Click here to see where Scooter has travelled so far! Help Get Scooter Around the World in 80 Days! Enter our Photo Competition and help Scooter the fused glass Penguin get as many places ticked off his ‘exploring the world’ bucket list as possible in the next 80 days. He has already set off on …
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Age is just a number… So what’s all this #pinkhouseten stuff all about? It’s simple. As of the beginning of July 2022, we will have been in the iconic Pink House for ten years. We can’t quite believe it has been that long, and the decade has gone in the blink of an eye. But …
The Origins of Our ‘JOHN CONNEELY’S SHEEP’ Wall Panel It was as a dull and thoroughly unremarkable day in Birmingham, as the suburban sky moved sluggishly through more than fifty shades of grey towards evening, when it hit me. I’d been sitting, looking out of the workshop window onto a forlorn cityscape of unvariegated sullenness. …
All Along The Wild Atlantic Way I’ve finished another large fused glass wall panel. Entitled ‘Waves of Connemara’, this panel – at 600 x 900mm (24” x 36” approx) – represents the largest single piece of glass our biggest kiln can accommodate. It is the third in a series under this name, each different but …
I was driving home from the shop just before Christmas when I noticed a clutch of shiny new signs by the roadside. Now, I’d already heard that the people who look after such things had been causing a bit of a kerfuffle locally. Lots of new shiny directional signs were going to be put up, I’d learned, to …
None of us here at Connemara Blue have the current skills needed to help in the front-line battle against Covid-19. However, we decided that we wanted to express our gratitude to those who have – and to say a big ‘thank you’ (in the only way we know how) to those who are serving our …
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“Displacement behaviour occurs when an animal experiences conflicting drives, which in some cases is called approach–avoidance conflict. The animal may do something irrelevant, such as scratch or preen, in these situations.” Michael D. Breed, Janice Moore, in Animal Behaviour (Second Edition), 2016 In the first part of this story I recalled how, late last year, my lovely clients Pam and Mark O’Loughlin …
This is the first question I asked Pam and Mark O’Loughlin Doyle as they stood gaping, open mouthed, at my obvious incomprehension. They had just asked me, “Can you make a gold loonyoula in glass for us?” To be fair, the term did stir some long-since dormant neurons of mine into half opening an eye …
Sometimes love is a grower. This year Connemara Blue has made some great new friends. Meet Greg, Ann and Simon from California. Their special relationship with the West of Ireland has been steadily growing over the last few years. Greg and Ann discovered Connemara Blue about four years ago on a day trip from Cornamona …