Being an artist / creative / maker (I still can’t quite decide or pigeonhole exactly what I want to call myself!!) many of the ideas in my many many notebooks and journals are art based ones. However, dotted amongst them are other random potential business / product / enterprise ideas. Back in 2009 we …
Ideas!
Ideas! Don’t you just love them? Gosh my head is full of possibles, of what ifs, of we could do this and I could totally do that! Ideas for enterprises, small business ideas, books, blogs, make its and more! But with such an abundance of ideas, many, many (but not all) fall along the wayside …
Lil and Daise and football
Lil (with hat) and Daise celebrating Lil's 90th Birthday in 1983 It’s Saturday evening, June 1st and for those of you out there who are football fans, you know the significance the date. Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool are in Madrid playing in the Champions League final. So what has this to do with Lil and …
I waved my wand and waved it well!
The contents of my e-Bay box continue to delight. Today I thought I would share a festive treat. Push bar to open! This photo is not labelled. No clues to where it was taken or who the fairy and the elf are. We can only imagine... 1970's... A Village Hall somewhere in Britain... The Christmas …
Is it just me?
passing landscape How do you pass the time as a passenger on a long journey? Is it just me who sometimes uses the time to experiment taking photos? Car journey’s, train journey’s make perfect time for this. I play with different settings on the camera, use the time to learn and explore. I love the …
Dimension
Dimension. Found Photography. Who are Dimension? Anyone know these guys? When was this? Where was this? Anyone else curious? found photography. slide. Dimension Read more about my found photography here
Postcard from Muriel
Tucked away in my Ebay box are a few old postcards sharing snippets of peoples lives. This one is from Muriel. Postmark: Farnborough Hants 7:30pm 20 Oct 1965 Dear Ma arrived about 8.30. Stan and (I can't work out this name) were waiting for me. Weather lovely - sunshine now a little fog this morning …
Creativity
found photography - who are these incredible women? Today I have feeding my soul. I have been allowing myself to play. Some years ago as part of my final project for my art degree I obtained, from eBay, various job lots of ephemera, photographs and photographic slides. It formed the basis on my work at …
Balls! Making spherical forms from nature.
I love making sculpture from nature. It’s a very satisfying thing to do. I easily become absorbed in the creation process and find it very therapeutic, mindful. Balls, spheres, globes and other forms can be made from any natural product that is pliable. I like to use pine needles which are easily found under mature …
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