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ation last december we held an open day at our shop oh yes something else that has happened we bought a shop in our village it was a french themed day we offered coffee and croissants a prize draw and a selection of quirky things that we had bought in france and then restored it was pleasingly busy we raised over 200 for the marvellous local leukaemia charity leaf who had supported us so well during the three years of illness the shop me with tash founder of leaf charity on the open day so now we ve made this a permanent part of our life we have been so lucky to be able to earn a living doing what we enjoy so it s pay back time we ll be organising two or three events at the shop each year and also making a series of films about the trips we do to find the special bits and pieces for each event i hope you ll enjoy them the link above is just the intro for the films yet to be uploaded the first two episodes show us travelling through four european countries in search of treasure our next open day is on 27th july this year one year and one day since our son died so a memorial to his life maybe we ll see you there posted by kim no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels everyday life leukaemia open days prizes sunday 8 may 2016 life changes it s been a long time since i gave any updates here hope you ll forgive us there have been so many changes in both our business and private life that i don t quite know where to begin we have been overwhelmed with work for the last year or so some very enjoyable and interesting projects like the design of a danish cord seat for a very beautiful rocking chair hand made for the masterpiece exhibition in chelsea it attracted a great deal of interest so much that we have four more similar chairs awaiting seats in the next couple of months we decided not to take part in any exhibitions for a year hoping that we could keep ahead of the workload and maybe take some time off fluggadugga was accepted by the crafts council directory https www craftscouncil org uk directory maker kim ravenscroft elle magazine included former glory in their secret address book and some famous people were photographed by vanity fair under the chiltern firehouse lampshades some fame perhaps but not a lot of fortune necessarily after my last post in july of 2015 we were beginning to enjoy a few weekends away and visits to friends the lovely bonus of not having to work every bank holiday at an exhibition and then at the end of august a bombshell dropped our youngest son had just settled back into a new life here in dorset after a period of working away he started to feel unwell the diagnosis was acute leukaemia it has been a rollercoaster ride over the last eight months or so chemotherapy and cancer treatment in general is very difficult however our son has been a superstar totally positive in attitude he had a brilliant consultant and amazing care in hospital i won t go into detail but thanks to the progress medical science has made our eldest son was found to be a perfect bone marrow stem cell donor so in march of this year our youngest son had a transplant to reboot his faulty system thankfully he is now at home recuperating fingers well and truly crossed for a disease free future there s still a long journey to make back to normal whatever that is but there is a light burning bright at the end of that tunnel how lucky we are to have two such incredible sons sometimes life throws lemons so we make lemonade by the gallon posted by kim 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels antique seat weaving everyday life leukaemia saturday 18 july 2015 more lampshades once again i ve neglected this blog i could blame the amount of work that s being going on life s happenings in general visitors housework any number of things but in truth it s probably because facebook has become the place where i now keep a log of daily life but it s not the same is it so here is the meat on the bones of activities here at fg towers there has been a lot of work in phases as always a batch of rush chairs followed by a set of wegner s wishbones then endless cane work every conceivable thing from a day bed to a sunrise back next it will be four sets of danish chairs all different plus eight various other chairs that s august and september gone no chance of a holiday then we have also finally been able to rebuild the workshop well sort of there s a new felt roof complete with raised twinwall roof lights not a moment too soon as the old corrugated plastic one was leaking and rattling on its fixings in a storm there were a few occasions when i was convinced that the whole thing would rip off and disappear into the garden but it didn t and i m very happy about that we also fitted a new double glazed door to the back wall which is great no more freezing cold easterly wind whistling through the old wooden door and it gives a lovely glow of morning light for the dirty working end of the studio what else oh yes more bespoke woven pieces for design houses i really enjoy this aspect i m loving the creative problem solving needed to imagine and then make something that doesn t already exist keeps the grey matter from fermenting hopefully most requests are for lampshades at the moment but i have a lot more ideas in my head just need the time to do it all now posted by kim no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 14 january 2015 another year i can t believe that it s been over a year since i last blogged it s true what they say time definitely speeds up as you get older it s been a busy year bernard our horsebox moved onto pastures new and will become a glamper quite a fitting retirement really we have hardly had time to leave the workshop and only did two exhibitions all year i also damaged my back early in the year and it took almost two months before i could move without pain so we fell behind schedule which really put the pressure on we started work on the long overdue project to bring our home into the 21st century paint everywhere walls taken down ceilings replaced new windows curtains and carpets basically chaos for months and it s still not finished so what s in store for the new year first thing so far is a new look for the seat weaving supplies website that was a whole week gone the dreaded price increases had to be made courtesy of the fluctuating world currencies