Some recent relistings

And #CRAFTfest is open

Check out this pinterest board

Summer 2017 CRAFTfest

The brochure for CRAFTfest is published, See it here

CRAFTfest Summer 2017 

Coming soon

I have a stall

 

Brooch of the week in my folksy shop
brooch - white donkey No3 

 

Folksy activity last week

My latest Folksy activity report

Activity from 24 April to 30 April  

 

Items were favourited 99 times, including: 

pendant - tortoise scrolled white on red over clear enamel

brooch - lizard scrolled red on turquoise

pendant - dolphin

pendant - bear in blue striped shirt and blue pants

brooch - tortoise scrolled white on red over clear enamel

Your most popular item was: 

pendant - butterfly scrolled orange, turquoise, dark blue on pale blue

My most popular item on folksy.com last week was: heart earrings scrolled red on blue over clear enamel

As a teaser for #CRAFTfest, a sampler of recent listings and relistings

See more at my folksy shop

See what else is on offer at CRAFTfest

 
 

Two little ducks that have been languishing in the obscurity of the expired listings page, unoticed, since December. Time to bring them out into the sun again
https://folksy.com/items/6772500-enamel-earrings-small-duck-white 

Nuff said

 

It's happening now and until Sunday

another collage of my work

I'm back

Back at last. In time I may get around to putting up some of my holiday pictures but for now I'm in CRAFTfest mode.

Here is the poster:

And here is what I intend will be the first of a series of panels to illustrate my wares:

 

If you want to know more you may go through to 

http://craftfest-events.com/best-of-british.html

Here is a link to the CRAFTfest brochure

http://craftfest-events.com/brochure.html

relisted my wildlife collection today

 

Coming soon

http://www.craftfest-events.com/best-of-british.html
 

How is enamelling done?

This short video slideshow demonstrates the basics of enamelling including the scrolling technique I use in many of my creations

We see the kiln ready for use, glowing red hot. The next two slides show a red hot bowl being taken out of the kiln. The bowl is upside down; I have fired a coat of counter enamel to the reverse side. This balances the expansion and contraction as I fire further layers of enamel to the decorative side of the piece.

At this stage the bowl has one layer of enamel on the decorative surface; from here I will add anywhere from four to ten more layers.

Next I show a bowl being put into in to the kiln. It is at its final firing.

When it reaches red hot I will reach in with a crooked tool to disturb the patterns I have put on it to create  a scrolled pattern. The next slide shows this part of the work.

Some samples from a week of relistings

Evidently the first day of CRAFTfest went so well that we managed to crash the server.

I have a sale - no idea if it emanates from the CRAFTfest activity.

Here is my display picture and the avatar that illlustrates my CRAFTfest stall:


 

Time to get back to this blog. CRAFTfest2016 starts on Friday, 26th February.
 
Here is the link to the brochure http://www.craftfest-events.com/brochure.html