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Monday, 14 May 2012
That's mine
....and here is what was on the inside...
a brilliant but slightly smelly cat rug from the US via France {now washed and fully functional}
some junk shop 'massive head' drawing pins {in reality they are marginally larger than usual}
an old pack of keep-your-hands-off-my-stuff tags {marketed at bad sharers}
a never used {70s/80s}mini calculator and pen gift set {to add to my calculator collection}
a splendid matthew the horse tie-die spirit of the cat t-shirt
and a simply beautiful painting by Olivia Jeffries
posted by claire loder at 8:13
Sunday, 13 May 2012
the wrapping
It was my birthday last week.
JT does the best wrapping paper, I always look forward to seeing what he comes up with.
posted by claire loder at 22:40
Sunday, 13 May 2012
fur and wool
There are five of us in this house now. The two of us that have four legs spend a lot of time circumnavigating the one of us that is mainly horizontal.
posted by claire loder at 12:53
Sunday, 29 April 2012
5 o'clock sings the Tufted Titmouse
Our days are punctuated by this clock.
Every hour on the hour a different bird sings it's song
5 o'clock is the Tufted Titmouse,
7 o'clock is the Mourning Dove
4 o'clock is the House Wren {we have one of those}
All North American songbirds, these aren't birds that we know, so their songs are unfamiliar. But occasionally we will be watching something filmed in the American outdoors and hear one of the bird clock birds in the background.
posted by claire loder at 11:15
Monday, 23 April 2012
blue tits and red lips
Lippy is an idea I keep trying to get right. I've been drawing and painting versions of her for quite a few months now. Her most recent incarnation comes from a paint blot and a great 2nd hand pen that still has lots of life in it...
In other news we have blue tits nesting in the garden for the 1st time. It seems that the coal tits started the nest and the blue tits took it over. We can see the parents going in and out feeding worms to their chicks from the warmth of our kitchen....very exciting.
posted by claire loder at 15:46
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
on repeat
...playing with repeats, for no reason, just to see what happens....
posted by claire loder at 18:25
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set And Go Out And Do Something Less Boring Instead
{Images from top Mexican folk art dish, Memorial Head and sculpture by Donald Baechler}
I'm mindful of the obsessiveness of this activity though, Pinterest is a great resource but I'm with finelittleday on the living our lives business. All this screen time gives me the guilties*, I always have the Why don't you words in my head!
* a term coined by a Greek friend of mine which is a much better way of expressing this emotion
* a term coined by a Greek friend of mine which is a much better way of expressing this emotion
posted by claire loder at 20:32