i tried it with these new one off cushions. the fine lined background shapes were cut from the yellow pages. worked a treat.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
yellow pages
i was told recently that the Yellow Pages paper is a good medium for handcut screen prints because the paper doesn't buckle and you can get up to 40 prints from it.
i tried it with these new one off cushions. the fine lined background shapes were cut from the yellow pages. worked a treat.
i tried it with these new one off cushions. the fine lined background shapes were cut from the yellow pages. worked a treat.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
egg on face
oh come on now!
i can't be the only person to ASSUME that Australia Post would organise their parcels by the NAME of the receiver?
i've been back and forth to that wretched post office since xmas, collecting small parcels. is it totally insane of me to think that ALL my uncollected parcels would be handed over, beasties included?
well, apparently YES because Australia Post clearly does not operate according to my or the western world's system of order.
intrigue, anxiety, anger ... all for nought! [see previous post].
the beasties have finally made it home, looking none the worse for wear after many weeks in an uncaring enviroment.
i love how the bobcat has a tail and the dog doesn't.
thanks so much to emily [creator of beasties] who provided superb, but unnecessary grief counselling and compensation.
i can't be the only person to ASSUME that Australia Post would organise their parcels by the NAME of the receiver?
i've been back and forth to that wretched post office since xmas, collecting small parcels. is it totally insane of me to think that ALL my uncollected parcels would be handed over, beasties included?
well, apparently YES because Australia Post clearly does not operate according to my or the western world's system of order.
intrigue, anxiety, anger ... all for nought! [see previous post].
the beasties have finally made it home, looking none the worse for wear after many weeks in an uncaring enviroment.
i love how the bobcat has a tail and the dog doesn't.
thanks so much to emily [creator of beasties] who provided superb, but unnecessary grief counselling and compensation.
Friday, January 11, 2008
the great beastie scandal
a good many weeks before xmas i stumbled upon the dog of my dreams.
this is a tin dog beastie from emily at kuber.
it was love at first sight. and it was deep.
emily's tin creatures just really do it for me. the simple, abstracted shapes are beautifully crafted from the painted tin roof of her chook shed. how gorgeous is that? and how gorgeous are these?
I bought two beasties a few weeks before xmas. a dog and a bobcat. a couple of days before xmas they still hadn't arrived, but that was okay because they were MINE all MINE, not gifts for anyone. so i went away for a week.
when i came back i came home to a wide open letter box, a letter box that needs a key to open it. there was a bill and flyers inside but nothing else. I felt sick. it was now 3 weeks since emily had posted the beasties and not a beastie or postal collection note in sight. my deduction? well, a letterbox beastie thief, of course! i was outraged, i was sickened, and then finally i was very depressed, particularly as the weeks went on and i was without my little creatures that i'd been so anticipating. I emailed emily with my sad tale. A pox on that beastie thief! I ranted. I was also beginning to think that maybe it was partly my fault, maybe i hadn't quite locked my post box properly and it had actually flung open in my absence. could i have made it any easier for a letterbox thief! or was the bag poking out of the slot in the most irresistible manner, taunting that lurking letterbox thief? Who knows for sure?
emily offered to send me one more for free, just unbelievably generous, but i couldn't let her do it, why should she have to be out of pocket because of a poxy beastie thief! no way.
this week a dog beastie arrived in the mail. it's little bag fitted perfectly into my LOCKED letterbox. i squealed when i opened it. I don't normally squeal. i wanted to cry. for the beauty of the small, perfect object i'd received, for the genorosity and thoughtfulness of the artist.
and then.... a day later .... friday ..
i get a postal collection note ... a FINAL NOTICE ...
what???? could it be????? i've never had a final notice collection note ever because the minute i get a collection note in the post i'm up at the post office collecting.
final notice?? surely not??
and here's another deduction.
I leave home for a xmas break without locking my post box properly.
a postal note for the beasties is left in my letterbox.
the lid flies open, a gust of wind carries the postal note away.
two beasties have been waiting to be taken home from the post office since the end of december.
could it be??? really???
i'm hardly allowing myself to believe it.
i wont' know till monday morning when i tear up to the post office, crack of dawn, hoping beyond hope.
this is a tin dog beastie from emily at kuber.
it was love at first sight. and it was deep.
emily's tin creatures just really do it for me. the simple, abstracted shapes are beautifully crafted from the painted tin roof of her chook shed. how gorgeous is that? and how gorgeous are these?
I bought two beasties a few weeks before xmas. a dog and a bobcat. a couple of days before xmas they still hadn't arrived, but that was okay because they were MINE all MINE, not gifts for anyone. so i went away for a week.
when i came back i came home to a wide open letter box, a letter box that needs a key to open it. there was a bill and flyers inside but nothing else. I felt sick. it was now 3 weeks since emily had posted the beasties and not a beastie or postal collection note in sight. my deduction? well, a letterbox beastie thief, of course! i was outraged, i was sickened, and then finally i was very depressed, particularly as the weeks went on and i was without my little creatures that i'd been so anticipating. I emailed emily with my sad tale. A pox on that beastie thief! I ranted. I was also beginning to think that maybe it was partly my fault, maybe i hadn't quite locked my post box properly and it had actually flung open in my absence. could i have made it any easier for a letterbox thief! or was the bag poking out of the slot in the most irresistible manner, taunting that lurking letterbox thief? Who knows for sure?
emily offered to send me one more for free, just unbelievably generous, but i couldn't let her do it, why should she have to be out of pocket because of a poxy beastie thief! no way.
this week a dog beastie arrived in the mail. it's little bag fitted perfectly into my LOCKED letterbox. i squealed when i opened it. I don't normally squeal. i wanted to cry. for the beauty of the small, perfect object i'd received, for the genorosity and thoughtfulness of the artist.
and then.... a day later .... friday ..
i get a postal collection note ... a FINAL NOTICE ...
what???? could it be????? i've never had a final notice collection note ever because the minute i get a collection note in the post i'm up at the post office collecting.
final notice?? surely not??
and here's another deduction.
I leave home for a xmas break without locking my post box properly.
a postal note for the beasties is left in my letterbox.
the lid flies open, a gust of wind carries the postal note away.
two beasties have been waiting to be taken home from the post office since the end of december.
could it be??? really???
i'm hardly allowing myself to believe it.
i wont' know till monday morning when i tear up to the post office, crack of dawn, hoping beyond hope.
Saturday, January 5, 2008
a house, a garden
i don't have a house or a garden and lust for both.
here though is my fave girl [Bah cushion] looking somewhat sheepish in
the latest Australian House and Garden.
i have a view of ornamental magnolia trees from the work bench in my art deco apartment.
this is my house and out there is my garden.
it will do for now.
have been rearranging furniture in the heat.
very little work happening here at the moment.
it's too summery to be productive.
here though is my fave girl [Bah cushion] looking somewhat sheepish in
the latest Australian House and Garden.
i have a view of ornamental magnolia trees from the work bench in my art deco apartment.
this is my house and out there is my garden.
it will do for now.
have been rearranging furniture in the heat.
very little work happening here at the moment.
it's too summery to be productive.
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