Category: Arts
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Welcome to my new website
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It was time to overhaul my old website as its infrastructure needed updating, so I took the opportunity to reinvent the whole site. This is still a work in progress and things are still a little clunky, but I wanted to open the ability to post regularly to my site before everything was 100%. So…
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Perpetual Blooms
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Some time ago I planned a series of small paintings with the theme of ‘Perpetual blooms’. At the time, I only painted one, but now several years later when I’m looking for an avenue to get back into my painting practise, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity.
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Playing with Kumihimo
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About a month or so ago I starting playing with kumihimo, a Japanese method of braiding cords.
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Red-capped Plover encounters and a painting
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I had the awful experience of nearly stepping on an egg.
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Not a birder
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I’m not a birder, well, not really. If I was to call myself one, I would then have to call myself a planter, rocker, crabber, beacher, insecter, spider-er, general bugger,….er, yeah, some of them are mis-informative and downright impolite 😀
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Five bracelets and five earrings
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I was wondering what to post for Willy Nilly Friday Five and Five on Friday this week when I realised I had five bracelets and five new pairs of earrings on my beadmat. So here be this week’s five. Here be five pairs of earrings recently made and not quite finished. And here are…
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A work-in-progress and some beads
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Last night I managed to make a new bracelet in my Duo Flowers series and it has me all fired up to make more.
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The Little Blue Lake
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I love maps. I can stare at them for hours, particularly when I’m planning to go somewhere new.