Christmas already?!

Well, last post it was summer, now it's Christmas.

I've had a less crazy season this year due to the cancellation of the September Trade show. It's been a great autumn with just enough work to keep my busy but not enough to stress me out!

I took work over to my friends Ondine and Lynne's new shop in Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh. Ondine (gorgeous textiles) Smith and Lynne Hanley have opened up the most gorgeous little place called 'Butterfly Blue'. Unfortunately they don't have a web presence at the moment but if you are nearby you should definitely take a look!



A couple of week ago I sold at the annual Marie Curie Ladies who lunch event and practically sold all my stock, these events are so hit and miss. Primarily I do them in support of the charity but it's fab when the 'ladies who lunch' turn out to be 'ladies who spend too'! These images are of that event...not great quality as they were taken with my phone. Still a little taster for you!

New Images :-)

Well things have been pretty busy although I haven't had chance to blog most of it.

I am working on some work for a new gallery in Kirriemuir, Angus called the Tower Gallery. Also thinking up ways to generate orders given the cancellation of this years Autumn Trade Show.

I have just had a set of new images taken showing some of the more recent additions to my range...they will soon be up on the website (which will be seeing a few changes in the near future!)

Here's a little preview....

New Gallery.

I am in the process of supplying a new gallery in Aberdeen which is due to open on the 4th July. It looks lovely.

It is the project of Fine artist Elaine Thompson, it is well worth checking out her work (see pick of the web) and I am sure it will be worth checking out her new gallery, Junction Art and Gifts. Good Luck Elaine!

One door closes, another door opens

I am coming to the end of my order list. Something I was aiming to do by last Friday! Now I have the summer to contemplate new work and get some new images and literature published!

I have been asked to create some exclusive baubles for the Scottish gallery for their Christmas exhibition so I will be turning my attention to that...among other ideas for new work.

The big blow of this year is that Clarion have cancelled the Autumn Trade show. This is where I get most of my Orders in the run up to Christmas. I am now thinking I will have to produce a catalogue to haul in the orders!

In some respects it will be nice to have the time to be more creative rather than just spending the summer trying to get samples of all my existing work together for the show. One door closes another door opens as they say! Watch this space!

Yesterday I made a couple of Teapots. Here are some images of them in progress!







I also had a bit of fun and made a variation on the baby pole pot...hearts are always a good seller!

Week 9.

Today was my last visit to the school.

Trudi and I grouted and added the few remaining border tiles. We ran out of grout and so had to make a dash into Girvan to pick up some more!

We then let the P1,2 and 3's place a few stones each. The colours of the stones really compliment to tiles don't you think!?

Everyone seemed pleased with the results, especially the kids who have been a pleasure to work with.


IT is finished!

School Week 8

Today was my last funded visit to the school. It was a drizzly wet morning and the job was laying the tiles on the cement foundation...which set brilliantly!

I also had some border tiles remaining for the P2/3 class, I decided to hand them over to their teacher to complete as Trudi and I really needed to get on with the tile laying.

We soon got into our roles, Trudi putting down the waterproof grout. I was putting in the spacers and placing the tiles. We worked quickly and decided to leave the kids indoors as it was wet and we didn't want it to impact on the grout too much. Here are some pictures of the nearly finished work! The colours look a bit washed out but that is the picture...so please turn up you colour in your imagination! I will take a better camera next week.

I will make one last extra visit to lay the remaining edging tiles and then supervise the younger children to put in the edging stones.

School Week 7

We were decorating the tiles today.
It is a great stage to be at as we can begin to see what the instillation is going to look like. Each of the pictures had been copied and cut into 16 squares. Each child had a square each to trace the outline onto the tile. We managed to get by with only a couple of breakages!

The P 4/5 class was first up. Firstly I gave them all the squares, posted the original on the wall and let them make the jigsaw! That took a little while, They all began to recognize the elements they had done and naturally wanted to do those sections themselves, For the most part this worked.


The P7's were away sampling the delights of Secondary school so I only had the P6's after break. It is a great wee class and they all did a couple of tiles each. These pictures are of the P6's after we had laid out the complete piece with all the outlines completed! It looks great!




I also took in some half sized edging tiles for the P1/2 and 3's to decorate as I discovered they were worried that they weren't going to get a shot. A few of them got broken so I will have to make a few more for next week.

Here's some pics of the tiles with the stains. Sorry they are a bit dark but it gives you an idea.