there s always some reason why prices have to go up but strangely they never seem to go down i was also thrilled to see this in vogue magazine an article about the chiltern firehouse with two lovely pics of the lampshades i made for the bar they were even mentioned in the editorial but sadly no one knows me so it was the design house that were credited hey ho happy new year posted by kim no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 22 may 2014 andre balazs the chiltern firehouse and my lampshades from dorset to london way back in august last year i received an e mail from a design house asking if i was able to make two bespoke woven lampshades for a new london hotel project they would need to be made to specification and finished by november i would also need to provide pattern samples for their client and the finished items would need to be finished and available by november hmmmmm i thought have i got time to make moulds and have two matching bespoke pieces of weaving made in the timescale and do i really want the hassle well i fancied the idea challenge so said yes i d love to help samples were made and sent off for approval first to the commissioning designers then the architects and finally the client which is a bit unusual i thought my curiosity was up i had no idea who or what these shades were for and why the secrecy weaving techniques sample then a client asked us if we could supply some whole rattan and woven panelling for a bar front in a new london hotel project then someone else asked if we could make dozens of complex woven rush seats for a ceiling feature for you ve guessed it a london hotel project now i m more than curious fortunately the completion deadline for the shades was moved to february which was good because the finalised design was large and complex to weave making the shades meet the exact size shape and ral colour specifications was indeed a challenge each one took virtually a week to make and at times it was hard to explain to the designers why certain things had to be done in a certain way a moderate compromise would be needed they knew exactly what they wanted to achieve in terms of looks but as none weavers the concepts of borders and working with finite lengths of material is a bit tricky to incorporate into a design for example when number one shade was finished i asked if they would like the second one to be woven in the same direction or would they like it to be woven opposite so that they would be a handed pair and sort of face toward or away from each other after explanation the decision was to make them handed well the deed was done and the shades were dispatched to the designers for final approval i was told that the hotel would be opening sometime in february meanwhile we supplied a quantity of special herringbone woven panelling to a client and passed the contact details of some french weaving friends on to the people that wanted dozens of rush woven seat pads for a ceiling i asked the designers if i could possibly have a photo of the lampshades in place and they kindly sent me this chiltern firehouse bar lampshades which is great because although i would love to view them in the flesh in situ this is probably the last i will see of them as they now hang in the much lauded and applauded venue for the famous the chiltern firehouse hotel in marylebone here is the bar front complete with rattan poles and weaving chiltern firehouse bar a lot of hard work but worth it i m proud to be a small part of such a creative and ambitious project from my dorset workshop to the london land of chic seems like a long way away to me have a look at what the times had to say here http howtospendit ft com destinations 54823 the chiltern firehouse reborn posted by kim 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels baskets rattan cane sunday 9 february 2014 a whirlwind of weaving and weather well the weather has been pretty awful here since before christmas constant rain and incredibly strong winds have bought some areas of dorset to a standstill even here where we live in east dorset the fire brigade and police had to rescue a number of residents from their mobile homes in a boat the homes were only a few hundred yards from a main dual carriageway which also became flooded and impassable when the fire brigade pumped the water onto the road to move it away from the mobile home park amazing and unprecedented flooding is everywhere trees have been brought down blocking roads or damaging property driving has been hazardous as the weather has swung from hail and rain to bright sun that at this time is so low in the sky that it causes dazzling reflections on the road surface there are definitely some benefits to working from home so a quick round up of activity we ve had quite a few bucket seats to reweave these are very beautiful but they take an age to restore this first one has blind caning a type of weave where the canework is woven strand by strand into the perimeter holes and then plugged in place the holes are only drilled half way into the chair frame so that the weaving doesn t show on the back of the chair time consuming doesn t begin to describe it then there is this one not blind canework but still very awkward to weave the last captains chair has a standard cane seat no problems there but sadly it also needed to be paint stripped re glued bleached and refinished before weaving could even start i don t know where all the time went posted by kim 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 30 december 2013 the last six childrens chairs for christmas well here we are coasting up to another new year i hope that it will be a happy healthy and prosperous one for everyone so to end 2013 another festive half dozen chairs and bears to celebrate gromit climbing on an 1870 s cane seated chair big bear and pink bear kylie yes a joke present from my son next to a porch woven american rocking chair young sweep on a recently finished colourful painted chair shawn the sheep climbing on a william morris rush chair the oldest bear on the oldest chair ted sitting on an 18th century bodgers ash chair and finally lovely old sweep contemplating the christmas tree from an arts and crafts rush seated armchair hope you ve all had a great christmas and we wish you all good things for the coming year posted by kim 1 comment email this blogthis share to x 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