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8/11/2018

Pottery updates and Daisy the Raccoon say's 'Hello'

Danny took a photo of me holding my large white bowl ..it's an order for a customer for her beach house...
She wanted it completely plain ..with no decoration .
Difficult for me to do ..as I love very detailed work ...but I hope that she is happy with it ..I put a lot of love in to it.

Daisy the Raccoon wanted to come and see what we were doing on the back deck ...she loves to spend the afternoons sleeping on the deck in the heat of the day

It's a large bowl ...a little taller and larger than the star fish bowl I made for myself ...
Can you see the flecks in the glaze
I love that like grains of sand ...perfect for her Beach house
The flecks are in the clay not in the glaze ..
I always use clay with flecks in as it adds that little extra to every piece.
The glaze I used was Mayco's Snow ...it took a whole pint of glaze !!!

I have had two wooden plaques with our house number on either side of the mailbox for 19 years ...I paint them every year ..I went to take them off to paint then decided I would make my own pottery ones ...so I have made two of these ...I think they will be so cute ..I can't wait to glaze them ...they are in the kiln as I write this and I should be able to glaze them in the next week.

Before I start to make some Christmas items I wanted to make at least two items for the Autumn season ..to put in our lounge/living room ....I love acorns the way they look and feel so I hand moulded some
I think it will be super cute ..great fun to glaze as well...can't wait ..this is also in the kiln at the moment.

I have put an acorn in the inside of the bowl as well..

A new friend joined our Wednesday group ..she has been going to the Friday group for quite a while ..
She wanted to make a large bowl like mine but with a traditional top to the bowl and put inside a Humming Bird with Hibiscus Flower ....instead of a Star Fish
I think it looks incredible Cathy ..well done
Welcome to our lovely Wednesday group.

A sign of Summer starting to close is that my lovely Lime Light Hydrangeas turn from a glorious cream color to this gorgeous lime green ...later on as the flower is dying it will turn a mixture of pinks of green ..
This bush never fails me
It is our pottery teacher's birthday on Monday and as part of her gift
I have given her a Lime Light Hydrangea bush ..so that she too can enjoy her own bush every Summer day

Happy Days to you all

Thanks for popping in

Kindest Regards

Janet

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My Beautiful Hand Crafted Gifts

8/4/2018

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My Beautiful Hand Crafted Gifts

I have been so spoilt this Birthday, that was 3 weeks ago now ...
I finished having gifts given to me just a few days ago
I received 10 bottles of Pottery Glaze each one a wonderful exciting color
Thank you everyone
But today I wanted to share with you some of my gifts that were lovingly handcrafted especially for me

My dear friend Mary, friends from childhood who lives in my island home of Guernsey ...lovingly hand crafted all of the goodies above.
You may remember that she made me a wonderful banner for our bedroom about a year ago with so much gorgeous detail
Mary made some of my gifts (the blue ones) to go with that banner ...

Mary made this gorgeous bird house ...with so much detail ...so much love and patience went in to making it and I shall treasure it forever .. ... I so appreciate this gift..

This is the birthday card I received from Mary ....OMGoodness ...I have bought a shadow box to put it in as I don't believe this lovely piece of art should be put in to a drawer...the frame is black so today I will paint it a soft blue to match the color of the gifts ..
Mary knows how much I love to sew seeds and watch flowers etc grow so she included this in the card.

This gorgeous heart is made of wood and has so much lovely detail on it as you can see ..
I have it laying on the coffee table in our living room
It matches perfectly .

This other heart was also made to match the other's that I have in the bedroom ...I just Love it
Again seed packets, birds, flowers and butterflies ....Mary knows me well

Even the bag that my gifts came in was highly detailed

I could not put this in the drawer either so I put a tall mason jar inside of it and placed some of the hydrangeas that I dried last year ...I could also put fresh flowers in it too
I do believe that you can use almost everything for a vase
Loving it !!

