Photography, 1956 styleJust for a change, I put away the D80 and put a roll of film in an Agfa Silette L that has been in our loft for years. I'm not even sure where it came from. The focus ring was completely stuck and wouldn't move, but a blast of hot air from a hairdryer sorted that out! The shutter sticks on B and …
Why I wish I had lots of money.I have tons and tons of work to get through today for a Portuguese presentation I have to do next week. So I've spent the last hour coveting everything on the Anthropologie website. Look at these lovely things! I can't afford any of them but it doesn't stop me drooling.…
Thursday musingsI stumbled across a lovely blog today: Decor8. It's so pretty. There are too many photos of pretty houses on there that make me realise I live in a hovel.Between it and Apartment Therapy, it's made me decide that our living room has GOT to have a makeover. I want to paint the whole thing white an…
Another calendar cat to save my sanityDuring a moment of confusion and desperation involving our new accounts system, I took a minute's break to scribble today's calendar cat in order to stop my head from exploding. For some reason my scanner hates it.…
Thing a day - broken AGAIN?It's been more down than up over the past few days, and it's not letting me post a photo tonight so I'm posting it here instead to remind myself to try the TAD site again tomorrow.I was going to post another doodle from my new Wacom tablet but I didn't get to finish what I started (and it's awful an…
EDM #211 - and a few observations on Quentin Blake.The current Everyday Matters challenge is "In the style of..." (or as Jim so aptly put it, "plagiarize your betters") and most people are being very brave and taking on the masters - I've seen Da Vinci, Charles Rennie Macintosh etc, as well as a lovely Beatrix Potter tribute. Well I immediately tho…
Sneaky doodlingI was not in the mood for work yesterday at all and had a very unproductive day. Here's a sneaky doodle I did of a giant ladybird, with some ballpoint pens (biros), when no one was looking.Today I will be good and not doodle while I'm supposed to be working, and I will also drink less coffee than I…
An elephant and a cat (and the loss of another cat).My lovely workmate Jacky lost one of her cats to cancer a couple of months ago. On Friday, she came home from work to find that her other cat, a 16 year old Persian so obviously no spring chicken, had collapsed and was struggling to breathe. She rushed him off to the emergency vet only to find tha…
Things and stuff.What have I been up to since my last post?Well... I've been crocheting again, and I have a new crochet book. It's Tiny Yarn Animals, by Tamie Snow who is the brains behind Roxycraft which is a website anyone who's into crochet will no doubt recognise. I hoard amigurumi books but seldom actually fo…
The roaming gnome returns.I've been participating in the Roaming Gnome swap on Craftster, and today my gnome Filbert finally made it home. He's been to Marburg and Waiblingen in Germany, and Texas and Florida in the US. He even got to go to Disneyland! Lucky gnome. Here he is with all the stuff he arrived back with. He …
EDM #189 - razorsI got home late tonight so didn't get time to do anything much for Thing a Day, so I thought I'd do an EDM challenge very quickly and use that. This is a five minute sketch including colouring in so it hardly even counts! But at least it's a drawing, right? It's pen (the first one I picked up) an…
Finished!I finished my sock! I can't believe it's done. It was so easy in the end. And it fits absolutely perfectly. I brought it to work to finish it off at lunchtime and I felt like a celebrity, everyone had to come and look at it and marvel at the magic self-striping yarn and give it a bit of a squidg…
People are boxes. And a growing sock.On Friday evening I had the first of ten beginner's life drawing classes.It was a cosy little group of about eleven of us, which included the teacher's partner. Apparently she's been coming to the classes for years to help out with the setting up and tidying away, and making tea in the break, but n…
A sketch for Thing a DayHere's a bloke I saw at St James' Street station today. We were on the way back from shopping (the stuff I came back with will be the subject of another post, it was a fruitful shopping trip!) and I saw this poor guy shivering and rubbing his hands together to keep warm. My life drawing teacher sa…
Watercolour classI've been meaning to post some pictures of the stuff I produced in my watercolour class. The idea was to practice techniques, and specifically wet into wet technique. We weren't allowed to draw AT ALL. No pencils, no pens, very big brushes (mine was a size 14, other people had even bigger ones), …
Totoro, Totoro...I saw the Miyazaki film for the first time the other day and it's a wonderful lovely gorgeous film that everyone should watch. But apart from loving the movie, I wanted to crochet everything in it. But for starters, here's a quickie shrink plastic charm I made for Thing a Day. I use embossing pow…
Happy apple friends!Yet again I had loads of homework I was supposed to be doing, so naturally I put on CSI (the local library has all the box sets; I've got a lot of catching up to do) and grabbed a hook to make a happy green friend for the happy red apple.I'm trying to find time to make something every day for Thing-…
Is this a kind of nesting?We all want a pretty home (or at least most of us do, my husband has no interest in a pretty home much to my annoyance). My home is a one bedroom flat, and it's too cluttered to be pretty. We just have too much Stuff and too many Things, all of which are absolutely necessary and cannot be got rid …
So much stuff, so much secrecy.I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. No, I'm still here, and I've been busy, but annoyingly almost all of what I've been up to is for the European Swap Fest on Craftster, and I daren't post photos of any of it in case my partner sees. I'm really having to stop myself though, because I love …
