Could this be our first ever white Christmas? It is snowing as I type. Our usually, dull, grey, damp London is looking like something out of a Dickensian novel… and we are loving it. All of us are now on holiday (yippee!) and I am finally catching up on the backlog that built up due […] Read more...
On crafting, mosaic exhibition prep and snowy London!
Snow is coming to South London tonight – the first time in decades that we have had snow in November. Just in time for the first day of my mosaic exhibition! I am ever so slightly excited about this as it will just soooo complement the feeling in the gallery. Yesterday, me and 3 wonderful […] Read more...
Tree glitter pictures…from the archive
(We did this last Autumn and it was a lot of fun! Since the blog readership has grown a lot in the year, I thought I would post it again for you to see and have a go!) The colours of spring and autumn totally captivate me – I stare and stare at a […] Read more...
A creative space…near you?
I was contacted a few weeks ago by a lovely lady, Debra, who runs a place nearby in East Sheen, called the Artyard, asking if I was interested in running some mosaic workshops. I clicked on the Artyard website and immediately started doing internal skips and hops of excitement! One real time visit yesterday with […] Read more...
Mummy, I found a rainbow!
The evening sun, pouring into the house, catching glass… “Mummy, I found a rainbow!” A reflection onto the cupboard door in the hallway… Twenty minutes exploring colour and light with my little ones. Light transforming the mundane into something glorious…. So easy to walk past the little rainbows shining into the day… Read more...
Fun, Farms & Crafternoons
Just a few pics of our last few days… Stems of the chard we harvested from our community farm where we go every Saturday to weed, water, pick and picnic! Amazing colours and very delicious, especially made with this recipe for Sicilan chard(being half Sicilian, rather appropriate too!). I love this picture Isabella drew of […] Read more...
Crafternoons!
I love making. I love making with my children. I love it because it’s fun and appeals to my inner child. I love it because I believe creativity is a core aspect of our human language that needs developing, as much as learning to speak and verbalise. I have a bundle of books with ideas […] Read more...
My mosaic stones featured on Crafty Crow
Have you experienced the Crafty Crow yet? I just love this blog. It is the hugest archive of creative projects for children (big and little!) with regular features on recycling and nature. It has a massive readership amongst people doing arts and crafts with children (parents, teachers) and today, one of my mosaic projects for […] Read more...
Paper art and lovely spring blossoms
Here’s another of the activities on the great experimental art e-courseI am doing…making art from paper, anyway you want to. Ripping, sticking and in Isabella’s case, lots of scrunching. She decided to do a picture of a tree in blossom with little balls of scrunched up tissue paper – so beautiful and effective. I love […] Read more...
Perot Family Land Art Part 2
‘We will make a Family Picture’ declared our beautiful artist child. And so we did. By now, the sea will have taken it away. Happily, we have camera’s to capture our moments (aren’t we lucky?). Read more...