Mudlarking Finds Transformed! We find & decorate antique jars in the style of Scottish spongeware
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- Опубліковано 9 січ 2021
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Join us on a creative adventure as we upcycle our mudlarking finds using a 19th Century Scottish pottery sponging technique! Watch as we find the antique pots and jars, design and sponge traditional and original designs and bring new life to victorian rubbish.
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Wishing you peace, love, happiness and good health,
Gail & Alex xx
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Imagine, in two hundred years, someone finding shards of your spongeware 😊
Would confuse them lol 😊
That was exactly my thought too😂
@@kanamichelle7404
Great minds think alike 😊
Imagine having a piece of your art lasting a couple of hundred years!
There isn’t a thing you ladies do that doesn’t fill me with happiness and brings a smile to my sometimes beleaguered face. Thank you so much. ❤️
I hope you are happy today also, Nancy
Those jars would be great for holding pens, paint brushes or makeup brushes! I would love one!
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Alex, Gail - your crafting skills are always amazing..... imagine your creations being dug up in a few hundred years by future diggers
Hopefully they will be in museums and not dug up!
@@randomvintagefilm273 🇬🇧 Just what I was thinking.
@@randomvintagefilm273 make sure it was stolen from another Museum and brought back to a british one 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I love what you've done with those pots....awesome!
Yaaaay! It’s Sunday and the girls are on!! Yaaaay! What a great idea! I can’t wait to see the results! I’m sure they will be brilliant! Thank you for posting and making my Sunday afternoon wonderful!
That was such a clever idea and they looked good with the colours and patterns and will be useful to.
You have a beautiful home and love the open fire and the snow outside. Thank you and take care
Lovely! I love the idea that,100 years from now, Mudlarks will be wondering how spongeware designs ended up on
marmalade pots and will spend their time trying to date all the lovely experimental designs ❤️😌
You really did a fantastic job painting the plain finds, and I loved watching this video.
Such a gentle beautiful video , they always are . I love the love you share for each other and your passion of mud larking.
I am house bound recluse and you help my life a lot. It’s soothing and fascinating to watch. Just perfect. 🙏🏻❤️🥰💫
I love the tracks in the snow at first.
Awesome job! Love it!
Me too! 😍
I always love your videos, absolutely beautiful scenery, fantastic pottery and love the music in the background so relaxing!
Oh my, how amazingly beautiful the snow is☺️🥰!!! And little 🐾 Miss Bleu is cat napping by the fire😘.
What fun to watch you ladies creating these outstanding pieces of spongeware. The egg cup is my MOST favorite of all👍🏻. It looks so authentic 😲... like it popped out of a time machine, right off a victorian breakfast table(☺️🤭).
Wonderful job, sister-friends 🙌🏻.
Blessings to you and your precious family and friends during the latest 😒😕 lockdown. 😊🤗🤭😘🐾
Omg...you two are brillant...spongeware deluxe beauties...stunning, ladies! Alex and Gail, you both have so much talented ideas...sigh...this video was so good...the country, your team work, the schwoos, and the cat chillaxing before the fire...thank you so much for sharing your talent with us. They came out brillantly, darling ladies. Your choice of designs are excellent...the work is a great. I like all of them!!! Tah-dah!
All of them came out really vibrant...I am so excited!
Oh so love your creative souls! Thank you for your lovely sharing! You are always such a joy to watch and your choice of music is so soothing.
Much love and good health to you both in 2021 from Baja California Mexico! ☮️💜
This is brilliant! Love the combination of historic and contemporary motifs.
I just love this video! Your jars turned out beautiful! I love how inspiring you are and the history as well. Just so fun! Carol Lutz Fl
There is something uniquely satisfying when you create art. I love you both. Thank you for taking us on this very special journey!
Schwoo tracks!!!
Northern mudlarks, love your house decor! It’s so welcoming looking!! Such great sponge ware you made as well!! ;) Happy mudlarking & crafting! 🙂🎨🧽
What great ideas, they give those old pieces new life!
So much today is mass produced whereas these cottage industry pieces are unique!
Every artist needs someone standing behind them to make them stop, because they are never satisfied with their creations and may end up going to far.
I know, I've been there, done that!
I think their all wonderful and I would be happy to own one, so if you do consider that, make sure you each have your own unique identity mark.
The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow,
and what will your poor birds do then, poor things?
Cheers,
Rik Spector
The cup is a very retro 60's style, all of them are beautiful,
Hard work and good therapy thank you for sharing!!! 💕💕💕
Actually, my favorite is the one with green leaves that Alex free hand painted. The dark green leaves look really nice against the brown crazed background.
It is my favorite too!
🇬🇧 I like that one very much.
Lovely work ladies! Such a joy to watch you two on a Sunday afternoon. Thanks again for sharing your adventures!
Lovely! Your patience and attention to detail while crafting and jewelry-making continues to amaze me!
Donimo!! Too cute
What a wonderfully meditative process with the fire going and snow falling outside
You ladies are amazing with your talents! I enjoyed this very much!!!
