Curtain

We've got this funny little door in our bathroom

Which leads nowhere, except to the hot water tank.

And it's kind of half-way up the wall.

I think it's my favourite thing in our whole house.

Even more now I've appropriated this gorgeous tea-towel

by Leah Duncan as a curtain (to hide said hot water tank).

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I've made a few changes hither and thither.

New header. New profile pic.

Been a bit confusicated about my blogging style lately.

More chatty? Less chatty?

More random stuff?

(Yeah, like, a post about a door. In my bathroom)

Or keep more focussed on work?

More personal, less personal?

Or just carry on ambling and rambling aimlessly?

Your thoughts much appreciated!

Find

How happy do you think I was to find this mug today for 50p?

VERY.

Flowers

To celebrate the arrival of PROPER SPRING,

I've made a new design called Linear Flower.

I'm really happy with this design.

There's something very satisfying about the contrast

between the smooth round shape of the flower

and the edgy zigzag pattern on the surface.

There's currently one in stock (tangerine and turquoise)

Or I can make to order in the colours of your choice.

Available on Folksy and Etsy

Puppet Club

Tuesday evenings just got a lot more fun, since we signed up for Puppet Club.

Run by Marc Parrett of Stuff and Nonsense theatre company

(who I've blogged about before),

we're having a fine old time with newspaper and masking tape.

Even the room it's held in is a bit special

(a beautiful old dance theatre dressing room)

I'll post up the finished puppets soon...

Nice

I love Twitter. Not only because it is funny and diverting and not too time-consuming, but because nice things come of using it. 

About a week ago I saw a tweet from Lisa Stevens about some chancer selling sawdust on Etsy at $20 a packet as "Rustic Confetti". How we laughed. I joked that I should sell my left-over glass shards all beautifully packaged as "Evil Confetti". Lisa replied that she would happily take any of my glass shards off my hands to use in her ceramics, so I quickly put together a parcel of little bits and pieces and popped it in the post.

And then, a few days later, what should arrive through my post box but this stunning ceramic piece that she made using the glass.

It makes me very happy whenever I look at it.

Interlude

Busy busy busy on a large commission at the moment,

nothing to show yet though.

We've been collecting these brilliant BUGS

And I found this handy bird book which is rather sweet.

And we've been out for soup in the van a few times

Animated

I thought I was over my schoolgirl crush on The Black Apple...

...one of the first blogs I subscribed to when I started spending

too much time on the internet.

Then I saw this.

The music by Swedish sisters First Aid Kit is gorgeous too.

Bedtime Reading

I've got a great stack of books on the go at the moment.

All courtesy of my recent birthday and the joy of the Amazon wishlist.

I can't get enough of the "anti-styling" of The Selby.

People's houses a bit untidy and full of weird stuff, just like mine!