Saturdays smile

I have had a lovely day with lovely people melting glass in the studio and having a chat just about life, experiences, youth.... not mine!... a wonderful day all told and so I am sharing a photo from a couple of weeks back.... I am sharing a smile.  Bit of a cop out for a blog post but I am supposed to be blogging each day for Blogtoberfest and can't back out on day 4!

Happy smiling Saturday.

Favourite pictures of the week

Gordy curled up tight with Defi.

Ice cream sundaes that are coming to Harrogate bead fair this weekend.

Bees with hats, whatever next!

I have been playing with Santa hats, somehow the bees got in on the act, but I think they look rather cute, available to order in my Etsy shop right now!

 

 

Bees with hats

 



Made to order in the shop

Then the snowmen got in on the fun and ended up with hats too....

 

I did have a little play with relief style reindeer too, the frit is gorgeous and from Vickie's Emporium you can find her on FB just click the link, this frit is called Carnival, its bright and fun.

 

Have a great weekend, I am off to the Community Farm Open Day Christmas Fair tomorrow and taking with me some fused glass decorations

 

 

Its not the best photo as this one was taken on my phone, what comes back with me will find its way on Etsy next week.

 

Laney x

 

 

It's never too early

I find Sundays quite hard too blog my routine disappears and we usually have something going on, yesterday was no exception as the hubby and I went to Bristol to see a friend who has just moved into a very nice bachelor pad and meet his newest granddaughter a gorgeous 4 month old baby girl who gave enormous smiles and reminded me that although lovely babies are hard work and I am definitely more comfortable caring for hairy dogs and dribbly cats!!

I did a little bit of shopping and brought this enormous bag of spring bulbs.  Tulips are one of my favourite flowers they remind me of when I was little and lived in Holland I still remember looking out of the window to field upon field of colour and nodding heads the Tulip ones.

Although Holland is famous for these beautiful flowers they did in fact come from Turkey.  I love Tulips, I might be wishing away time but the thought of them next Spring makes the dark months more bearable I just have to plant them!

Laney x

Calorie free cake

 

My cooking skills are legendary, the tales of smoke alarms going off and the children arriving at the table for dinner amuse many a guest, those that dare brave the idea that I might cook...its ok though these days the hubby does all the cooking, and shopping, both of which I am remarkably useless at.  Family members love to reminisce about the time I cleaned the cooker/fat fryer/kettle and they blew up, or the time when I cooked a slug on the hob..by accident...and filled the kitchen with smoke, or the time I lost my temper and threw a buttered crumpet in the air where it stuck to the ceiling butter side up and refused to budge, the stain of the soaked in butter is still there to this very day and I can assure you that the ceiling has been painted several time in 20 yrs!  I moved out 18 yrs ago but the house was a tied cottage and owned by my friends family so I still get to hear about the 'buttered' crumpet stain!

 

But.  A revelation.  I have made cake that LOOKS good enough to eat, you can't eat it though, just like my 'proper' cooking it is totally inedible, but it looks fab....

 

 

 Sponge cake with pink icing

 Triple layer cake

  Wedding or Easter cake

 

 

You have to love glass!!  I have a couple of chocolate ones waiting for photographs, I love making cake...beads :)

 

All beads are available in my Izzybeads Etsy shop  just so you know!

 

Happy Saturday I am off to do something...

 

Laney x

Little Mog.....

Ok so I didn't post a blog post yesterday, but rules are meant to be broken right? but today I do have something new to show I did manage a couple of hours in my studio shed yesterday and it was lovely to fire up the torch for the first time in a week, fingers crossed I have finished with the virus and although still a bit snotty and my ears still feel like I am underwater, I am up and raring to go, so introducing, Little Mog.

 

 

Little Mog

Whose da mummy?

I know its supposed to be whose da daddy, but hey! its nearly Halloween and lets have some fun!

This is Little Mog and he is desperate to go Trick a Treating, wandering the streets like a grown up Tom Cat, but Little Mog is little, so little that his mum has said no, so Little Mog went to the bathroom in the big house that he lives in, opened up the airing cupboard door and took out a roll of toilet paper, then he rolled and rolled and rolled all the toilet paper around him, hoping to disguise himself and sneak out with his pet spider, Spiddy, Trick or Treat Little Mog....

 

I have my kiln on and my torch is raring to go again today, something about enforced rest and bone idleness to get those muses flowing, I have lots of ideas, I am thinking singing hounds....

 

Laney x



Wordless Wednesday

Gordy and the washing machine.

Blogtoberfest

Its October 1st, this year is flying past, not that I want to say the C word but......no long to go!

For the month of October I have signed up to do the Blogtoberfest which is being hosted by Michelle of Shells in the Bush its a personal challenge to blog everyday.  I like blogging I just don't seem to be organized enough to do blog regularly so maybe this will help.  Click on the link to go to Michelle's blog and see who else is taking part, which does bring me to a question...

How many blogs can you read in one day?

I have a few blogs that I like to follow just wish there was more time in the day to read them all, I do try to keep up but seem to end up catching up more than keeping up, maybe I will try and read one every day too, look out coming to a blog near you soon!!

Right I better get on with the day, I spent yesterday in bed with the lurgy virus and the carpets need hovering and I would love some time to turn on the torch and make Halloween beads, I always have plenty of ideas when I am unable to torch I think that's called Sod's Law!

 

Trick or treat