What a beautiful day it has been. Thinking back to a week ago, who could have foreseen such a change in the weather. The forecast shows this week will see a couple of days with temperatures in double figures - perhaps spring is on the way.
A busy week that has involved card-making to re-stock my wall at Bourne Mill Antiques Centre as well as completing three card orders - photographs of two of them are below. As so often happens with me, I forgot to photograph all of them.
The brief for one of the cards was for a wildlife (in particular tigers, whales and elephants), Tudor dynasty, poppies and Rachmaninov loving person. With photographs I already had and other copyright-free ones, I managed to fulfil the requirements of my customer and I gather the recipient was very happy with their card.
This week has also been, groan, tax-return week. Just need to do a final check before I send it to the HMRC. I always feel very relieved that has been done.
Handmade Monday reached the grand total of 100 posts last week and Wendy, the blog's owner, celebrated with some fantastic give-aways each day. There is still time to enter and there are some amazing goodies - I entered each day and am really hoping to be one of the lucky winners. Many thanks, Wendy, for as very interesting week.
My pottery course began again this week (well for me it did as I missed the first week). We have an ambitious project this term which is landscaping - creating pots or wall plaques with scenes. I have decided to create a plaque and have so far added mountains, rocks falling down a hillside and also added some trees using twigs/branches pressed into the clay. Once it looks presentable I will photograph it and post it on my blog.
My workshops are moving, very, very slowly, so I think I need to step up the promotion of them which so far I have not been very proactive about. Work for this week includes making Valentine's Cards for Bourne Mill and my website and I will also add some to my Etsy shop.
We went to one of our regular family get-togethers yesterday. Always great fun, time goes too quickly and it was really nice to catch up with everyone - lots of lovely food too. Thank you Maralyn, hope today has been feet up time for you.
Don't forget to visit the Handmade Monday blog this week to read everyone's comments and see their fantastic makes for the week, plus to have a go at the give-aways if you haven't done so yet.
Have a good week everyone. I will be back next Sunday and in the meantime Milly will be posting her (now) regular Wednesday blog post - if you missed it last week's post, please click on this link to catch up with what she has been doing.
Jill
