Clare Gaylard Glass 

Four artists from our 'Art Around Framlingham Trail' opened our studios to groups of secondary school students yesterday. It's the age group I used to teach and rather miss - when enthusiasm or inspiration takes hold it's a blast.

I'm mesmerised by this 'Shoreline' ring which manages to be both too small AND too large for me.....

Some people recoil when they notice the skulls in my vanitas/ghost king jewellery - not the lady who was drawn into the gallery in Aldeburgh by my ink & watercolour sketch. Before I could explain, she told me that she recognised 'A Warning to the Curious', that it was her favourite ghost story, and that she had brought it to read while in Aldeburgh - it is set in Aldeburgh thinly disguised as 'Seaburgh'. She happily picked herself some vanitas earrings.

Making a ring for the petite daughter who inherited a different set of  genes.... I'm not going to call it an ugly sister moment.

For the lady who came in and said none of the nice rings ever fitted her. Same. 

I make A3 ink & watercolour sketches for myself as I work on themes in glass, they express what I'm thinking about. I like to show them with my glass when I exhibit - I've finally had prints and postcards made up of some so I don't need to refuse sales...

Some 'Shoreline' and 'Rockpool' rings with handmade murrini.

.... and we are only just enjoying Spring - but I'm pleased to find I have been chosen to exhibit my glass at 'Best of British' at Blackthorpe Barn on the last weekend of November and the first of December 2017.

Amazing days at the end of March being properly: 'Comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb'. I took new work to Great Walsingham Gallery and enjoyed the way the sun lit up my 'Buried Treasure' rings.

My excuse is that I was looking at Victorian Valentines......

I'm delighted to have been accepted as a member of The Suffolk Craft Society - I did my Art Foundation course at The Suffolk College in Ipswich about a hundred years ago, so it feels like coming home.

I'm making waves again and just find out that I'm in good company - Beyond the Great Wave, Hokusai at the British Museum, looking forward to this one.

A dusting of snow outside changing the quality of light in my studio.

Last weekend among my visitors there was a first-time, Great-Grandmother to-be, who wanted to mark the baby currently known only as 'Bean'.

A selection of 'Into the Woods' glass, with some new additions, is now at Great Walsingham Gallery and Frame. I'm also working through jetlag to have some of my glass at Laxfield Church December Market this weekend. There will be handmade, vintage and locally produced but come early - the market closes at 12:30! Totems: Company of Wolves and Folk Tale.