Launching my craft business, blog posts by Annabel Potter.
Follow Annabel on her journey setting up the business Animal Glass Designs. Includes tips as well as mishaps!
A shop update and new cards in today’s blog. I’ve created some new greeting card designs, including the one below, a dragonfly congratulations card, puffin love and some other quirky ones! All available at Makermart in Gandy Street, Exeter After neglecting my Etsy shop for quite a while now, I’ve decided it’s time to close …
I can’t believe it’s almost Christmas, time has whizzed by since my last blog post! The good news is that all is going well at MakerMart shop, as well as online. I’ve recently been getting regular sales. This includes from Zazzle, which is great, considering I’ve not been working on it as much as I’d …
I have two pieces of good news to tell you, all of a sudden things are happening! A while ago I submitted some of my poetry to Quay voices nature writing for a performance. Last week I heard they’d like to include my poems. All very exciting and it’s on Wednesday 20th Oct 6.30-8pm at …
Exciting changes with a new website host, which has allowed me to create a new website for international customers at reasonable cost. Find the site at my .com domain animalglassdesigns.com. It means I can now remove the duplicate zazzle.com links on my .co.uk site. Hopefully this will make it clearer, less cluttered and even speed …
Here is another Rhymes of Science and Nature podcast with a poem on Force plus news on e-books. I hope this force poem helps with home schooling as I know many find this a tricky subject. I’ve not finished all the images yet for the picture book, which will be on gravity as well as …
So here it is, my very first podcast with a water cycle poem. I hope you enjoy it and you can follow my podcast site Rhymes of Science and Nature or this blog, so you don’t miss the next episode! Please do share, especially for children being home schooled at the moment, for something a …
I mentioned in my last post that I was looking at doing an audio version of my poems and decided a podcast was the way to go! With an iPad and a soundbox, I’m pleased to say I managed to record something audible. It was a case of third time lucky but using garageband, which …
Christmas trees in Exeter plus info on wordpress comments issue
As regular readers will know I’m excited that I now get birds frequently visiting my garden. Read this post to see how I managed it. This little robin bird is a new visitor and he seems to have taken to the robin solar light! I’m pleased that the glass paint makeover I did on the …
My third book in the poetic science and nature series is almost ready on mirrors and light. I had hoped to publish this new book in September but the illustrations have been quite a challenge! This draft mirror sketch was done on an iPad but I ended up abandoning it. Don’t worry, there is another …