Our son in law Wayne made this amazing picture for me ..
It is so vibrant and beautiful ...I am so happy to have received this gift.
What is most amazing is that it is made entirely of the tiniest little beads that shine like diamonds..
There must be 100's ...and Wayne must have had so much patience to make it putting each one on with a tiny dab of glue using tweezers ..
It's quite large at 8" x 8" (40 x 40) ..
I love the frame and everything about it
Thank you Wayne

Doesn't it look great up on my shelf

My dear friend Heather not only treated me to a day at the museum including lunch at Oscar's
She made me these super photo collages of my family , friends and memories.
She colluded with Wayne who supplied her with lots of my photo's from my past and present
Heather then painstakingly printed out and cut out and arranged them beautifully on to canvas frames.
I just LOVE them
It is such a thoughtful gift.
She also supplied me with a third one along with some photos so that I could add more photo's and have the fun of making my own frame ..how good is that.
Not only did she make this but she had my Maisonvogue logo made on a 3D printer so that I can use it as a stamp on my pottery etc...
I will show you a photo of it in a later blog

The lovely man in the centre is my Dad who died 30 years ago in September.
He was a fun loving man and adored to make people laugh ..what is left out of this photo of him is he was balancing on an old car tire ....yes you read that right ...ha! ha! Miss you so much Dad XX
Janet loves Danny heart was a padlock that I locked on to a bridge in London when I was visiting with my Son Ryan one year when Danny was still home in Alabama ....there were hundreds of locks on the bridge with messages

The two black and white photo's of little girls were of my Sister and I ...I am the chubby one on the left.
My Sister Sue is my only sibling and unfortunately she is suffering from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's..
Bottom corner me and my darling Sons
Bottom left the black and white photo is of the famous singer from the 60's and 70's Petula Clark ..her famous hit was ' Down Town'
My Mother loved her and liked to dress and do her hair like her ..if you look on the bigger photo you can see my Mother sitting down with her when they met in Guernsey ...Mum is on the left

Thanks so much for taking time out to read my warblings

I am truly humbled that my loved ones would make me such wonderful gifts straight from their heart

How lucky am I

Have lots of happy days

Janet

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Check out the new Items Added to My Etsy.com Shop ..all of them Handmade by myself

7/31/2018

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Check out the new Items Added to My Etsy.com Shop ..all of them Handmade by myself

All of the pottery pieces on this page have just been made by myself ...each one unique.
If you would like to buy any then please go to the links provided under each item or just 'click' on the BIG ORANGE BUTTON WITH ETSY ON IT ..ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THIS BLOG.

www.etsy.com/listing/632707763/bowlsalad-plate-hand-made-pottery-65-x-1?ref=listing-shop-header-0

My handmade Bowl/Salad Plate ...it's very cute ..I hand carved and of course painted the Wisteria Vine ..the scalloped rim is in a deep purple ...
I have only one in this color ..so don't be long if you would like to buy it ...

www.etsy.com/listing/632706977/bowlsalad-plate-hand-made-pottery-65-x-1?ref=listing-shop-header-0

My handmade Bowl/Salad Plate ...it's very cute ..I hand carved and of course painted the Wisteria Vine ..the scalloped rim has been glazed with three glazes to obtain this lovely color ..a mottled brown with an interesting color on rim ..
I have only one in this color ..so don't be long if you would like to buy it ...

www.etsy.com/listing/632388337/hand-made-mottled-brown-green-pottery?ref=shop_home_active_3

I made this beautiful leaf necklace ...it's much nicer in person ..with a brown background and then green with beige specks on the top ....I just love this glaze ..it's called 'Enchanted Forest' ...it enchants me.
All of my jewelry hang on black or brown cords that are 18" with a generous extension chain ...it's very light in weight ..and you don't know that you have got it on when you are wearing it.

www.etsy.com/listing/632707763/bowlsalad-plate-hand-made-pottery-65-x-1?ref=listing-shop-header-0\

I love this leaf necklace so much ..the blue is just gorgeous ..and how the glaze hugged the outer edge and the detailed pattern on the leaf ..I was reluctant to put it for sale.
But I would love someone else to enjoy it
More photo's of it on the link above to Etsy.com

www.etsy.com/listing/632378511/hand-made-aztec-style-pottery-necklace?ref=listing-shop-header-3

I also love this Sun pendant ..it looks like an Aztec Sun ...the color worked out just as I wanted it too ...it is just under 2" across ...it's very light weight to wear ...I think it's also perfect for the coming Season of Fall
The clasp and the bail are both sterling silver ...so just now and again probably twice a year they will need a little silver cream to shine them up again ...unless you keep them in a box or something similar where they are not in the air all the time.
You will not be sorry to receive this ...it was made with love

Thanks so much for looking

Ask any question you like and I will answer it to the best of my ability

I thank you for your support

Be kind to each other

Janet

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