tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49667818287688892342024-03-13T21:04:42.146-07:00Beach Shack Project BlogAhoy! My name is Hannah Elspeth Marshall and I am a purveyor of beach bling! I used flotsam and jetsam found on the beach to create jewellery and art. I mostly work with sea glass and pottery.BEACH SHACK PROJECThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02672607655999532569noreply@blogger.comBlogger310125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966781828768889234.post-13128296543315898102018-03-01T13:33:00.001-08:002018-03-01T13:35:44.302-08:00Natural History Museum - Marine Invertebrates <style>
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museum as I began to discover more about what I was picking up. My sister said
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they are filter feeders that sieve food particles out of the water. Individuals
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colonial invertebrates but some do move. A few species can creep very slowly by
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themselves though. The most common marine form they take is called encrusting,
in which a one-layer sheet of zooids spreads over a hard surface or over
seaweed, and appears almost like a tiny barnacle type mould. If you are in the
nature of staring obsessively at seaweed you find cast a look out for them next
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environments, sometimes freshwater, although you may find them cast ashore
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sea-whip, a type of coral, usually quite colourful, and the glass rope sponge,
which inadvertently does resemble some sort of contemporary oceanic inspired
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beach finds, sea glass, pottery, fossil, pebble, shell...</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">The innocuous beach stone, or pebble, is
almost always found on our shorelines. Yet it is probably of least interest to
beachcombers, rather like its plastic counterpart, by virtue of them showing
little merit or worth. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">I grew up in Cornwall, where I enjoyed
beachcombing for popular treasure like seashells, sea glass & pottery,
driftwood and maybe some amethyst if I was lucky. Brighton beach, where I now
live, is a completely different landscape. Sand is scarce and usually only becomes
apparent at low tide. The rest of the beach is covered in big, uncomfortable
pebbles, or rocks, as I like to call them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">I have recently started collecting pebbles
and using them in my work. I’ve always subconsciously picked them up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It started off with them slowly creeping in,
and then I noticed myself going out of my way to search for them. My favourite
ones to find are usually just ones that look a bit different or have an
interesting pattern. If I want to make jewellery from it, it must be quite flat,
more like a disk. This makes it easier to wire wrap rather than a sphere or egg
shape. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Granite with nail polish, maybe someone was painting their nails on the beach?!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">The more I repurposed my pebbles, rather
than them gathering dust on a shelf or nook somewhere, the more I sought them
out and started wondering about their origins, what they came from, what they
are. Sometimes its very easy, for example when I was on Mount Etna in Sicily,
the black light rocks I found there were identifiable as cooled lava because of
where I was and what I knew had happened there. Other times, its very cryptic. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">Firstly, what is the difference between a
pebble, stone or rock? Although there is no definitive scale for
classification, it’s generally perceived that a stone or a pebble is usually
quite small, something you could pick up and deposit in your pocket. Whereas a
rock is seen as somewhat larger, and more cumbersome to move. If someone threw
a pebble at you, it would probably hurt, but if someone threw a rock at you, it
would surely cause more substantial injury. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">Both stones and rock are made from the same
material. Rock is a material found on the earths crust, and is present both
below and above the ground. Rocks are made of hard or soft mineral substances
and stone. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rocks can be both hard and
soft. </span></span><br />
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only be hard. It occurs when rock has been excavated either naturally or by
man. So again, this fits the theory that it is considered smaller than rock. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">Rocks are made of stone. And stones are
made from rocks. And <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">a</b> stone (or
pebble) is a rock. As a general rule, geologists perceive all stones and
pebbles as rocks, but not all rocks are considered stones (or pebbles). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">A pebble is a small stone that has had its
edges smoothed by water erosion. And sand is just tiny pieces of eroded rock. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">There are manmade materials made of
reconstituted rock and or stone that look suspiciously like pebbles. Cement,
concrete, brick and even ceramics are considered to be rocks created by us. I
found lots of pink pebbles in Sicily that a local identified as a typical style
of regional brick used to build most of the houses.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">And then you have semi precious and
precious stones. The names itself can sometimes be misleading, for example a
garnet is relatively common and semi precious, whereas tsavorite, a green
garnet, can fetch more than an emerald (precious). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">A gemstone is mineral
crystal, usually in cut or polished form, although raw formats are growing
increasingly fashionable. Precious stones are diamond, ruby, sapphire and emerald.
All others are semi-precious.</span> </span></span></div>
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serpentine and quartz. Bodmin Moor has deposits of beryl, topaz, cairngorm and
tourmaline.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">Some rocks like lapis lazuri, opal and jade
are considered semi precious, even though they are not crystal. Other organic
non minerals like jet, pearl and amber are not rocks or crystal but also
considered semi-precious. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Brighton Beach was actually a popular destination for the Victorians who enjoyed pebble collecting and seaweed pressing as pastimes as more people vacationed at seaside resorts. Apparently semi precious gems would litter the beach, and be squirreled away for the cabinet of curiosities, or faceted and cut into gemstones to be set as jewellery.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">So what gemstones can you expect to find in
the UK… In the West Country expect to find quartz, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">topaz,
tourmaline, beryl, fluorite and amethyst.</span><span lang="EN-US"> Whitby is
famous for its Jet. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amber can be found in
Suffolk and Yorkshire, Cornelian is found at Cornelian Bay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span lang="EN-US">Scotland seems to be the most abundant.
