Had a lovely trip to Dartmoor yesterday, so thought I’d share a few photos. I was there to deliver more of my moorland themed glass paintings to Widecombe in the Moor National Trust gallery. They have a great selection of local crafts, this photo shows just a small area.
I recently had a lovely holiday in Jersey and one of the highlights was Durrell wildlife park. The funniest thing to watch was a giant tortoise working out how to escape. He managed it too by getting on his side & propelling himself through! We also spent quite a long time watching the apes have …
I have pots with remnants of glass paint too solid for normal painting. Finally today I got round to using them and had fun scraping out the paint and putting it on plastic packaging to create some recycled art. It’s turning out like an abstract coral reef and with the dried blobs of paint has …
Some new Spring flower glass paintings, as I love Spring! These glasses will work as small vases too. With Spring not far away I decided to paint them with daffodils, bluebells and butterflies. They are hot out of the oven, which I use purely to heat set the painted glassware. You do get some fumes …
It may be January and now freezing outside in the UK but having had a lot of mild weather my tomato plant is amazingly still alive and ripening in the utility room! The tomatoes are pretty tasty too :-). I don’t have any heating in there but it warms up in the sun. Do you …
I have quite a few flowers in my garden that are attractive to bees. It begins in May with the Ceanothus Then in summer they love foxgloves and in my front garden a hebe, which provided flowers in February, March this year too, so I wasn’t sure it would flower again when it was meant …
I love this time of year, so here’s a taste of spring local to me. Have a great weekend and I’ll leave you with photos of my spring flower paintings
I’ve a few new paintings since my last post and keep meaning to take work in progress photos. This week I finally remembered to do it for some wildlife glass painting! Here’s a jug with one elephant and a faint outline of a baby elephant and now two! This is the first stage of a …
January, February are generally the coldest months in the UK, although so far we’ve gone from freezing nights to spring temperatures! Here in Devon it’s warm enough for Palm trees but it’s best to protect them from frost. So how do you cover them with a tree cover? By tree hugging, be a tree hugger! …
A caption competition seemed a good idea at the time but with no entries, it obviously wasn’t 😐 No worries, I will write about bits and bobs instead and hopefully something else will interest or inspire you! First up I wanted to share a wonderful way to deter ants from your house. I’d not had …
