more stationery

this past weekend i was busy screen printing with my little print gocco more stationery for the craft fair. unfortunately i didn't find any 'canson-vivaldi' brand paper and envelopes (these are my favourite as the texture is devine) but i did find some nice bright yellow paper and envelopes that have done the job just as well. the green envelopes and paper are the 'canson' brand paper left over from when i last printed up a batch, i'm going to have to find something similar to these this weekend.

my new glasses

taaaadaaaaaahhhhhh!

cats eye glasses

on the weekend i unexpectantly went looking for glasses frames. we didn't mean to walk into opera opera but i have had in the back of my mind to change my glasses frames as i need a new prescription i thought it a good excuse.
this shop has the best unique frames i have seen anywhere, they reproduce old styles from the 30's to the 80's for those of you who are sick of the little choice in frames there are today....whoever invented titanium for frames must be raking it in!
here is a picture of the frames i am waiting to pick up from the shop on wednesday, oh, and i want to say a bit thank you to ed who has bought them for me for my birthday (eventhough it is over a month away). more photos to follow.

book club

i have joined a book club that my friend has started. there are only 4 of us but it is a start. the first book we are reading is 'orlando' i have read this before but about 10 years ago so i'm looking forward to reading it again and of course meeting up with everyone for a nice meal, glass of wine and a good'ol debate about the book.
i really wanted to finish 'crime and punishment' but with only 50 pages to go i might leave it on the back burner and pick it up again in a month.

i'm turning into an elf

i am in the process of making little 'rainbow bruce's' for the craft fair i am taking part in on 1st july in walthamstow. some have mutated into little scary critters.
this is the bag i finally finished making and puting one of my prints onto, i'm testing out the durablity and strength of it today by taking all of my gym gear to the gym and it seems to be doing very well! here's to making more although they do take ages to sew.

some more drawings

scary toys and t-shirts

this is the scary looking toy i made the other day, his odd looking face is growing on me.

i also did some screen printing onto fabric. i am not very impressed with them as the ink soaked into the material too much in places and the definition has been lost. anyway it was my first attempt so i'm pretty happy.


below is a clearer picture of the t-shirt print...kath if you still want one let me know and i'll send you one all the way over to dubai (or duby as you so lovingly call it).

the weekend

this weekend was pretty full:
Saturday we went into the westend to see a procession of giant wooden creatures parade around the streets of london, put together by a group of french artists and funded by the arts council. the weather wasn't great but the crowds turned out. we then went to the half-price ticket booth to buy tickets to 'blackbird' an interesting play that annoyed me and entertained me ... a little. joghi may who played una over acted and my gosh with a voice as strange as hers i wasn't sure if she was putting it on for the character or she normally draws out all of her vowels slowly and with such a deep voice. the end scene which incorporated a car on the stage (just for the drama of it) was overacted and spoilt the simple nature of the choreography. dispite this blackbird was interesting enough to keep my attention but failed to impress on me it's dramatic plot.

sunday i went wedding dress shopping with my friend fe who is getting married in brazil next year. after a long day of shopping up and down oxford street we visited a bridal dress shop and found 'the' dress. she is going to look beautiful on the day and i am so happy she found the dress she loved.

2 great australian leave us

well i can't believe the news that grant mclennan from 'the go-betweens and richard carlton an australian journalist have died!
i dont' remember a time when richard carlton wasn't on australian tv, he kept his integrity as a journalist when others succumbed to tabloid rubbish and probably better pay.
i was totally shocked to hear about grant mclennon, so young to have also passed away; what a great song writer...australian music will indeed suffer with out his continued input, but we have some brilliant songs to remember him by.

woops

we went for a walk along wood street last sunday, had to pass some time waiting for the overland train to liverpool street. everything was shut but we did a bit of window shopping and found some interesting shops: organic fruit and vege shop, hungarian deli, antique market. we passed a cake shop which had only one cake in the window, it looked like it had been there for months; the dust gathering on the icing, it slowly crumbling away and unfortunately depriving the doll of any dignity, i thought it was vaguely funny and sad and ..... DO THEY REALLY THINK THIS IS GOING TO SELL??

toys

i am slowly making more toys and and finally bought some more felt and stuffing. i made this one for ed's friend who had a baby recently. i hope the little baby likes it. and i made another 2 very similar but with different mouths which make them look a little odd and a little scary

markets and drawing

i was going to pace myself with the photos i took on the weekend but i just can't help myself.
this weekend was a market frenzy.
Saturday we went to Borough Market and bought some lovely ewe's milk cheese; the frenchman selling it was just too sweet and excitable about the cheese to refuse, some cumin olives and tapenade.
Sunday we did a double bill: Spitalfields Market and Columbia Road Market. Spitalfields isn't as good as it used to be, it is far more commercial and has lost the unique atmosphere it once had but we walked around, dodging the crowds. i found a cardigan, the exact same style of the one i shrank a year ago, so i was very happy.
as we were weaving our way through the crowds we spotted pete doherty (libertines/babyshambles), obviously just come from posting bail at his local police station he is so familiar with these days. do you like my paparazzi shot, it is him really:


and so the weather for our long weekend was changable; it rained it was sunny, then it was windy and it was rainy again it played havoc with my hair no matter how much syrum i had in it!