One of the trustees from Redfern's museum, contacted me a while back and asked if I'd like to sell some of my work in their museum shop. It's taken me a while to get my act together but today at last they have taken delivery of a batch of assorted brooches.
It is a tiny little museum run entirely by volunteers after the council decided they no longer could afford to run it. I had a quick guided tour and learned quite a lot about Uttoxeter that I didn't know
prior to my visit to scout out the place. I dont think I've ever been into Uttoxeter town centre before,despite it only being only 18 miles away. Which is a shame as I found it to be a lovely little town with lots of old interesting buildings and shops. The Saturday I visited there was a small market and some live entertainment next to the war memorial in the market place.
The museum itself features information about local famous people like Mary Howitt who wrote the well known and slightly chilling poem about the spider and the fly which starts
"Will you walk into my parlour? said the Spider to the Fly
So in honour of the museum I have made two new brooches, one a small mouse as they have a Redfern's mouse and the other is a half timbered type cottage brooch with smoke curling out of its chimney.
I have made another similar mouse to sell myself, available here
http://www.hollowbourne.com/products/24/175/mouse_brooch/
The house is a sort of reverse image of the part of the museum that is behind the red car in the photo, with an added window above the door, and an extra support beam for good luck....
If you live in Staffordshire or nearby, please give them a visit and spread the word to let more people know about this hidden gem .
Oh and the parking is cheap in Uttoxeter too, (behind the Co-op off Silver street) and there's a lot of lovely little shops and a butcher around the corner from the memorial selling very nice and cheap handmade sausages that I can recommend.
Here is a lionk to their website
http://www.redfernscottage.org.uk/
