One week to go….

Well the countdown begins… Exactly one week tomorrow I will be leaving the house at 3.45 am (oh gosh!!!) and making my way to the airport to begin my journey to Eunique in Karlsruhe, Germany. At the moment I feel so nervous, worried that I will not get everything done but there is nothing else [...]

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Introducing Benno

Hello! There will be lots of short in-progress blog posts coming up as I am in full swing preparing work to take to Germany so I will be posting from my phone and resisting getting lost in the cavernous world wide web! Just over a month to go and an exhibition and an arts trail [...]

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Over the sea …..

Just a really quick post today as I am on my way up to my studio but I have a wee bit of exciting news. I have been selected as part of a group of Design Factory members who will be exhibiting at The International Art and Craft Fair in Karlsruhe in Germany this May 2012. Eunique is [...]

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A clumsy return….

Lustre, Nov 2011, originally uploaded by gilfling. Again…. so, so very long since I have blogged. So easy as it is to get out of the habit, to worry that I am boring you, repetition of the same old, same old stories. But I am back and we shall see what I have to share…………. [...]

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I am not here….

….nope – you don’t see me. Really I am just popping in for a second….oh ok then I shall stay just a little while… Well I am at that stage where I have so much to do that I have butterflies permanently residing in my tummy and my hands and thoughts are all a flutter! [...]

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Bits and pieces….

Aah tis the weekend and Saturday mornings are for relaxing, eating a healthily cooked breakfast, whilst watching Saturday morning kitchen and the bunnies playing in the garden. I have also been pottering around my vegetable pots and am amazed at how well they are doing. After my disasterous courgette plants that didn’t flower or fruit last [...]

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Holmfirth Art Market

Hello there! I will be posting my usual flickr monday mosaic later on today but I wanted to start the week with a wee post about the Holmfirth Art Market which I was exhibiting at yesterday. We had the intention of travelling up to Yorkshire early on Saturday morning but I made the last minute [...]

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Lydia

Lydia, originally uploaded by gilfling. Hello! Well this week I have been staying off the computer as much as possible in order to forge on ahead with preparations for the Art Market this Sunday. I have been sculpting, painting, sewing, embroidering, stringing, painting display boards and so it goes on! Above is Lydia – the [...]

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Waiting….

Waiting…., originally uploaded by gilfling. … for some finishing touches…. I have been working the weekend away, making slow progress, or so it seems…. But things are really coming together now and I have a wee community of fellows just needing hands and a final putting together before they can join their friends. Tomorrow I [...]

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getting there …..

getting there ….., originally uploaded by gilfling. I just thought I would show you this wee corner of my studio with some of the finished work for the upcoming Holmfirth Art Market. With more work having been returned from an exhibition this morning I have quite the gathering of characters and dwellings and of course there are [...]

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