Friday, December 25, 2009

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Meet the Big Dog

Yesterday Snous went to meet Simon's Town's famous Great Dane - Just Nuisance. To read more about him, click here.

Monday, December 21, 2009

Bad Copies - Women


Bad Copy #6 (of a painting by Polly Alakija from the exhibition We Are Such Stuff as Dreams are Made of, January 2007)

Bad Copy #7 (of a photograph by Dave Robertson from the exhibition Remember - October 2005)

Friday, December 18, 2009

Somewhere that is not here

Sometimes I wish to be somewhere that is not here ...

Collage with magazine cut-outs, polaroid and tram ticket. (Polaroid by Sarah Wallis.)

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Christmas is Coming ...

This year I made origami star garlands from book pages and glitter ...

... and paper chains decorated with birdies.

No tree this year - just branches from my rosemary bush hung with decorations ...

... and silver baubles nestled amongst shells and painted stones.

The ornaments I made last year are used again ...

... they make great gift tags.

I made a heap of these crackers. Yay - another dent in my tp-tube stash. The labels were cut from tea-stained pages and lettered in my very best handwriting (i.e. not my usual griffonage - such a lovely word that...)

So, except for my collection of Santas, which provides some colour in the hallway, quite a monochrome Christmas. Fairy lights will be added later this week, and then I'm done! Are you decorating?

Monday, December 14, 2009

A walk on the mountain

The Cape is well-known for its wide variety of wild flowers. These (and many more) I snapped on the mountain this weekend.











Have a lovely week - smell the flowers, and if there aren't any, draw or paint some!

Friday, December 11, 2009

More Bad Copies


Bad Copy #4 (of a photograph of Douglas Ginberg & Christian Nerf from the exhibition One More Day to Regret, May 2008)

Bad Copy #5 (of sculpture by Donovan Ward from the exhibition Barbie Bartmann: Homecoming Queen, July 2005)