Aerial Views
Rhett Dashwood from Melbourne, spent a few months combing through google maps to come up with an alphabet of land formed letters.
I love aerial views and following on from my recent flight over parts of Pembrokeshire last month have been seeing them everywhere.
Even in these home furnishings by Florian Pucher !
Whilst Talented textile artist Mary Edna, creates stunning batik banners from her own aerial views.
Rubber Stamps
Been trying out my rubber stamps, making some labels to send off with the orders.
They work well.
I’ve been Penguined.
Deciding that I didn’t want a photo of myself on my blog, I had to come up with an alternative
just to prove to folk that I really wasn’t a three headed monster after all (quickly removes two heads !).
I’m not even as old as the three old pence, but it seemed an appropriate addition (edition).
Local Walk.
I find it amazing what’s under our noses that we miss in the scurry of our busy lives.
I had a walk up the road and found all manner of sights, a stones throw from my front door,
of course a little sunshine always helps.
What is around where you live ?
Silent Treatment.
I’m a sucker for a beautiful image, especially if there’s some repetition involved,
throw some element of pattern and space and mass into the equation and I’m hooked !
Needless to say when I came across Michael Kenna’s images quietly ‘ shimmering ‘ away
I was instantly transported.
or visit his site for more amazing work.
A Crafty Purchase.
If you’re anything like me you’ve been captivated and grown up with books around since you were small.
I worked in a second hand bookshop when I was twelve, talking my way into a job that didn’t even exist,
just because the owner admired my interest and saw my love of books.
Things haven’t changed much since then and I still love the feeling of owning a great book
and pouring over it’s illustrations, photographs or written word with curiosity and a sense of calm.
I discovered this lovely book by Katherine Sorrell called ‘ The Essential Guide To Craft’
and soon fell for it’s charm and beautiful layout.
Not only is there an extensive list of crafts that are covered, they are wonderfully captured,
the processes are easily explained in a step by step manner,
in a way that makes you believe you can make everything,
if you only had the time.
Sigh.
Well worth a look.
Murdoch Books £14.99 ISBN 978-1741962802
Ideas
I’ve been busily working on the website over the last few days and still hope that something will come together in the next couple of weeks. Flippers crossed !
In the meantime here’s a wee taster of a couple of the card range ideas that will be featured.
Shops R Us ?
What a great shame we’re loosing all of our lovely specialised local shops to the chains and the out of town monster corporates.
I was prompted to mention this feature as it seems to have popped up a few times lately. Firstly my good friend blogged about photographer Stephen Kings’ capture of the old days of Lewis’s Department Store, a jewel of a place that traded in Liverpool for over 150 years. Story here. Lewis’s Store
Then watching Mary Portas in the highly successful series ‘Mary Queen of Shops’, where she tries her hardest to work with the struggling high street stores in order to revamp and revitalise their livelihoods.
Finally in the work of John Londei and the beautifully captured series of photographs of stores that are closing down. see here Shutting Up Shop
I was also thinking about the style and era we are loosing, by seeing this great sign, and typography I spotted yesterday in Beaumaris.
Shop local.
Welsh Weekend.
Another chance to escape the Manchester roads this weekend as we took off to Anglesey for a friends’ birthday. We try and get together this time every year and more often than not end up camping on some grassy bit of seacoast and visiting beaches and places of mild amusement for the kids that come along.
This time we discovered such a beautiful beach and we were lucky enough to have it all to ourselves.
Can you believe this is the UK ?
The stones are from the beach above.
The seagull who kindly posed and porthole door are both taken in Beaumaris,
and the bridge is the Menai Bridge.
The Sky At Night.
Just a couple of skies and silhouettes I saw last week.
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