North of Dundee you can find a popular agate site. And apparently the Isle of
Harris in Scotland has sapphires. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It may also be the
place to search for diamonds! In the 1870s Professor M. F. Heddle found a small
diamond about 4.5km north of Ben Hope in Scotland. </span></span></div>
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minerals in Ireland shows this may be another location for finding a true beach
gem. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Or you could just do what Mr Bean does... try and find the BIGGEST stone you can on the beach, and run around with it in your gob! Hahaha... </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 14.0pt;">This is us in Lyme Regis.
I was reading a sign near the beach about a lady called Mary Anning, born 1799.
It was just a brief paragraph about her, telling me she would visit this very
beach, with her dog Tray, to collect fossils. Unfortunately Tray was killed in
a landslide whilst gathering fossils, narrowly avoiding Mary. Rather aghast at
this thought I decided to read up more about this, and her. He was a little
rough coated black and white terrier, and he died inches from her feet on the
beach. Mary was devastated, being her constant companion whilst she made the
trip to the beach for each new tide to check for treasure. There is a beautiful
portrait of them both below, Mary is dressed in a long cumbersome dress with
matching bonnet, and is clutching a wicker basket and a hammer. Tray is sleeping
next to her, with the beach in the background. </span><span style="font-family: "courier"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the actual cliff face and after particularly bad weather storms would erode
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fossil collector. She was a renowned paleontologist. Geologists and
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papers, new bones, to go on hunts with her. She was the best, and they knew it.
She ran a little fossil shop in Lyme Regis but never really made much money
unless she found something big, like a dinosaur, and then would live off the
proceeds of this until her next big find. Obviously there were vast spells
where she found nothing of major importance, and many of her dear friends she
met throughout her career would step into help her. Some would sell their
fossil collections to raise money for her, another, Henry De La Beche, a
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt;">Sadly, because she was a
woman living in an era of fusty men, she was never ever recognised by societies
or publications for her work. New finds would be credited to the rich men that
bought them. The Royal Geological Society would not allow women members, not
even as guests. Mary became very bitter and died poor at 47. She wrote to a
friend "The world has used me so unkindly, I fear it has made me
suspicious of everyone." </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt;">When she died, stories about her
strange life circulated and gained interest in Society, and like many Greats
before and after her, she seems to have reached notoriety to the masses
after her death. She is even believed to have inspired the tongue twister
"She sells seashells by the Seashore". In 2010, the Royal Society
included Mary in a list of the Top Ten British Woman who have influenced the
history of Science. An uncredited Author in All The Year Round (a
Victorian Magazine about Literacy, published weekly and founded and owned by
Charles Dickens) wrote in 1865: "The carpenters daughter has won a name
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><a href="http://lamledrahouse.co.uk/" target="_blank">Lamledra House</a> is situated in Gorran Haven in Cornwall, set atmospherically a top the cliffs above Vault Beach. This June I had the amazing opportunity to stay at Lamledra House to celebrate my Mums birthday with our family. The views from the house are beautifully rare, unspoilt views where you can't see another house, just a expansive but tranquil bay. Its a quiet place and you can hear the sea at night and the sheep outside who bleet their dulcet tones...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The house itself was built in the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">built in 1911 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">from local Pentewan quarry stone, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">and extended in the 1920s. It was the holiday home of John Fischer Williams and his wife </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Marjorie. During the war Marjorie and the girls stayed at Lamledra, painting and writing fascinating letters to her husband in London, as well as diary entries, which can be found in a book called "<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Letters-Lamledra-1914-1918-Marjorie-Williams/dp/1850222037" target="_blank">Letters from Lamledra</a>." John was a barrister and ten years older than Marjorie, so too old to enlist. He worked in the aliens’ department of the Home Office.</span></div>
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<a href="http://cornishmuse.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/marjorie-williams-at-falmouth-art.html" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;" target="_blank">Majorie</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> was an accomplished artist and avid embroider, many of her beautiful creations still adorn the house. Her work can still be found in </span><a href="http://www.falmouthartgallery.com/Gallery/Home" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;" target="_blank">Falmouth Art Gallery</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> (where you can also find my work exhibiting #plug). Little has changed and the house is refreshingly free of mod-cons and technology. It was interesting as a family friend had many books about the house and it was weird looking at old photos of where you are staying, clarifying how it was very similar to how they lived 100 years ago. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I did SO MUCH beach combing it was ridiculous, and came back with so much beautiful beach treasure! Love this pink bit below I found...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">One of the necklaces I finished, the photo is taken on one of the vintage plates I found in the cupboard at Lamledra. I gave this necklace to a family friend as she made an amazing meal for everyone one night! And gave me a very good looking rock she had collected from Vault Beach. It is a beaut! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I met so many lovely customers at Charlestown Gallery, including a lovely local lady called Tori who had seen my post on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/beachshackproject" target="_blank">Facebook</a> about running the gallery and had brought down all her stunning pieces of sea glass and sea pottery so that I could make her a custom necklace, bracelet and earrings. Her collection was stunning, and more astonishingly had been found at a beach I would not normally associate with having a high yield of sea glass. She told me her secret was digging for it! Amazing! