Exhibition

Sold 2 pictures and lots of jewellery at my local art club exhibition  - I now have a recurring nightmare that the necklaces fall to bits, scattering beads everywhere . . .  And I got my Imperfect Beauty piece finished and displayed, but I find I don't love it one little bit.

Holiday

Just realised I haven't posted about my holiday in September!

Hotel Rethymno Mare Crete

Crete was followed by a weekend in Edinburgh with our daughter:

Vinca with a Jungle City tiger

We went to see round the Scottish Parliament:

Part of the architect's model

The MSPs' work pods

Inside the Botanic Gardens building

At last Imperfect Beauty

Finally finished my collage piece (after a long break).

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the Rocks

Here are some close-ups:

Potfest in the Pens

Another good day out at Potfest,  in the Pens this time. Lots of lovely work, including some who were also in the Park. I like Jan Lewis-Ecclestone's boats and fishes, especially Jonah.

But what I bought was this plaque by Madeleine Vale:

Potfest in the Park

The weather was fine and sunny for my annual visit yesterday to Potfest in the Park. Always inspirational, and I get to talk to some great craftspeople. Here are some pieces that I particularly liked .

First the quirky work of Helene Sellier-Duplessis:

'Energised Water' by Jenny Beavan

 

Alvin Irving's unphotographable pot

Alvin Irving

Richard Godfrey's work based on Devon rocks

Joyous colour by Richard Godfrey

Gwen Bainbridge's spoons which won the Potters' prize

Mark Smith's winner of the Marking Time competition

Lumps, Bumps and knots

Here's a little bit of Imperfect Beauty:

Imperfect Beauty is finished but not complete

The things Margaret is willing to do for Avril! Behold the human bookend:

My effort so far, to be completed at leisure:

My daughter's finds

My daughter finds me interesting inspirational pictures. Here are a few of her recent finds:
Fire art
Wonderful photos, landscape etc
Cardboard Architecture

Coventry visit

Visited my daughter in Coventry and found nice views from her window:

Some Welsh links

Our wonderful holiday landlady, hearing I  was looking for natural dark fleece, took me to see her friend  Maureen Preen

who very kindly sold me a dark alpaca fleece.

And a man we met on one of our walks along the Montgomery canal, also hearing about my search for fleece, told me about a shop in LLanfair Caereinion which turned out to be the Colinette mill shop . Well, not what I was looking for, but wow!

More from Wales

Went to Powis Castle; the gardens were magnificent and especially the hedge:

Here's one of the guardians of the gate:

Good textures round our holiday place:

Reflections on the canal:

Reflections at Glansevern gardens:

Holiday finds

I've been on holiday this week near Welshpool. I loved this teacosy from South Africa in my holiday place. Click on it to enlarge and see the detail.

also the quirky furniture:

Latest Imperfect Beauty efforts

Avril tries to make my doodles hang together.

Imperfect Beauty

Still haven't got to grips entirely with what I'm doing here, but I've settled on a theme of rocks and what grows on them. See my photos pages for the inspiration.
Here are some bits which might or might not make it to the finished product (I've abandoned the blue)

Latest Book efforts

Book course has now finished, aaawwwhh.
This is my exposed spine stitched book:

This is my box of Japanese stab-binding books:

and this is what's in the box: