Oh man, I’ve missed you guys!

I still have a list of things to do about a mile long before I go to Berlin on Wednesday (any suggestions of wooly, fabric or dancewear shops to go to are gratefully received), but I thought I’d post this quickly.

This lamp post is on the way to the post office from Misericordia Mansions, and it always makes me smile. For some reason I can only think of Mr Muscle, Lord Sheraton and the Toilet Duck sitting around a (highly polished) table plotting ways to rub out the competition.

…just me then.

I’ve foolishly got a full time temp job for the next two weeks, it obviously comes just when I have lots to do… so if it’s a bit quiet in Misericordia Mansions, it’s because I am helpfully redirecting calls, making tea and coffee and arranging biscuits in pleasing patterns.

But I’ll do my best to keep posting…

Welcome to Weekword!

I’m feeling the lack of a deadline quite severely. I keep wandering around the house, starting projects and not finishing them, or researching pointless things on the Internet.

I even made a cushion for Batman’s birthday present from my mum.

It matches the cushions that I made (with his help) for his other birthday present.

Go have a look at everyone who has created something for Weekword, our lovely participants are:

Leenie, Alexandra, Anairam, Cissi, Lotte, Joanne, Aimee and Linda!

For next week, I choose Leenie to select the word, as she was the first person to contact me this week!

Ok, here we go…

This week’s word is

Listless

If you want to participate, you need to create a something (drawing, photo, interpretive dance) and post it on Friday. If you leave a comment to let me know you’re participating, I’ll link to you!

Have fun!

PS. I’m dead excited because I sold the drawing I did for Lesson, yay!

Sorry about this, I realise I’m a little late!

The subject of Alexandra Hedberg’s Weekword was lesson. I drew this right after I’d read about it, but then forgot to photograph it.

You will remember from previous posts that I can’t draw, so please don’t judge this on its artistic merits (although I’m fairly pleased with the Japanese landscape-esque feeling), it’s more of a meditation on paper.

The basic premise is that the only way to know if you can do something is to jump off a cliff and see what happens…something I seem to be doing a lot of at the moment. (Results are still pending)

I’m very excited, I’m in my first ever Etsy Treasury!

It’s called Art…Some Blues and I love the rest of the images that skoshisbits chose.

Etsy Treasury Art...Some Blues by skoshisbits

Well, not quite…

I’ve been faffing, a lot. But in my travels, I’ve discovered a site called Art Rabbit.

Essentially it’s social networking for art exhibitions, workshops, talks and just about anything else you can think of. You create a profile, pick your favourite venues, browse upcoming events and see what other people are interested in. You can print out a list of all current exhibitions with a map and make a day of it, or you can see what people with similar tastes are interested in. They’ll even email you three days before an exhibition closes so you don’t miss out!

You can tell they’re an arty outfit, they have about 16 different logo options to link to their site… in different colours and background options.

I’ve added a link to my list of favourites to the right, let me know if you’re going to something cool!

Here’s a bit of an unveiling to cheer your Monday up (or maybe to cheer my Monday up).

The Beige Extravaganza has a proper title and frames… and will now be known as Hand Idle.

I’ve been trying to get a fair whack of the pieces finished so that I could add them to my application.

Here’s what I’ve got so far:

Of course now that I’ve seen them framed, I want to change everything…

This is my favourite one, which is a little unexpected, it was one of my least favourites while I was making it.

Just goes to show, there’s no accounting for taste!

I’m a little fed up with writing at the moment. I’m trying to finish an application for an artist in residence position and I’ve hit the frustrating talking-about-myself part.

So I’m faffing a lot, which is why I’ve made this lovely Wordle. Click on the rather small image (can’t seem to get it to be any larger, sorry) to see it in a sensible size.

It provides such amusing juxtapositions as:

• Knutsford fruit
• Sweden tipped creative fingers cutting clockwise
• smug idea stuff
• Knitty miscommunication jam, and
• yarn blogs missed gratification

Oh, and if you’re in Manchester this weekend, come see the lovely people of the Manchester Yarn Collective and me (teaching you how to sit up straight while knitting so you can make more and hurt less). Even if you don’t knit, the workshops are free, and will do you lots of good if you sit at a computer all day. There are two workshops at 4.00 pm and 4.30 pm, see you there!

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I’m teaching a Pilates workshop for crafters this weekend at the Manchester Yarn Day (details here) and I thought it would be a good idea to get a top printed up and look all professional.

Unfortunately, it didn’t quite turn out how I had expected. Due to some miscommunication and less-than-spectacular customer service, I ended up with two tops that looked fabulous on the front…

…and less fabulous on the back. I did the usual wailing and gnashing of teeth, and then went to whinge about it to a friend. Now I am careful to have friends who are nothing short of genius, and I was not failed this time.

‘Why don’t you disguise the mistake?’ she said, ‘You could put trim on it..’

‘I can do better than trim,’ I thought, ‘I have sequins!’

So I may just be the world’s most unnecessarily glamorous Pilates teacher…

I was feeling pretty smug, until I did this…

Oh well..one step at a time…