I found this today whilst browing for something else!  I was blown away by how beautiful it was.  That looks like what my brain feels like at times!!! Go have a look at this lovely persons blog.

http://charlottesdays.blogspot.com/search/label/ART

Valentine time is nearly here, just a month to go so it's time to start thinking!  I will be posting lots of lovey, dovey prettyful things to the new Valentine page over the next few days so go have a look.  Made with love for the ones you love.

I found this pretty vintage valentine on pinterest, couldn't resist!

Thought you might like to see a wee comission I completed for a very lovely lady,  It is a gift for a ruby wedding, the flower is a lovely deep red, ruby red glass..it is surrounded by little copper love hearts.  Prettyful.

If you ever have a comission idea, run it by me, I love a challenge. x

I did this just for fun,  If I super zoom in on some of my pieces of glass the imagesbecome quite abstract.  Can you guess what they are?

I found this photo on a friends facebook page. I am sorry I don't know where it came from but it is beautiful, the colours, the shape they make, the tenderness, the natural instinct of the mother, the completeness of this little group,.......................... must go cuddle my children. xx

I want to point you all to a great website that supports. lists and advertises Scottish makers.  Organised into catergories  it is easy to look through and find your perfect Christmas presents, all handmade which has to be good..............and you will find prettyful.co.uk on it too. 

Go have a look here is the link.....

http://www.shop-scotland.com/

How lovely is this, it is by an American artist Amy Rice, She has a flikr account with lovely free downloads, well worth a look. XX

I have just updated the page on my site explaining what dichroic glass actually is, have a wee look.  How it is made is truly fascinating.  What I didn't explain is that it is made on a round piece of glass!  A  whole sheet of dichroic glass still as a circle is oh ! so ! expensive, but looks beautiful a work of art in intself without doing anything to it.

Click on this link to see all the fun things you can do at the Traquair Fair,  Prettyful will be there, soooooooo looking forward to it, looks like fun.

 http://www.traquair.co.uk/content/traquair-fair

My Little helper !!!

Here is a prettyful pendant made for a very patient lady who had to wait a loooooooooooooong time for the colour of glass she wanted to come back in stock.  Patience is a virtue it worked well I think :-)

 A prettyful garden for a prettyful lady with an awkward window !

This piece of fused glass was comissioned by a lady at the Newbattle Celtic Fair. She has a very high small window in her bathroom that needs a bit of joushing up ( a made up word!)

I am looking forward to seeing it in situ!

Totally tropical was what it was in the craft tent at gardening Scotland!  I don't think I have ever been so hot in my life!!   Much ice cream had to be eaten in an attempt to keep cool!!!

Apart from the heat and the abrupt return to normal Scottish weather on Saturday and Sunday, Prettyful had a great weekend at Ingliston.  I  met as usual lots of new lovely crafters and  lots of prettyful things went home to new homes,  the sneak preview decorative glass has gone!  along with many of its brothers and sisters!!

I carried a camera with me for 3 days and never got around to taking a photograph !!

A sneak preview of the glass panels I have been working on for Gardening Scotland next weekend !  scrummy or what !!!!!

Well Newbattle celtic fair was a hoot! The suns shone for us which alone was amazing after all the bad weather we have had.  I had daisies growing around my table can I say any more!  And what an interesting bunch of people, breton dancing, facepainting, storytelling, poetry and scrummy food!  A good day for all.  WE had our photos taken by Midlothian Tourist Board!!  Here is my lovely daughter Maeve who was my able assistant for the day.  Prettyful

Not a prettyful thing but how lovely are these!!    Fitflop sandals with Libery fabric, to die for! -- fetch my credit card quick.

Why Prettyful!

Its a silly word my kids used when they were little, you know the kind, silly family words that only mean something to you.  Well it was but it seems that they have invented it along with millions of others as I come accross it now and again.  It is a nice word though..  I have developed a wee problem with it though.  If I am typing the word pretty now I often type prettyf !  So if you see it as you wander through the site forgive me. 

2 minute biog of me!

My name is Audrey, I live in Clackmannanshire Scotland.  I am the Mummy of Prettyful which was born out of necessity due to the large amounts of glass stuff piling up in the house !!!!

I am always making something or other, always have been.  I loved art at school and this led me to going to college in Sheffield doing a degree in silvermithing and jewellery.  Loved it great city,  used to drink in the same bar as Matin Fry of ABC. (my claim to fame)

After having a business selling silver through craft fairs and galleries for a few years I ended up in teaching.  I taught Art and Design to High school pupils throughout Glasgow, Again loved it and the kids.

Now I make prettyful things for you!  I sell through my website, facebook and folksy, craftfairs and a few galleries.  Prettyful is just a year old so it is still early days.

I hope you like my pretty things, keep in touch