I wasn't expecting this...

I slowly opened the imaginative door and paused as the cobwebs brushed my face and I stepped inside. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this...

three i made earlier,

"Liberty whispering me"

 "Because to us"

 "The noonday dreams of real worlds"

Life is delightfully busy at the moment, a good thing for me...

I had an idea to build on my little clay houses...a city, no less:

 I'm thinking big...maybe a three storey house next ... and/or a tower!

just an idea at the moment, but growing rapidly.

Watch this space 

XOXO

New Etsy listings over the coming weekend...

These are a selection of small affordable pieces on wood that will be available in my Etsy shop this weekend.  They are a continuation of my exhibition theme "Nothing but a House"

Each piece has been created with texture in abundance.  My aim was to create an old abandoned feel to the house, or a house that's been untouched for many years by it's owners.  The peeling paint and layered papers are perhaps suggestive of neglect, abandonment or perhaps sorrow.  These images give me great joy, i love the haunting eeriness of them.  

 Alternatively, a neglected house can also suggest the love of a home, perhaps a wish to remain in the past. bringing memories that may be forgotten otherwise, neglected in some people eyes but loved nonetheless.

"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."

- Khalil Gibran

Little Glimpses....

Abandoned Houses

Watercolour and Stitch

Found...discovered....

...in my store room...

...when Gav asked "how much do you think we'd get for this on Ebay?"

"Are you mad"? i said

......so it's now in my possession.......So many colours....yummy!

Montgomery Castle in the early evening sunshine

The views from there are amazing, across the Welsh/Shropshire border

Gav and i have taken to going up there with a picnic most evenings, enjoying the weather while it lasts!

XOXO

...a day in the life

playing with watercolours

 Little glimpses - work in progress...

...some more little homes for my exhibition, these are taking a bit longer than i thought to make, lots of fiddly bits of work involved, but i'm getting there.

Two items that sold in our shop this week...

...I so wanted to keep this set of early 1900's french button drawers, maybe there's only one of these in the whole world.  They would have been given to retailers back then free of charge to display the goods advertising them, a lot of them have probably been destroyed since, the lettering and colours are simply gorgeous.

and this ....

Indigo Moon looks very different without them! we sold a few other large items, time to do some more buying i think.

We have a new antique shop opened in Montgomery "The Old Stores", we're very lucky, i found some lovely old french ticking fabric in there a few weeks ago, they have a piece of 17th century fabric (part of a curtain) for a few hundred pounds!  Needless to say I left that.  The owner, Mark, kindly gave me some old french fabric he couldn't clean up enough for the shop...

I love this rich red colour, i can't wait to use it on my collages as well as these cards...

i loved the french handwritten notes on them, i'm not sure what i'll do with them yet, i'm just enjoying looking at them

 

...and last but not least, more practice with my new sewing machine and free motion sewing, i never knew sewing could be so much fun.  This is the sewing version of a detail of the watercolour above and the other two house will have a brooch pin on the back.  I still have a lot to learn but am getting there with controlling the foot pedal.

XOXO