Fantastic Glass from our latest Workshop

We had some extremely creative people here on our latest Kiln Formed Glass Workshop a few weeks back and a new Tutor, Gloria MacArthur.
Gloria is an old friend who has been working with glass for about 5 years and she brought a whole new dimension to my own knowledge on this subject. Gloria works mainly with "frit" to produce some stunning, rather painterly effects. It was wonderful to play with all her materials in addition to my own and to learn some new techniques and different principles.
Glass is such a fantastic, experimental material that we were each able to follow our own creative pathways and produce some very special pieces.
All the firings went well and our experiments were most enlightening.
Of particular note were Angela's Celtic Cross (incredible) and my own personal favourite was Julie's square dish. She wanted to achieve a "strata" effect and I hope you agree that she's done that. For a first piece I think it is amazing.
Julie is completely enthralled with the material and is definitely buying a kiln of her own and another of our participants, Anne, has told me she now feels more confident to get going with the kiln she had already purchased.
A fabulous couple of days. I've had very complimentary feedback from all participants who thoroughly appreciated the lovely lunches made by my husband Christopher - and they enjoyed my cakes too.
The pictures I've featured here are of the kiln stacked at the end of day one for an overnight firing, some of the lovely larger pieces made on day two and some of the small dichroic jewellery.

Felt Hat Making

Bridget is just too busy to run a Hat Making Workshop this year but we've arranged one for next March. Come along for the day and leave with a hat to keep you warm in some considerable style. Some fabulous inspirational pics left - more on the website: http://www.burlinghamhall.co.uk/taster-workshops.html

New - Gift Vouchers

We are now offering Gift Vouchers in multiples of £100, £50 and £10. A truly original birthday or Christmas present for a loved one. We can even make the value of the Voucher fit the occasion. How about a £60 voucher for a 60th Birthday present. All we need is the money and the information. Each voucher will be issued with the recipient's name and a unique voucher number and can be redeemed against any of our Workshops. More details available on the website:

http://www.burlinghamhall.co.uk/gift-vouchers.html

Polymer Clay Millefiori Workshop - Price reduction

Fantastic bargain price now for the Polymer Clay Millefiori Workshop on 19th October. We have reduced the price to £49 to include £9 worth of materials.

We don't think you could find a similar course cheaper elsewhere in Norfolk and especially not in the idyllic surroundings of The Studio @ Burlingham Hall. Fabulous home-made light lunch and teas/coffee included. Come and learn this fantastic craft and make some unique jewellery for yourself or as very special gifts for others.

Joanna & James Wedding Stationery

I have just uploaded to our website a picture of the Wedding Stationery I did for last weekend's Wedding at Emmanuel College Cambridge for Joanna & James. By all accounts a fabulous day.
I was really pleased with the final result which was digitally printed in black with gold foil blocking for the unique logo I designed for them. They seemed very happy that my stationery fitted the occasion perfectly - and the foil blocking was simply divine.

Time flies when you're having fun...

I am amazed at how much time has passed since my last posting.
We have had my 60th Birthday Party (which was my best birthday ever) and just this last weekend our 30th Wedding Anniversary. Loads of other things have happened too which I will try to recap here.
We have some new workshops added to our website. Take a look at the current list: http://www.burlinghamhall.co.uk/studio-course-list.html

POLYMER CLAY MILLEFIORI BASIC WORKSHOPS see:
http://www.burlinghamhall.co.uk/studio-millefiori.html

And we've introduced a bespoke hand-made, hand-lettered glass plate to our Artworks page: http://www.burlinghamhall.co.uk/studio-artworks.html

It could be the plate that the wedding cake sits on - a very special lasting memento of a unique occasion.

Some of my glass experiments

Just found the time to take some pictures of the glass I have been experimenting with. Photos not great but I hope you get a flavour of where I'm going with this amazing material. There are more items in the pipeline and I am starting to develop an idea of what my core range will be. We all just love the glass platters and the spoon rests were a bit of inspired thinking. Once we have ironed out a few firing problems we will start to make some quantities for the Christmas markets. We need to decide which markets we're going to as well.