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If you would like me to work with your personal sea glass collection please get in touch at beachshackproject@yahoo.co.uk so I can make you a special piece :-) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">As I mentioned I managed to elope Cornwall with many bulging carrier bags full of beach treasure, and I've been busy making for 3 of my galleries, </span><a href="http://www.ryeartgallery.co.uk/" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;" target="_blank">Rye</a><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">, </span><a href="http://www.staacks.co.uk/" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;" target="_blank">Stacks</a><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> and </span><a href="https://www.the-ropewalk.co.uk/" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;" target="_blank">Ropewalk</a><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">... Lots of new pieces will be winging their way to these lovely places ready for August :-) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> <span style="text-align: center;">Last Sunday me and my sister went to explore <a href="http://artinditchling.co.uk/" target="_blank">the Open Houses at Ditching</a>, an area I'm ashamed to say I haven't visited before, to look at artists work and explore the village. Ditching is a stunning place to visit, a typical quaint english village with timber buildings and flowers everywhere; Wisteria was lunging out of peoples gardens and wildflowers lined the roads. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So, its been a while since I updated anything here (seems like most of my blog posts seem to start like that now!) but I thought I would do a little post about the <a href="http://aoh.org.uk/" target="_blank">Artists Open Houses</a> which kicked off this weekend in Brighton...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">You can find my work being exhibited at the beautiful <a href="http://www.theclaremont.eu/" target="_blank">Claremont Hotel</a>, on 2nd Avenue in Hove. There is an amazing collection of 40 artists work there. They are open every Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday in May, 11:30 - 6pm. I've made lots of new candy coloured sea glass pieces for the show. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Also I have kindly been given a big bag of beach tumbled coral by the lovely Lisa at Lubilou ceramics, which she found whilst beach combing on holiday. I've made this necklace and bracelet so far, I love all the different shapes, sizes and types of coral to work with. They are both available to buy in my <a href="https://folksy.com/shops/beachSHACKproject" target="_blank">Folksy Shop here</a>...</span></div>
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BEACH SHACK PROJECThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02672607655999532569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966781828768889234.post-36078158632970086082015-03-31T11:28:00.000-07:002015-04-02T12:40:07.782-07:00Brighton Fishing Quarter Exhibition 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">There will be an eclectic range of wares on display from stained glass to original art, prints, ceramics, jewellery, soaps, cards, homewares and general gifts. They are all affordable and made by local artists from around the East Sussex area. Some of them I know well and have worked with their amazing work before, but there are also lots of new exciting artists whose work I'm sure you will love as much as I do!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It runs every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from April 11th untill May 31st 2015, and you can find us slapbang on the beach in the Fisherman's Quarter which is to the right of the main Palace Pier, just near the carousel, on Kings Road Arches. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">What I love about "social networking" is thats its great for building a brand up online, so many businesses use it to build a fanbase, network and promote their wares. But it is also full of other amazing opportunities, like meeting lovely people and learning new shizzle. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have been focusing on building mainly my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/beachshackproject" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/BSPahoy" target="_blank">Twitter</a> pages since the end of last year, and I've met some fabulous people, seen fabulous art and had some really important feedback. It can sometimes be very isolating being an artist and its very important and motivational to receive positive comments about your work. It makes you feel like your doing something good and people like it, and inspires you to make more! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Is this seagull head-dress a bit weird?" I ask Steve.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Why are you making stuff you can't sell?" he replies, sceptically eyeing up the neon thread (Steve hates neon!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Feeling slightly deflated I post my image online and it gets lots of amazing comments and then I want to make more and more and more crazy neon seagull feather head-dresses! Point being a.) don't listen to men, especially men who don't like neon, and b.) social networking is great for getting feedback about your new ideas, whether good or bad. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Flora Kennedy said that illegal shooting of seals was a theme in her book <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flora-Kennedy/e/B001K8G65O" target="_blank">"The Wild Folk"</a> and after enquiring where I could get the book she very kindly offered to send me a copy. A signed copy. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My absolute favourite book in the world is set in Scotland and surrounds a musical seal living in a croft (Seal Morning by Rowenna Farre, think I've waffled many times on this blog about how much I love that book!) so I will be curling up with Bean on the sofa with a big pot of Earl Grey later and reading it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In this day and age strangers rarely do anything kind so it makes gestures like that all the more prominent. Its like a virtual hug! Even more strange to find it on Twitter! Made me so happy to receive it in the post. So social networking really is a great way to not just to blow your own trumpet about whats going on and collect fans, but to engage, inspire and interact with other people too. No one likes that person at a party who talks AT you! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Another interesting thing that came out of talking to Flora was that she called me a "selkie" so in true me-style I had to google the word asap to look it up! Its basically a seal-woman! They <span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;">are mythological creatures found in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_mythology" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Scottish mythology">Scottish</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_mythology" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Irish mythology">Irish</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;">, and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_Islands" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Faroe Islands">Faroese</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folklore" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Folklore">folklore</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;">. Reminds me of similar Cornish Folklores, like <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/swc1/swc110.htm" target="_blank">the Droll of the Mermaid</a>. Wikipedia sums it up far better than I can...