October 2011
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Gabriel Dawe's thread installation →
See for yourself…
So I made some wax hearts for a conference last week. First time I’ve ever made a mold so that was fun. I used PVC rubber which I bought in Hobbycraft and ordered a lifesize model of a heart off Ebay. I’m pretty pleased with the way they came out. Unfortunately for some reason I don’t have pictures of all of them (some had wicks and one had coloured threads through it) and I...
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T-shirt transformation! →
One day I will make this too..
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Thread Art →
This is a beautiful blog- I love her work!
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Honeycomb →
Made this for Adam’s birthday- it worked really well although took a lot longer to cook on our ancient cooker than the recipe suggests. Next time I’ll double the quantities as it didn’t make much. I also added a couple of tablespoons of water to stop it from burning.
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carried away... →
Also going to make this one day.
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kids!! →
Okay, so maybe getting a biy ahead of myself considering I barely have a bump yet but we are so making this for our kids!
August 2011
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handstitched notepaper →
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A First Sonnet
At last, from under the husk of a
promise, the long awaited miracle.
You’ve abided long enough, the skin
stretched thin but now finally the sting
of a first meeting, sealing a
holy vow with one small pod, sealed
in your seam. And soon, your tiny
seedling will spill cold earth with green.
It’s taken awhile but in the end ...
July 2011
17 posts
Business cards →
I love this idea for business cards!
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Beautiful papercutting →
Thia girl does the most amazing papercuts.
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I reeally really like this log cabin hidden in the... →
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more advice on acrylic varnishing →
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The wonderful Bob Brown →
He’s a gardening guru. Every plant I think of sticking in the garden I check his nursery listings to see if he rates the plant.
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Best flapjack recipe? →
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Rhubarb recipe →
We’ve had loads of rhubarb on the 3rd of an allotment we share so I’ve been on the scout for recipes that aren’t crumble or fool. Haven’t tried this yet but looks delicious…
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Another varnish link... →
Nancy Reyner has some helpful info on her blog..
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High gloss varnish for acrylic painting →
I’m planning a series of portraits and want to create a thick glass-like surface over the finished painting. It looks as though the best thing way of doing this is with epoxy resin. One blog I read stated that Matisse MM14 gloss medium could be used. Will have to look this up.
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varnishing acrylic paintings →
Useful info on the best way to varnish an acrylic painting and how to apply…
March 2010
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“I planted some seeds
in my garden today,
they haven’t come up yet
I...”
– An Ahlberg one I think. From ‘There’s an Awful lot of Weirdos in our Neighbourhood’. I did plant some seeds today though, I hope they’re okay…
February 2010
14 posts
Valentine's
Still working on this one but here it is….
Still fanciable; my heart still sold- still taken despite contingency, geurilla warfare and pilaging. And so my heart-hopes lie hidden, still gone under your deep. Your unknown soul-scape, winking on the edge of my retina; a sealed off abyss, teasing.
Under these leagues my love lies, resides, beating and lost in you- (like dear ol’...
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Untitled
My life’s but a light-lick, glimmer, sputter and finish: Like a mayfly from my dawning to dusk. A gush of silt; one, short glow,
So, teach me to shine-fly and not wane away, (moon-bound). Beckon me blue-ward, airborne and billowed in Son-Shock.
Plateau my doubts.
Lift my spirit-lids, raise me from my sticky soulscape- my heart-set turned to spirit-lustre and reeking of ...
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A sketchy one - written at City Life church 18.05.09 (mostly)
We stand in a new fold of glory- a fractured finding: A concentrated yellow like daffodils in Spring- blaring their naked trumpets. Dynamism of life beginning; a constant ecstacy- fire and rage and verbs, a deeper, fuller meaning to turn the soul. Feel for a new seed under the ground; down waiting in the quiet dark, for light and...
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This is a really old one -
Taken aback by the gold of my scratch- I wasn’t expecting to find a delta of yellow beneath such thin skin- the bloody glory of the broken Man-God. How can one man be a container for a sea and carrier of eternity? It was my rust that broke your skin and held you there, nailed; that tore your back and punctured your brow and yet your rip drips gold to heal my cut....
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The sudden frost caught you off balance. Blackened, you opened your mouth like a fish. But the cry curled in your pharynx, folded down and made room. To counter the pain, you (in your infinite wisdom), donned your prettiest dress and prepared for
flight. Sadly, there was ...
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A sudden sky:
All day thick and cloying, wearing the dark weave of sky like a hat- Suddenly lashed back into sun smeared cloud edges- all rimmed and swollen, orange on blue. And then fushia pink and dazzle hit full-pelt It was as if just your thumb pushed through. Immense glory of a finger, blocking the promised grey into sheer light.
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Ribena
The warm ribena of your presence heals me, turning me from sin-spun glass into flesh-like reality.
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Bookshop
In the dry silence of the upstairs room, lodged between the Karma Sutra and other, lesser books, I find your Logos; leather-bound and thick with dust. A comical, incongruous holiness- I am awed by this delicious...
Good ol’ C.S. Lewis. From ‘The Great Divorce’…
‘Ink and catgut and paint were necessary down there, but they are also dangerous stimulants. Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells, to the love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about...
Badger
Since it’s Vanlentine’s Day n’all… Wrote this one when Steve and I were still in that tentative honeymoon stage - possibly for our first Valentine’s day together… sigh….
Badger
To begin with, you were everywhere; back of buses, bottles of beer, road names, book covers. Teasing me with your black and white grey-ness, I was unable to suss you.
And then...
Doorstop
My grand-pa is dying. His soul is unpicking itself from its seams. You can hear it flapping at night when he breathes; fluttering against his sternum, creaking and groaning like a caged...
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Another mystery:
You made yourself man-sized, a fleshing in of infinity; the secrets of origin folded in and under your skin. The whole weight of creation contained in a single, boundless man. A carrier of Sovereignty. You turned everything around in the melding of an antiphonal God-man. In the Word’s wordplay, paradoxes abound; ...
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Peter and the Fish
Too bright the sunshine, this broken morning, glistening over the petalled surface- too blue. Back to the original fish-hunt; bitter now the iron-core call returns empty.
Still, in the warm dawn, an echo calls- smelling of mackrel, a sudden salty sting: the remembrance of suppers and sacrifice distant miracles and brothers. And then, raw, glorious recognition - a rush back to shore to find the...
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Sparkles
For Wendy. Wasn’t sure how to tell you this, to tell you you’ve been kissed without you knowing it. It’s as clear as crystal; you bear the mark of a faithful, secret lover. The angels recognise his seal (and the demons quiver); A lip-shaped stamp on your waxy heart (signature of the spirit-lover). And when you...