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How was your summer? it was pretty busy for me!

As usual we ran the art cart in Oriel 1 everyday throughout August and our focus this year was weaving. We mainly did paper plate weaving (or circular weaving) which proved to be really popular with all ages and looks really effective too - I am thinking of doing more of it for Halloween...but in black and orange of course.

Quite a few of the museum attendants helped run the art cart this year too and they also brought different ideas and skills along with them so that there was quite a variety of activities. Elen did some drop spinning with visitors and even showed them how to make their own drop spindle, and Elle showed everyone how to make amazing woven friendship bracelets using a circular piece of card.

In July Ian and I got together to plan and run a two day art activity in the Celtic Village. We decided to make Iron Age shields out of cardboard and to get the visiting children to decorate them with typical iron age patterns using stencils or their own designs.

The activity went really well and we were lucky that it fell on two beautiful sunny days (we were outside). It's definitely an activity we'll be running again

Come September and it was back to running sessions for visiting schools, I've written about my art session called 'Looking at Buildings' so won't go on about it again... just show you some pictures of wonderful drawings instead.

Then I took two weeks off work and went on holiday to San Francisco! and now I'm back and all inspired for more arts and crafts and workshops and everything! There are a few things coming up - the big draw this saturday and next (6+13 oct 2012), a couple of craftivist things (one this sunday 7th in gwdi hw which isn't directly linked with St Fagans, and one on the 20th of October as part of the Made in Roath festival whic is), and then it will be half term and time for Halloween!

phew, happy making!

Did you come to our food festival in September? I hope so as it was such a great event - look out for it next year if you didn't make it.

This summer the Craftivist Collective launched a jamming and sewing project which you can read all about right here and I thought that would fit in perfectly with the food festival, so that's what we did!

The idea is that you make some tomato jam (I am proud to say that I made some all by myself and it tasted good too) following a recipe from an amazing lady called Christine who lives in Africa. Then you embroider a message on a fabric jam lid - maybe something like 'if you don't grow, you don't change' or anything to do with food and global food issues. After you have embroidred your message, pop it on the top, secure it with ribbon and give your pretty jar of jam away! I think the giving it away is the most important part as you are sharing the message, you could give it to your MP or your local shop if you wanted, or just pass it along to friends and family, it all helps spread the word and provides an opportunity for talking about what you eat and where your food comes from.

The project is also linked in with Oxfam and their 'Grow' campaign, and we were lucky enough in St Fagans that Louise from Oxfam was able to come along and lend a hand - she also provided lots of leaflets for further information.

What do you think about the project? did you come to our drop in session? did you make the jam and did you pass your jam along to someone else? I'd love to know!

Something we get a lot of excitement (and sometimes head scratching!) from here in the Clore Discovery Centre is helping you to identify your finds. Every year museum visitors bring us thousands of objects they have found/excavated/collected and ask us to help identify them. 

This summer Will Hardy came to us to find out more about some fossils he had found recently. Of the three pieces one was particularly exciting as it was beautifully preserved. It might not look much from my dodgy phot but this fossil is amazing!

It's part of a plant called Calamites from the Welsh Coal Measures and is about 300 million years old which grew to about 30m high!

Well found Will!

Over the next few weeks we'll be challenging you to identify some of our 'mystery objects'

Dros y pythefnos diwethaf rydym ni wedi bod yn rhedeg gweithgareddau ar gyfer teuluoedd i'w wneud ag arddangosfa Ffotograffydd Bywyd Gwyllt y Flwyddyn Veolia yma yn Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd.

Wnaeth dros 400 ohonoch chi gymryd rhan ac mai hi wedi bod yn bythefnos bendigedig o anturiaethau ffotograffig! Rydw i wedi bod yn brysur yn llwytho siwd gymaint o'r lluniau ag sy'n bosib i dudalen Flickr Clwb Ffoto AGC ac mae rhaid i mi ddweud eu bod nhw'n edrych yn wych! Mae'r lluniau ar y dudalen Flickr wedi eu trefnu i mewn i setiau ar ochr dde'r dudalen felly os wnaethoch chi gymryd rhan y cwbl sydd angen i chi wneud yw clicio ar ddyddiad eich ymweliad i'r Amgueddfa a chwilio am eich enw!

Mi fydd y lluniau yn cael eu harddangos ar y sgrin yng Nghanolfan Ddarganfod Clore yn yr Amgueddfa ar ddydd Sadwrn Medi'r 8fed felly os wnaethoch chi gymryd rhan yn y gweithdai dewch i weld eich lluniau yn cael eu harddangos yn yr Amgueddfa Genedlaethol!

Hoffwn ddiolch i Cat, Lauren a Catherine am wneud job mor dda o redeg y gweithgareddau a hoffwn ddiolch hefyd i bawb wnaeth cymryd rhan. Diolch!

Treuliodd deg o bobl ifanc bedwar diwrnod yn ystod gwyliau’r haf yn ein helpu i wneud arddangosiadau’r morfil a’r môr-grwban yn fwy deniadol i deuluoedd.

Dyma nhw’n cofrestru ar gyfer y sialens drwy ?yl Ddysgu’r Haf Caerdydd, sy’n gwahodd plant 12-15 oed i ddysgu sgiliau newydd yn eu hamser sbâr. Dyma nhw’n dysgu sut i werthuso arddangosfa, dewis stori dda, ysgrifennu testun diddorol a dewis gwrthrychau er mwyn creu arddangosfa deniadol i deuluoedd.

Mewn pedwar diwrnod byr, dyma nhw’n creu arddangosiadau newydd a phosau i deuluoedd eu mwynhau. Mae ei gwaith yn cael ei ddangos drwy gydol gwyliau’r haf ac mae wedi bod yn boblogaidd iawn. Dewch i weld eu gwaith dros eich hunain yn oriel y morfil yn Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd.

Diolch o galon i:

Jasmine Coombes, Emily Frankish, Aled Gomer, Thomas Griffiths,  Samantha Hardy, Stephen Lloyd, Simon Naylor, Maxwell Piper, Anna Rees, Mollie Shand.