Put the kettle on

It may be over a month since I last posted here but I have been busy working, organising May's Artists' Open House (more on that nearer the time) and – most importantly – making things.

Thwarted in my desire to collect the real thing by a lack of anywhere to store any more teapots than I can actually use, I've started a tea- and coffee-pot series based on mid-century modern design classics.

Here are one old (Poole) and two new ones (Midwinter Sienna Marquis and Zambesi).

Printed ephemera

Pretty Big Purchase...

Visited my favourite south-coast vintage shop (of course I'm not going to tell you what it is! I may share all the others with you, but not this one...) today and chatted with the owner about his plan to sell it. A mere £70,000 and all of us having to up-sticks and move? What do you think - smash the piggy bank open?

One day maybe...