This year I’ve been giving out lots of the glass stars I made in my stained glass nightclass – all made from scraps of glass too small for main projects. I’ve handed them out to friends and asked them all to make a wish upon each star this Christmas… We’ve got one hanging up in […]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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This is so lovely – bike tyres with a love heart pattern that would create playful love-filled tracks on the city streets. By Hamed Kohan from Iran, this is one of the shortlisted design entries from more than 3000 participants in the recent designboom competition, ‘Seoul Cycle Design 2010’, organized in collaboration with Seoul Design […]
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When it snows the dog loves it – it’s her favourite thing in the world! As the golf course has been closed due to the bad weather it’s been taken over by parents sledging with their kids [weep] and dog walkers. Last week I took the dog up there every morning, afternoon and night as […]
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I love handmade gifts! I love receiving them and I love making them and giving them too. This year I’ve been giving away a lot of my handmade glass stars that I’ve made in an evening class and I only have one left and that one I’m keeping for myself. Here’s a selection of things you […]
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I’ve been a bit too busy to post much on the blog lately, but did manage to take lots of pictures of the snow we’ve had over the past few weeks. It’s all melted and gone now and we do miss it as it was so much fun when it was here!
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I used to one of those people who would fold down the corners of pages within books to remember the page I’d got to – but no more. Ever since I started making my origami bookmarks, I’ve stopped the nasty folding habit. Today, I’d like to share with you a few other ideas for bookmarks […]
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Strange light and beautiful rainbows.
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Less than a week away – Get your Christmas shopping done with style! Great music and an amazing collection of one-off Christmas presents – come to the Funk Fair!
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I got these on eBay the other day. Two are the same pattern with a lovely engraved letter ‘G’ on them. The other has a twisted stem and the end looks like it’s been broken off, but I thought it was interesting enough to purchase. I bought it for the challenge.
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Well a few weeks back I did a Theme Thursday post and wished for a white Christmas and all I can say is that something you do get what you wish for. We had a little bit of snow on Friday and Saturday, but by Sunday it was all gone. We’d arranged to go through […]