Midweek meander

My posts will be a bit erratic for a while as I am really busy at the moment gardening, making and generally enjoying the summer. It takes me so much longer to do things now because of my health problems but I am working hard to keep myself tickerty boo.

Take a look at this guerrilla knitting I'm thinking I fancy yarn bombing somewhere!  

Unfortunately the artists of this lovely work are unknown to me.

Midweek meander

Hi sorry for the break I am extremely busy at the moment catching up on things and helping out with children. The garden needs lots of attention with this hot weather and I must admit I'm enjoying the first proper summer we've had in ages. We have had a barn owl nesting in an old pigeon coop and this morning we found a fledgling that had fallen out of the nest still too young to fly. What to do, return it home to its mum I guess.

Lost.

Isn't he a beauty.

Look at those wings but he's too young to fly he still has all his fluffy feathers.

There you go little one.

Three chicks and mum all inside long may they flourish.

The end of another beautiful day.

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Hi I'm back, I've been in Paris for a few days it was a surprise birthday present, lovely. I'm re-energised and full of new ideas woohoo. I thought I would share some of my travels with you, hope you enjoy them.

Lovely lady from the cemetery in Montmatre.

Tasty treats.

Van Gogh's windmill.

Interesting grouping.

Little fishy on a little dishy.

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Another great book from David Carter to enjoy.

Great inspiration for graphic design and illustration.

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Some funny little critters which showed themselves in my seeds and stones.

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'HELLO - HELLO IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?'

 I haven't had too many comments recently, this is not a complaint by the way it's just...............me

and it gets lonely in the winter -

nah only kidding but I do love to get your comments it sort of connects us all up!

We finally have proper winter weather and it's so beautiful I thought that I would share it with you all.

and this was the sunset a couple of days ago

stay warm  or cool depending where you are.

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Hi sorry I have not been posting for a while I actually sneaked away to grab a last minute holiday in Sorrento  Italy. It was a glorious 30 degrees, beautiful and such a relaxing break after a very topsy turvey year. Here are a few of the photographs that I took hope you enjoy them in our dark November days!

Fishing boats bobbing  in the harbour.

More lovely boats in Amalfi.

Beautiful surfaces at Herculaneum.

Now that's what I call fruit and veg!

Wonderful mosaics on the back of a simple seat.

Frescoes to die for.

Amazing architecture everywhere.

 What a place, glorious.

The strange thing was a lot of the shops were filled with Christmas trees and Christmas decorations which seemed surreal to an English girl in 30 degree heat. I was bought back to earth with a bump when we landed in Newcastle airport as it was snowing hard, well it is November after all!

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Steel town disciples

• Artist Gerwyn Davies
  
  

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  The Helmet (2011)
• Steel town disciples
  
• Steel Town Disciples is a series of twelve constructed still life images offering tactile denim sculptures painted in light. In each still life image, totems of the ‘authentic’ man are stitched and shrouded using heavily gendered modes of craft. Chainsaws, working boots and saddles, trivial symbols of masculinity, are coated in denim and bound with thread against its hard form. The denim materials origin as a rugged and durable fabric bearing the hard labour of American cowboys, rebelling against authority in the 1950s before outfitting the working class heroes of Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Barnes is referenced and repositioned in a camping of popular notions of manhood.
  
  This tactile and tough material quality of denim is transformed and repositioned in to a new still life context. Here, the assumed power of masculine iconography and symbolism are dissolved into eroticism and conflated with the romantic and delicate.
  Traditional still life representations of ripened fruit are inserted alongside these heavily constructed sculptures, contrasting their rigid form and fetishising the nature of the objects. Alternate elements of cream and bound rope aim to further intimate at an erotic exchange shifting the power and status of masculine ownership further away from the initial subject.
  
  This series of work playfully interrogates the construction and performance of normative and dominant masculinities and their iconography and in doing so, aims to contest the authority of prevailing masculinities and their commonplace representations.
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  The Gloves (2011)
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  The Axe (2011)
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  The Chainsaw (2011)
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  The Saddle (2011)
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  The Pads (2011)
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  The Gun (2011)
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  The Funnel (2011)
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  The Weights (2011)
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  The Boots (2011)
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  The Cans (2011)
  Found on  www.behance.net
  Thank you