We had a beautiful sunny day yesterday and coupled with the fact that all my shops, twitter, facebook now have my new animal name I’m feeling generous, so decided to have a 4 day summer sale starting today until Sunday. So a good time to get your animal mad friends, family or yourself a present! …
Something many of you might like – A great craft project recycling plastic bottles by OddSox
Last week was a week of new things, so I thought I’d write about some of them and would love to hear your thoughts 1) I had a go at painting in a different style, slightly abstract. This was in miniature form and started out with one of my bees and a rose, so initially …
I recently visited Canonteign Falls in Devon. Beautiful place with a playground area for kids too. This is a photo from the base of the waterfall. Sadly I didn’t have the energy to walk to the top but I suspect there are magnificent views. This inspired me to do a waterfall pinterest board with a …
I had a good response to my first giveaway, so a big thank you to all those that took part. 97% of voters thought my website was easy to navigate (with 1 ‘no’ and 1 ‘other’ out of 75) so that’s good news! The peacock pendant got the most favourites closely followed by the kingfisher …
An update on my giveaway. So far the kingfisher has the most favourites, closely followed by black cat. There is still time to enter and win your favourite pendant with a runner up 25% off voucher prize. It ends on Friday 31st May. See my last post It’s a giveaway to enter I will be …
As promised my first giveaway and the chance to win a hand painted necklace pendant with a runner up prize of 25% off at animalglassdesigns 🙂 It’s to celebrate that my website not only links to my Etsy and Folksy shops but now has the functionality to buy my new animal pendants directly from the …
Happy Friday everyone, Today I’ve been looking at craft shops that help raise money for charity and been pleasantly surprised at how many there are. This is my selection found on Folksy and Etsy. Just click on the photo to go to their shop where you can make a purchase and find out more about …
I promise not to bamboozle you with science but there are 2 schools of thought on this! Artists appreciate that black can be created by mixing different colours but white cannot. However scientists would say black is not a colour because black objects don’t reflect any colours of light whereas we see white when an …
I’ve just painted a horse on a coaster and only when I’d finished him did I realise that I’d painted on the wrong side of the coaster! The fused glass coasters I use, hand-made in the UK by Bea Schirmer, have a shiny side and a slightly rough side. I usually paint on the rough …
