The Blurb
I take a lot of photos and most of them are just sitting around in folders on my desktop not doing anything. I thought that a dedicated post once a week would be a good way to share some of these photos that otherwise wouldn’t be seen by anyone other than me.
I am also remarkably absent minded and I put photos into folders and think that I will publish them later on and then then I never do.
So I have started a photo meme that anyone can join in and play as well. The rules are so simple as to be virtually non existent.
Just add your name and URL to the Mr Linky.
Publish your photos on your blog using the “Sunday Selections” title.
Link back here to me.
The Photos
These photos were all taken here at my home with my little Lumix point and shoot in 2009.
I like to make rocks. I get a great deal of personal satisfaction from making ceramic rocks. As I am making rocks I go elsewhere in my mind and I find a place of beautiful stillness and in this space I am working at my most intuitive.
I enjoy making all the work that I make, otherwise I wouldn’t make it BUT it is these rocks that give me the most pleasure.
So without further ado here is the Ceramic edition of this weeks Sunday Selections. There are some rules to this meme but I am fluid, follow them or not, it is up to you. I do ask that you link back to me though.
The Blurb
I take a lot of photos and most of them are just sitting around in folders on my desktop not doing anything. I thought that a dedicated post once a week would be a good way to share some of these photos that otherwise wouldn’t be seen by anyone other than me.
I am also remarkably absent minded and I put photos into folders and think that I will publish them later on and then then I never do.
So I have started a photo meme that anyone can join in and play as well. The rules are so simple as to be virtually non existent.
Just add your name and URL to the Mr Linky.
Publish your photos on your blog using the “Sunday Selections” title.
Link back here to me.
The Photos
These little lidded vessels are about the size of a squished tennis ball. I call them puzzle boxes because it takes a few twists and turns of the lid to make it sit correctly. I had heaps of fun making these.
This is a candlestick and incense holder. We had a power failure recently and I didn’t have anything to stick any candles into.
This is the side view of the same candlestick and incense holder.
This is part of the first platter that I made in response to my recent trip up to Burnie. I can still feel the psychic impact of driving over the hill into Devonport and being smacked in the soul by the ocean.
This platter is available in the Off Centre Gallery in Salamanca Arts Centre
And then we leave my rocks and travel to the other side of my artistic brain and have this work, which I also adore making. These three pieces are part of the Rose Exhibition, which is showing now at the Lady Franklin Gallery in Lenah Valley. I have donated all of the sale price of this work to the Cancer Council.
But you do have to come back and have another Colonoscopy next year.
Inside my mind, the imaginary fist pumping and the “Fuck Yeah” thoughts are quickly replaced by the sinking feeling of, “Oh No not another colonoscopy.” *Gulps*
But it could always be much, much worse and so today I am pleased to announce that I don’t have cancer. YAY!
To celebrate my own cancer free status, I will be eating cake tomorrow at a fundraising afternoon tea at the lady Franklin Gallery in Lenah Valley.You can all come along as well and help to raise a little bit of money for the Cancer Council of Tasmania by buying some cool art and eating some cake as well.
The Rose exhibition is the brainchild of my friend, acclaimed Ceramist, Dawn Oakford.
The premise of the Rose exhibition was for invited artists to make some work in response to Picasso’s Rose period, with paintings by members of the Art Society of Tasmania and ceramics by members of the Tasmanian Ceramics Association.
This is the work that I have made and I have donated the sale price of this set to the Cancer council. So please tell your friends to go along and buy it.
I would be delighted if you could all come along to the Lady Franklin Gallery tomorrow as my guests and we can all eat cake together.
Three cheers for cake.
One.
Two.
Three.
You can thank me for the ear worm later.
I use this blog to sort out the words that are in my head. If I am lucky and the planets align I capture some of these words and they drip down from my fingers and fall onto the page, rather than spinning madly within the whirlpool of my brain.
Sometimes the words flow, sometimes they do not.
The simple act of writing makes me feel better.
The fact that you are reading my words is both comforting and frightening.
Comforting because I know that you are a friend, frightening because I know that you are not.
Today in my bathroom there was a grasshopper/cricket/insect thingy walking along the window. I captured it and let it go in the garden it was the prettiest green and it took each step very slowly, always tasting the air with its feelers before it moved forward.
As long as I can remember to take pleasure in the small things in my life I know that I will always be okay.
So here are some more of my reasons to be cheerful. I love how the branches in this tree seem to be dancing.
This week I am also linking up with Dorothy’s, “Things I Know,” to remind myself of the things that I already know.
Hi everyone, last night I went along to my very first roller derby match and along with some other brave souls I had all my hair chopped off to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation.
So instead of hunting through my zillions of folders of forgotten photos I will share with you photos of The Worlds Greatest Shave.
My daughter Veronica took all these photos for me and I have not edited them at all.
For any newcomers here that would like to join in with my Sunday Selections meme you are more than welcome and here are the rules .
The Blurb
I take a lot of photos and most of them are just sitting around in folders on my desktop not doing anything. I thought that a dedicated post once a week would be a good way to share some of these photos that otherwise wouldn’t be seen by anyone other than me.
I am also remarkably absent minded and I put photos into folders and think that I will publish them later on and then then I never do.
So I have started a photo meme that anyone can join in and play as well. The rules are so simple as to be virtually non existent.
Just add your name and URL to the Mr Linky.
Publish your photos on your blog using the “Sunday Selections” title.
Link back here to me.
The Photos
I dyed my hair one last time especially for the shave.
The Minister for Tourism Scott Bacon starts to chop off my hair and I am hamming it up for the crowd.
I am now holding my hair in my hands. I will use my hair for paintbrushes.
The serious clipping begins.
The public part of the shave has finished.
and here I am with short hair, Tadaa!
After the public shaving had finished, the lovely Bridget from the Leukaemia foundation took one of the other shavees, Garland and myself off to the staff room and she finished shaving our hair. So my hair is even shorter now than this last photo but you get the general idea.
There is still plenty of time to donate to this very worthy cause if you feel so inclined. All you have to do is Click this link to my page on the Leukaemia Foundation’s website.
oh ps. Thanks for all the hats I didn’t realise just how cold my head would be.
