News — placemats

  You are invited to join me and twelve selected designers/makers and artists at Brighter Days at the Pie Factory Gallery, 5 Broad Street, Margate CT9 1EW.  There will be displays of work by every participant, who have also each designed a table mat on the theme of Thanet - all the marvelous work and the table mats will be available to buy (payment by cash or cheque only).  The show will be open from 10am to 5pm on Friday 22nd, Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th March and there will be free workshops led by the artists from 12 to...

  What a fabulous start to 2013...Happy New Year...

  I've been invited to take part in Aunty Nora's "A Vintage Christmas" in Deal, Kent on Saturday 22nd December and so will be setting my stall up there for the day, along with lots of other designer/makers and collector/dealers.  I hope that if you are in the area you will pop by and see me at some point during the day, even if only for some mulled wine and mince pies as respite from your busy Christmas preparations...hope to see you there...

   Her Majesty The Queen visited 10 Downing Street yesterday and was given a set of 60 placemats by  members of her cabinet.  The mats were produced by Lady Clare who manufacture the table mats for Jenny Duff (my process is that I do all the printing and then my prints are made into wonderful Melamine mats, fit for a Queen, by Lady Clare).  It is a purely Great British product.  Well done Lady Clare and I hope Her Majesty enjoys her dinners and parties using her set of new mats...

  A lovely post on the great British Interiors site Heart Home  by Rona Wheeldon  about the Flowers range of tableware designed by Gillian Blease... I love the vibrant colours which Gillian has used, together with the retro symmetry.The designs can easily be mixed and matched. And they’d certainly bring sunshine to your table at any time of the year.  They’d also make great Christmas presents… Read more of the article at Heart Home