Author Archives: Cosy Creative Crafts

There are a number of localised Trail Guides for Art Weeks. I’m involved in the Banbury and Villages Guide which you can view here: https://www.artweeks.org/festival/trails This means that you can have a nice day out wandering from one amazing artist to another, enjoying the variety of art forms as you go. For instance, local toContinue reading “Art Weeks Trail”

    Site 191 I am getting very excited about Oxfordshire Art Weeks which is rushing towards us. I am opening my studio for the very first time so am working hard to create lots of lovely colourful glass for visitors to look at. My studio opening dates are 13th – 15th May from 11am to 6pm.Continue reading “Art Weeks 2017”

I get my inspiration for patterns and pieces from many different sources.On a recent episode of The Great Pottery Throwdown one of the potters made a clock with many different textures and shapes as in patchwork. I looked up some patchwork patterns and decided to make a plate with this in mind. The plate isContinue reading “Inspriration”

I have been planning this year’s glass products and creating my workshop list. I decided that I would have a theme for the 2017 products which is – The Beach. Not everything will be beach themed but I am hoping to be able to make a nice presentation at Craft Fairs. I have just startedContinue reading “2017 Plans”

Here’s wishing everyone a Happy New Year.  I am looking forward to lots of crafting and I hope that some of it will be with friends. As readers will know I had a new studio in July. We spent weeks painting and kitting it out but it  needed a new front door. It was fittedContinue reading “Happy Crafting 2017”

I’ve just held my first workshop that doesn’t feature my friends. Two very happy people made stained glass Christmas Trees, one multicoloured and one different shades of green. It was a very happy morning and I hope to hold many more workshops where folk can try out new skills. One of my friends and fellowContinue reading “Workshops”

Actually, it’s still the same brochure but without the typo. One of my friends pointed it out so I decided I’d rather publish it without the typo…your challenge, if you choose to accept it is to find said typo! No prizes though. I still seem to be knitting hats which are short projects if nothing else.Continue reading “Autumn Brochure, part 2”

I’ve just spent a challenging day trying to adjust to the gain of an hour. No matter how hard I try I’m always confused. I feel sorry for everyone with little ones as they have no hope of knowing why times are different. However, I also created my Christmas Brochure and updated my Autumn BrochureContinue reading “Autumn and Christmas Glass Brochures”

I’ve just counted up my knitting throughput and I’ve knitted two baby cardigans, one little boy jumper, 6 baby hats and one adult hat. Not bad a for about 6 weeks! I seem to like knitting with multicoloured wool! The top two cardigans are from a brand of varied wool that come in loads ofContinue reading “Baby Knitting”

Last Monday we had the Grand Opening of my new studio – hence the ribbon. Whilst there is still external painting to be done the inside is pretty well complete I have also made a path of stepping stones that lead to the studio –  more of those another time The space inside is generousContinue reading “New Studio”