a little giveaway over at our new blog

we are having a little giveaway over at our new blog
(this is now our old blog, so we won't be posting here anymore)

to be in with a chance of winning
simply visit our new blog,
add yourself as a follower over at the new blog
and read our little giveaway post for instructions.

our new blog:
http://pachadesignjournal.blogspot.com

good luck!

our new blog and a little giveaway

we're moving .... well, this little blog of ours is.
we have done a little spring cleaning and
will be posting from this new address from now on -
www.pachadesignjournal.blogspot.com

we hope that you will continue to read & follow our new blog
and, if you have us in your blog lists, please change it to the
new address, thankyou.

to celebrate the move & the new look, we'll be having a little
giveaway soon - it will be open to all (but those in the followers list
of the new blog will have an extra chance).

we are going to leave this blog up for a while, but this will be
our last post here - hope to see you all over at the new place.

thankyou monica

the lovely Monica from one of our favourite blogs of paper & things,
did a feature on our work - what a lovely lovely surprise,
thankyou Monica.

where did a month go ?

sorry for not posting for a while - we didn't mean to miss a month!
we've had lots going on and a few changes coming up.

this is what we have been doing over the last 4 weeks:

glenn broke his wrist
the cast came off last week but he still can't work yet
I cut the end of my finger off
(well a bit of it) it's healing now
making lantern orders
slower than usual (due to my finger)
posting off website orders
(thankyou for buying our work)
sorting out our stock room ....
organization finally
catching up on loads of paperwork
(glenn can't wait to get back to the workshop now!)
planning a new exhibition for early 2011 .....
we are really excited about it - details at a later date
finalized details with a couple of new stockists ....
details soon
and sorting out a few changes
more about that very soon too
and quite a bit more
but this list would get too long

how has the last month been for you ?

louise loder

we love these tools & vessels by louise loder

a mix of silver, driftwood and beach find,
the objects are beautiful in their simplicity




www.louiselodersilver.co.uk

wilson a. bentley - snowflakes

Wilson A. Bentley was the first person to capture the image
of a single snowflake with a camera



fascinated with snowflakes, Bentley rigged up a microscope
to a bellows camera and took images of individual snowflakes

the year was 1885 and the technology became known as
photomicrography




in 1931, Bentley's groundbreaking book "Snow Crystals", recorded
the beautiful designs and fragility of 2,500 snowflakes



"under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles
of beauty; & it seemed a shame that this beauty should not
be seen & appreciated by others.
every crystal was a masterpiece of design, & no one design
was ever repeated.
when a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost."

a few weeks after his book was published, Wilson A. Bentley,
walking through a blizzard, caught pneumonia and died.


{read & see more here}

work and snow

we have had a strange couple of weeks
and missing the snow a little now.
it made everything look bigger.

we've been busy with designs (mainly for commissions)
and tax returns (finally all finished), posting off orders
and talking to a couple of new interesting contacts about our work.

and working on some new stuff ..... let you know soon.


{image: snow copyright © pachadesign 2010}

new on our website

we have put our lamps and our oak and slate coffee table
that were featured in the latest Country Homes & Interiors
magazine on our website now




www.pachadesign.co.uk

country homes & interiors mag feb '10

as promised, here are some of the other images from the
Nature's Beauty photoshoot for Country Homes & Interiors magazine
that some of our work was used in,
with our slate & oak coffee table on the cover!

also included in the photos is our reclaimed oak & slate lamps,
our medium size reclaimed slate portrait mirrors
and our leaf lanterns.


thanks again to stylist Carol Wortley-Bishop,
styling assistant Tamara Kelly
and photographer Lucinda Symons.

to see more, the feb '10 issue is out to buy now and you can
check out the editor Rhonda Parry's blog here

snowed in

we have been well and truly snowed in all week.

the sun is out this morning
so we think it's going to melt soon & we can
then attempt to get out of our steep snowy driveway.
we have a few orders that should be posted
so hopefully we can get to the post office today.


if we can't get out, glenn has to finish designs for commissions
and I have lantern orders to get done - it's too cold for the
workshop today, so we'll stack up the woodburner,
stay indoors & keep warm.


we have a few more thankyou's to everyone that mentioned
our work over the last month - we spied our leaf lanterns
and other pieces on quite a few blogs, thankyou very much:
anastasia & paul at design squish, landscapegoat,
brittni at paper n stitch, kathryn, amor fati,
isa at blueberry fields, luisella at lulu thinks,
alysia at blue hour designs, lisa at lou lou & oscar,
liza at postcards from colorado and here.

