Last time I was saying “...must get busy in the garden…!” That was my own 
garden, but there are other gardens too.


For quite a few weeks Lisa and I have been working on our design, as once 
more CStar has been invited to contribute to Art in the Garden at the Sir 
Harold Hillier Arboretum which is in Ampfield, Romsey. 

Art in the Garden runs throughout the summer months, this year from Sunday 
12th May to Sunday 14th October (10am to 5pm for viewing).
On display throughout the Arboretum are pieces (posh word – installations) 
from UK and overseas artists and designers – and – all items are for sale. 
Just imagine one in your garden!


This year we’ve taken our inspiration from what can be found in some caves – 
stalactites and stalacmites. We’ve called the pieces “Shards” with the internal 
or underdesign based on our Tutti Frtti range.


Here’s a couple of pictures taken in the Arboretum to give you a taster.

Last year our colours were predominately blue, this year predominately red, to 
fit in with our wish for a warm sunny summer
Well it worked for the Bank Holiday – come on!


But our work rarely has a break before the next event, which for us, will be 
The Garden Show in Summer at Stansted Park from Friday 8th to Sunday 10th
June 2018. It’s well worth a visit to see the gardens and there are many, 
many thngs to see and enjoy.
If there, why not drop by to our stand and have a chat? 
WE would love to see YOU.

Well, here we are back from the British Craft Trade Fair in Harrogate.
Harrogate – what a lovely, lovely place.


How did we get on? 

We had a very interesting time and lots of our 
promotional stuff was collected. 

The experienced traders say that orders can appear anything up to six months 
or more, so we should be patient, don’t expect too much too soon. We did get 
one order though.


And now, here we are back at work. 


We were very sad to hear that Rum’s Egg in Romsey had closed. It was a 
wonderfully stylish host for Arts and Crafts and they had really yummy cakes 
in the cafe upstairs. A sad loss!
Back to busy! This is a very busy time – when isn’t it? We’re doing our annual
stock take, from items made ready to sell to glass ready to cut.

Besides this, the Studio needs a Spring Clean, so that is going on hand-in-hand
with the stock take.
Phew, if that wasn’t enough, there is production work to prepare for Stansted 
Garden Fair in June.
Wonderfully sunny though isn’t it – just the tonic we needed after all that rain. 
Ah, must get busy in the garden…!

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“The  Northern  Lights...”

For  the  past  many  weeks  we  have  been  working  on  a  new  project,  new  for  us  that  is. It  has  been  both  stressful  and  exciting  at  the  same  time. Bringing  everything  together,  that  is,  creating  the  new  design  (more  about  that  later),   making  our  goodies  and  packaging  to  sell,  designing  a  display,  designing  and  writing  a brochure  and  finally  packing  it  all  to  travel.    This  was  the  stressful  bit.

We’ve  been  working  towards  displaying  at  a  trade  fair    -  we’ve  never  done  one  before  so this  is  a  whole  new  experience.    We’re  really  looking  forward  to  this,  seeing  the  other displays,  talking  to  the  visitors  –  this  is  the  exciting  bit.

Our  hope  and  expectation  is  to  get  experiece  of  displaying,  discovering  what  the  visitors are  interested  in  and  –  of  course  –  making  some  sales. And  where  did  we  go  and  what  is  it?

We displayed  our  new  design  at  the  British  Craft  Trade  Fair  (BCTF)  held  at  the  Great Yorkshire  Show  Ground  in  Harrogate  in  North  Yorkshire  –  hence  “Northern”  (see  what  we did  there?) AND there  we  made  the  first  public  showing  of  our  new  design  range  -  “Urban  Lights”  - hence  “Lights”  -  see  what  we  did  again?    We’re  just  crafting  mad!) This  trade  fair  has  been  held  annually  for  43  years  and  has  around  8000  British  artists, designers  and  makers  registered  with  the  show.

More  soon…

ooooo oooooh we had this lovely article written abut us in the Hampshire Chronicle.  Thank you x

Stuck in me head.....

Do you have or do you know the feeling when you have an idea of a creation or art piece but just actually don't have the time to get it out, and play.......its driving me mad!
Got these new panel ideas.....plus its not what I'm meant to be thinking about creating wise.  Im meant to be creating fused glass angels.....but I'm on about mark 37 of those with no joy.....AAAHHHHHHHH.

Flower Festival Winchester Cathedral 2013

Some really stunning and imaginative floral displays at Winchester Cathedral.  Took a few pictures of my favorites.  Very lucky to take part as a stall holder as part of the summer market that ran along side the flowers inside the Cathedral.

The Meadow

In the crypt - peaceful and eery all at the same time

And heres some pictures of our stall and the fused glass art we have been selling over this last week.

from this...

to this!

Winchester Flower Festival 2013 our stall in the summer marque market.

CStar Design 'Meadows - Poppies' fused glass art, window art.

The Symphony of Flowers Festival 2013 Summer Marque 

We (lisa and me) had a fab time, thank you to every body who came to see us.  Lovely event.

Winchester Flower Festival 2013

Sssooooooo excited its 3 sleeps to go until winchester flower festival 2013.  We have been busy making for the last few weeks and have kept the flower theme throughout our glassy pieces.
Ill pop some pics up soon.
Cx