craftivism
Further to recent musings about the meditative aspects of the experience of making things by hand, I've been reading a bit lately about the idea that handcrafting has a political aspect too. I had a hunch Keep reading →
from Ceres to Total Girl in one bold step :)
Ceres gave us another gorgeous morning of warm, buzzing creativity! The festival atmosphere was wonderful and I even had my face painted with a moon and stars...beautiful! This is my favourite photograph for the day Keep reading →
ceres tomorrow morning!
While some needle felting projects are clearly a bit beyond me for now, I think I've found a project better suited to my level of skill. So I've demoted myself from the task of replicating the animal kingdom to the task of creating rough likenesses of smallish vegetables. Keep reading →
a little bit crestfallen…
So, on Tuesday, to celebrate various secret things, I bought myself something I have been wanting for a few weeks now which is this beautiful book: I flicked through it and I was thinking thoughts to myself along the lines of: even though I am clearly something of a natural Keep reading →
tolkien, needlefelting and the hubble telescope
One of my favourite ideas of all time belongs to JRR Tolkien. He explains it in his lovely essay 'On Fairy-Stories' as part of a defense of that genre of literature, suggesting that Keep reading →
a gorgeous morning!
Many thanks to all those who contributed to our little effort in support of Orphfund at Ceres on Saturday. The amount of goodwill in the air, towards craftspeople and young buskers alike, was palpable. It's also completely Keep reading →
craftiness for orphfund take two!
So, last week our saturday morning market plan, selling beautiful crafty bits and pieces, did not work out on account of the heavens OPENING and not shutting again for most of the morning. Keep reading →
Hopper, Woodard and my fairly plebian reflections on art more generally
I think because of my recent dealings with illustrators, I've been reflecting lately on the fact that I've spent most of my life not really understanding visual art. My key question has been: would I rather look at that image than the blank wall behind it? Keep reading →
the dog-eat-dog world of children’s publishing…
So Friday was another of my top-ten-best-ever days*. My own copy of Violet Mackerel's Brilliant Plot arrived in the mail! And it is beautiful - really beautiful. (I am allowed to say that because I didn't contribute anything to its beauty - Keep reading →
Poo
The weather forecasts for tomorrow do not look at all promising (I've checked a number of sources now and they range from 'patches of rain' to 'torrential rain'). We'd be a bit sad to see all the things we've made floating down Merri Creek, and even sadder to find that we were floating down it ourselves... Keep reading →
