Tuesday, May 14, 2024
What's cooking
Friday, May 10, 2024
When Finish it off Friday turns into Frustration Friday
Thursday, May 09, 2024
My poor tired brain is trying to be helpful
You'll recall I mentioned looking for my decanter on Tuesday.
Well, I've had no luck finding it so far (and, alas, the current weather isn't quite up to a scoot down to see James and buy a new one from him: it's times like this that I do miss having a car), and am starting to wonder if it is in fact imagined.
But my poor tired brain is trying ever so hard to be helpful.
First, and fairly easily, it found me this, which I'd made from a Trash to treasure kit given to me back in 2015:
(Which, granted, could work in a pinch if I dig out something suitable for a stopper).Wednesday, May 08, 2024
A framing frenzy
My stash drawer reorganisation worked a treat and I was able to place my hands on both my stash of overhead-projector film and my container of small white card scraps within seconds of opening the drawer, which pleased me greatly.
And meant that I could spend my lunchtime framing rather than finding:
I approached the framing a bit differently to how I usually doing it, using washi tape to hold things in place rather than my usual approach of gluing a sheet of thin brown paper bag over the back.This means that the framing isn't permanent and I can easily swap in a different picture for a future scene that I need the frame for. Hopefully this approach will hold together once I attach them to the wall with Blu Tack...Tuesday, May 07, 2024
A productive lunch break
Monday, May 06, 2024
Questions, questions
I finally asked myself my standard 'Who lives here?' question for this scene at lunchtime today, which caused me to wonder and ponder as I sorted through my art stash to find items that that person might chose for their walls, then set them out for further scrutiny and decision making:
I also pulled out some blue items to try, as I mentioned last week,and found myself trying out some windows (which I last used back in December 2020, with a different background in them).Which lead me to wonder if it needed a fireplace as well:Oh dear: I seem to have asked myself more questions than I answered today!Sunday, May 05, 2024
A knitting emergency, with cake
(Alas only miniature)
"Oh" she said "I hurt my hands and I've been told to keep them warm. But I hate these".
It just so happened that I'd stopped off at Lincraft on the way to club to buy some nicely-discounted machine-washable wool to knit some lounge socks for Mum, so pulled out my purchases and asked if she liked any of the colours, as I'd decided she needed some nice hand-knitted wristwarmers instead.
She picked the variegated, so I cast on last night when I got home (choosing a suitable stitch marker, of course!), and finished them off just after lunch this afternoon.
She lives in the next suburb over but has headed up to Sydney today on a day trip to visit the Sydney miniatures and dolls house fair, so I dropped them into her mail box for her to find when she gets home.
And that, dear reader, is why there were no minis happening around here today.
Saturday, May 04, 2024
In a tangle
Today was mini club. And the workshop was a macrame plant hanger.
'How hard can it be?', I thought.
Much harder than I imagined it would seem, even for someone who remembers the 70s and Golden Hands magazine.
It all seemed easy enough: although I was confronted by the fact that the smaller-scale version only came in red.Then I was faced with a yarn octopus...
some knotty problems,