Now You Decide We Need Sunshine !!

At Least The Garden Gets A Drink

   What a weekend, the weather was what you would call a little mixed and I'm guessing thousands of families were stuck sheltering in the dry for the last couple of days while trying to enjoy the first real holiday weekend of the year. At the coast row upon row of caravans were full of grumpy parents wanting to get the children out on the beach rather than being cooped up watching rain run down the windows and now when most are back home we get the sunshine, is that sods law or what.
   For me it was also a very mixed weekend, I had planned to spend the whole four days with my ceramics and had hoped the sunny weather would mean I could get my wheel outside in the garden to throw pots, but those plans were as normal ruined and I just had to play it by ear from day to day. We managed to get a good amount of garden and greenhouse jobs sorted, two out of the four days were spent working on my torch and yes I did even manage to get ceramic pendants and beads made, all round a very busy weekend and tho the weather was crap I really enjoyed it, the fact I've been feeling a lot better helped and touch wood that will continue.
   This week we hope to get everything ready for selling some plants at the gate, just a few jobs to complete then we can put the first few out, I know we may not get any joy but it's worth a try and I can't stand another year throwing away perfectly good surplus plants.
   On the bead front of things some of you may have seen the summer party beads I've started listing on ebay, just a few sets of fun beads that may help with the summer jewellery, some mixed bright colours, others in colour matched sets but all just a bit of summer fun, I just felt with the thoughts of those long hot days at the beach heading our way it would be great to enjoy myself for a few hours and produce some beads that shout out summer, already some people seem to like them so maybe I'm not the only one with pictures of those long hot July days going through my mind.
   The ceramics are coming on ok and I think I'm on target to do a bisque firing at the end of this coming week, the first of the stoneware pendants and beads will be ready to list and fingers crossed they go down well with customers. I'm hoping I'll be able to get tomorrow off from my torch to spend the day with clay after all I owe it a few days from the weekend, well thats my excuse any way !
   Ok off back to the barn and my flame, it seems like weeks since the sun was beating down on the garden this early in the morning and to be honest I for one have missed it.