Ana Claudia Crisan

Ana Claudia Crisan: Romance, wax 2006

I've been doing some sorting through boxes and found 3 tubs of waxy 'things' which made me think of the piece above, not that my things were like that. Anyone whose spent time playing with melted wax will appreciate the work that must have gone into this sculptural jewellery by Ana Claudia Crisan at the RCA 2006 summer show. My lack of time on the computer means I've no idea what was in the 2007 show.

Early august reds

A few pics from the week that K visited. The Rowan berries I put in her room fell off the tree in July, July, that's so wrong.


Maid of the Fourth ferry


Fourth Rail Bridge as the sun hit it


VW van in town

I peeked...

Photo's from dog walk a few weeks ago, beautiful weeds.

I peeked at a few loved blogs yesterday.
I just had to, and as I suspected I got sucked in and lost half a day. It was so nice to catch up on lives and photo's. Anna was (naturally) baking. Always the experimenter she was making grapefruit cake which looked really really good. Also making food was Vanessa, crepes, my mouth was watering and I had to scoff huge quantities of rice cakes. Lisa S was making, or rather selling, letterpress prints based on her gorgeous dreaming bed piece she did for Camilla. It looks SO fantastic letterpressed, the ink is embossed (or maybe it's debossed?) into the paper adding a whole new dimention to work that I already loved beyond words. $45 and you can have your own bit of Lisa on your wall. I wish I had time to visit more of you, but I really need to get more essentials done before justifying the treat of looking.

Golden light on dark skies

I made a mistake setting the levels on this image but loved how it made the house blue though the original was creamy. These were a few weeks ago, one sunny day when I chose my moment carefully so we could walk without getting rained on. I chose wrong, we got soaked, here it is approaching while we are 10 mins from home. I love when you have the dark clouds but the foreground is still in glorious sunlight. Had to shelter under a tree for 20mins till it stopped.

Anya Kivarkis - Blind Spot

Anya Kivarkis: Untitled brooch #1 from the Blind Spot Series
Showing at Sienna Gallery (Lennox, MA, USA) until 4th September

I've loved her work since seeing her blue enamel piece last year, but I had never seen the back of her work. Exquisite.

Sun and smoothies

The sun is shining in Mr P's kitchen window for a 3rd day and they say it will last all weekend! Outside the window is a large Buddleia, usually teaming with butterflies. Due to the soaking summer only one butterfly seems to have survived. I hope it finds a girlfriend so there'll be more next year.

Another flood related loss seems to be carrots, which may explain the sudden and mysterious disappearance of the tastiest new-ish drink by those wonderful folks at Innocent. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Innocent Smoothies and drinks. Not that I can afford them, but I use a little to pep up my own blends so I get more variety into them and don't get bored and go over to the dark side (chocolate). Their carroty drink was the best shop bought fruit/veg drink I've ever tasted, so sweet and refreshing. We bought it twice and have never seen it since. Till the next crop of carrots I'm enjoying Innocent Superfoods - Natural Detox which we tried when K was staying. It's yummy. Now I realise they are not organic, but they are a good company, I like how they work and I hope that as they grow they will add organic to the range. This page shows what their packaging is made from and how to recycle it. And they don't air freight their fruit.

I took a load of photo's in Edinburgh recently that I forgot about till yesterday, these were among them, taken on a cloudy evening. Imagine how bright this looks on a sunny day...





I may or may not blog over the weekend, I'm planning to get a lot done while we have no rain (so much DIY has been delayed it's scary). Goodness knows what state my muscles will be by Monday (Camilla, I never did have that bath, I was too tired to even move). For those sharing our weather, enjoy it as much as you can, even if it's just letting the light and fresh air into your home.

Green trunk

Great details on the intense green trunk of this tree. They are so characterful, like the eyes on a chameleon, I kept expecting them to move. The bottom one is like the snout on a mole.

New fence is finished, not the private perfection they promised but it's live-able with. The biggest difference is noise, the hedge was like a huge 5ft deep quilt absorbing sound from every direction. Project plant growth must commence immediately. The cat is very freaked by it all too, all his quiet places, hidey holes, rain shelter, sunny sleeping spots and toilet have all gone and in their place are men with chainsaws. Sorry if this is all a bit dull, I've turned the blog into a bit of a diary to compensate for my increasing and freaky loss of memory.

Huge cones

If you go down to the woods today...







The hedge is gone :0(
But the new fence is pretty good compared to what was originally proposed. It's a good height and there is enough soil to get some nice thing growing up it over time. Till then, we shall just have to appreciate the birds further afield in places with huge cones and lovely grasses.

Bridge details

Snack sized bridge details from K's visit.

Hedge going but path saved

Posie coloured pics in memory of sweet Audrey

Sheila- thanks so much for letting me know the sad news about Audrey which gave me the chance to send my love to Alicia and Andy.

Julie- I've not been blog reading but it sounds like you're home, I couldn't remember when you were returning but I must catch up soon.

Hedge update. They turned up 1st thing this morning (a day early) and have started to cut the hedge. Our hard work was not entirely in vain, it made it clear that it would be practical for them to leave a foot of soil on Mr P's side for planting. And, thanks to some frantic sawing by me (this body is wrecked know) during their lunch break, I was able to convince them to re-align the end of his new fence with my existing fence, thus saving our little shortcut and making a much neater solution for all 3 households. Phew. We have also saved one skinny lone tree from the hedge because it had grown on my side of the fence, so at least one pair of birds can still nest in the top next year.