Little schwoo heads and feets would be really cute on a jar! Its nice to see these items reused in such a great way.
Your both so clever. Their beautiful. Well done,
What I love most about watching your channel, is the mutual respect and kindness you two show each other. I’m estranged from my mom and we never got to have an adult relationship. Watching you two is enormously comforting and reassuring.
😍 I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. You two ladies are very talented. I wish I could go mudlarking with you and do crafts with you. God bless you🙏🇺🇸
The little egg cup is my absolute favourite! Well done Gail and Alex, you've both done a beautiful job on each piece, they are all so special :)
I think Alex’s “crazy mudlarking jar” is my favorite! I love how colorful it is 🤩....but they all are fantastic!
What a fab idea girls, you are both super talented, and it's great that those unwanted jars have thier individual identidy, great also to see the winter season from your wonderful viewpoint
Hi Alex and Gail I love the sponge ware patterns you have created on the marmalade jars , you are both so clever , and I love watching you do your crafts , please show more , eagerly awaiting the next video
ohh they're all lovely ♥ great job
Light dusting snow always reminds me of the cakes my grandmother use to make. She would dust them with powdered sugar and put little plastic woodland animals on top of them.
I love this, please carry on with it I would love to see Easter bunnies and eggs, Halloween pumpkins and holly. Well done, your designs are lovely. The mudlarking pot is great.
The sponging part was sooooo satisfying to watch!!
I love that little egg cup, it turned out so cute. My favorite though is Alex's hand painted leaves on the crazed pottery, the colors are so good.
Love this!♥️ You should have made a “Schwoo” track sponge!
I love that you replicated old sponge ware designs. I’ll never look at plain marmalade jars the same way...
I love your upcycling of your finds ! It turned out just beautiful 💯❤❤
Thank you for your inspirational videos! I have been using repurposed and recycled rubbish in my art for a while now. Thanks to you, my vision and horizons have been broadened as far as using found items in my art!!!! Always a pleasure!!! Thanks a million!!!
I love what you did with the marmalade pots. I see so many that don’t pick them up. So glad you do.
It's so jolly and honest , homely ware . I'm always drawn to this style. Fisherman's cottage, than stately home. These are delightful guy's. I love the bottle design especially . Thanks as ever 🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸🌿
Hi! Watching at the moment, what a super idea! Did you know that you can make stamps out of polystyrene sheets such as pizza bases. Trace it out with ball point pen lightly then go over it pressing slightly more. Repeat till its deep enough. If you're careful they last a long time. Similar effect to sponge. Oh, funky foam shapes are good too.
Your crafting videos are the best, my favorite jar is the one with tartan and flowers in green & blue.
Every time I see one of the jars I want them all. They are so cute
Looking at the scenery the beginning of the video and comparing it with other vids of yours at different seasons. No matter what season it is it is gorgeous where you live stunning scenery. Also Gail and Alex you can turn your hands to anything never stop. Well done.
You've captured the sponge art perfectly on your first try! well done to you both.
It turned out so beautiful, thank you so much for all your crafts the entertainment value that you bring 💕💞💖💗💝
The old cracked pot that Alex painted with leaves is my favorite!!!! I love it!
Your Scottish Sponge Ware has All turned out a resounding success. I love them all. Every time you showed one I would say ooh that’s my favorite one. The hand sponging is gorgeous. Love it more than the more than the modern ways.
You both are so much fun, so creative and wonderful to see. Thank you for taking us on your journey!
So so beautiful!!! I love pottery and this was an absolute pleasure to watch you decorate all the jars and saucers and cups!!!
Wonderful again....such a creative mother and daughter together showing us all how to be with each other and enjoy each others company.
No iPhones ect, just good old love and harmony, which is rare these days...such lovely memories for you both to look back on, also the help your giving others that are not in the position to be together like yourselfs.But one day we will be able too again and now have creative thaughts to share....
Little be to you both
Stay safe
Penny x
Gives me an appreciation of the the work that went into sponge-ware making, so much to learn from the pre-industrial revolution manufacturing techniques.
The pots turned out beautifully! I love the saucer - it’s my favorite! The snow is gorgeous and your fire looks so cozy and warm. I hope we get some snow in Georgia (USA) this winter. Thank you so much for sharing. Stay healthy and safe.❤️❤️💕💕🥰
Enjoyed this video immensely. Your creations are a perfect homage to the originals. Thank you for sharing your talents. Stay safe and well.
I just love their voices, melodic, and soothing.
The crafts are so unique, and interesting.
Those jars are so pretty with their vibrant colors! Thank you for sharing!
Absolutely a most wonderful episode! You ladies are so talented. Thank you for sharing.
another amazing project, thank you on this miserable january day
Oh how Lovely!! You Ladies are so talented!!
Your recreation of the sponge ware is absolutely wonderful! Please put them on your Etsy or eBay.
This was wonderful to watch. From taking your finds, and transferring the sponge designs on to the pots and cups you found. Very organic! You girls work so well together, and it's always a joy and an education to watch you explore and create new works. Your videos are truly special!
