My hobbies include

Keep painting, and painting…and painting

Fatigue from too much still life. No better way to get acquainted with the medium, I guess.

Collars, collars – take your pick.

I like the sailor style best.

The benefits of being friends with bibliophiles.

Bedside. A select frame. Kitty cat clasp purse made of kimono fabric, a gift from Japan, containing my good luck charms | Crabtree & Evelyn Le Source hand cream | Body Shop Deep Sleep essential oil for dabbing on pillow | A Round-heeled woman by Jane Juska, Ruling Your World by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger | in the background is an acrylic tissue dispenser from Muji

A Dog’s Life.

Ain’t fabulous yet solely because I’m leaving room for improvement!

Oh My Marais!

Like the rest of the world, I can’t wait to get my hands on some of these!

All pictures Marais USA

life gets mundane every now and then

Getting started with the acrylic

pops of colour. Acrylic is much faster drying than oil and leaves little time for touching up

Bring on the bling

Guerlain Meteorites transplanted to an Ikea glass jar

It’s raining, it’s pouring

Being human

Summer

Coincidence

I think coincidence is magic

The need to be expressively creative

I’m so very pleased with my sewing accomplishments. Have completed 2 (proper & orthodox) skirts, so far, in class, the second of which nearly killed my eyes, being a linen herringbone, making the weave very tough to work with for a beginner like myself. My ignorance of fabric really did me in when I had to stitch up the whole hem by hand. *emerge cross-eyed*. Today I signed up with a friend for acrylic painting classes which begin later this week. Can’t wait!!

A natural style, NOT laziness

“I don’t really get into the really perfected style of dress. I’m not a doll and I don’t want to dress like one – that aesthetic doesn’t seem real. I like a bit of reality, scruffy hair, bitten nails, last night’s make-up. Elegantly disheveled – people can think you’re not making the effort but that’s the art of it, it may actually be vainer than being totally groomed, but probably more fun.” – Luella Bartley

Stuff!!