A Very Dark Place

8:32am: Lovely day for the beach
Just getting ready to head down to my craft fair at Portobello Town Hall, it's on from 10am to 5pm.

Had to take a quick pause though, I've been out on the balcony enjoying the sunshine. What a great day for a trip to the beach!

If you are heading to Portobello Beach, why not drop in and say hi to all us crafters stuck inside on such a lovely day.


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11:15pm: Sloan Markets Glasgow
Just wanted to give people a little heads up about Sloan Markets that runs every weekend at the courtyard outside Sloan's Bar (and in the Ballroom on Saturday).

From their Website:

"Scotland’s best independent traders line the lane running from Buchanan Street to Argyll Street every weekend to showcase their products and create the visual feast that is Sloans Market. Saturday sees the grand ballroom in Sloans Bar taken over by an additional 15 indoor stalls.

Encompassing a wide range of goods from bespoke jewellery, delicious food, unique clothing and legacy gifts, Sloans Market offers a variety of unique items that cannot be found in high street stores."

It's on from 11am to 5pm every weekend and if you head along this Saurday you can say Hi to me and have a look at my range of Murano and Hand Blown glass jewellery. See my website for a few examples.

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2:38pm: Craft Fairs in Glasgow
If anyone is a fan of buying hand made goods in Glasgow and also happens to be a Facebook traitor like me, click the cut.

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2:25pm: Craft Fairs in Edinburgh
If anyone is a fan of buying hand made goods in Edinburgh and also happens to be a Facebook traitor like me, click the cut.



I set up a Facebook group to help crafters and local people find out about what craft fairs are on in Edinburgh. I've listed masses of craft fairs as evenst and I'll be giving fans a reminder before they happen so you won't miss any hand crafted goodness.

I'd been doing a lot of research on what craft fairs I was going to be showing at with my own jewellery and I thought I might as well share the results of my work. I've listed all the craft fairs I've found, but there are new fairs getting announced all the time and some are quite hard to come across. So if you know about one that isn't listed please add it on.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Edinburgh-Craft-Fairs/59985333917

4:05am: Memage

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10:24pm: Out of the Blue Arts Market
I've got a table at the Out of the Blue Arts Market in Leith tomorrow.

It's on from 11am right through to 7pm at:

Out of the Blue
The Drill Hall
36 Dalmeny Street
Edinburgh
EH6 8RG

Why not come along and say hello and see what I make. To see a little selection of my work you can look at my website here:

http://www.hearts-of-glass.co.uk

I'll be sharing a table with another glass artist called Magda, and you can see some of her work on her website here:

http://www.magartis.com

Hope to see you there,

Gordon

10:14pm: Valentine's Jewellery Fair
I'm getting all ready for my first craft fair tonight. I'm awfully excited and a little nervous. If you are in the area, why not drop in and see me and the massive selection of pretty things that will be on sale.

Date: 07 February 2009

Time: 10:30 - 16:30

Location:
Columcille Centre, Morningside
2 Newbattle Terrace, EH10 4RT
Edinburgh, United Kingdom


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10:09pm: Mmmmm.... Kitten!
http://www.kamikazecookery.com/blogs/119

I know what I'm having for tea tomorrow night :-)

10:19pm: Harcore Foodie Gift List
Hugh has posted up a great list of gifts for the hardcore foodie. Save yourself some time this christmas and check it out (oh, and I'm not kidding about "hardcore", some of this stuff is pretty extreme).

http://www.kamikazecookery.com/blogs/90

9:23pm: Stunned!!!
Wow...

I was wondering where I was seeing a couple of weeks with highly increased traffic and I've finally found out where it's coming from.

The people that make my shopping cart system over at http://www.wosbee.com have named me shop of the week! This is the second time they have done it and they haven't told me either time :-)

What a nice pre christmas present :-)

6:56pm: Mythbusting: Herbal Teas!
It's episode time! And this week, Alex doesn't believe that herbal teas are anything other than hippie nonsense - so he's testing them with the aid of computer games. Will camomile counteract the irritating powers of World of Warcraft's Warsong Gulch? Will Ginkgo make him RAWKKK more in Guitar Hero? Find out here.

http://www.kamikazecookery.com/films/12

9:55pm: Kamakazi Kookery
Just watched the latest webisode of Kamikaze Cookery.

Much cooking goodness :-)

Go pay them a visit here:

http://www.kamikazecookery.com/

or try this little taster:

8:11am: Last Chance!!!!

10:03pm: Last few days remaining!

11:09pm: Site Launch Postmortem
I've written up a bit of a postmortem on the launch of my jewellery website and how things have gone over the past three weeks. Anyone who has or is thinking about starting their own webshop may find it interesting. ( Cut for length )

5:25pm: October Featured Items Now Available!

2:38pm: Browser display problems
I've had reports from someone that they can't get my website to load on their mac. She doesn't know what browser she is using, but from what I've heard it's likely IE5 due to it's quirkyness. I'd appreciate any feedback on either IE5 or SAFARI though.

Any mac users out there willing to take a quick look and see if it displays?

http://www.hearts-of-glass.co.uk

Oh, and if it doesn't...

... a screenshot would be really helpful.

8:26pm: LOL - Cooking show made by some mates

1:13am: Share The Joy
In case anyone fancies sharing the good news about the opening of my webiste, here's the code to post up my little advert.

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A friend of mine has just launched his own jewellery website selling all sorts of pretty glass and crystal. Please take a look.<p>

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12:20am: Grand Opening Offer!

7:24pm: For all you americans

10:23pm: Bold = Yup.
Strike = Hell, no.
Italic = Really Should.

1. Venison
2. Nettle Tea - Had Nettle Cordial, which is really nice.
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart - In central park while watching baseball
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans (Darn fine, like most Cajun/Creole food)
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O (and vodka melon)
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake - Tim Hortons during the SARS holiday
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant. - It wasn't at the time, but it is now
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate - I have a chocolate tasting club membership :-)
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor - I really like my lobster with a little butter and nothing else.
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Basically, a trip to the deep south followed by a trip to mexico should let me finish this list a lot more thoroughly :-)

7:04pm: More Jewellery Stuff!!!
Well, one item is sold.

Three more ending tonight.

Wish me luck :-)

Auctions Ending Within The Hour!!!	Green Murano Heart £36.99	Beaten Silver Heart £14.99	Gold/Amethyst Small Murano Heart £21.99

8:37pm: Jewellery Making
Some of you may be aware that I've been making jewellery recently. I've really been enjoying the technical accuracy required to turn something from a random assortment of parts into something I would like my wife to wear. I also love buying the parts as well, shopping for glass is great fun (if slightly dangerous to the bank balance)

Anyway, my first pieces are now complete and I've decided to list them up on ebay and see if anyone else thinks they are as pretty as I think they are.

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7:28pm: Peter Rasmussen
Peter Rasmussen passed away earlier today. He wasn't someone I knew well. In fact I think it's been over four years since I spoke to him.

I first had contact with him back when I was working on Machinima.com back in 2001. He'd contacted us to see if we would host his first machinima film Rendevous. Both Hugh and Myself were totally blown away by it and were keen to do a feature on it. He was great to work with and I always enjoyed my conversations with him.

Of all the machinima creators, he was one of the few that I made a point of looking for whan I fancied watching something. He will be a great loss to the Machinima community and my thoughts go out to his friends and family. I only wish I had managed to both meet him in person and get to know him better.

You can see some of his excellent films here:

http://www.nanoflix.net/