Welcome everyone to 2011! What’s in store for this year from Kat Zahran Jewellery then? LOTS!

Firstly, i have taken up a spot at the Farnham Maltings Monthly Market. The monthly market is one of the oldest and largest monthly markets in Surrey and Hampshire. It has been going for over 40 years and draws approximately 200 stallholders from all over the UK. First Saturday in every month. Next market is Sat 5th Feb - come along for a lovely way to spend a Saturday - 9.30 -4.30. Farnham  Maltings, Bridge Square, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7QR 

Secondly, Kat will be joinign the I Love Art initiative again (31st April - 13 May) at the wonderful seafront venue of the Fishing Quarter Gallery for the Brighton May Open Houses Festival. More details will follow in due course.

Applications have been made for other exhibitions later in 2011 and more information will arrive shortly!

I am also about to add lots of new products to the MBHOB website….

It’s Voting time for the Craft and Design Awards 2012

I won the Silver Award last year, please help me make it a Gold this year by following the link and Voting for my jewellery!!

 http://www.craftmaker.co.uk/lucysylvester/

Thank you!!!

 Very excited to have been awarded the Silver Award in the Craft and Design Awards for 2011.

My work has been featured in their magazine and printed on the Craft and design calander for 2012.

You can find out about the awards by visting their website.

www.craftanddesign.net

www.craftmaker.co.uk

Thank you to all those who voted for me!  X

We had a busy and somewhat emotional holiday weekend sorting through much neglected stored possessions.

Helped by old cookery books, lovely verdigris garden candle holders, and lace tablecloths we recalled shared meals in candlelit gardens, under starry, tropical skies from a much travelled past.

We discovered long forgotten treasures, briefly reliving family holidays making Mr Lazy’s Lemonade from the stained pages of The Mr Men Cookbook.

A small ebony carving brought memories flooding back of the magic and excitement of seeing the ‘big five’, elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo, leopard, and lion and the smaller but no less significant rock hyrax and tiny dikdiks in the Serengeti. Remembering too, the fish eagles, small sunbirds and the lively, social weaver birds with their wonderful intricate nests, living in their own cities in the trees! We visited many game parks regularly over the years and their wild occupants never ceased to amaze and thrill.

The reader may view this with some cynicism and disbelief and dismiss it as romantic tosh … of course there were mosquitoes, creepy-crawlies and very scary happenings, but we like to remember the best bits and they were fantastic!

 A wonderful discovery of a silver rickshaw presented as a leaving gift in Bangladesh.