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    Wow what a week

    Last week was full on.  The school seemed really pleased with the work, I just want to go back with a bit more time to take some better photographs, so I can use some images for publicity material.  Meanwhile, I took a provisional booking for a workshop, along with some lantern making workshops I am doing next week, did a bit of networking,  I sold another item on Etsy (yay) and, erm, what else – oh, yes, I did the cap and gown thing and graduated, officially, on stage.
    This week has been a bit mixed, mostly non-work problems that I won’t bore you with, but include my new all singing all dancing phone breaking down, what a pain.  Hopefully, if I set it up right, I won’t have lost too much information.  A few other things, mixed in with a great time visiting my past by going to Rock City to see The Cult (a bit too old for all that mosh pit stuff these days though!)
    Anyway, I have been featured in another Etsy Treasury, this time my VW Camper Coasters:
    On the Shed 2 Studios front, we’re opening for the Derbyshire Open Arts 2011 event, which is at the end of May.  I will tell you more about that nearer the time.
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    It’s All Go!

    Well, it is this week! I had a message from my liaison at school, John, to ring him urgently…. uh oh, I thought they’d broken my art work or something!
    But no, the builders were in, sorting the board for mounting the piece and they wanted me to be there – to make sure we all agreed to the best way of installing it.
    I have to say, when I went back in the afternoon, it went much quicker and more smoothly than when it was installed at Uni – I don’t know how much of that is down to the fact that I have the benefit of experience of going through it all once, and knowing what pitfalls do avoid, best way to do things, etc or whether it was because I was working with two builder/joiner type chappies instead of art lecturers (sorry Jerry & Rodger!)…
    Either way, it was fixed to the board, and is now on the wall in the place it was designed for in the first place…. and I personally think it looks amazing.
    These photographs aren’t brilliant, I need to go back with tripod and take some better shots, but I was so excited I couldn’t wait to show you.
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    I am treasured!

    I started listing a few more things on Etsy, thanks to the encouragement of friends on Frit Happens.
    I am now part of the Frit Happens Etsy ‘Street’ Team, who do a fantastic job of promoting it’s members…
    And I have been picked for a treasury already! (if you click on the large picture, it will take you straight to the Etsy Treasury page)

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    Groovy Baby!

    I did it.  I actually did it. I listed something on Etsy….

    I thought I would give it a try. Etsy is an online facility for buying handmade, vintage and interesting goods.  It’s quite popular amongst my friends in the lamp-working community.

    Although the work I am going to list on Etsy doesn’t really fit into the public art category, it is a good way of carrying on working with glass, developing ideas on a smaller scale, and importantly, showing what you can do with glass fusing, which I hope will encourage people to sign up for a workshop when they’re up and running (which will be as soon as the workshop is a bit warmer!)

    Here’s what I have listed…