint. Use a Gelpress too. Here I’ve just used the square and heart frames together, with brushes…
Happy New Year !!! I won’t keep you long. Just wanted to thank you for all your loyal support and custom throughout what was a very challenging 2020. Past tense. Done. Finished. Gone. There have been a lot of positives too. If you’re reading this blog, then you made it!! A lot of people didn’t. That’s the truth of it. So with that in mind, let’s keep smiling, and let’s keep going. New year, new start, new beginnings. New Year’s…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Just when you thought you could switch the lights off in the SHAC, and call it a day for the last time in 2020 – the lights switched themselves off! Oh dear. I called Paul at work, and explained that we had a situation Houston, so he came over. Then Dave came home too and joined in. They both climbed around, checking fuses, changing fuses, swopping kettle plugs, changing sockets, process of elimination and…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Been thinking about attention to detail. Paying attention to detail when you craft. When you stop thinking about what you are producing, what it will be like when it’s finished, and instead you get absorbed in the detail, in the minutiae – that’s when you are IN the process, IN the art. And that’s the bit I love the best. Sometimes I will spend hours doing something so seemingly insignificant in the bigger picture…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Got caught up in art today, which is not a bad thing. Only downside is that I was supposed to be prepping for telly on Sunday, but got swept away with a Castle Mask and a lovely background Designer paper! It only takes a few of my favourite things to send me off on a tagent. And then, when I am in the job, when I am immersed in the process, there’s nothing for…
Hi there, Thanks for popping in. Happy Bank Holiday Monday! Monday’s blog is trees & flowers, so I made two quickie cards, using the same stampset : the Deerscape and Meadowdance. I think the trees in this set are superb. If you use the sides of the tree stamps, they make great hedgrows and busshes too! One was made using the Mixed Impression Ocean Swirl in the background. I had a few spares kicking around, begging to be stamped on!…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Hope you are safe? Now I have to add dry too. Hope you are safe and dry. This is certainly a challenge isn’t it?! Just when you accept the situation, the goal posts get moved again. Very, very uncertain and worrying times for sure. And I do believe the layers and layers of issues, too many to even contemplate in one little blog ere, are just too much to digest for the average human….
Happy Boxing Day! Thanks for popping in. Made the fatal mistake of waking up to the Radio 4 News at 7am. Don’t know which was worse: setting the alarm to go off at stupid o’clock when a lie in would have worked too, or tuning in to the catastrophic state of global affairs before I’d even had a cuppa or brushed my teeth! Either way, my path to happy destiny was way off kilter by the time I got downstairs….
Hi there Ho Ho Ho! Happy Christmas! Thanks for popping in. I hope you are doing ok, and that you are enjoying whatever it is that you are doing this Christmas? This mornng flew by! What, with a TV show and a LIVE hour in the SHAC Shac, I really didn’t have time to even think about who wasn’t here! That’s the secret: Keep busy. After our Coffee and Mince pie get together in the SHAC Shac, which was such…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Happy Christmas! Been doing pottery most of today. It’s quite romantic really. You see, at one end of the garage I have my pottery studio, and at the other end Dave has his woodturning lathe. And so we spent the day together, he making sawdust, and I glazing pots. Certainly different to Christmasses past. Quieter for sure! That’s okay too. Usually I’m chasing my tail, in full throttle. We’ve always got a full house;…