Both of you are so talented. Just love your channel. I have such fun mudlarking with you. Thank you. From Joan in Louisiana, USA.
This is such an excellent idea, lovely work from lovely ladies. Can't wait for what's next, cheers Gail and Alex xx
Awww, Great! Soothing to watch you work, wonderful to see the colors applied- and stunning to see the results! Nice camera-work and music choices. And ladies. Those patterns you replicated and created. Just wonderful! I know everyone's going to find their favorite among your assortment- I know I did. But I might change my mind, so I'm not telling!
Have a great week- and I so look forward to what mischief you get into next week!! Cheers from Maine!
These are amazing, it looked so much fun. I love them all. The modern colours are really up lifting, I like that you used an old bit of sponge. Thanks Gail and Alex 😍
bravo, bravo, outstanding, enjoyed, take care, stay healthy, looking forward to next video
Fantastic work! Not only do you find History in your finds , you try to recreate them. Keep the Art coming. I hope your lockdown is short lived.
Oh ladies this is so fun and cheerful, and makes me just smile and smile. The pots were nice before, but you have made them so fun and objects of delight. I love all of them and can imagine them all sitting cheerily on a shelf, full of goodies, flowers, and treats. I love the vibrant colors, and all the pretty patterns, and it all just makes my heart glad to see it.
Absolutely beautiful job on the homemade sponge wear ladies !
You did beautiful work.. My favorites are the little crinkle pot with the leaves and the one with the bottles on it.... But they are all so pretty....💚💙
Who needs the London Museum of Antiquities restoration division... nice work ladies.
That was fun! Sponging really leaves a distinctive look. I like it!
Great job. So much more beautiful than the plain pots. That plate has to be my favorite pattern, but they are all so creative.
How fun!! The projects came out beautiful! The scenery was also wonderful!!
What a great way to spend lock-down ladies. Your work is so beautiful, keep up your good work and lots of love from the USA!
Well done ladies, Those turned out great
Like that domino jar - surprisingly pretty. Love cat and missed the shrews ❤️
Binge watching two years later. LOVE LOVE LOVE sponge ware. What fun watching you create your own.
I need a "shrew" jam jar! Love those Shrews! This was so very interesting! U two have so many talents! thanku for sharing....,
That was such a nice video! Lovely and entertaining. We appreciate all the time and attention it requires to stop and move camera, adjust lighting and then edit! Thank you for taking us along on your creative journeys.❣
What a Wonderful idea, Ladies. Cutting that foam into such detailed patterns would seem to be quite a challenge, but then again you are two of the many true "Artisans" : ) At first I thought you were going to mosaic onto the marmalade pottery with the found spongeware, though I'm very delighted at your idea. If you ever do mosaic them, the ribbed containers would provide the perfect surface to adhere the pieces to. I learned a tip or two, having been a tile layer as one of my past occupations. Another tip .... (Use an old electric knife when cutting foam rubber), to get smaller pieces to make your designs. It works incredibly well and it's fun. Love your beautiful and curious kitter cat. Name? Thank you for the history on spongeware. An early form of spatter ware was utilized by early indigenous tribes, while creating hieroglyphics on the walls of caves. The most famous ones are of horses and other animals. Loved All of your designs, though I really adored the playfulness of the crazy mudlarking jar that Alex designed and the egg cup with dainty flowers with egg yolks, that Gail designed, as well as her hair doo. : ) Thank You both for brightening another day for me. All of your designs were Perfect in and because of, their imperfections. As Alex suggested she may, Please Do, do the Shroo. : )
The snow looks beautiful, but this Florida girl is glad it is not here. Great job ladies, you did beautifully.
Wow, the stamps you made turned out amazing, especially the bottles, and the finished products are just beautiful ! I love the little plate ..so sweet
How wonderfully creative and beautiful! I wanted to be there beside you digging up "treasures"!!
The blue and green tartan is also my favorite! Well done!
What fun! Your attempts at spongeware turned out lovely!
I love them all but especially the smaller one with the leaves. From the camera it looks like it’s old and was painted years ago. Great crafting job. Thanks for sharing this.
They turned out so beautifully. So much fun to watch. I love Sundays, because I get to see what you two are up to. Thank you.👍❤️❤️
Awww, love the shwoo prints in the snow! Ladies, well done on the sponge-ware! I feel like I'm back in art class each time you do a craft project, evokes such wonderful memories.
Alex, I love your hand painted one.
Oh what fun!!! Your pieces are all so beautiful. 😊 And what a therapeutic way to spend a wintery day!!! Love it!!! ❤❤❤
You are so talented. I love the repurposing of the jam jars. These are just stunning. I hope you continue to bring these jars home and doing designs on them.
That jar with the blue & green tartan & the little daisy flowers would look great in the kitchen to put a few things in. So sweet & welcomingly homeish.
Those turned out so cool. If they get left behind so much, collect them all, and bring them back to life (then sell them to meeeee lol)
Such a beautiful job ladies. Is there no end to your creativity and talents. Glass painting old bottles next? Poor shwoos getting their feet cold in the snow, let them in to share the fireside with the cat. 🤣