Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

 Copper Bell using Hadar's Clay  Last January I listed my goals for year 2012 as: I will have fun doing whatever I am doing. I will experiment with new techniques and share them. And I’m very pleased to say I accomplished them.   In fact, I think I will continue them for 2013! Having fun doing whatever I’m doing is pretty easy.   I’m at the age that “If it isn’t fun, why would I do it?   And if I have to do it anyway, I might as well make it fun.” Experimenting with new techniques turned out to be a mixed bag.   I experimented with polymer clay and became known as the “Button Baroness”.   (I laugh about that).   I have several mixed metal, silver metal clay and polymer pieces on consignment in two cities.   (Amazing myself).   New tools have made experimenting easier and fun.   The copper bell really tinkles!   And somewhere this year I signed up to take Hadar’s   artinsilver.com/ class in Tucson in February 2013 using her powdered clay and learning new

Wishing you a Merry Christmas And A Wonderful New Year

Over the years and many moves later, I’m cleaning out my current master closet.   It is a long narrow closet with shelves and more room than I’m used to having.   That is where the ‘family boxes’ were stored when we moved to this house.   Those boxes have not been opened for a number of years for one reason or another.   Now I have time,   a vintage etsy store and not many family members who are interested in the contents.   http://www.lindabrittdesign.blogspot.com/2012_11_01_archive.html Last month I came across the box of ladies handkerchiefs.   This week I opened a box of crocheted and knitted children’s clothes.   Not many items, but enough to revive the stories in my memory.    My mother had a pen-pal in England and they shared letters, stories and sent gifts.   This brown hand-knitted dress was one of those gifts for me as a little girl.   The pen-pal in England was a woman, a wife, a mother who had twin boys and I wonder what my mother sent to them.   I also wonde