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My new metal of choice is both maverick and very exciting! I am now using the highest quality stainless steel. After months of research I actually managed to find a supplier outside the UK, and a new supplier in the UK, for my chain, findings and wire. It was an incredibly hard metal to work with and its not as malleable as sterling. Using this new type of wire meant I had to find new pressure points to bend the wire and learn to work with this stronger type of metal, that doesn't feel like its been annealed at all! The wire also had a lovely habit of whipping back off the reel and lacerating me, so my legs and arms looked like I had been attacked by zombie kittens! Even the chain is hard to cut and I have developed amazing strange positions and comedy facial expressions to prise open the links to make my 5 stone necklaces on chain. Its like trying to cut glass with jelly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">One of my favourite exhibitions of the year is <a href="http://staacks.co.uk/">Staacks Gallery</a> just outside Liverpool, run by the lovely Kara. I have sent a whole batch of lovely jubbly necklaces to them to exhibit and it includes all my new stainless steel pieces, including earrings, bracelets, pendants on chain, 15 stone necklaces and 5 stone necklaces. I also have my new summer pieces which involve sea glass and sea pottery on handknitted organic hemp rope that is super soft and not itchy at all. I carefully sourced my hemp too outside the UK after becoming increasingly irritated that the stuff here was scratchy and not durable in the slightest. My hemp is strong, durable and like a good leather gets better and better the more you wear it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b><u>UKHANDMADE</u></b> - I also write for <a href="http://ukhandmade.co.uk/">UK Handmade</a>, which is one of the leading independent arts and crafts resources on the web in the UK, which is not funded by the government. I do the MEET sections where I get to interview loads of amazing talented artists and also write the business articles for the magazine. My last piece in the Summer Issue 2014 was on CE testing for handmade businesses and you can read that here and also the rest of <a href="http://ukhandmade.co.uk/magazine">the fabulous magazine here</a>... theres SO much eye candy in one publication! Still makes me smile that these guys <a href="http://ukhandmade.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/meet-hannah-marshall-of-beach-shack.html">featured my work</a> when I first started out and now I'm so proud to be working with them and featuring new artists. </span><br />
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Heres me next to a lovely guy called Mark, an artist, who I was placed next to at Artists & Makers, we bonded over a mutual love of mulled wine and Posca pens! I'm actually making a necklace for a customer in this photo above.</div>
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Also good old <a href="http://www.makersboutique.co.uk/#/bfq-winter-2013/4578897233">Brighton Fishing Quarter Exhibition</a> has been in Full Swing again and will be untill 21st December. We've actually been really lucky with the weather and I haven't even brought my hot water bottle to work yet, touch wood, (Although have been dropping many hints to Steve I want a <a href="http://www.gabriellevary.co.uk/">Gabrielle Vary</a> Hot water bottle cover for Xmas!) </div>
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As usual as I have my work on show, Driftwood boats galore and my usual wire wrapped jewellery, aswell as some new driftwood pieces (more on that below!) </div>
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Heres a small selection of the artists we have at the current <a href="http://www.makersboutique.co.uk/#/bfq-winter-2013/4578897233">Makers Boutique Exhibition</a> at Brighton Fishing Quarter... (there are 20 in total so please pop in and say Hi if your rom pom pomming along the seafront!) Were open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday untill 21st December. </div>
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The fabulous Miss Dufton of <a href="http://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/dinahandco">Dinah&Co</a> - Handmade Jewellery </div>
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Beautiful and unusual stained glass and found objects by <a href="http://www.naomifrances.co.uk/">Naomi Frances...</a></div>
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Screenprinted birds by the lovely <a href="http://www.liztoole.co.uk/">Liz Toole...</a></div>
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LOVE Jorunn's beautiful textural wooly work, I snapped up her scarf on the mannequin in grey and its keep my neck toasty and warm whilst manning the gallery! <a href="http://nnuroj.com/">By Nnuroj</a>. </div>
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<a href="http://mannandmoon.com/">Mann & Moon</a> - Just got Bean a custom fit Brown and teal leather and collar by them, and he has been parading round in it, he looks so swish! </div>
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<a href="http://www.trynka.co.uk/">Trynka</a> - Gorgeous Sterling silver geometric Jewellery, another Christmas present I have been banging on about in the hope I get a pale blue box for Christmas! Not a Tiffany box by the way, YAWNNNNN, A TRYNKA box please! (or two?!) </div>
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A lovely lady called Lisa from <a href="http://www.lisawithlove.co.uk/">Lisa with Love</a>, turned up to the <a href="http://www.makersboutique.co.uk/#/markets/4556372410">Makers Boutique Craft Fair</a> in November to give me this which she made! I love it so much! What a cool gift!<br />
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Also here are my new driftwood pieces, which involve lots of drilling and Steve yelling at me because there is sawdust everywhere and "don't make holes in the carpet!!!" "do you have to drill that there?!!!" "are you going to hoover the sawdust up or not?!" I think they are fabulous!!! Have listed some of them <a href="http://www.beachshackproject.bigcartel.com/">in my shop</a>, other pieces shown have already sold. I love the black vintage crystals too they are so sparkly, I love a bit of glittery sparkle! </div>
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<br />BEACH SHACK PROJECThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02672607655999532569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966781828768889234.post-45216940727193289162013-10-02T16:57:00.000-07:002013-10-02T16:57:05.390-07:00Bristol, Bath, and now I have the Murder She Wrote theme tune stuck in my head again....Well, I've been quite busy recently, doing fun things to the extreme, and work things to the extreme. <br />
I have another market to organise for this weekend, so I've been promoting that in all facets, including a super cool raffle to raise money for Dogs Trust. Also catching up on the scary amount of emails piling up since my holiday, as well as finishing some guest blog posts for Create about creative selling, interviewing artists for UKHandmade, writing my first business article for UKHandmade to go in the actual magazine about Brand Identity (Eek!) and doing a jewellery tutorial for a magazine in Singapore. I feel like Angela Lansbury in the opening sequence to Murder She Wrote, the title music actually plays on repeat in my head sometimes when I'm tap tap tapping away at the keyboard, and will not leave!!! GO AWAY MURDER SHE WROTE! I think if I was a writer full time I would go mad! If I'm not already, anyways, I went to Portugal on holiday in September which was amazing, more about that in another post when I have time, but this weekend I took a long overdue trip to see an old friend in Bristol.<br />
