New furniture

I hope you all had a very merry Christmas, not quite over yet but soon will be, seems to pass us by quicker these days, oh the joys of getting old!

The chests and accessories above were all created by my wife Pauline, all I did was cut the wood to size and she did the rest, I shall be redundant at this rate.

Lots of ideas to come and all being well I shall be back in the workshop Sunday morning, new frames are now in production, also hopefully make a start on my tudor furniture, I used to make this a few years ago but going to get back in to it again.

 

I will also be adding the fairs on to our website that we hope to do in 2013 over the next couple of weeks, our first will be Stafford in January and then in February we shall be at Stratford.

 

And if I don't post again during this week I hope you all have a wonderul New Year and hope to see some of you at the Fairs.



Autumn Cottage

Afraid nothing new from the workshop at the moment, was busy last week and the past four days have been laid up with a virus, today I have managed to finish the two paintings that were on my board and have to say I am more than pleased with them both.
These are of course miniatures, the top one measures just 2-1/4" x 1-3/4"

I just need time now to make a new stock of frames, for the Balmoral Castle one I have to produce my latest frame, which I hope will be done in time for the Stafford fair which is just over three weeks away, but it's going to be the end of next week before I get back in the workshop.

White Bridge Cottage

Added a few new paintings to my website at harvington.com, with the cold weather I'm spending more time indoors rather than in the workshop, I do not like being cold.

But I am working on some new frames, felt it was about time as the ones I have are now looking a little tired, this is a long process though and they won't be ready till after Christmas, hopefully in time for Stafford.

Pauline is still working on the furniture and hope to have a bit of a selection ready for the Stafford Fair.

Not sure if I will post again before Christmas Day, so if I don't I would like to wish everyone a Happy Christmas, I hope all your dreams come true.

New Ottoman and painting

I'm not posting so much right now, mainly because I haven't been making so much, reason being is that it is blooming cold in my workshop.

I shall be so glad to see the Spring here again!

Not been totally idle though as you can see from the upholstered ottoman above, but I can't take the credit for this, I cut the wood on my table saw, but it was then glued together and upholstered by my wife Pauline.

I may be biased but I like this a lot, there is a lot more furniture to come and all being well on our table at Stafford in January.

But with the cold weather upon us it means I get my watercolours out more, have managed two more over the past week.

The one below, well no prizes for guessing where this scene is.

And my very very latest painting, this is Hilltop, which was the home of Beatrix Potter.
This will be on the Breast Cancer Raffle table at the Thame Miniatures Fair on 23rd Feb 2013.

Woodside Cottage

Well we now have a bit of a break before our next fair, so am doing what I enjoy doing most, painting.

The one above is called 'Woodside Cottage' and adds to my array of cottage paintings, this is where I can let the artist inside me run riot, I love using colours as you can most probably tell with most of my miniatures.

There are a lot more like this on the ideas list installed in my brain.

We had a reasonable fair at the Chateau on Sunday, but nowhere near as good as last year, don't know if it was because we were in a side room, but there didn't seem to be anywhere as near as many visitors.

Hopefully by the time our next fair comes along I will have rebuilt the stand, desperately needs doing now as we have added to our range so much this past year.

Furniture is quite big on our list of ideas.

Red Bridge Cottage

Red Bridge Cottage

Well it's almost Chateau Impney time, just a few days and we shall be exhibiting just up the road at Droitwich, possibly the best venue and fair in the Midlands, it's set in a fairy tale type of Chateau, easy to get to and plenty of parking.

Am busy painting now and restocking my stand till the weekend, there will be plenty of new paintings on my stand, the stand is so different compared to last year, so many new items on display and lots more to come yet.

Perhaps this time next year I shall have to increase the table size!

Supposed to be the last fair of the year for Harvington Miniatures, but may do possibly one more, watch this space.

New tankards

Well I have been quiet the past few weeks, I have had a bad cold and trying to get a bit of stock ready for our next couple of fairs, this Sunday November 11th we are at Nantwich in Cheshire and the following Sunday at the Chateau Impney in Droitwich.

Then it will be two months before the next Fair, which will be at Stafford in Jan 2013.

Lots of ideas will hopefully come to fruition by then.

The two tankards above are the latest addition to our commemorative mugs line, to see our complete range you will have to pop along to one of the fairs we attend, so far we are looking at around 20 fairs for 2013, so guess we are going to be kept busy.