Yeah!!!

Here is one happy daddy, my favourite pictures from last nights Superbowl.

Go Saints

I love Peyton Manning, honest I do

but.....I love Drew Brees just that little bit more.

Go Saints!!!

(no copyright breach intended, please advise )

It was a full day on Satuday at EG,   we were treated to a talk by Libby Smith, she took us through the inspirations for her work and brought a wonderful array of examples.  From large and small beaded tassels to fantasy shoes we were able to examine each in detail.  My favourite piece was an encrusted purse made in the shape of India (a source of much of her inspiration). I can't quite remember the phrase she used but it was something like "not quite goldwork" in other words she has used goldwork techniques but lots of others as well.  I forgot to ask if I could take a  photograph. We also had Neredah's Threads do delight the eye and dent the bank balance. (No web site I'm afraid). I managed in between things to put about 6 french knots on my Snowcloth.

My Snowcloth started here after I had vaguely maked out the ares of colour I realised that it was a bit like the way I start a doodle....idea!  So I am now gradually filling in the areas in the same way I would doodle, it is great fun working out which stitches to use to make the different fillings. 

The Darenth Valley was beautiful in the morning but I didn't have time to stop but on the way home I couldn't resist this

and this

and best of all

Music in shops....

drives me nuts, as I may have mentioned......., but if it was like this I might change my mind.


Opera en el Mercado from esoqueseconocecomolaopera on Vimeo.


The sign at the end says "See? You do like opera". My thanks to Chawed Rosin for this.

Sorry folks...

I have had to activate the dreaded letters, there is no part of my body I want to enlarge!!!

The Tender Trap....

Funny the things you remember...I was attempting, yet again, to make a space in my workroom and into my head popped the opening sequence of the old (1955) Frank Sinatra film  "The Tender Trap".  It opens in a fancy appartment the morning after what has obviously been one heck of a party.  Sinatra surveys the devastation and then gingerly picks up a tie between finger and thumb, he carefully makes his way through the debris and opens a closet and carefully deposits the tie .....on the floor.  Fast forward to my workroom, I enter pick something up, look at it and think I wonder what I can do with this? (Bin it Pat, Bin it!!) This was a piece of paper from a Fibre in Form workshop about a year ago...

I thought it would make a couple of ATC's

and then there were just two little fragments left, and look

a little South Sea island

and the moon through a snowy window

Well that's accounted for one piece of paper...........

This is my reward.

A,B,C.....

as inspiration.  I have noticed alphabets popping up  in the last few days. First on  Ideas of Inspiration and  Inchy by Inch

Then I saw a link to Anatassia Elias who has made a collage alphabet

 and you  look what she does with the inside of a toilet roll.

Of course I had to have a quick play.  Here is my digital ABC

Just a bit of Paintshop play.