Alexander Calder.

More from the wonderful world of Alexander Calder, ta da roll up roll up the one and only not to be missed Calder's magnificent Circus. Take your seats ladies and Gentlemen and enjoy the show.

Take your pleasure from the weekend, if the weather is grey invent a better day and enjoy.

The cats whiskers.

This time cats to add to my play things, I am developing these for the skirting board puppet theatre.

More of my development work and ideas, I'm not sure where I'm going with them yet but they will tell  me in the end.

My growing family all watching me in the studio!

By way of an extra a lovely present from a friend, a beautiful pencil sharpener,  I love it.

I love the fact that the more you draw the less lies he can tell.

I won't be posting until next week see you then.

Create.

Bread and Jam.

Here's a lovely new Friday find, beautiful hand printed gifts from' Bread and Jam'. I just love this stuff it has so much more soul than mass produced items. Made from hand cut blocks each piece is individual with the variation that you get from a hand printed item, beautiful. These will definitely be on my wish list, what a delight to receive, the prices are good too what more could you want!

Take a look for yourself this new company are expanding their range all the time. www.wearebreadandjam.co.uk

Skinny Flower Writing Set.

Wooden Hand Printed Pencil Box.

Hand Printed Manila Notebooks.

These notebooks have good quality paper and priced at £7.50 for two who needs a more expensive brand!




And, to get  you in the mood for a creative weekend a lovely little film from the Russian artist, sculptor and animator Arseniy Lapin, what story would you weave around such a magical, mystical animation?




Enjoy yourself this weekend.

Midweek meander.

Whilst the building work has been going on here I've been looking around the internet for inspiring ideas, here are just a few that I enjoy.

Pallet love,

 beauty for free with a little bit of work, bliss free stuff!

Katerina Arens.

Studio mama.

Studio mama, pallet chairs.

Simple but lovely.

Maker unknown.

 What a great piece of upcyleing.

In these cash strapped times it pays to be inventive.

Austin Cleon.

What is this strange logo I hear you cry? Well, 1 it is a great blog by Jude Hill called Spirit Cloth, 2 its is a wonderful project that I have become involved in which has bought me peace and a sense of healing, a small but worthwhile bit of stitching. More information is contained in Jude's blog with a wonderful link to Wendy Golden-Levit . Here to give you a sense of it are the words and link from the blog. www.spiritcloth.typepad.com 

What will happen to the feather cloths?

My target for any charity efforts connected with this project  is children. Their well being and education. I may give or donate some of the cloths directly or donate them for auction. We'll see.

So far I have Wendy Golden-Levitt on my list.  Her work with children is just amazing. It would be nice to give the kids to have something larger to wrap around themselves. Something magical to keep them safe.

Images and a interesting and thought provoking article from www.handeyemagazine.com

There are not enough days in the weekend.

Rod Schmidt.

Have a great one yourself.

Fun things I'm loving this week, hope you enjoy them too.

 The concept behind this work makes me smile.
Source unknown.

'Feeding the Rooster'. Laura makes Pictures.

'Snow foxen' Abigail Brown.

Fun stuff, Julie Arkle.

Sock bunny. Source unknown.

Eye candy

With all this cold weather we have been getting and my life being in such a muddle I thought it would be nice to look at some wonderful stuff from the brilliant Dottie Angel, so pretty and so spring time inspirational.

www.dottieangel.blogspot.com

Just a little note from me, for those of you who live around the 'STUDIO 15' area I have a blog linked to the courses we are running with more information and images on whats available. Interested then take a peek www.studio15workshops.blogspot.com

Do what you love doing the most this weekend

failing that sit in the warm and contemplate stuff,

whatever you choose have a great one.

'Contemplation seems to be the only luxury that costs nothing'.

Dodie Smith.

Having a bit of trouble lately.

Hi I'm sorry that my posts have been a bit erratic lately but my life is pretty chaotic at the moment. We're having quite a bit of building work going on at the old place, again! The building work means that everything has to be sorted and moved, yes really its that sort of building work and I have collected a lot of stuff! On top of all that my mum who has Alzheimer's is getting worse and needs more help and I'm supposed to be starting a new business year at Studio 15, hey ho. So please forgive me dear readers if my blogging is as chaotic as my life at the moment, I can only promise to do my best.

I thought that I would inspire you as we move into the new year with some pictures of the lovely bedroom that my son and his wife made for one of my granddaughters, hope you love it as much as I do.

Isn't it great, the bedroom was too small for a regular sized bed and stuff so based on beach huts they built this lovely little fantasy. Its a double decker dream, sleep on top play underneath what little girls wouldn't love it.

Bye for now have a great week.