{let us know if we have missed anyone}

{images: snow set all copyright © pachadesign 2010}

new years day

a few images from our new years day walk

{p.s. we are snowed in today}


{images: new years day walk set copyright © pachadesign 2010}

a sneak peek

here is a little sneak peek at the photoshoot from the feb '10
issue of Country Homes & Interiors magazine -
the shoot took place back in oct '09 in a lovely house
in the cotswolds and our cornish slate & oak coffee table
was used, along with our reclaimed oak & slate lamp.
{a few other pieces of ours were used too - more details soon}

the feb '10 issue will be on sale 7th jan,
so we will show you more then.
{& details of the table & lamp will be on our website later this week}

2010

*happy new year*

{a day late, sorry}


we hope you all had a beautiful xmas & new years
thanks for all your xmas greetings.
we didn't wake up to snow on xmas day like we wished for
but it did snow a little last night.
it's a beautiful sunny clear day here in Welcombe today
so most of the snow has melted already, oh well.

we have a busy 2010 planned, lots of new projects and
lots to tell you about!

enjoy your weekend


{image: new years day '10 copyright © pachadesign 2010}

xmas eve

it's xmas eve and we were hoping for snow today ....
maybe if we wish hard enough, we will wake up xmas morning
to a beautiful snowy white wonderland
{we'll let you know}

in the meantime, it's been lovely & sunny today but so chilly,
everything feels cold and still and blue .....

thankyou for all your support this year
and we will see you in 2010.

have a beautiful xmas & new years

sammy & glenn


{images: sammy}

sammy's wish: shiny & golden

a collection of beautiful shiny golden pieces
that have caught my eye


Plan B Cable Tie Ring Kit
by Ambre France

instructions for use:
Plan A*
1. Fall in Love
2. Get Married
3. Live happily ever after
*If Plan A fails resort to Plan B

Plan B
1. Cut ALL ties


Golden Jubilee Rings
adjustable jubilee clip rings
by Ambre France


gold plated metal vessels
by Adi Toch


left: hand carved oval Hawaiian black coral band
and brushed oval gold band
right: cloud ring
by Christina Odegard {at Matin Gallery}


left: cluster ring
right: puddle ring
by Christina Odegard {at Matin Gallery}

thankyou Lynne

what a lovely surprise today! - looking through posts at some of our
favourite blogs, we saw that we had been featured
on Tea For Joy by the lovely Lynne.

we have been following Lynne's blog for a while now and she

features some great stuff, including some really nice
British made work.

you can take a look at the post {here}

thankyou Lynne!

our last posting days for xmas

here are our last posting days for xmas:



for posting outside of the uk,
please contact us

www.pachadesign.co.uk

the weekend

a huge thankyou to everyone that came to visit
us at the weekend.
we hadn't opened our studio at xmas time before
and were a little worried that if the weather
was bad we wouldn't get that many visitors.

but the sun came out and it was a lovely fresh winter weekend.
we made mince pies, little lemon biscuits &
orange with cinnamon bicsuits and mulled wine
which everyone enjoyed.



lots of xmas presents were brought - our leaf lanterns,
oak chopping/serving boards, reclaimed cornish slate mirrors,
oak tea-light blocks, reclaimed cornish slate clocks
& more - so we had a really successful weekend.



the xmas open studio was our last event of this year
but you can still buy from our website {here}
or buy our work from exhibitions {here}

thanks again to everyone that visited!

thanks lily

we wanted to say thanks to Lily at Les carnets du design
for including us in her latest post
"Ideas for Christmas"

Lily features some beautiful finds on her blog and
has posted 4 lovely selections for xmas ideas so far.

you can check out her blog {here}

thanks Lily!

our xmas open studio ..... so far

we thought we'd show you a few pictures we took yesterday
of our xmas open studio here in Welcombe.
it was a beautiful sunny winter's day, quite chilly but we
had plenty of mince pies, snowflake biscuits & mulled wine
to keep our visitors warm.

we were open yesterday until 6pm, so as it got dark we put
little candles in jars everywhere and a few faery lights here & there.
it looked quite magical.



this morning is just as sunny and we are making another
batch of mince pies & biscuits, the mulled wine will
be ready for 11am too.


we will be open until 4pm today
hope you can visit us.

{click here for details}