too special

Many years ago a friend of mine made me a ring carved with arcanthus leaves and engraved on the inside. I lost it. (At the Vic Market one Saturday morning- if you found it , lucky you.)
When I ran into Bailey at a mutual friend's birthday last year he said if I got him a blank ring he'd carve me another.
And he has and here it is.
It is all hand carved in an Edwardian design he is experimenting with (I like it when I get the experiments, there is something about them I love).
I think it is beautiful.
(And very appropriate with my current fascination with Edwardian and 'tween the Wars art and design.)
Lucky me.

mouse-ilicious

I've been taking Sunday off and staying at home for rest (no relaxation, mainly going the washing, some knitting and sorting) and this Sunday while reading the paper in the kitchen I was being tortured by mouse-like rustling from under the kitchen bench. The god-damn noise wouldn't stop no matter what I threw at it, including the cat, so finally I got up and unpacked the shelves to find mouse in very large jar.
This is Spot enjoying 3D Mouse-a-Vision in the backyard.
(And just so I don't get angry emails, the mouse escaped and is now running around outside somewhere.)

down-time knitting

So when I haven't been up a ladder, high of paint fumes or wishing to run away, I've been doing 'fidgety hands work', things I can make while sitting up in bed watching 'Top Gear' (damn, the latest season has finished) or a DVD. You will have seen the tams (making more), the hangers (must make more) and now the hand-knitted wash cloths in natural cotton with coloured crocheted edge. These are the type of things I don't have to go to the studio to do. I really must find the time to get in the studio though.
Some time away from the renovations would be really nice............

teaser

I've been popping things in the window this week.
Old cabinets. Beer bottle with my favourite flower- white freesias. Belgian linen tablecloth jacket. Denim covered mannequin.
Just teasing.

revenge

I ripped out the two kitchen cabinets. That was a job and a half. In retaliation a huge nail ripped a hole in my only pair of semi-decent jeans. So in revenge I turned the cabinets into firewood. All hail the jig-saw!

three doors (and a whole swag of lights)

Well the change room/storage is about 99% finished. The lights are up.

Sadly no single space in the whole building is finished yet. Some are so close you can taste it and others are so far from finished I could weep.
I think the next thing that needs to be organised is a huge clean up of all the crap and rubbish that just keeps piling up. That might make me feel better.

As they say 'so close and yet so far'.

let there be light

And the electricians came. We have lights everywhere.