The Museum of Blue.

(Chalk pastel, hair elastics, ribbon, small earth globe, grandma's beads (restrung by my Suzi T), small turquoise stone found at the Scratch Patch, weird big beaded ring, plastic doll's shoe, bottle top, plastic propeller, tiny piece of indian cotton cloth, scissors, old Turkish cigarette tin, found piece of porcelain, 'B is for Blue' wooden letter)

I returned and saw ...

I have a bit of an obsession with stitching and paper. Herewith my newest endeavour: stitching quotations in books. I have used a folded book for this one.

 The quotation is a very true observation about life - do you know what the quotation is?

The Necklace.

I made this necklace from fabric bits, added a bit of embroidery and buttons and an Indian bead, and punched out a tag for it, which says  "memory". (Boy, I am having such fun with that letterpunch set!) The string was crocheted painstakingly and took me ages to do. Well, okay, that is not quite true, but I like to exaggerate a little.

Have a great weekend, everyone! (I think you should put on a necklace and go out. You should probably also have a glass of bubbly but that is just a suggestion.)

The Museum of Red.

(paint brush, felting wool, plastic pen cap, 1950s earring, measuring cup, pencil, felt tip pen, lid opener, vintage buttons, beading pliers, found plastic piece, embroidery yarn, bottle cap, wine container cardboard, indicator light plastic, plastic rose ring)

Car boot sale.

Got this at a car boot sale recently. It is great, let me tell you! In addition to stabbing (with a felting needle) and ripping (paper), I can now hammer my frustrations away.

This was my first attempt. Made from tin cut from a cooldrink can with tin snippers and folded over with pliers.

Good news - the maths development is finished, apart from a final look I need to take when it has been typeset. Whoooo hooooo!!!!! The science editing is not done yet - about 200 pages still to be delivered by the author, and then of course it has to go through several proofs up to master set. I think another month or two should do it. And then .... freedom! .....oh, sweet, sweet freedom ....

Have a great weekend, everyone! I am taking an early one ...

The Museum of Yellow.

 







(plastic reindeer, paint pen, plastic cone, part of gyroscope, plastic cow, paper clip, stapler, packet of needles, cardboard strip, car fuse, paper ribbon toy from Tate Modern, plastic reindeer, thumb tack, toy truck, wooden letter, felt tip pen)

Desktop.

Nathalie and others are showing their desktops once a month on the 15th, and I am joining them this month. My laptop's desktop is pretty boring, so I thought I would show my real desktop instead. In case you are wondering, it is a little neater than usual as I haven't started working yet.

In the foreground you see my desk lamp, a dictionary (the others are all on the floor, six of them), two sets of notes I am adapting, my reading glasses, scrap paper with doodles for a possible exercise, the two boxes L'Usband built for my laptops - to position them at the right height so as to minimise the neck-and headaches I get from working (these have now disappeared, but as you have probably guessed, have been replaced by wrist aches), a little book I use to make lists each week on top of a magazine that I still want to read, two of my business cards, one of my laptops (showing Nathalie's desktop!), in the background my cell phone blinking on top of a pile of notes and reference material. On the left of the picture (and the back of my desk) various bottles and jars with pens and pencils and markers and stuff. More stuff hanging from the bookshelf above the desk to remind me of other stuff ..

I think you get the picture.