Merry Christmas and our best wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year for 2008.
This year we have decided to do an e-card and we have made a donation to the local food bank at the Salvation Army in lieu of cards. Here is our greetings card for you, this Santa is one of the ornaments that hangs on our Christmas tree, Rachael found it at her favourite shop in Hebden Bridge - The Willow Garden. We have been up to the ski hill again this weekend to find there is absolutely tons of snow. There has been 12 inches over the last three days and at the top of the lifts there is a base of around 69 inches of the lovely white stuff! Shaun has been using up 5 days vacation time this week and has been to the ski hill Monday, Tuesday (with Rachael as it was her day off), Thursday and Friday! The average snowfall in the season is around 10 to 15 metres, so the locals have been advising us that the snow conditions will just get better and better. The season is set to finish at the end of March so we are looking forwards to plenty of boarding/skiing - or at the moment it seems to be more like snow-surfing!
Well, it is Saturday night and we have managed to find an English film to watch - what better to watch in the run up to Christmas than James Bond in 'Goldfinger' - the one featuring Honour Blackman as Pussy Galore, how fabulous!
At last the photo editor has produced some photographs of Shaun's pottery to show you. The pottery class started off by teaching how to throw small cylinders, which can be turned into mugs by attaching handles and trimming the foot on the potter's wheel. Here is the final collection of mugs produced, in order, left-to-right with the final mug in the centre.
The next two pictures show the evolution of handles for the mugs - as you can see things improve a little with time and practise.
A close-up of the final mug and handle, vertically glazed in white, dark green and matte green.
Here is a honey-pot in a high-gloss dark green and matte green glaze.
A small bowl with a tall lid.
Another similar bowl with a more modest turned lid.
A pair of planters finished in pale yellow glaze with a white lip and blue interior.
Finally, here is a pitcher in blue with a matte green lip and pouring spout.
Well that is all for this week. A short news week in the run up to Christmas. We shall post more next week.
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and as always we look forward to hearing your news and indeed seeing any festive photos you may like to send us.
Love Rachael, Shaun, Harley & Phantom
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