oh yeah

and I forgot to mention that my new favourite movie is CAPOTE. Oh wow. I was enthralled from start to finish by an amazing and definately oscar deserving Phillip Seymour Hoffman. What a genius, what a story, what an incredibly incredible movie.my johnny cash loving husband, who thinks that joachim pheonix was robbed of the [...]

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funny

I think it’s really funny how things happen! One minute I’m dreaming of a community art space and some studio space for myself and anyone who wants to share and the next minute its all happening.
I’ve just secured a great space on a local vineyard for myself as a studio/gallery/workshop area. Okay, it [...]

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silent tears

Amidst all this madness and fun and organised chaos of art and life a little bit of my private world crumbled yesterday for my dear, dear friend Marty and I was forced to stop and breathe for a bit.
Marty’s dad passed away yesterday morning. He had been very unwell and so for this reason it [...]

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wow

She’s wrapped up posting now but she’s got some great things to say. I’d like you to meet Natalie….http://www.greenfoxbarking.blogspot.com/

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tread lightly

Things are happening. The gentle breeze is pushing me ever so softly in a direction that I should have travelled along long ago, and I think I’m ready. I’m tied up nicely in my world of art, my protective covering, my quilt. My place for free expression, where for some reason I’m not [...]

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a book in a box

What a wonderful weekend….. perhaps only slightly marred by a certain migrane/girly trouble sickness which forced me to miss most of the second day of an amazing workshop with Glen Skien .
Glen is a boxmaker extraordinair. Oh my goodness, talk about appealing to the “collectors” sense of everything! I am entranced by his stuff. What [...]

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she’s leaving home

oh dear! the time has come. she’s leaving home tomorrow…she’s all packed up, two more things to add to the final package, some brown paper to wrap the box in (is it bad to pack her in a “maxwell williams” dinner set box???) and an address label and off she’ll go.i’m okay with this, really, [...]

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a doll collaboration

so, i decided to start a doll and journal swap. i posted a picture a little while ago of a funny looking bird thing, she’s staying home with me now….. too scary to send her out into the world on her own!
I got the latest edition of Cloth Paper Scissors and followed Katie Kendrick’s [...]

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affair of the mind

hmmm, inspiration thursday asks for inspirationfor me it involves my head. once an affair starts in my mind, it doesn’t leave until satiated. words and flickering images that jangle my thoughts, keeping me awake at odd hours, speeding my heart and metabolism. it started yesterday. some broken thoughts, innocent at the start, browing bolder by [...]

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broken lines

feint memories, a breath, a touchwhispers in the darkheat
back’s up against the wallcold on my skinhot breath,cold wall
years of wordsbroken lines,wishing againheart’s racing
xotb

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