Sunday, January 31, 2010

The fox and the hare make a return


Are you the one for me? (2007)
Could be...
A wisdom of owls.


It’s okay; your secret is safe with me. (2009)
Could be...
A diligence of messengers.

See more possible collective nouns...
After a pause.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Oh Isabelle!





Found! At last! Isabelle Tibeault is an artist who makes amazing animal masks and this is her blog. Visit and see for yourself.

All images above I've borrowed from her site. I hope she doesn't mind.

(Found via Ulla's own blog.)

Monday, January 25, 2010

From the sketchbook


More from my Fabriano Classic artist's journal.

Someone else I know is also drawing a lot.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Trying to keep my sketch book close at hand


Attempting to draw at least once a day, every day. Here is one of many recent January sketches. This one is of an Indian tin bird on a Hungarian mat.

(04.01.10)

Friday, January 22, 2010

Adopt me!


Meet Long-eared Eleanor
, a Thelma’s one of a kind felt and fabric stuffie, lovingly handmade especially for hammer & daisy. A rabbit with bags of personality, she would greatly love to find a new cosy den to call her very own.

A colourful felt and fabric stuffie that has been lovingly stitched by hand, with eyes fashioned from two Portuguese buttons reminiscent of strawberry jam tarts. Long-eared Eleanor is part felt, part fabric, and comes decked out with a beaded tummy and decorative stitching.

A small Thelma’s fabric tag sewn on the reverse side sits below her button tail.

A keen traveller and a wordsmith, grab this little honey and claim her as your very own today.

Available here.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

In print

Inside Out
Jan/Feb
P. 62

There on page sixty-two of Inside Out magazine sits a Thelma's stuffie of mine looking for a home.

Friday, January 08, 2010

A New Year begins


(Click to enlarge.)

A Happy and Flexible 2010 to you all... We start classes Saturday the 9th January.

Looking forward to seeing and hearing all the creaks, groans and laughter.