TOP TEN CHARITY SHOP FINDS OF 2011

It's around this time of year that the newspapers
and magazines publish their 'best of the year' selection.
Here are my ten best charity shop buys of 2011.

Beautiful Welsh Blanket to add to my collection.
St.Peter's Hospice

Contemporary ceramic 'coral 'object.
I had been coveting this for a while in a local interiors shop.
Amazingly it turned up in...
Save the Children

Pair of Japanese cups with Eggshell Lithophane 

'Quizzical Geisha' image. I am totally intrigued 

by this method of producing images 

within the clay body giving this ethereal quality.

 I will explore this technique in my future work.

Junk Shop 

West German vase, with wonderful thick lava glaze.
 Carboot Sale

Studio Coffee Pot, hand thrown. Looks scandinavian.
Oxfam

Blue Domino Ware teapot and cruet made by
T.G Green & Co. Ltd.
Salvation Army 

West German Vase 1970's.
Save the Children

'Mr.Wolf' Pelham puppet.
St.Peter's Hospice

Wonderful Welsh blanket cape.
Probably circa 1970's.
St.Peter's Hospice

 'Magic City' storage jars with transferred
 design and wooden
lids, designed by Susan Williams-Ellis
 for Portmeirion in 1966.
Save The Children