I bought the wood for my puppets a couple of weeks ago, but we’ve been so busy I haven’t had time to start carving them. With the puppet challenge finishing at the end of this month now would seem a very good time to start! First order of the day was to create a scale Read more about The beginning of carving in earnest[…]
A new year and time for a new challenge! Just before Christmas I saw the call for participants in the puppet challenge over on Clive Hicks-Jenkins artlog, a puppet challenge being curated by Peter Slight, the theme of the challenge is fairy tales, folk tales & myths. I was thinking I might come across inspiration in my new Read more about The puppet challenge – the beginning[…]
This weekend I was lucky enough to attend the Blowzabella weekend of French dance & tunes at Wantage. Those of you who are long time readers of this blog may remeber that I wanted to go last year but alas my friend Beth was getting married on the same day and there was some rather Read more about Blowzabella weekend[…]
So this weekend was Collette’s birthday, in a bizarre twist of fate one of Colette’s closest friends from university was one of my close friends from college (we had no idea of this before we met, and indeed only found out via facebook sometime after). Me and the mutual friend (Joey) had been planning to Read more about Remeber you’re a Woomble![…]
Yesterday was very exciting for the following reasons. 1. The network at work went down and try and they might IT couldn’t fix it so they sent us home (albeit with work to do). 2. I got to see Patrick Wolf at the Zodiac (yes I know technically its the O2 but to me it Read more about AWWWWWWWOOOOOooooooooo[…]
Okay there were going to be photos of this weekend’s activities there really were till I woke up horrified I had forgotten to alter my alarm clock and ended up flying round the house in a panic, trying to get out the door as fast as I could, and forgot the cable, so these are Read more about Lost in Austin[…]