Rabbit's house

The above is Rabbit's house, where the favorite topic of conversation is food and then gardening.
Friends have been invited for the first soiree of the year, and still rabbit is gathering herbs from his garden behind the house, can you see him?

 A gardener's work is never done..........

 All donkey's know this.

 Yesterday I had a 'clay day' here with a friend, right in the kitchen.   Soon this was covered with projects, tea things and food. My friend Vicki made some beautiful clay jewelry that I hope to share here soon.  That bowl is full of soapy water for our hands, you have to scrub your paws a lot when hand building.

 I've been making a lot of large platters and three legged cups
listing Friday and right now am saying fare thee well and heading back to the paint pots!xxx

PS I wanted to tell you painters about this fabulous palette I learned about from www.lynnehoppe.blogspot.com
Its a very light and easy to hold one, with a sponge lining and keeps the acrylic paint fresh and the perfect consistency. I also wet one of their palette papers and stick it in the back to mix paint I'll use a lot of, that red is from Sennilier and its called Quindicaone burnt orange, but its got a lot of red and mixes well. I've got the larger version of the palatte too, when I'm doing a big canvas. This little one is perfect for smaller works.
Dick Blick is where I ordered this one.
Happy Valentines day!xx

green fingers

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Mice are avid gardeners.  This one is, anyway.

 

Been dusting off the garden tools, me and Miss Mouse

and some of us moved to their summer house~

 

or just seem to be outside more.....

tilling

feeding the donkey and the chicken.

 

Update of new paintings this Sunday.

And pottery too, plates all sizes...

Hope you can take off your garden gloves and come visit.xx

Pinched Pottery

There's a very well done new Lark book on pinched pottery by Susan Halls.

That teapot on the cover is pinched by her, and there are other very well explained projects inside.

There's work in there by some one you know too...

Mugs, cups and bowls. Pinched one and all

Inspired by the Susan's book, I made my first pinched plates.

They were fast and fun.

I graduated from regular cereal bowls ........

to big cups with feet.

then legs! In the book is a large bowl with base that Susan will be teaching . I've heard her classes are sensational. This is a book I wish I had when starting out.  You can get it on Amazon and Barnes and Noble and its released on 1-7 of this week.

 When not pinching, I've been painting this fox. Very proud of the first turnip of the year from his vegetable garden.
Happy New Year! May you harvest many turnips from your gardens,

and loads of plums from your trees.......xxx