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Thank God for Chocolate Coins!
You won’t believe the trouble I had trying to find suitable gold foil for the underside of my sun! In the previous post I showed you the transparent smalti laid onto some gold foiled tape. I thought this is the stuff I would use, I have a big reel of it, however it is sticky,…
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Decisions in Copper and Gold
Luckily the weather is a bit warmer this week, encouraging me to get in my shed and get on with the sun mosaic that I wrote about in the last post. I let it slip a bit as the cold was biting into my fingers during the last few weeks, and I wasn’t brave enough…
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Chasing the Flow
If you are a musician, you probably know what “andamento” means. In mosaic terms, “andamento” is the directional placement, course, or “flow” of tiles in a mosaic. Some of the first mosaics using andamento in interesting ways were made by the Romans. Have a look at this mosaic – this is a section from…
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New website!
I have spent a good couple of weeks intensely programming my website. A complete re-design. The slide shows were programmed by my son, Dan. (Nerdy geek in Manchester!) So I have been on a bit of a steep learning curve of css and added to my knowledge of html. Now you can shop in my…
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Little Birds’ Day Out!
I thought you should know that I am out of my winter hibernation early and I have taken up jogging to sweep away the cobwebs and the excess fat gained from the Christmas booze and chocs! So full of energy I am, with plans for new projects and with some already completed. But more of…
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Wake Up It’s Morning!!
I sleep like a bear in the winter holidays, but this morning my partner woke me at 8am to look at the sunrise. Bleary eyed I bumbled about, threw open some windows to the biting cold and took some pictures. Most of the photos are blurred (wouldn’t yours be if you were barely conscious?) This…
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Sunshine Pendants
On a wet grey day back in March I made my first sunshine pendant. I made it to cheer me up and to remind me always to bring the sun with me! Well maybe it was chance but no sooner had I put it on the sky started to clear and the rest of the…
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A Bird Is Not Just For Christmas!
The nice lady Ruth at the “Somerset Guild of Craftsmen’s Courthouse Gallery” in Somerton is housing some of my little birds until they find some nice homes to go to. The others have migrated to Folksy until they find homes. This is a photo I took when they were visiting me. If you would like one please…
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Flying to Folksy
Last April I was out with my family watching the gliders at the Mendip flying club. It was very exciting seeing them being pulled into the air almost vertically with the aid of a wynch , then after the wynch hook dropped the glider finding balance and floating gracefully up high into the air. Well…
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Gathering Darkness
I collected another new piece of work from my framers yesterday. This is “Gathering Darkness”. It takes the idea from my Flocked series – How the Sky Becomes Blue and The Birds Who Bring the Dusk (see mosaics here) into the night. It was also inspired by staring at Deep Sunset through the Woods (see mosaic here)…
