Is spring in the air? Well, no. It’s blimmin’ January. We still have at least another couple of months of winter to go. As I am typing this the rain is lashing against the windows and at gone 8 o’clock in … Continue reading
spring in the air?
Tag Archives: creativity
my bear necessities…
So we are now well into the New Year. And it’s usually around now when I find that my creative well runs a little dry. For me at least, it’s not a good time of year for selling either. So … Continue reading
the big event
Well, it’s been a funny old year. At the end of last year I did a fabulously successful fair at The Custard Factory in Birmingham. It was the first fair for which I had travelled out of Nottingham to sell … Continue reading
the trouble with boys
I have no idea why I have such trouble with boys. Making boy dolls, I mean (not real life boys – thankfully!) I start off with ideas and then more often than not, they just look wrong when I actually … Continue reading
lockdown life and bauhaus belles
Life is a funny thing. One minute I am floundering in a creative mire that has me wondering whether I will ever make another doll… and the next I am working on several dolls at once, with commission enquiries coming … Continue reading
craft as therapy (or: how to use patchwork to stay sane and hopefully find your flow)
It’s been a while since I posted last, round about the time lockdown started. I said then that I was going to go on making the small things that I make, whether or not anyone was in a position to … Continue reading