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A Good Read, Another Angel and A Word

My dear sister recommended a book for me that she said was an ‘uplifting read’ especially for moments in life when an uplift is needed. It certainly has that feeling and is beautifully written. I love the philosophy of live this one life well and look after each other.

I am delighted with today’s angel. (I won’t show you everything I make, I promise! I am just so pleased to find I can still make a decent job of it.)

I came across a new word today –snudge. It’s a verb from as in to snudge along, that is to be walking along, looking downwards as if totally engrossed in something. It made me think of those who walk about with their phones missing all the beautiful glimmers of magic that are all around us. I found it while browsing The Horologicon by Mark Forsyth.

Pink, Glass and A Poem

25 Oct

The wind and rain have beaten down the Hesperantha, sometimes called River Lily, but not destroyed them.

I soldered the glass pieces I showed you the other day and am pleased with the result after so long of not working with the materials.

The following poem by Mary Oliver was new to me. I like it.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 25, 2026 in art, environment, garden, glass, nature, poetry, Postaday 2026, quotations, Uncategorized

Tags: Poetry Lovers, recycled glass

Film, Glass and A Poem

23 Oct

Sometime ago, dear friends, on hearing that we had never seen Cinema Paradiso, sent us the dvd. Sadly, our dvd player was not working so we didn’t see the film for a while. We recently bought a new player and today, being a wild, wet and windy one with an amber storm warning in place, seemed a good afternoon to settle down and watch.
What a very special treat we have been missing!

Thank you, K&A

My morning was happily spent with glass, this time a sun-catcher made from red glass that friends gave me a few years ago, a lovely heart-shaped piece of sea glass sent by a lovely blog friend and an old earring, again, a donation from a friend. I love making beauty out of love.

Awaiting soldering

My lovely Mr S has been feeding next door’s cats for the last few days and I remembered this charming poem, My Cats by Charles Bukowski.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 23, 2026 in art, friendship, poetry, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Tags: Charles Bukowski, cinema paradiso

Autumn Colours, Fuchsia and An Angel

22 Oct

Waiting to go into choir today and looking along the Penryn River, I loved the autumn colours on this yacht.

The fuchsia plants that grow in Cornish hedges are still in flower and very lovely.

Going to my pottery classes has stirred up my creative juices again and though I think more pottery is not really for me – I have enjoyed the pottery adventure and am very happy to have tried a new skill.
I have unpacked all my glass and equipment today and have cut a couple of angels and foiled the parts for one. Choosing the bits of jewellery from my charity shop finds is always fun.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 22, 2026 in art, Cornwall, craft, environment, glass, nature, Penryn, Postaday 2026

Tags: stained glass angels, stained glass art

The Concert, The Book and The Song

19 Oct

The Inglehearts’ Anniversary Concert last night was a blast! We had a couple of standing ovations, there were tears and laughter and the joy in the room was palpable. Amazingly, we raised £1000.00 to be shared between our two charities, ShelterBox and Community Roots. What a generous audience they were.

Our wonderful committee have been working hard for months putting together a photo-book full of twenty years of singing for Claire. Here are a couple of the pages for you to see.

A very talented member of our choir wrote new words for the much-loved song ‘Cornwall My Home’ by the Cornish singer and song writer, Harry Glasson, who very kindly gave his permission to sing his tune with R’s words. Here I give you the chorus:

But I’ll always remember as time moves along
The love and the laughter that goes with the songs
With good times aplenty and sad times a-few
When you’re part of our choir, our choir’s part of you.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 19, 2026 in art, Celebration, charity, community, Cornwall, friendship, gigs, Happiness, History, Postaday 2026, ShelterBox

Tags: community roots, Harry Glasson

Sgraffito and the Concert

18 Oct

I spent a happy afternoon doing sgraffito on four of my pots. I am no artist but I did have fun. It’ll be very interesting to see how they turn out. I’ll return them to the studio tomorrow and they’ll be fired soon. We’ll be collecting on November 7th!

More about the concert, which was a huge success, tomorrow.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 18, 2026 in art, ceramics, community, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Tags: pottery

Marmalade, The Collector and Sunset

17 Oct

This morning I made marmalade, still needing labels.

This afternoon I decorated the ten pots I’ve made in my pottery lessons. They’ll be fired in the week and we’ll collect in a couple of weeks – photos then if they are okay!

This evening we have been to a wonderful production, The Collector, that was moving and funny, full of imagination and of love. It was basically an homage to our dear friend, Bill Mitchell. It’s on at The Ladder in Redruth for a few more weeks.

On the way to the theatre the sunset sky was very lovely.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 17, 2026 in art, Cornwall, environment, History, nature, Postaday 2026, Redruth, theatre

Tags: Bill Mitchell, Bill Mitchell artistic director, The Ladder

Rainbow, Post Box Topper and Hydrangea Blooms

16 Oct

Such a beautiful October afternoon, we drove to Falmouth, around Castle Drive, had ice-creams at Pendennis Point and then there was a rainbow with the ends in the sea.

There’s a delightful new postbox topper on our street, ready for Hallowe’en.

Next door to the post box is a garden where the hydrangeas have done much better in the summer drought than ours have. These photos are for our dear friend, P, who loves these flowers.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 16, 2026 in art, Cornwall, craft, environment, Falmouth, knitting, nature, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery

13 Oct

We had a few hours in Truro between appointments today, 9 am and 12 noon, and visited the Museum and Art Gallery where there is a new exhibition I’ve been wanting to see, Art Any Way.

In the gallery was one of David Kemp’s Tinners’ Hounds, known affectionately as Welly Dog (See here for our very own Welly Dog), work by Terry Shaul, Julian Christophers (a favourite local artist) and many more. Enjoy this small selection from the gallery.

Julian Christophers

Terry Shaul

When we arrived there was a family sitting on bean bags and story telling going on in front of a very beautiful paper sculpture. Not wanting to take photos of strangers or disturb the scene to ask, here is the paper sculpture and I leave you to imagine the lovely scene we came across.

I wish I know the maker to credit here.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 13, 2026 in art, Cornwall, embroidery, painting, Postaday 2026, sewing, textiles, Truro

Card, Kindness and Hoodie

08 Oct

Our dear friends at Community Roots have missed me on our Tuesday volunteering sessions and have sent me a delighful card full of lovely get well messages.