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So long since I posted. I forgot! Today has been rainy so a bored Anna has been amusing herself taking crazy selfies. #catsofinstagram #tabbycat #crazypets #northumberland Read more

Oh, it’s ages since I added anything onto the grid! Here’s some earrings I made the other day now gone off in the post for someone’s Read more

I still have all these earrings in my cabinet at the moment, in case anyone is interested in shopping! They are in my shop at www.jillstewart.co.uk Read more

I have made a few more creatures for our Open Studios at the weekend. This big bird… #jillstewart #thehearthartscentre #birdsofinstagram #hearthwinterfair #handmadegifts #visitnorthumberland

I took this pic of a peacock butterfly in July I think, and now that it is November and dark all the time I can’t believe Read more

It’s our Open Studios event at at The Hearth in two weeks time. I make a few one-off items to sell in my studio, usually involving Read more

When I was away down South I went to see the Sandham Chapel bear Newbury, which is the chapel full of Stanley Spencer’s paintings around his Read more

I’m all set up @farnhammaltings Festival of Craft now. I left my phone on the stand overnight and I was so uncomfortable being unsure where it Read more

Did you know that the different colours of my clocks come from heating the different metals? Here, the copper curly branch and wing became red, the Read more

My small metal menagerie today.

Here’s two of the pendants finished that were just metal pieces the other day. They are going to @newbreweryarts I think!

I haven’t quite finished the pendants from yesterday but I have been doing an awful lot of sitting at this workbench. #northumberland #northernmakers #jewellerymakeruk #handmademetal #handmadegift Read more