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Bristol rules! Very cool city, with an alarmingly fabulous amount of urban art. I'm pretty sure this is the same artist who I saw in the Algarve, called <a href="http://www.fecalface.com/SF/news/5773-roa-in-portugal">ROA</a>. Love his stuff, its really unique. Don't get me wrong, some graffiti is clever with hidden messages, (not naming anyone famous here otherwise I'll get shot down!) but often the end artwork looks like a cheesy filtered photograph effect in Photoshop. Sometimes you just want to look at a giant illustrated fox holding his tail! </div>
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Apparently one thing you have to do is scare the bejeezers out of your friend when she comes to stay. I was made to walk over the Clifdon Suspension Bridge, which is SO HIGH and the pedestrian bit is RIGHT UP CLOSE to the edge. I am not scared of heights, but I hate industrial heights. Things that are not natural. I will quite happily stand on a mountain edge and look down, or even jump off a cliff into the sea (look before you leap, mind!) but theres something weird about manmade alternatives. I didn't like the top of the Rockefeller Centre in New York, or the scary see through lifts in the hotel, or the gallery in Barcelona with a glass floor. I don't even like walking up the stairs in an Apple shop as they are see-through. Not cool. Gives your brain weird mixed messages! I thought we were crossing the bridge for a reason, because there was something interesting on the otherside or something. But there wasn't. We went over it to marvel at its beauty and vastness. Could have just looked at it from the edge for future reference McV. My legs were like jelly afterwards. </div>
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Solar powered bins. Which at first glance seem pointless (why does a bin need power?) but on closer inspection (googling) turn out to be big bins that can hold 8 times as much rubbish and then text staff to let them know when they need emptying. As you do. Posh Bins. </div>
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Walked along the river which was lovely, loads of canal boats floating about...</div>
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Saw an unusual heron. Maybe... This is a rubbish picture as Bean was running toward it as I took the photo and it flew across the river and stood there instead. An intense debate then took place; whether it was a heron or not a heron (me - no - herons are not usually grey all over- McV yes, don't be an idiot thats a heron) So I've been a-googling again. Did you know there are 64 species of heron? I'm used to seeing the grey heron, but never seen this little cute fellow before. I'm still not 100% sure as you do get mostly grey fluffy Grey Heron babies but this one didn't look like that, it was all shiny and sleek and bigger. I think it was a Blue Heron, not a Grey Heron as we commonly get here. But seeing as only a handful of blues have been spotted in the UK since 2007, I highly doubt it. My birdwatching skills are appalling. It was probably a penguin. </div>
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BEACH SHACK PROJECThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02672607655999532569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966781828768889234.post-34085620554792566832013-08-09T09:48:00.000-07:002013-08-09T09:48:33.046-07:00CAKE DIARIES!!!! Oh yeah theres been alorra lorra cake!<br />
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Lemon Curd cake with my friend at Charlies in Charlestown, Cornwall, she had Lime and Coconut, we both tried eachothers, as you should do!!! </div>
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Tea and chocolate Croissant at Ground. </div>
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Best cake I've had in a while - from my new favourite bakery in Lewes, Flint Owl Bakery, this was Victoria Sponge with coconut, strawberry jam and mint syrup. </div>
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The lovely Lisa from Lubilou made me this fabulous Lemon & Poppy seed cake for our shift at BFQ together. </div>
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A friends birthday cake, the theme was Mad Hatter! theres 4 different cakes inside one here and it looked mental and tasted great! </div>
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Another friends birthday cake, loving the toppings on top! </div>
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Chocolate brownie from Flint Owl Bakery again! </div>
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BEACH SHACK PROJECThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02672607655999532569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966781828768889234.post-17806118144909288562013-08-08T13:57:00.000-07:002013-08-08T13:57:06.404-07:00Bits n Bobs in July & August <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So been I've bit quiet again here as I seem to have my fingers in alot of pies at the moment! I've started working for UKHandmade writing business articles and helping with their MEET interviews which is very exciting. I still remember when I was fresh out of university, having decided the 3 years I had spent doing animation were actually irrelevant at this point as everything was going 3D which was the main part I loathed on my course for aesthetic and practical reasons. And traditional 2D animation was officially obsolete unless merging it with digital. Great. Anyway, I had a new passion, making jewellery, and I was working in a flipflop shop next to my best friends gallery and spent the days making jewellery which I would take into her shop at the end of the day and she would then sell it for me the following day. I still sell there now and she's one of my best stockists. <a href="http://www.charlestowngallery.co.uk/">Charlestown Gallery</a> run by my fabulous bestie Gemma! I was so excited when UKHandmade found me and did an interview about me on my work, which you can still view on their site <a href="http://ukhandmade.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/meet-hannah-marshall-of-beach-shack.html">here...</a> weird how things go full circle!!!<br />
I've also been writing alot of features about Makers Boutique for various magazines and blogs too, which is weird, as I never saw myself being a writer at all. I write this blog as I talk, which you can probably tell, but when I'm writing articles I have to really try super hard, edit it loads and cut out the waffle! "Don't use two words when one word will do," says my mum!<br />
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I've stocked up lots of galleries recently including<br />
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<a href="http://www.charlestowngallery.co.uk/">Charlestown Gallery</a> - Charlestown Cornwall<br />
<a href="http://www.the-ropewalk.co.uk/">Ropewalk</a> - Barton Upon Humber<br />
<a href="http://www.makersboutique.co.uk/">Makers Boutique</a> - Hayle Cornwall<br />
<a href="http://www.staacks.co.uk/">Staacks</a> - Wirral<br />
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New charm bracelets - sold out at BFQ - new ones sent out! </div>
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LOADS of pendants on Snake Chain</div>
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Preparing the teas jars!</div>
