Photo from last February has a strange familiarity about it!

I took a photo last February of our front garden with snow.
Amazingly it now looks exactly the same. Twice in one year - incredible.
Awesomely beautiful still and exactly what I can see from the kitchen window today on 17th December!

Polymer Clay Millefiori Workshop in January

Unique One Day Workshop:
Polymer Clay Millefiori Jewellery
Saturday 22nd January 2011
Fantastic introductory price: £40 + approx £9 for materials.

Hadas Nussbaum is your expert Tutor for this workshop which offers an introduction to Millefiori - working with Polymer Clay. You will make your own Millefiori 'canes' and then use slices from these canes to create your own unique jewellery or small decorative items. All the items shown here are Hadas' amazing jewellery. Use the link below to view more examples of her work.
See our website: www.burlinghamhall.co.uk http://www.burlinghamhall.co.uk/studio-millefiori.html

Fabulous EDP Wedding Show launch for bespoke glass plates

We finally launched our bespoke glass plates at the recent EDP Wedding Show at the fabulous Assembly House in Norwich. Our plates and other glass items were well received and visitors were captivated by the uniqueness of our latest creative offering. Using the skills learnt over the past 30+ years as a Graphic Designer, Sheila hand letters any quotation, poem or just the event details around the edge of the glass plate (round or square) to provide a unique and long lasting memento for the happy couple of their special day. A wonderful wedding gift from a family member perhaps - a modern heirloom even...
We also do glass ornaments to adorn your wedding invitations and can make very special wedding favours or gifts for the bridesmaids too.
http://www.burlinghamhall.co.uk

Wedding Fayre at Norwich Assembly House October 31st

We have taken a stand at the EDP Wedding Fayre in Norwich on October 31st 2010. We will be unveiling some of our latest products for the Wedding market - some exciting original glass items that we think will get people talking. Come along and see what we're up to. Would love to show you some pictures but then it wouldn't be a surprise...

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