Work on Saturday. A quick dash home to shower and change then I was off out to a 21st birthday dinner. During which my table mate and I compared ways of folding nappies using our napkins. All in the name of design: we were discussing the best folds to use on a baby shower invitation she's working on which she wants to wrap in a piece of fabric so it looks like a nappy.
And today she and I had our first Play Date. An idea we came up with over coffee at The National Portrait Gallery a couple of weeks ago: we wanted the chance to experiment and learn and, well, play with art supplies and ideas.
She was particularly keen to have a go at foam printing like I did at last year's CMAG class so that's where we started. First I showed her the basics I learnt in the class:
(and discovered that: 1. A glass chopping board makes a good inking plate at a pinch. 2. A plastic one doesn't. 3. Especially when you're trying to use acrylic paint from the op shop instead of a second colour ink as you're too cheap to buy the real thing. 4. Speaking of too cheap, it doesn't pay buy the cheaper ink either,even if the girl in the shop says it works fine: it won't work like the good stuff does)We sketched some ideas:
and tried out various combinations. Reminding ourselves constantly that we were playing. It didn't matter if things didn't work according to plan as that was all part of the fun. And that we weren't setting out to create masterpieces.
We learnt that my coffee cup mug rack makes a great drying rack in a pinch:
and that sometimes you can take something just a bit too far and ruin it...
Next time we're playing with collage.
Thinking: Still percolating ideas for the 
(because every 
(I'm pleased to report it's delicious. Especially with 
... with the idea of an afternoon nap
(since I have a clean, fresh, newly made bed enticing me. And you know 
(Note the use of the past tense: I decided the only thing to do was start a new project with all that lovely space.)
I've started building a cardboard mock-up of 
Good thing I have almost 6 months before the real thing has to be finished...
It was built by Rollalong Ltd., and is equipeed (sic) with a desk, bunks, sink and taps. This is one of the vehicles on display at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, Hampshire, England"
When I first heard about this exhibition last week I ran over to the newsagents to get a copy of the January 2010 edition of Elle Decoration, only to discover they don't stock it anymore. And so I had been planning to drop into Borders when I'd been paid.
Now I don't need to...
Then dolls house + caravan = brilliant
Full of books!
It's beautiful. I want one!
Back at 
Plaque number two is supposedly across the road outside the paired housing but there was no sign of it that I could find.
And back across the road by the maisonettes is plaque number 4:
There's no sign of anything back where the courtyard housing is (my favorites)
and my cat. 
Rock and Roll (not)
I finished these booties and hat just in time: the baby was born this morning:
I've been knitting in my breaks at this week's new-to-me library. Today I found a colleague knitting in the kitchen at lunchtime. --Insert evil laugh here--
