Feeling Festive?

I'm not particularly, but these new earrings I've been working on might help - they're my first attempt at baking polymer clay in several stages. I'm quite pleased with them, though they did get progressively fiddlier as I went through the process. They have allspice in them which not only colours the clay but also means they smell nice as they bake, and I really like the glittery Fimo I used for the leaves and the 'sauce'.

They'll be on sale tomorrow at the Theydon Bois Christmas Gift Fair, which is the second of a month of weekends when I'm all booked up! You can find all my events here so if you're in the Essex area over the next few weeks pop along and see me - I'm excited that I have a stall at the Epping Christmas Market this year too!  

Cormorants at Prince's Wharf

Today I've been all the way to Bristol to a meeting at M-shed, a brilliant new museum telling the story of Bristol's people and places. Installed in the old Industrial Museum building which has undergone a fabulous makeover, it has amazing views over Prince's Dock and the Bristol skyline. The displays are intriguing, covering the city's slave trading history, local protest, trade and industry and the galleries take you all the way up to Morph and Aardman Animations, Banksy and triphop, with well thought out interactives and a brilliant floor sized aerial map. Well worth a visit!

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