Thank You, cards, fun fact and flowers

  With many many thanks to those folk who came along to our studio closing down sale on the weekend. Saturday was a huge and bustling day, and Sunday was slower but steady. A lot of work has now found new homes, and we have  a clearer path forward for the remaining work; and for the next steps in the process. It is a long road, but we are progressing! Our FINAL sale will be in mid-January and will involve art and craft supplies; the furniture and appliances in the studio; and possibly some work. Phew.

As we re-imagine our art lives without the large studio space, we are looking ahead to collecting and collating our best and favourite works and getting them online. 

With the hope that folk will but things from us in this way, we have been preparing our online purchases' gift wrapping and packing. Sounds funny, but each of us will use slightly different colours to wrap and send our work and I also want to include a hand-printed thank you card with each purchase.

So the other day I cut  a lot of paper (Gmund 300gsm - delicious and bright white), then mixed up some light grey ink and set some type and printed a handful for me.

I added some black to the mix and printed some for Barry - so that they appear dark grey. 

I sent him photos and he asked if I could add in some gold ink to the mix to bring bit of bling. Eek. 

I did not feel at all confident with this move, but I printed him a few - which he seemed to like, which was a relief.

Both the small and large cards have plenty of room to write a hand written note to accompany the purchase.

And in other news - I have been making more pebble jewellery which I had for sale at the studio sale this weekend, and this is the sort of work that will also find itself on line afterwards.

Here is one of the pendants, for illustrative purposes...

I have a fairly ad hoc relationship to my making of pebbles. Unlike my other more formal work where I plan incredibly; with the pebbles I tend to go - big, small, medium; hmmmm, I'll cut a piece of wire maybe this long.

Which works up to  point.

It doesn't work when somebody asks for a trio of pebbles of around a certain size. So I thought I'll work out how to measure the circumference of a pebble and then I'll have a formula.

Harder than I thought, so I messaged my two mathematician-type brothers and one of them came up with a link to this online calculator which works a treat.

He told me to go look at the formula behind it and said "Yep! You give a nice circle a little squish and the formula goes straight to hell...". Hard agree. This is the formula:

For reference purposes, the formula for a circle's circumference is this: C=2πr  😁

So using the online calculator widget,  I now have a table of sizes and lengths that I can use to form my pebbles to order so to speak; but am yet to test them out when I put them through the roller and stretch them bit more. This will tell me what the final size actually is; but I am getting there!

And as a form of palette cleanser after that disturbing formula calculation, and just because they were vibrant and beautiful - some nasturtiums