There is a shop in the small town of
Portmadog in North Wales called
Kerfoots. It's an old-fashioned type shop with a bit of everything in it. For the
millennium they
commissioned this stunning stained glass dome in the center of the shop which you see as you climb up the stairs, if you look up and try not to fall back down the suspended staircase!
It depicts the local area and shows the cottages, mountains and landscapes of Wales....Oh...and they serve a very good meal at lunchtimes too.
We have just had 2 weeks holiday and the first week was spent in North Wales, partly to visit the Welsh side of the family who are Welsh speaking and partly just to have a break. Fantastic weather and a cottage to stay in that was OK but not as good as we had hoped. The second week in Derbyshire, however was much better, cottagewise!
Spent a bit of time sewing, alot of time reading and walking too.
This is the latest fabric landscape to come out of my sewing room, and I think it may have been sold already! Someone is coming to see it next week I am hoping! I haven't had much sewing time lately, doing one or two extra shifts at work to cover sickness, and as the shifts are 12 and a half hours long it's quite tiring. Having been visiting some of the Dorset Arts Weeks exhibitions this week I am re-inspired to get on and make some more pictures.
D bought me this little ceramic chicken at one of the exhibitions at Charlton Horethorne up in North Dorset and also the lovely fused glass hanging below for my birthday which was last week. It was held in someones home and was a bit surreal as we had to go all round their house and garden including in the bedrooms to look at the art and sculptures. It felt as if we were intruding! The garden was beautiful and had numerous little things to look at in the borders like this man reclining! He wasn't for sale, but I think he's great!
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