8 May 2013
7 May 2013
6 May 2013
5 May 2013
4 May 2013
Stump work...
How beautiful are these?
violets... my favourite flowers, I can't believe how many hours work must have gone into making them
all stump work flowers made by - Svetlana Yuzhalina
red currants brooch made by - Victoria Trump
3 May 2013
2 May 2013
R.I.P. little elna...
Yes... this was me trying to remember how to use the new sewing machine!
photo - google search - I love Lucy
I say new... I've had it for months now, but after so many years with my lovely little portable elna lotus ZZ, bought before going to art college, this one takes some getting used to. Perhaps it would be better if it came out of the cupboard more often! but having been on a knitting frenzy for some time now where all I needed was a ball of wool and two needles, it hasn't seen the light of day very much. And it's such a palaver getting it out, plugging in, and then finding it's threaded with white when you want black, or vice versa, then having to check the instruction manual because you've forgotten how to change something. The thing is, my little elna almost became a part of me, I knew it's workings intimately and just went into automatic mode when using it.
photo - mine
But nothing lasts for ever, and after so many years of faithful service maybe it was beginning to get a bit sloppy in the length and tension of it's stitches. Or maybe I thought it was about time I had a grown up sewing machine, something that could do the kind of things the little elna struggled with. What ever the reason, it meant a trip to the sewing machine emporium, which also houses a huge selection of anything to do with sewing / knitting / cake decorating and card making, in other words, when you go there, don't expect to leave with just the couple of rolls of ribbon you went for! There I stood in bewilderment at the array of machines and their capabilities, they even overlocked now! I just wanted something simple to use, and the lovely assistant who knew all the machines like the back of her hand, asked a few questions, and settled me down to try a middle range machine that did every thing I could ever want. So... if I ever do get it together to go on one of the lovely Linda Miller 's machine embroidery days I've been promising myself for years, I won't feel as though I'm taking a toy sewing machine with me.
embroidery - Linda Miller
And my little elna? in the garage with all the other things we don't know what to do with but can't bear to part with.
30 April 2013
29 April 2013
28 April 2013
27 April 2013
26 April 2013
Felting dreams...
Oh... I so would like one of these lovely felted mice made by Johana Molina
Why? what would I do with it? who cares...
I think it's just that they make me think of my son going off to university
Oh well... I have some of her beautifully printed postcards that will have to do
Johana Molina - www.etsy.com/shop/feltingdreams
25 April 2013
Dark things...
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
Pablo Nerudo
Entrance to the Temple Church built in the 12th century by the Knight Templars.
24 April 2013
23 April 2013
21 April 2013
20 April 2013
19 April 2013
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18 April 2013
Black and white...
cup - Nancy Gardner
book cover - Stig Lindberg
bowl - Mudlark Pottery
paper cut - unknown
wrought iron - Louis Henri Sullivan 1893
mosaic - unknown
script - Jane Farr
painting - Yayoi Kusama
Soviet fabric - 20's 30's
fingerprint - Tenka Gammelgaard
embroidered letters - Effie Jessop ?
vase - Sam Scott
book cover - Brandon Shaefer
urban calligraphy - Greg Papagrigoriou + Simek
straws painting - Amy Genser
painting - Johan Van Oord
jug - Sam Scott
patern - unknown
painting - Cecil Touchon
vase - Terry Hagiwara
teapot - Becky + Steve Lloyd
fabric - Josef Hoffmann Adler 1910 Wieder Werkstätte
wallpaper - Anna French
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