Sunday

We spent a few hours at West Bexington today,

one of the most underrated stretches of Chesil Beach.

Also home to my favourite cafe/gift shop...

think Royston Vasey-on-Sea.

There is a row of rather bleak and deserted-looking chalets.

We chose the last one as our favourite.

It reminded us of Villa Villekulla, especially with the horse next door.

 

Familiar Faces

I'm going to be making Mary and Josephs to order again this year,

as well as making a few to have in stock.

They always prove very popular, and I'm using slightly brighter shades

of red and blue Polish mouthblown glass for their robes.

I like the idea of making a full stained glass nativity set, 

with a camel, wise man, shepherd, Angel Gabriel et al.

Exhibition

I've just finished and delivered a number of pieces for the Rostra and Rooksmoor Gallery in Bath as part of their All Wrapped Up exhibition.

I've included a new design, Crofter's Cottage, which was inspired by a recent re-watching of one of our favourite family films, "Ring of Bright Water".  If you haven't seen it, I recommend it, although it is a rather more tame version of the true story of Gavin Maxwell, his otters and his time at Sandaig (a remote part of the Scottish mainland).  The trailer below does not really capture the charm of the film (largely due to the awful voiceover man)

The cottage in which he lives is a derelict but idyllic Crofter's Cottage.  Typically, they are single-story, whitewashed dwellings with a tiled roof, like this one.

My version is a re-working of my original Woodcutter's Cottage.   Having spent a bit of time researching crofter's dwellings, I'm rather tempted by the idea of staying in one for a long weekend.  Tucked up by the fire on a sofa a bit like this one...

The exhibition also features Rebecca Coles incredible papercut butterflies,  Emily Lawlor's gorgeous mosaics and Claire Halifax's silkscreen cityscape prints.  Go and see if you're in the area!

Blank Cards

Yippee, hooray and huzzah etc.

Blank cards featuring my stained glass designs now available on Etsy & Folksy

Professionally printed on 350gsm card stock 

and supplied with a recycled paper envelope.

Perfect for dropping someone a line, or wishing them a Happy Birthday

You can buy them individually or in a 3 pack (choose your own designs)

*** Free UK postage too ***

Overlap

Finishing off a few Autumn pieces...

... and starting on the Christmas items.

Building Blocks

I think my girls are probably a bit too old to justify buying more building blocks

although I really did want to get a set of these...

...or these...

...and am still hopeful that Father Christmas might bring us some of these:

But I think we might be able to stretch to some of these...