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Me and Katy have started running the cafe at the Makers Boutique markets now too, I was rather dubious about this as I don't have a great track record with catering! I will never forget when I dropped a whole plate of beef stroganoff on a poor guys lap when I was waitressing once. Not a bit, not just a-bit-went-on-his-leg, the WHOLE THING in his lap. He just got up in silence and walked to the bathroom while I wished the floor would open up and swallow me! Luckily theres no beef stroganoff here, and running the cafe was so much fun! We even made profit first time doing it so have big plans for next time! </div>
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I was in Cornwall recently for a friends wedding which was amazing, here is my beautiful friend below her dress was amazing! So her! </div>
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Beautiful cupcakes in her favourite colour</div>
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Amazing cheese board! she had written all the cheese descriptions on little flags! So cute. The family is all vegetarian and it was the best buffet I have ever ever eaten, it was so nice not to have to eat pickled onions, cheddar and crisps for once! (FYI not all vegetarians like quiche guys!) I was a big phat pig and filled up my plate to mountainous proportions! Yum Yum Yum! </div>
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I made the happy couple a driftwood boat in her favourite colours for the bunting and then put their initials and the date on the boat. </div>
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Walking to the wedding... loved this old building in Cambourne. </div>
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Me and my sister were laughing out loud at this Chiropodist with his A-boards outside, only in Cornwall!</div>
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I particularly liked this tin foil / selotape peeling off in the sun version, if the others hadn't caught your eye!!! </div>
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Liv stocking up on road pasties - Niles of course - rude not to when your in kernow! </div>
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I feel free! Brighton Fishing Quarter is done and dusted untill Winter now and I've just finished doing the accounts! It was the longest one we've done yet (10 weeks!) but its been great though! I did really well which I'm so super chuffed about as since I've started Makers Boutique my own work seems to have taken a back shelf whilst that business grows. My business partner keeps saying we should get an accountant as we keep growing, but I have really bad mathematical OCD and love knowing the ins and outs of where all the money goes! I'm sure Steve thinks I'm the dumbest person in the world sometimes because of the stupid things I come out with (I'm too ashamed to say the last faux pas which involves geography again, arghhhhh!) but I love rubbing it in his face that I have far better academic grades than him when he mocks me, I floored him! Haha! And even though I hate doing all the tax returns its actually quite rewarding at the end when you realise you've done it! Shazam!<br />
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Here was my display below, lots of new boats - I'll upload the unsold ones into the shop online at some point....</div>
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Boats in Progress</div>
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Bean in boat filled with balls, only at BFQ! He was in his element! </div>
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Oh and this was a fun commission to do recently, someone wanted a mermaid sitting on a hook as his daughter got impaled on a rogue hook whilst diving on holiday, eek!!!! I hope she likes it!! He liked it so much I was asked to make another for his son so the siblings have a matching set. </div>
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And my new shoes, only usually buy one a year and last summer was so pants I didn't even bother buying one, already knackered them as I walk so much so its nice to see them here looking so new still! Sigh!!!! My old ones are next to them, didn't realise how similar they were till I got home! </div>
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Off to Cornwall soon to beachcomb some more treasures so I'll update you again soon! Hope you have been enjoying the sunshine still! </div>
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BEACH SHACK PROJECThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02672607655999532569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966781828768889234.post-30729999472952176052013-07-19T11:13:00.001-07:002013-07-19T11:18:35.151-07:00Go Pro Camera!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Well who would have thought we would ever have such amazing weather?! Its so so so so SO hot! Who needs to leave the country for a holiday when its as glorious as this?! I've been taking advantage of the weather and have even gone in the sea which I rarely do in Brighton. Having grown up in Cornwall with glorious sandy beaches I can be a bit of a diva with Brighton Beach, its massive, theres no shade and its always rammed full of people. Oh, and its also the most uncomfortable beach in the world as its littered with massive pebbles and broken shells! I am very much a floor person, sitting on the floor even when theres a chair, so I resent bringing everything but the kitchen sink to the beach (wind breaks, deck chairs, umbrellas, blah blah blah) when I'm using to just a bikini, towel, water and suncream! Give it about 2,000 years and Brighton Beach will be glorious sand anyway, untill then, ouch ouch OUCH! Anyways, Steve has bought a Go Pro Camera, I'm not fussed by most of the weird gadgets he buys but this one is pretty cool, especially the underwater feature! It also does time-lapse and HD footage, we've got some pretty cool videos of the Bean tearing around and even tied it round his neck to film Bean-cam, which you can sync up to your phone and use as a viewfinder! Amaze-balls! </div>
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Heres some of me underwater! Notice the unflattering holding-of-the-nose! I hate getting water up my nose!!!<br />
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Even Bean got involved with the water, even though he is terrified of the waves, bless!<br />
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Bean rolling round on the beach! </div>
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Me chasing Bean round Hove lawns afterwards, hes so fast I will never catch him! Not like Sausage who I could easily outrun!!!! </div>
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Its weird as its been nearly a year since the beautiful Sausage was taken from us. I miss him so much still. As time passes you think you will deal with it better, but I miss him just as much. I dreamt the other night he was still alive and nothing had changed, and then woke up sadly to realise it was all a dream. I hope there is another world after we die and Sausage is running around stealing sausages, eating seaweed and puking it up everywhere! Love you forever Sausage! xxx<br />
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Me and Bean have been manning the fort at <a href="http://www.makersboutique.co.uk/#/bfq-june-july-2013/4576691924" target="_blank">Brighton Fishing Quarter</a> still, I am exhibiting my work there at the moment and its going really really well! Bean has been very hot on some of the warmer days and has worked out its far nicer to sit in the shade, so he's been burrowing with his ball under tables making a nest with bubble wrap!<br />
