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What Granny wants, Granny gets.

Granny Sim came to my ‘open studio’ a month or so ago. She spied my birds. “I’d like a curlew”, she said. “Bunting for me”, said the beautiful Anne…”And a heart for my friend”, said Anne’s friend. And then I … Continue reading

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Forty Year Tree

Jan came along with her precious nick-nacks and story way back in April….. She wanted a  commemorative piece to surprise Husband Steve with on their 40th Wedding Anniversary. “….A lifetime’s journey filled with significant treasures”…I have been pondering on it … Continue reading

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Penny – Queen for a day.

Yesterday I played a very small part in helping my friend Penny complete her  ‘Bob Graham (BG) Challenge’. Basically she ran a 66 mile lap of the Lake District which funnily enough featured none of the lakes but 42 of … Continue reading

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Has it been a month?

Sorry folks, but where has that time gone…? And it is not that I have been lazy it i more that I have never stood still. Busy, busy time for the Silverdale and Arnside Art and Craft Trail, for which … Continue reading

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Tilly

‘Tilly’ is my friends bouncy wire haired pointer. She is just gorgeous, with long legs and eyebrows to die for, (or perhaps not, unless you are of course, a wire haired pointer!…. Dogs and their owners and all that, I … Continue reading

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Weka is off!

  Well, I have got there….. am passing it across to Ray tonight. “Fingers-crossed” he likes it. Here’s how it went…. Clawed feet, soft soldered using brass bar and brass wire and aged with a little grout – A first … Continue reading

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A Spring opening..

It is ‘Open Shed’ again for me on Friday, but I am also most excited to be exhibiting one or two things at a friends open house too. Jan Huntley Peace with her beautiful ‘Art to Wear’ is inviting all … Continue reading

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A ‘weka’ in progress……

Whilst all around me are eating eggs………. I am hatching a weka.. My customer is a rusty engineer, sorry, I meant to say ‘Rust Engineer’ and he was concerned about the legs. So far I’m using a nice bit of … Continue reading

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A day of drawing…….(and re-drawing)

A blustery day and I’m feeling a chill so definitely not the day to be in the shed with that easterly wind whistling through. Far better a day at the kitchen table working on some designs. My ‘weka’s and ‘walshes’ … Continue reading

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Progress back at the Shed

  An itty –bitty week…..progressing commissions and finishing off bits and bobs. My ‘nearly there hare’ is now a really there hare’ – Happy 40th Lu’.  Tilly the floppy dog in progress, I just love her comical expression. Just need … Continue reading

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