This was behind the door of our Sci-Fi Christmas Advent Calendar two days ago. What wife wouldn’t want a set of pastel coloured Tupperware?
Vintage Christmas Advent Calendar
We haven’t bought advent calendars this year. Instead, Aidan spent about four hours making one using this as the picture on the front: Not only is the advent calendar a masterpiece in design (which Aidan made himself – I’m very proud); the picture is unbelievably amazing. Look at it: it’s got 1950s people in futuristic…
Vintage Woman’s Own: Winter Wonders
Today was the first day that I really had that Christmassy feeling. This is particularly amazing for me as I often don’t get into the mood until a couple of days before; perhaps it’s all the frost and talk of snow around the North of England. Whatever the reason, it has inspired me to write…
Scheurich 414: Updating a Look
Regular readers will be aware of my obsession with the Scheurich 414 form. I currently have over twenty of them in different glazes perched atop a wooden blanket box in the bedroom. Some of you may not not know that many of the factories reused numbers and updated forms. Scheurich 414 is one of these…
Spotted: West German Pottery on the BBC!
Excuse the appalling photo – I took it with my phone: I spotted it last night while I was watching ‘Miranda’ on BBC2. Needless to say, I got a little bit excited… The programme was pretty good too! Looks like a Scheurich, a Dumler and Breiden and perhaps a Carstens? What’s been your most unlikely…
Bernard Buffet: Mass Market Art?
We found this on our last trip: It’s a print by Bernard Buffet, a French painter. Once again, we appear to have found something that, despite not knowing anything about it, could actually be quite interesting. To me, this seemed to be an example of mass market art; standing quite well alongside the Tretchikoff and…
Hoy Töpferei…
I put the ellipsis in the title because there’s a sad tale to these two pots: After the very first German Road Trip, they were rejected not only by us, but by Wowie Zowie. We all thought they were lumpy, badly thrown pieces of purple-painted clay. It turns out (while they still might be all of…
My First Ever Folksy Purchase!
If you’ve ever heard of Etsy but curse the fact that many sellers seem to be in USA (adding on postage charges for British buyers), then Folksy might be the one for you. I’ve just found it and had a good look, before finally deciding on buying these: I had been eyeing up some…
Otto Keramik
At some point this weekend, we’re going to decide which of the mammoth haul of pots we’re going to keep. This is going to be difficult: we like different ones and there are just so many to choose from; you can always see something of merit in each pot. We’re both decided on keeping these two…
Tretchikoff Exhibition: Iziko South African National Gallery
The following press release has been sent to me by Natasha, grand-daughter of Vladimir Tretchikoff. How amazing would it be to get over there and see it?? “Hi, Tretchi was my grand dad. We are having a retrospective of original works next year in the South African National Gallery. See press release below… If you…
From Germany to Glossop…
..Deutschland to Derbyshire. We’re back. The house is full. Aidan has just pointed out that I don’t really have time for a blog but I just can’t resist: the sheer scale of what we have returned with from this trip is phenomenal. Observe: Note the glass head back right; at the moment, we think…
Germany tomorrow!
This time tomorrow we’ll be in Tina on our way to Deutschland. I’m a little bit excited… Hopefully there’ll be some more of this: As found in a second hand junk shop… hidden behind a rack of clothes for thirty years! I want our front room to look like this when we return: Or maybe…
Little Owl Ski 