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My Studio was a complete mess, I have been making so much stuff and generally exploding that I couldn't even walk on the floor anymore, and although I find it conducive to work with lots of stuff around me, this was a bit extreme. Steve refuses to go in there for fear of stepping on a needle or sea glass or a project laid out on the floor! </div>
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Ta - Da! So its all been tidied now and look, you can see the floor! I moved loads of the furniture out aswell so I have more room to work, as although I have a desk I actually prefer sitting on the floor to work! Theres this wonderful vibe in Brighton with furniture, instead of taking stuff to the tip which is a difficult process in itself when you don't have a car, you can simply deposit useable pieces by the black bins and within hours someone has walked by, thought "I'll have that" and taken it home! We got alot of our first furniture when we moved here that way, and we've found some amazing pieces! I remember carrying a wardrobe with Steve across the seafront that we found once by a bin. It was wooden with a fabric cover and was like sailing a boat home as it was very windy! We just washed the cover, wiped down the wood with disinfectant and hey presto free wardrobe! I call it urban wombling. When it was time to upgrade we returned it to the people and it was gone in minutes!<br />
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We had a table and chairs to give away as we recently got a super cool wooden table from Steve's parents, but there has been a bin strike in Brighton so nows not a good time to go to the bins! This went on for ages and it was really hot and windy which are two climates not needed when there is rotting debris in the city. Although it was irritating, I completely understand why the Bin men went on strike. They wanted to cut people on the lowest pay grades by £4000 and expected them to work the same hours, even though for many of them they would loose their home if 25% of their pay was just cut, whilst the guys at the top on £50,000+ were getting a 1% pay increase! Shocking.<br />
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We have three seagul babies living on the roof at the moment, peep peep peeping away all the time. I feed them bread but more disconcertingly there are bones up there! Don't know if they have been eating eachother or pigeons etc, but it makes them seem slightly less cute when I imagine a cute fluffy baby chowing down on a mangled pigeon wing.<br />
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More weddings. Everyone seems to be getting married at the moment. I've been to loads of different ones this year, but I'm still no further along in planning my own!<br />
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Trio of puddings! Why have one when you can have THREE?!<br />
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We stayed in this funny hotel for the wedding, which had a distinct hunting theme! There were pictures of hunting and dead fish everywhere! I thought this room name was funny, as it seems a bit weird to name a room after a vegetarian food! But apparently its a type of hunt.<br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> Finished my ceramics class now, big fat Boo! I still have some fired pieces to pick up like the cutlery I made above. I'm not going to eat with them I thought they would be fun to put up on the wall in the kitchen. Steve didn't look impressed by the idea! He was impressed by my harbour scene below though, its really small about 5 inches long, and he put this on the mantlepiece in the living room. Can't win them all! </span></div>
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Heres a photo of my first piece of finished ceramics. I have been doing a course at the College and I'm really enjoying it. I quite like playing with texture and shape in the clay, and the finished pieces remind me of an ocean bed. Glazing ceramics is really exciting because the colours you are using do not denote the end colour. Because everything is fired at such high temperatures the colour pigments just burn away, so the glazes are made of chemicals and metals which react under certain heats to produce the colours instead. When I was glazing this piece I used 4 colours and they all looked milky white! Very Confusing!<br />
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Anyway, I went to a wonderful Wedding in Cornwall, my best friends mum got married! It was such a hot beautiful day too. We ate roast dinner and pasties (not at the same time!) which is probably the best combination ever of what to eat at a wedding!!! I wore a massive white bird on my head, because if you can't wear a massive white bird on your head to a wedding, when can you wear it?! (Thanks Arran and Rich!) It was a fabulous day!<br />
My friend designed all these bags which she put down for each guest, she had to find and draw on 80 pieces of slate to make the keepsakes, and they were all personalised, I got a Seal, right on sister!!<br />
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Went to Luxulyan Valley which is scarily close to where I grew up, and have never properly explored. Had an amazing time pottering around for hours in the woods exploring the ruins of an old site that was once a big part of the Industrial Revolution, and at one point was mining two thirds of the worlds copper. Its a huge site and I love exploring places like this as it must have been such an important hub at one time, and now it just stands eerily empty. Its part of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxulyan_Valley" target="_blank">World Heritage</a> sites but sadly is probably not the first port of call for a tourist in Cornwall, but a must all the same! If you like walking...!!!</div>
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So firstly I have adding all my new items <a href="http://www.beachshackproject.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">into the shop at last</a>! Click on each piece to be taken to the shop!<br />
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My mums been visiting and so I had a really nice week with her. We went to visit some Artists Open Houses in Brighton where I saw so much lovely work. Me and the Bean had our picture taken by Ted at Palmeria Square... The Poncho is by a lovely lady called Anna Brixner who upcycles old fabrics and is exhibiting with us at the <a href="http://www.makersboutique.co.uk/#/bfq-summer-2013/4572831476" target="_blank">Makers Boutique Exhibition</a>. Steve wryly remarked I looked like I was wearing an old blanket. I took great pleasure in telling him it was actually made from an old blanket haha! <br />
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These are my new business cards. You can't see them very well in this photo as they need to be seen in the flesh to be believed! I wanted a hot foiled buisness card, the embossed logo / text which is then set with gold foil. I don't know why I just really wanted something shiny on my cards! Apparently hot foiling is an expensive process as a mould is made and then each card is pressed by hand. Which is great but far out of my budget for business cards! Then I found Vista Print (who I actively dislike) who were selling them for alot cheaper because they have a special printer (as you do) that can produce a similar effect. After having various issues with Vista Print in the past I was dubious untill I found <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6VNN0cV4n4" target="_blank">this hilarious clip online</a>, I love the fact his friend yells at him mid way through for being very very uncool (but it IS helpful! </div>
