Chained delayed

I was due to post an interview with Rebeca today but due to a somewhat interesting start to the week, with a  really bad cold, a severe asthma attack which has left me focusing on my breathing techniques alongside waiting for blood test results for anaemia, this has been temporarily (I hope) cancelled.

Catch Chained on the Road

As many of you maillers and jewellery makers may already know a new book has been released called CHAINED by Rebeca Mojica of Blue Buddha Boutique fame.  This is a book full of wonderful and easily accessible projects, beautifully illustrated, for beginners as well as experienced maillers.

For those of you in the US, Rebeca will be taking CHAINED on the road to a number of bricks and mortar locations.  I hope you're lucky enough to be in one of the areas she's visiting.

For those of us you who can't meet Rebeca in person there will be a number of virtual book tour stops and Chainmaille, Photography, etc  is honoured to be hosting one of them.    Make a date to join us for Rebeca's virtual book tour right here on Wednesday  December 15.  Rebeca will be talking to us about where she actually did all the work to make her book.  As readers of this blog already know I love cats and it seems that Rebeca does too.  So maybe we can ask her how she managed to put together such intricate pieces without her cat running off with them. :)

As this is my first ever interview I may need some help with coming up with intelligent and interesting questions.  So if you're interested in asking Rebeca a question about her work and the problems involved in putting together a book for publication just leave it in the comments below by Saturday, December 11th and I will select a few to add to the interview.


Be sure to follow CHAINED on Facebook and twitter to get all of the latest updates and join the notification list to find out about several contests available to members only.

I'm really looking forward to spending some time chatting with Rebeca and hope you join us!!

Frosty Thursday

I'm still really busy at the moment getting ready for the weekend's big Christmas fair as I will be unveiling some new artwork and new range of jewellery.  All this work means I haven't had as much time as I would like for other things especially as the weather has been keeping me very busy looking after all the outdoor critters.

So for the moment here is today's frosty picture.

This is Bridget our little mini sheltand filly foal who was born at the end of June.  She is so cute and really seems to enjoy this weather.  I really can't imagine why but she is toasty warm under all of that fur.  Hope you like her too.

Winter in Lampeter, Wales

I actually quite like winter.  Wrapping up warm and seeing the world covered in white.  I don't even mind carrying hay around to the llamas and the ponies as it can be fun to watch the ponies charge across the fields when they see you (well when they see the hay) or to see the llamas lined up along the fences around the yard waiting for you to hurry up with breakfast.

Winter is full of wonderful and challenging photo opportunities and then of course there is the lovely feeling when you have finished working outside and you come into a lovely warm house and can curl up on the sofa with a cup of coffee for a few minutes before starting your next task for the day.

But in thinking about winter I always seem to forget the down side of the British winter  - ice.  Slipping around the yard, or the roads, or the pavements and paths as you try to balance on what is virtually an ice rink is one of the most unpleasant aspects of our winter.  At the temperature hovers around freezing - lifting just a little to melt some of the snow and then dropping to freeze the melt-off into ice overnight.  Nasty.

I love snow but hate ice and at the moment I have both.  This means that taking photographs is having to take a back seat at the moment.  I have one or two that I will be posting up on redubble and zazzle later today but the yard is little more than an ice rink today and no photo is worth the risk of crossing that.  So I will have to wait until the ice melts a little more and then of course the pictures I want to take will have disappeared.

Winter is always an interesting time full of beauty and danger.

Anyway here is the view from my window.

Christmas fairs

This is just a note to let everyone who was expecting to see me at the Llanerchaeron Christmas Fair on 4th and 5th December 2010 that the fair has been cancelled due to the bad weather.


However Bont Christmas Fair on 11th and 12th December 2010 is still going ahead so I hope to see some of you there.