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This week I built a wall! Well actually I didn't build it myself, joiner Paul (JP Rennovations) did that and I am celebrating it's arrival. Since I moved to the new shop I haven't had anywhere to display my wall panels so they've been sadly hiding away in a cupboard all this time. This wall is especially for my wall panels. As it turned out I only had the seed pod one left so I thought it was about time I made some new ones....worth it now I have somewhere to put them. So here is a new one which I called 'Spring' which is a collection of Snowdrops and Paperwhites
The one at the top with all the dandelions is new too. I hope my new wall inspires many more!
I got inspired by the buttercup meadow after another Sunday walk up on the hills. It makes a nice wall panel.
Now that my wall panel parts have been produced I can start showing you some of the designs that I have been sitting in a drawer waiting and waiting for the safety testing to be completed.
I always loved the red campions in the hedgerows when I lived in Wales...I don't see them so much around here. They are about but not in such profusion. Wales was rich in hedgerows. When my children were small we lived in a cottage up a cobbled track behind the church in Laugharne. The hedgrows on either side of the track were taller than me and were full of plant life. I am working on a piece that reflects that memory. Vetches, Ferns, Campions and Honeysuckle and more....
This week I hope to take some photographs of the wall panels. The whole collection is beginning to take shape which is exciting. I am waiting for the metal lamp holders to arrive so I can assemble them on the wall and take some pictures.
I have been working on a meadow design today. I love meadows. Ox Eye daisies are one of my favourite flowers that haven't yet cropped up in any of my lamp designs so they had to be there...along with English Plantain, some kind of grass (there are so many I can't name them) and Pignut (at the bottom). Aswell as Pignut being a pretty little flower, it has round tuberous roots that can be eaten. I tried one once...they're a bit like chickpeas!
I've been happily cutting out leaves all day....so much so I can still see them when I close my eyes! I was in the creative zone all day, until I trapped my finger in my drawer and had to have a rest. Its my cutting finger! Luckily I have Chrissy (the healing hat lady) nextdoor at Hat Therapy who gave me something homeopathic to stop it throbbing! It seems to be working thank goodness. More cutting tomorrow...
