This was a good fun workshop extruding strings of clay and making textured beads.
Klavdija’s pink necklace Klavdija demonstrating Textured beads
The Makin’s Extruder is a really good tool to use. I’ve have done a lot with the extruder before this workshop, but it is always good to pick up additional information and ideas.
I looked in on Melanie’s workshop and helped her out with baking for a while. Melanie was working with large organic forms in Ultralight clay.
Her work is fantastic, I have admired her pieces for ages and had purchased one of her brooches in December.
My brooch by Melanie West
Melanie’s work
Melanie and students Wendy Moore and Kopila Basnet
Kathleen’s workshop was fully booked, so I couldn’t participate. However, Kathleen asked me to help out with the students in the class with the monitoring of the ovens and baking the clay pendants.
This was really good as I could see what the students were doing, see Kathleen’s beautiful pieces up close and handle them. Kathleen kindly asked me to come to see her demonstrations so I had a good incite to the workshop
Kathleen’s work
Kathleen demonstrating Student’s pendants
Maggie’s Collars Student’s roses Pam and Lee Pam – Rose
Donna Greenburg Hand yoga Exercises
Roses ready for Baking Maggie and Pam
Up at 3am and heading up to Gatwick for my 6.25am flight to Malta. I like to have a window seat, look at the earth below and take photographs.
I took a local bus north to Bugibba and found my hotel.
Poppies, from the bus window. Dolmen Hotel View from hotel
Alfriston is such a picturesque village. My brother Alan and sil, Jackie have lived here for ten years.
Lots of excitement as Ruth drops me at the airport as I’m off to Europe for a month! I’m attending the IPCA Europe Synergy Conference in Malta and catching up with family and friends in Cornwall and Sussex. The flight to Dubai (11hrs) was awful. The plane was packed, I had an aisle seat and Emirates service was poor! This is a photo coming into Dubai and some of the airport, which was huge. I had to get n a train to take me to the next departure gate!
