The past few weeks have been crazy.
I have been left feeling more than a little punch-drunk, and can’t seem to get it together to paint in any meaningful way.  It’s not just that there isn’t much time, it’s that a stolen moment here or there has felt stolen, and while it has been enjoyable, and [...]

After running, and racing, considering, eating, discussing, celebrating, passing things over and on…
After mulling things over, exploring spaces in my head, thinking colours and patterns and stories…
After sneezing and organising, playing and socialising, getting endlessly dressed and arranging my still-too-awful haircut…
After selling some paintings, paying some bills, looking towards the next venture…
After blissfully sleeping in…
I [...]

This day, three years ago, she came into the world.  Bringing joy and uncertainty, unconditional love and huge swings of emotion.
She is feisty, and fearful.  Loving and passionate.  Caring and nurturing and selfish - as she should be - she is three.
She is intelligent and articulate.  She is creative and adventurous.  She is eccentric and [...]

Christmas for me is a time to be grateful for all that we have, and all that we are capable of being. A time to tell those that you love how much they mean to you, and to be kind to strangers. This year I am acutely aware that
it isn’t always a happy [...]

Detail of work in progress.
The past few days have been astonishing in Melbourne.  Hot, humid, rain, rain, RAIN.  The other day we truly could not see our own letterbox for thick fast rain.  Exciting and a little scary.  We saw people running for cover along the street who had been taken completely by [...]

So I thought I should officially report - I am a hare - no matter what I do I cannot become a tortoise.
The tortoise thing ain’t working people.
It is stressful and with 4 sleeps to go until Christmas there are 2 projects on my list that are definately DEFINATELY not going to make it.  The [...]

Last night at Dr Sketchy we had the gorgeous Diamond Dolls.  So much fun, and so tricky to capture 3 gorgeous girls at once.  They are so cheeky and so much fun, it’s hard not to smile in a class with them.
Seeing Miss Sugarpuss was a little present to me in itself.  I love to [...]

Remember when you were at primary school how there was always one kid (I moved schools quite often and there was always one kid) who used to wear weirdo shoes, didn’t dress quite the same as the rest of us, eat strange stuff for lunch and have peculiar intellectual obsessions.
It occurred to me the other [...]

Thanks so much to everyone who left me a comment this week!  It’s not why I do it - but it’s the icing on the cake, and I’m always grateful.  It’s always a pleasure to know that anyone is coming along for the ride, to know that it’s been meaningful for you on a particular [...]

 
Busy, busy hands these last few weeks!
My hand-made resolve has been propelling me along, and while I have made good progress on lots of fronts for Christmas giving, I have slipped on and off too.  There is just too much to provide, and not enough hours in the day - plus, some of these things [...]