Giving this old lady a new face!

Finally made time to give some love and attention to my love. The face is not as bad as I first thought. The bic is better than it was. From this picture you can see from the shiny edge that it curves inwards towards the middle of the anvil. The anvil is hand forged. The make is Alldays and Onions, an English automobile manufacturer from 1898 - 1918. I have a little piece of history in my workshop! 

......Ebay.....

Just snapped this up! It's not for me but  for 2 very good friends of mine. Rather jealous!

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Coffee & cake!

Today, I met up with my old tutor / good mate, Mr Kris Grainger! I have always loved his photography skills and today we teamed up to take some photographs of my work.
Anywhooo, here are some finals! I have encouraged interaction within my pieces by supplying different weighted balls. It's really therapeutic and hypnotizing to just roll them around the vessel and listening to the different sounds. I also encourage the visitor to touch and feel my pieces as they are textured.
For anyone wishing to buy my work, I charge £65 for the small vessels, and £500 for the larger ones. For more information, please don't hesitate in contacting me.

Railing restoration

Again, I seem to have abandoned this blog as I have been a busy bee, for that I apologise!

This last month I have been able to sell some work through galleries. May I just say a huge thank you to anyone who has bought my work / shown an interest! It really does mean the world!

I have also been restoring an old water pump on the farm which is by a veggie patch! It's such a shame it hasn't been used in over 40 years! :(

I have also got work on to restore an old cattle grid at Somerford Hall, a beautiful venue suitable for weddings & celebrations! http://www.somerfordhall.co.uk/

I have decided to save craft shows till next year and unfortunately I had to turn down the Ludlow Fringe market, but I will be there next year!

I have many plans for the rest of the year, so watch this space!