Last weekend Susan Delatour Lepoidevin presented a hand-building workshop in Maple Ridge, 'That Special Place: Hand Building Houses. She has made a career from her passion for ancient, idiosyncratic buildings found all around the world. They form the basis for a clay dwelling,lighthouse or castle and she makes each one into a little story. She adds birds, bricks, windows, flowers, people and chimneys and…
It's been a while since I wrote in my blog so this'll just be a catch-up. First I want to post the link to the second Picasa album of photos we took in Guatemala. Lots of you will have seen them but this way the story of our tour there is complete, here. https://picasaweb.google.com/112208740085943894765/Guatemala2March2014 Two recent emails are rather fun. In one, Bette, who is…
Luckily it was a sunny cold day for Susan Delatour Lepoidevin and her partner Rod to drive the 3 1/2 hours to the Coast from Princeton. November can so often be dreadfully wet here and therefore snowy on Highway 3. I'm also pleased that they stopped at Greenbarn to stock up on clay, visited friends, and managed to fit in a trip to Granville Island…
This past week has been marvellously busy! But now, as I enjoy my five o'clock cuppa after the glaze kiln has turned itself off, I reflect once more that deadlines are great for getting work done! Here's a little rundown of the week: Last Thursday I was pleased to have painted the last five jugbirds in the current group. That's about as many as I…