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SingleMaltTeapot is the creative hub of Vic Phillips. A photographer & woodcrafter living & making in the Brecon Beacons.

Along with Samantha Wheeler it is our journey as we explore, cook and craft our way to the goodlife.

There's a busy couple of days ahead in the Single Malt Teapot studio. @HerefordFood is just a week away but as I'll be heading away for a few days for work on Sunday I'm trying to get as much completed tomorrow and Saturday as I possibly can. Amongst them are a few new styles that I'll be carving tomorrow while Saturday will be a cloud of ever finer dust as I sand and polish away. I'll also be trying out this little pot of loveliness from George of @thebearwood . I've been looking around for a finish that I can have with me at events for folk to keep their spoons (and any other wooden pieces they may have) looking tip top for all time. George is a fellow spoon carver making some utterly lovely things and I can't wait to crack open a tin of his wood balm. All being well (and I really think it will be) I'll have a handful of tins with me from early September.
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They didn't come and say hi....what's that about moocoos? It's pretty mind blowing when I think about all the firsts that Willow still has to encounter, thousands of tiny things and more than a few big things that she has never experienced. Like the big dulcet eyes of a moocoo staring back at you with a big glistening nose....but we all know who's to blame for that one. Next time moocoos, come say hi. 😉
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Well, it's certainly been a little while since I posted a shot like this....is the grams still in love with leaves on stone walls? I sort of hope so because this kind of contrast work was one of the first things I learnt about in photography and I still find it utterly lovely. It's also gotten me thinking about how my relationship with the grams has fluctuated over the years or perhaps how the grams has been a cataloging of my fluctuating relationship with the world around me.
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For a long while my camera became a tool, something I worked with, still loved but I was shooting for occupation rather than simply the fun of it. With Willow around I picked it up in a new way again and am finding my feet when it comes to just enjoying snapping the world around me, I remembered how beautiful things are when you isolate them in a viewfinder and a shallow depth of field; when you give them their own little solo. At the same time of late I have been treating this beautiful landscape as just a place I lived, caught up in so many other things, completely forgetting the whole reason we came here.
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Yesterday we had a picnic, we just walked afterwards and I took wholly unremarkable pictures of leave and flowers and walls, each getting their own little solo. The sad thing is, I was reluctant at first, I was feeling the pressure to carve for my next event, but as I let those thoughts go I remembered how much I loved just doing that; just being and trying to tell a simple little story with my camera, even if only to myself. I hope I always remember that there is always time to be a part of this world, I hope that by doing so my carving never becomes simply an occupation for I utterly adore it. I hope I always make sure to walk and to see.....and to take picture of pretty leaves on pretty walls.
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So the plan was to have the final day of my Hereford Indie Food festival giveaway today but I am shifting that to tomorrow because....I made a sale today. Which might not at first glance seem like the hugest of things, only it really still is. As a maker I am still very small, as someone trying to run a business I am a massive newbie so every time someone stops and wants to know about my spoons or connect with them enough to want to take one home my heart simply swells. So I wanted to take a moment to stop and say thank you, thank you to todays purchaser, thank you to the wonderful couple in London this summer who came back to see me and take home some spoons because you couldn't stop talking about them, thank you to the security guard who wanted to talk about what I do and made a point of coming to say hi and look at my work all through the day, thank you to everyone who has stopped and asked questions, who has taken some time to care about my process. As someone who's confidence can fluctuate hugely, you are a massive part of why I keep on making, thank you!!!
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Day 2 of my @HerefordFood ticket giveaway. I've got a couple of tickets available for the festival which takes place over the August Bank Holiday which features some simply glorious food producers, chefs, makers and more. To enter, tap like, share todays, yesterday or tomorrows post, tagging @singlemaltteapot and @herefordfood and mention someone in the comments you'd like to bring along.
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So, onto these afore mentioned fantastical food producers....where to start @thebeefyboys are some kind of burger deities while @sirollies serve up grilled cheese....that just happens to be piled up with 12 hour, slow cooked ox cheek, I'll take 5 please. @Methodroastery will give you an artisanal caffeine pick me up or if there happens to be room for dessert you can find it guilt free and gloriously tasty at @thenudespoon. Which really is just the start, there's a whole lot of awesome food. Tomorrow I'll have a look at some of the makers who'll be there, including the wondrous @_twome who'll be leading her equally wondrous macrame workshops!!
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Vic Phillips

Another giant 🕷 (released & safe, both me & the spider), not on my shoulder this time but alooooot bigger. Is that better or worse?
about 3 days ago