I was a bit slow with last weeks letter T challenge, so a tortoise a few days late seems very appropriate! As my friends know I also have a rather large collection of tortoises in various different forms but no real ones! It all started when I was quite young and I fed my neighbour’s tortoise buttercups. …
I’ve just painted a horse on a coaster and only when I’d finished him did I realise that I’d painted on the wrong side of the coaster! The fused glass coasters I use, hand-made in the UK by Bea Schirmer, have a shiny side and a slightly rough side. I usually paint on the rough …
Happy New Year to you all. I now have a name for my new brand and in preparation for the launch I’ve been advised to get my own website. So far I have avoided this but I can see it makes sense these days, so many hours of research later I’ve started to create my …
Firstly I’m sorry I didn’t get round to writing a post on Friday but my exciting news is that my glassware will be available to buy in Quay Presents, down on the Quay in Exeter, very soon. I’m so pleased to have found another outlet quite quickly after Exetra closed. My space in the shop …
Having found a way of recycling some old cloudy glasses, as mentioned in my last blog, I am quite pleased with the result. I had fun, just going with the flow as the end product is for me. I love experimenting with designs and luckily with Pebeo vitrea glass paints you can wipe away mistakes …
So that I don’t miss my target of 2-3 blogs a week here is a short one. I’ve called this post ‘Crafty ups and downs’ because there are bound to be some! Since my last blog I’ve made new listings on both Folksy (made to order hand painted photo frames) and Etsy (flower champagne glasses), …
This will be my first blog in ‘real time’! I have just set up an Etsy shop www.etsy.com/shop/arpglassdesigns, which I naively thought wouldn’t take too long as I’d already opened a shop on Folksy. It took most of yesterday and into the evening! First up is entering your profile and policies. I spent quite a …
