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.

Hi I'm back again!

Life is gradually getting back to normal and I am feeling much better in myself so I thought that I would try and get back into the swing of posting again. I have missed messing about on this ol machine of mine. Good to be back, fingers crossed I will be working  in the studio before long and life will be back on an even keel again.


I have just discovered the wonderful work of Italian illustrator Annalisa Bollini, the mixture of embroidery and paint is totally seductive to me and I find this work delightful. Take a look at her website www.annalisabollini.altervista.org on her website you will also find a link to her delightful flikr account.

Happy Monday, see you soon.

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.

Hello again.
Miga De Pan's beautiful embroideries make you want to get out your needle and threads, I first discovered the work on Hazel Terry's  fave  blog of mine www.theartroomplant.blogspot.com  a great source of inspiration.

www.migadepan.com.ar 

A good way to clean!

British street artist Paul Curtis (aka “Moose”) began pioneering his form ‘Green’ or ‘reverse Graffiti’ in 2007. Curtis literally scrubbed his way to fame using giant stencils and high-pressure water hoses to wash reverse images (mostly of trees and nature) onto soiled city surfaces. It did not take long before the aspirant street artist began conquering the cityscapes of London, applying his vigorous selective scrubbing to more prominent walls and bridges. 

[Text extracted from Neil Coppen]

For me this is art at it's best, inventive, transient, accessible and working with whatever materials you have to hand. Brilliant long live the inventive mind.

A little explanation!

Hello again, I'm sorry that I haven't been able to post regularly lately but 2012 is turning out to be a bit of a roller coaster for me. As you probably know if you follow this blog we have been coping with building work since last October, almost through it now but still plenty to do. Whilst this has been going on my mother who has dementia injured her hip and ended up in hospital, the help that she has required eats up a large part of my time and then (they say things always come in threes) I discovered that I have my own problems! I have been suffering with a painful back since October it transpires that I have advanced Osteoporosis and the pain is from a collapsing spine and multiple fractures. I had cancer when I was 26 years old and the Osteoporosis is directly linked to this, it was a bit of a shock to say the least as I am not yet 60 but I am determined to continue with my life style as I love what I do. So I hope that those of you who enjoy this blog will forgive me for being a little erratic of late and will continue to check out this site. It's great to know that I have contact with all of you so thanks.


I've been dreaming of a holiday and revisited a trip to Italy that I had a few years ago these are some of my memories.

 Fantastic Florence (Fiorenze).

Stunning Sienna.

Lovely Lucca.

Many many more wonderful memories and then,

back home to my peaceful garden.

I have so many things to be thankful for.


Have a great Easter break if you are lucky enough to have one.