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FO: Mosey
My parents have always disagreed on the subject of motion. Pops* believs in the importance of striding, hiking and hill-climbing whereas Bam** is a fan of trundling, bimbling and moseying. While noseying around quaint, ‘olde englishe shoppes’ is Bam’s idea of a good time, Pops would ultimately prefer to scale a dangerous mountain; all the […]
Messy Tuesdays come to The Fantastical Reality Radio Show!
For my part the affirmative nature of Messy Tuesdays has grown out of a long-cultivated belief that the most interesting, fascinating, exotic and wondrous things are luckily to be discovered right under our noses. I believe that always wishing Reality was better and always thinking life happens elsewhere are ideas that do not bring us […]
The healing powers of knitting.
It’s been an interesting time. It feels like ages and ages since I went to my Oxford Bluestockings weekly knit group and was presented with this incredibly beautiful blanket that the knitters had made, but in fact it was only just over a week and a half ago. Perhaps that’s because the time between falling […]
Messy Tuesdays…
When I pulled out the extremely random collection of ideas that is my knitting diary/notebook, Lara Suggested that for Messy Tuesdays I post about it. The more I thought about the relationship between the journal and Messy Tuesdays, the more relevant this seemed. For a journal is like a blog… and it can be tempting […]
Messy Tuesdays and Ravelry Love.
Today being Messy Tuesday, I present the edifying spectacle of My Car after I emptied my commercial storage at the weekend. The back seats are folded down and the entire bootspace is full of crap including a small filing cabinet that is reserved for Gershamabob if she desires it! The second area of mess lies […]
C’est fini.
It is over. When I took this photo, I was commenting on how you could practically hear the abandon, the drunken singing of the snowmen… the slurred words, the sheer joy of life in the sun. Seconds later, splat. C’est la vie. It is finished.
Let it Snow!
What a beautiful surprise to wake up to a white world this morning. Isn’t snow photogenic? Especially with little green leaves and buds poking through. The lovely walk was followed by a much less sophisticated spree of snowman-building. We ended up building his’n’hers snowmen. We are wondering whether or not to open a sweepstake on […]
The joy of Green Things
This Tuesday was relatively tidy. I am somewhat demented with uncharacteristic, pre-surgery-related tidiness and was away with my methodical and neat brother over the weekend, which somewhat subdued my Messy Tuesday urges. I am sure there are unlimited messes in my future so I am not sad to have missed messy Tuesday this week and […]
Messy Tuesday
Messy Tuesdays Wednesdays. Hmm. You are not your perfectly timed blog post is the new addition to my evolving manifesto. The Tuesday-ness of Messy Tuesdays is quite arbitrary; I think bad feelings relating to not managing to post about one’s mess on time kind of defeat the affirmative objectives of the Messy Tuesdays brief. The […]
Bobby Baker reviewed
I was delighted today to discover that the review I wrote of Bobby Baker’s Bumper Package is linked from her official website! To celebrate, I re-present it here. Bobby Baker’s BUMPER PACKAGE Toynbee Studios, London 8 – 9 March 2008 Reviewed by: Felicity Ford Bobby Baker’s work achieves an amazing resonance among women because the […]
Sounds I love… a swap.
I am organising an online Swap. The idea is to see how other people engage with the idea of listing or archiving everyday sounds they hear. The idea is to list everyday sounds and then to send them to 6 other people. 6 other people in turn send you a list of everyday sounds they […]
The Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture
I have been doing some drawings at The Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, mostly of 1950s domestic advertisements. The idea for this was to give me some graphic language within which to possibly develop some scores/prints with sonic content. I really want to get the visual aspect of my scores/prints right, and 1950s domestic […]
Mess is beautiful.
I’m thrilled to find there is so much love for Messy Tuesdays. All these photos of mess have a defiant, celebratory dimension that puts me in mind of Toni Morrison’s writing in The Bluest Eye. For those of you who haven’t read the book, you must, if only for the amazing rant against the over-sanitisation […]
Messy Tuesdays
Yes things are messy around here which is good, because today is Messy Tuesday! To start with let us look at this corner of the living room. We have two large boxes filled with files and books for sale on Amazon respectively. On top of these lies an ancient piece of purple/pink tweed that I […]
Finished Object – Felix’s Studio Fittings and paint job
Pattern: Own designMaterials: Around £10 worth of screws, Scrapstore paint, scrap/waste wood, IKEA furniture oddments, old family table, posturite desk I had already and random table that was in the garage already. Many planks of wood reclaimed from the old garage roofTime: I began work on the fittings and paintwork towards the end of FebruaryCost: […]
Misr Wot
When I started Sticks’n’String at The Global Cafe, little did I realise how much the Ethiopian Food served there on Tuesdays would come to feature in my week. I am not the only blogger to have noted the Ethiopian food; a couple of weeks ago I discovered Joanna’s post about the wonderful Misr Wot and […]
Finished Object
…In all the excitement of messy Tuesdays, I clean forgot to post about my knitted bag. But before I move onto that, here is a button I made for anyone who wants to spread the love that is messy Tuesdays: Help yourself. And do resize, chop down etc. or make your own if you think […]
Messy Tuesdays.
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 17 I have got some kind of stinking cold of death which means no knitting tonight at The Global Cafe and less […]
Constructs
Construct is one of my favourite words. I love its versatility and the way it can relate to both theory (the construct of gender, for instance) and to the physical process of making (the construction of shelves or garments, etc.) This weekend I have thought variously about all aspects of constructiveness. My first thoughts relate […]
Clothing the hands and using up stuff
I was reading in an essay in The Politics of Housework that gave some interesting perspectives on the history of housework. I was struck by how in Victorian years a man’s social standing was measured in terms of how much leisure time his wife enjoyed, and how the corresponding fashion for ‘ladies’ was for gloves. […]
I got everything back…
…thankfully the hacker’s spree of havoc-making is over and I have everything back in my control. I can’t believe how massively frightening and horrible the whole experience of having someone hijack my account was. I will post some of the links that really helped me in case this happens to anyone else when I feel […]
Hacked
My email address – the one I have been using for nearly 10 years – has been hacked and I can’t access any of my emails, or any of the files or messages I have been storing there. I signed up when I was a lot younger and wilder. All subsequent, more respectable, email accounts […]
Swapping
I am currently experimenting with online swapping. My first swap involved Postcards on the theme of ‘People.’ I don’t want to give too much away here but I do enjoy that an official ‘Postcard’ stamp can be purchased from Royal Mail ensuring correct postage for any postcard, traveling anywhere on the globe.
Materials
It has been a slow and frustrating week involving wormwood killer in the eye, the cutting of the hands upon glass, the spectacular smashing of another piece of glass by a tile-cutter, (very bad idea to introduce the two to each other) some substance reactions resulting in tacky-for-days ick on the windowsills and some major […]
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