Nov 20, 20101 min read
Friday, more flotsam experiments …
Friday, a week into having an independant studio to work in. Being alone is turning out to be pretty damn inspiring. I’ve had a chance to...
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Nov 19, 20101 min read
Wednesday, finishing work and opening Centrepiece 2010
Wednesday was an extraordinarily productive day. Not only did I get to work on some new ideas that have been kicking around my head for a...
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Oct 1, 20101 min read
Follow Friday – Harvest Festival
I had a stand at the Malvern Autumn Show last weekend and, while I was up in the Arts and Crafts hall, I did get a chance to have a quick...
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Sep 30, 20101 min read
Giveaway – tickets for the Farnham Festival of Crafts
I have a couple of pairs of tickets for the event (worth £6) to giveaway as a little incentive for you all to make the trip down to...
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Sep 27, 20102 min read
The Worcestershire Guild’s Autumn Show
I spent the weekend doing my first selling fair with the Worcestershire Guild of Designer Craftsman at the Malvern Autumn Show. I joined...
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Sep 24, 20101 min read
Malvern Autumn Show 2010 – set up
I spent the day on the road today, going down to Malvern to set up for a weekend show. Malvern is a gorgeous little historical town but...
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Sep 17, 20101 min read
Follow Friday : The Night Sky
I woke up yesterday morning at 4.30am. There was no particular reason for this, I guess that sometimes your brain can just decide ‘yep,...
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Sep 13, 20102 min read
Wirksworth Festival 2010
Wirksworth, in Derbyshire, is a strange little town. On one hand it’s very much a traditional 18th-19th century village with a slightly...
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Sep 8, 20102 min read
Vera and the Black Scum : Adventures in barrel polishing
Now I must apologise in advance but I fear that this is going to become a rather technical post. You see, while I did spend a good three...
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Sep 3, 20101 min read
Follow Friday: Lets go Fly A Kite!
Mr Williams flying the kite In a suprising spell of August sunshine last week Mr Williams and I dusted off our kite and took it out to...
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Sep 2, 20101 min read
Making Bunting … Part One
Big day today.I went to Worcester to visit one of my favourite fabric shops, The Cotton Reel, on Broad Street. I was on a bit of a...
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Aug 31, 20102 min read
Edinburgh Retrospective and a look at the West End Craft Fair
As the Edinburgh Festival draws to a close, the performers pack up and the theatres go back to running one show a day (not ten) it almost...
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Aug 28, 20101 min read
Parcelling up work for Galanthus
Phew, it’s been a busy few days in the studio … it’s strange to think that I’ve been back from Scotland for a week and I’m already back...
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Aug 24, 20101 min read
Snowflakes! Snowflakes in August!
Snowflake master patterns The saga of the snowflake continues. I designed these lying in the garden last July with the intention of...
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Aug 23, 20101 min read
Festival of Crafts at Farnham
I got a very exciting pile of post when I came back from Edinburgh on Thursday. It’s kind of like Christmas when you let your mail build...
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Aug 22, 20102 min read
Beside the Scottish seaside …
It’s odd to think that a week ago I was in Scotland … now I’m back in England and it’s muggy, rainy and generally not looking like summer...
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Aug 20, 20102 min read
Dazzling Jewellery in and around the Edinburgh Festival
One of the less theatrical treats of the Edinburgh Fesitval is a trip to Dazzle. The Dazzle selling exhibitions are a bit of an...
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Apr 10, 20101 min read
The beachcombing silversmith …
Well, everyone has to get their materials from somewhere. It just so happens that my latest range [flotsam] means that I have to scour...
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Mar 17, 20101 min read
Making Spoons …
I’m developing something of a spoon addiction, at the moment it’s manifesting itself in a new set of spoons in the style of my current...
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Aug 12, 20091 min read
Building the New Studio – Part One
I started clearing the space today, fought off some seriously scary spiders, one tenacious slug and rather a lot of dust bunnies to claim...
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