Presenting my latest commission !!!

Finally ..... my latest project. As some of you might know, I was given a free hand with the design for this. The only thing requested was that I cover the guitar entirely.

Now this is off on it's journey to its new owner, I've started something new. A completely different type of mosaic this time. I'll be using tempered glass this time, a first for me, so an interesting project.

Busy busy busy

Tuesday morning heralded the arrival of a very large parcel, for a moment my daughter and I couldn't begin to think what was in it. Then it dawned on us, it was the guitar from Ireland from John who had commissioned me to mosaic it, how exciting !! So most of the day yesterday I was working out a design for it. In my excitement however I forgot to include the position of the bridge in it, ...what a wally lol. So a mornings work was wasted, that'll teach me eh. So I worked late into the night doing a new design, this will be slightly different to most of the mosaics I've done before, as I intend to use different shaped pieces of glass on it, as well as my trademark of teeny tiny pieces of glass. John has left it entirely to me what design I did on it, his only request was that it didn't have anything celtic on it. At first I thought great, I can do whatever I like on it...then after pondering what design to do, I realised that maybe it might have been easier if he'd have given me a few guidelines as what he likes. After thinking about flowers, or fairies or other mystical beasties, I decided on an abstract design, as this might be more pleasing to the eye.

I also still need to photograph my latest stained glass creations too, there just doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day lately despite me waking up long before the world wakes.

My bronchitis, although better than it was, certainly isn't cleared up by a long way. With only one days antibiotics left, I'm beginning to think the doctor was right about me making another appointment to see him. My cough is still there, my nose is still producing vast amounts of what can only be called gunky stuff, and my chest is wheezing and crackling really badly at times. My usual inhalers are barely having any effect on my breathing, especially now there's been some warmer weather which always aggravates my asthma anyway. So I shall be trotting off to see Dr Nagaraj on Tuesday morning after all.

My very first blog entry

Well hello everyone, I've often read people's blogs and found them really interesting and toyed with the idea of doing one myself..but as I live a very quiet life I wondered if I'd ever write anything that would be remotely interesting to anyone else lol.

But here I am waffling away..... I live on a small island off the coast of North Wales. Lack of mobility and lack of transport means I spend many many hours at home. To stop myself going entirely insane I fill my time doing various arts and crafts using many different mediums. My first love is working with glass, sometimes it's fused glass, sometimes stained glass but most recently it's been glass mosaics. The mosaics first started out because I was running low on bigger pieces of glass to work with. So in my wisdom or ...... madness, I decided that it would be good idea to cut all these off cuts of glass into tiny 1/4" squares. Hmmm hundreds of squares later, with cuts galore and sore fingers from scoring so much glass, I often wonder if that was such a good decision lol. As I get more used to this blog lark I'll start adding photo's and you'll be able to see whether it was a good idea or not !!

I started drawing as a child, and can clearly remember my mom having a go at my dad, when he used to bring home paper from work for me to draw on lol. Thank god he ignored her, art and crafts have helped me keep my own identity and sanity for many years now lol. Now after two marriages, two long term relationships, and 8 kids my art and crafts is still as rewarding as it ever was. I've turned my hand to many forms of art, including pastels, oil painting, glass painting, silk painting, water colours, china painting, and decorated mirrors. Sometimes I would see things in shops that I liked but could never afford, so I would go home and try making them for myself. These ramblings will probably include some haphazard tutorials of various crafts, so that hopefully others might try new things out.

A close up of the front of my latest mosaic. Which is exhibited at our local glass gallery.


The gallery owner wanted me to do a guitar mosaiced all over this time. The sides were a real pain to do lol.


Finished at last, this took many many days to complete and almost beat me a few times I have to admit. But I got there in the end.