It's been an amazing day today. More excitement that I can cope with and it had nothing to do with the excaped prisoners being hunted in our area.!!! I'm going to give myself an early minute tonight and have a coffee by the TV. I had to update to a new phone so I think…
Category: Capture & Create
What are those helicopters doing?
I hope you enjoyed the coloricious video…. I was transfixed and I'm going to try it. I will use pigment inks though. Well, the helicopters have been overhead for 2 hours now. I wondered what it was there for. It used to be common place to have a helicopter go over when my son worked…
Visit Colouricious a wonderful site for Textile Artists.
Talking Threads is one of my favorite sites. The videos are wonderul and I just found out that I can share them. Visit Myfanwy's website here to find out more about her and her work, click here. You know when you need just that right shade of colour for a certain project, well she has…
This is amazing
Simon Beck has spent a lot of time at Arc2000 in the French Alps this winter, but he hasn't been skiing. Beck spends his days doing something entirely different: making snow art. Many compare Beck's work to "crop circles," but this is not the labor of "aliens" who've chosen a wintrier medium. This "snow art"…
A few Changes
It's been a week of ups and downs, one day I was fine, the next I was almost unable to stand and had the hot and cold shivers… I was fine the next day and then got it again the following day and so it continued. Strange. But other family members have had it too…
More books.
New books arrived today adding to my library. Each one brings a different perspective to the story of the Bayeux Tapestry. The real world of the Bayeux Tapestry by Michael J Lewis. In this introduction to the Tapestry, Michael Lewis looks not only at the story of the Tapestry itself, but also explores the design…
Video Diary No 6.
A busy week this week. Lots of different things to look at and do. but I'm behind schedule so I have to make up time this coming week.
Steven Bowers work.
Mt Sister Heather encouraged me to take a look at the work of Steven Bowers. Absolutely unbelievably beautiful…OK, so that's not very good english… but its the way I feel.
Tin Cat Cafe
This is where I had breakfast this morning, I loved the vintage decorations… and I got some good really ideas for our new outdoor space out the back. The food was great and the ambience, circa 1950's was even better. I need about 10 paper lanterns for the lighting…. I found this idea on the…
Changing things around.
I've been working on my web page and I have shifted a lot of projects from the blog to the web page. Each of my classes will have their own web page. You can view the class, see photos and this year I will feature students work. To connect visit the web page.