A White Dog & A White Horse.

A few weeks ago we took Snous to view Kevin Brand's new public sculpture installation on Sea Point Promenade. While I was trying to get Snous to pose with one of the white horses (there are five), L'Usband snapped this picture.

 



Snous was not too keen to pose, it has to be said. Perhaps she was afraid that she was going to have to wear a metal vuvuzela up her backside, like the poor horse. The horses are connected via underground pipes so you can speak into the mouthpiece of one horse and listen at the tail-end of another.
(For more information on the background of the installation, read here.)

Spoon necklace.

I have seen lovely spoon jewellery on the Internet & elsewhere, and decided to make my own.
Step 1: Buy an old spoon from the car boot sale.
Step 2: Saw off the handle with a small metal saw and sand with sandpaper.
Step 3: Drill a hole.
Step 4: Stamp a word on it.

Step 5: Add a bead or two.

 Step 6:  Hang on a chain.

Step 7: Wear.

Have a great weekend, everyone. Put on a necklace, go out, and enjoy yourself!

Art class homework.

I went to a mixed media art class yesterday. It was great fun. My art teacher was wonderful and inspirational. What was not such great fun is that I was given homework. At school I was an ace at homework. I always did my homework and  followed instructions to the letter and always got top marks for my efforts. Anyhow, because I do not know how to work with colour (by my own admission) I was given lots & lots of tiny coloured fabric rectangles and told to go home and arrange them on small squares of paper in pleasing combinations. So how did I end up making this?

 Lots and lots of bunting - stitched carefully by me onto suede string. With my sewing machine.

Ain't my art teacher gonna get a surprise? Hahahahaha!

The mug that looks like a cup.

I have purchased quite a few little presents for myself over the past few months, but have had no time to post them yet. Most of them have been from markets and car boot sales.

From the Easter Market a few months ago - this beautiful handmade ceramic mug. It looks like a largeish cup, but as it comes without a saucer, I think I am allowed to call it a mug.

By talented ceramicist Liesel Trautman.

Plant.

I truly didn't think this would work.
It took a while before I saw roots ...

and almost two months before I started seeing the first signs of a leaf ...

 Put a sweet potato in a jar and fill with water until the water just touches the bottom of the sweet potato. Leave on a windowsill to get lots of light. Top up the water when needed.

Have a great weekend everyone - go grow something!

Tights.

My goodness, I was quite shocked when people asked whether I actually wore my pink stamped tights. OF COURSE I wear them!

But not to meetings with the publisher, I hasten to add.

Bag it.

I usually dress in black or charcoal or brown. But when I go grocery-shopping, I need a bit of colour to make the experience more interesting. I have a load of colourful reusable grocery bags from Woollies - in lime, pink, sky blue, orange, red and (how did you guess?) brown and black.

I used a bit of leftover felt to decorate this one.

(The design is not my own unfortunately; I adapted it from a picture I had cut out of a magazine.)