This is just a quick little blog to wish you all a happy Christmas day, wherever you are and however you celebrate it. I like to go for a walk and find pretty Wintery berries and evergreens to make a little decoration. When we were children in Shroton I remember being taken to Everley corner to pick masses of holly to take to the church for decoration. There was a lot of Yuletide tradition in rural Dorset.

Here my berries and cedar are poked into a potato for one centre piece. The other has a cut-off plastic bottle inside the pretty cedar basket woven by my friend Gitte Nelson. I fill it with clay and it’s a perfect way to hold the candle and holly.

Our Vancouver snowfall has all but cleared away now but I took a photo of our house at dusk recently with the jolly lights all aglow.

When I was on Granville Island the other day, after delivering all those plates, I popped in to my two galleries. Bless them, even though my production is slow they still display them. I took photos so that I have  record of who has what just now. There are two shelves in Circle Craft where they’ve separated the earthenware from the salt work. In the Gallery of BC Ceramics I was happy to see my salty work in the ‘staff picks’ display for December.

Even though most of you who are registered to be notified by email whenever I write a blog, are also on my Christmas card list, I’ll include the Annual Letter Alan has written. We’re so happy that 2013 was made special by the arrival of grandson Caleb. And Alan and I will continues to juggle travelling with my continuing desire to spend time in my studio and in the garden.

With that in mind let’s wish each other creative, interesting, healthy and happy times in 2014.