birdie pendants

I like clay. I'm not very good at using it, but I like it!

I've tried porcelain with not alot of luck (very tricky stuff and wasn't so sure about the firing. How do they get it so white?). I've tried earthenware clay. Now i'm playing with Paper Clay (which is just like earthenware but has some paper pulp mixed through it)

I've also discovered oxides! My favourite is magnesium oxide. You paint it on, wipe it off leaving it in the lines etc, fire it and voila - instant loveliness!

These are some bird pendants I made. I'm really happy with how they turned out. Think I might list them on etsy. Or maybe madeit? I'm thinking $15 each...

Holiday activity...

I finally finished my crochet-ed blanket! I have been looking at this incomplete blanket for YEARS and on account of it being freezing in Sydney this winter, I decided it was high time I finished it.

Okay, okay - so its not very big but I genuinely ran out of wool and I can't find it in Spotlight anymore. Thank God really! I couldn't bear to do anymore.

But I think it looks quite good, and its actually quite warm. Here it is on my wicker chair, on the moss covered patio.

I have also been playing with the fancy school DSLR and took this pretty picture of some camelia's from the front garden in the kitchen when - shock horror - the sun was shining in through the windows

We have also been to the Paddington Reservoir. Have you been there? It is amazing. It is like a hanging garden hidden in Sydney on Oxford St. Bliss! Go there with a picnic - how nice!

(me at the Reservoir)

(see! Beautiful!)

Finally.... an etsy listing

Here is my etsy shopfront. I have finally listed some fabric birds online. I am hoping to sell one or two myself. If not, I will take them to Pulp and I know they can sell them!

The photo's aren't wonderful because the light was fading. I had borrowed the lovely school camera (Canon EOS 1000D) but it freaked out, won't format the memory card and stopped working. Very sad. Looks like it will have to go back to Canon for repair now :(

Here are some clearer pics of the birds for sale in my shop....

Can I please have....

....all of these lovely things from Marimekko 'In Good Company' range? Please??

source: http://www.marimekko.com/ENG/interior/kitchen/ingoodcompany/frontpage.htm

We saw them today at Nordic Fusion whilst I was trying on clogs. Both the clogs and this chinaware are wonderful! I ordered the clogs (bright red ones!) but left the cups behind.... 

Oh how I love them....

Brett Whiteley Studio

Have you been here??

image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotodudenz/48237305/

I have never quite been able to actually find 'The Studio', but today Jay and I went Surry Hills for a creme brulee and strawberry tart from Bourke St Bakery and just happened to park in a little lane next to the gallery. So in we went....

image: www.brettwhiteley.org

My art teacher was obsessed with Brett Whiteley when I was at school. All she ever banged on about was "Brett, Brett, Brett". I remember the day he died in 1992, because she sat in class and wept and then spent a double period making us look at slides of his work. And I never liked them....

I have been converted! The works on show of his at the moment are beautiful. they range from browns, oranges and taupes to big blue ones and ink collages. Its the big blue ones I never really responded well to, but in person they are all stunning, layered, textured pieces filled with surprises like dead stuffed animals/birds, nests, hand written letters and magazine images cut out and stuck onto the canvas. And it all works. I wanted to rush home and paint (I didn't - I had a nap. The brulee tart really wore me out!)

I will go again! They are infinitely better in real life - of course!

Brett Whiteley, Woman in Bath 1964

Also titled (Woman in Bath 4 - from Marlborough Gallery, 1964)

Oil, collage, tempura and polyvinyl acetate emulsion on board

183.1 x 218.7cm; signed 1.1. 'Whiteley'

birdie on a website!

madebykilljoy birdie on Pulp's website.
Bottom left. Yay!