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Anyway, I love them they have a shiny silver wave on them that shimmers and looks just like silver hot foil! Yeah! </div>
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We've had lots of sunny days down at the exhibition and I've got to enjoy lots of sunshine! Theres always something going on being on the seafront. I am a big skeptic of magic but I was baffled when a young magician changed a pack of cards into a perspex square recently IN MY HAND recently! Still annoying me how he did it. </div>
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Bean was asked to be in a Photoshoot for Korean Grazia / Lacoste with Korean Actress Kim A Joong. He was so good and patient and kept still the whole time, and won a new legion of fans from Korea! </div>
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Recently started a ceramics course at the local college and I am loving it! Its something I have always wanted to do, for so long, that part of me was worried that it wouldn't be as fun when I actually did it, but I must say I find working with clay very very satisfying! I love creating texture I quickly found out and spent most of my time jabbing holes and digging out bits and adding bits and scratching the surface to create a seabed type effect. This is a tile I made below...they have yet to be fired. </div>
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And heres a sealion vase I made! Again he's not been fired yet. The teacher is really relaxed and just lets you make whatever you want after a demonstration so its also really interesting to see how everyone else translates with clay.<br />
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Oh and one of the best parts about the course is switching at Brighton Station and grabbing a bag of (vegetarian of course!) Percy Pigs at M&S! I think I'm addicted to these things. I have a problem...!<br />
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Homemade chocolate brownies by Lisa Gyalogs super talented hubby! </div>
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Anyway, in this respect when I source my shells for my jewellery I have collected them all myself and checked there is no one living in them before I use them for my work. All the coral I have collected has again been found, by me, on the beaches, and thats why they have beautiful rounded edges because they have been tumbled and washed up on the beach. I hope you like them as much as I enjoyed making them!<br />
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Driftwood, coral, textile and vintage AB opaque milky white beads necklace.<br />
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Chunky sea glass bean necklace, asymmetric aqua sea glass and sterling silver necklace, 4 stone sea glass necklace.<br />
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Far far away lands...this sea pottery features a little village nestled on the coast, really unusual piece teamed with vintage repurposed crystal costume jewellery components. <br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Been busy and slack and I haven't updated my blog in agesssssss..... The thing taking up most of my time recently has been organising and running the Makers Boutique Exhibition on Brighton Seafront in the Fishing Quarter. I've been down there most days, in the freezing cold, where you can barely focus, clutching a hotwater bottle for protection, pondering rash thoughts like "how do you know when you have hypothermia?" I remember reading about people who have had near death experiences in the snow, and apparently you feel really hot before you go, not cold, so I consoled myself with this positive thought at my coldest times! And I have also over the past week enjoyed some glorious sunshine down there, and thats when it becomes the best place to be! Check out my view below. Not bad. </span></div>
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My work is being exhibited there alongside 17 other fabulous talented artists all from the local area. Its on until 13th May so if your strolling along the seafront come check us out, more details can be found <a href="http://www.makersboutique.co.uk/#/bfq-summer-2013/4572831476">here...</a></div>
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We had a private view for it when it opened and I've never made so many Mojitos in my life, the smell of mass mint made me feel a bit sick afterwards. Mojito-ed out. </div>
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Bean has been with me, harassing people to kick his tennis ball and barking at passing skateboarders / cyclists / pogo sticks / scooters / men with hiking sticks / the fish cart/ / helicopters / anything on wheels / etc etc etc...</div>
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He also likes to hunt his favourite food, the fish roll, outside the gallery, he stalks his prey carefully. Certain people are easy targets. Troy (pictured below) is not. </div>
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Some beautiful flowers I was given by Sarah from BrightBunch who Brighton-ed up our last Makers Boutique market with beautiful blooms. They lasted for ages too....<br />
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The sunshine has also brought out one of my favourite parts of the year, all the blooming trees, especially the Cherry Blossoms. Never thought I would see them its been so cold for so long!<br />
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We had our markets at the Makers Boutique covered in Mollie Makes magazine which was pretty cool, they came and reviewed us back in February and then it came out in the last issue.<br />
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And more importantly I have been making a brand new collection of shell and metallic textile necklaces! I'm having a bit of moment with all the sunshine we have been having and felt inspired to expand on some of the pieces I designed for Brighton Fishing Quarter. But I'll post more about that soon.<br />
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Fun beachcombing finds, a nice rare turquoise!<br />
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Well deserved smartie cookie at Bowgie Inn after a 4 hour walk, was shattered afterwards. <br />
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Charlestown - one of my favourite places in Kernow, minutes from where my mum lives. <br />
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Bean with his ball on Porthpean beach, he kept chucking it into an old tyre washed up on the beach and then barking at us to pick it up and throw it.<br />
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Back home now and have updated the shop with some new items, see below, and also retook images of all my present stock in a new format. Steve is a bit of a pro at photography so he's been giving me lots of tips and I'm really pleased with the results! <br />
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Also making stock for the Brighton Fishing Quarter Exhibition I'm running and participating in starting 28th March. So excited to be working back down on the seafront this summer, hoping for some sunny days! If your local and free on 27th March we are holding a private view there 8pm onwards, im making mojitos too with fresh mint sourced from my friend who knows someone growing it in their allotment. Handmade, handgrown, should be a great evening. See www.makersboutique.co.uk for more deets ;-)<br />
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They are so super super duper cute.<br />
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