Some new Spring flower glass paintings, as I love Spring! These glasses will work as small vases too. With Spring not far away I decided to paint them with daffodils, bluebells and butterflies. They are hot out of the oven, which I use purely to heat set the painted glassware. You do get some fumes …
It may be January and now freezing outside in the UK but having had a lot of mild weather my tomato plant is amazingly still alive and ripening in the utility room! The tomatoes are pretty tasty too :-). I don’t have any heating in there but it warms up in the sun. Do you …
I have quite a few flowers in my garden that are attractive to bees. It begins in May with the Ceanothus Then in summer they love foxgloves and in my front garden a hebe, which provided flowers in February, March this year too, so I wasn’t sure it would flower again when it was meant …
A caption competition seemed a good idea at the time but with no entries, it obviously wasn’t 😐 No worries, I will write about bits and bobs instead and hopefully something else will interest or inspire you! First up I wanted to share a wonderful way to deter ants from your house. I’d not had …
I wanted to write a blog today as I have some special offers in my shop but I’ve had little inspiration on what to write. I’m sure other people have the same problem, so this will be a short post! My offers are because it’s my birthday this week 🙂 and by Friday I may …
With the strange weather we’ve had I’m only now able to tell if my sunflowers will be monster ones again. I can report that 2 of the surviving ones will definitely have multiple flowers but the plants are no way near as big as last years at the moment. The flowers are not even out …
First an update on the baby seagull. Still squawking and falling over and making mess! It’s not just humans he/shes disturbing either but my poor 16yr old cat, who normally likes to sit in the conservatory but is being unsettled by the seagull plodding along the roof. Anyway this got me thinking about nature in …
