Adri is very good a finding crafting courses for us to go on. We went to a dotty mandala painting workshop in Jaffa with both Israeli and Arab women. There was a really lovely atmosphere. The instructor pre-paints the canvas and draws circles and lines faintly to help the painter. The second two I did …
Monthly Archives: August 2024
Dreamcatchers from Hook and Hove in August 2024
I spent some time in mid-August in both Hove and Hook. Whenever I could I hid myself away and made these 24 dreamcatcher montages using ink, metallic pens, paints, feathers, honesty petals, rose leaves, wooden flowers, butterflies and bugs, lavender, the die cut plastic from an old white Tatty Devine necklace that was beyond repair, …
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Drinks Barbies interact with Medical Equipment
When I was in York on my way back from Berwick-Upon-Tweed, I met my friend Paula and we went to a historic home and garden for lunch. The shop sold some small “Barbie-like” characters who were called Sassy, Kelly, Candice, Ginger, Lacy and Crystal. Obviously none were actually called Barbie and they held themselves in …
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Pez Barbie (aka Princes Peach) goes to Sandbanks
I was invited with two of my children to come to Sandbanks on a family holiday. I found Pez Barbie on the route down and my niece, Sabrina, informed me she is called Princess Peach. But never mind. She went all over the beach, around on the bus and ferry to Studland Bay. She had …
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Dreamcatchers in Mallety, Limoges, France – July 2024
I have become slightly obsessed with making paper dreamcatchers. Often the body is round and there are three or five hanging aspects which have “feathers” and something to weight them down. Often I use squares or other funny shapes for the body part and the weights can be a whole variety of objects. The “feathers” …
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Carlos in Mallety, Limoges, France
So this time Carlos made it to France. I stayed in Mallety, near Limoges with the lovely and wonderful couple Fran and Phil and their assortment of 3 cats, 3 dogs and one tortoise. I eat wonderful food, drink gin and tonics and white wine but spend most of the day in the workshop. This …