You may notice a new look to the blog, new look, new energy and once finished posting this - onto some new work! Blogger.com have introduced some new features to add to our blogs some of which are pretty good looking and some - well perhaps a little busy for my own taste. So stand by - this may get confusing.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Mud Colony
What do you call a bunch of potters who blog? MUD COLONY - great title.
The idea behind the Mud Colony was for Potters/Ceramic Artists-anyone really who works with clay, to add a link to your blog post describing what your up to in your studio ... easy peasy...and post a link back to HERE. Remember its not an advertising space...its a 'building community' space, so a little chat about Mud Colony and what your doing in your studio space is what its all about !! You can add to the Mud Colony until Saturday night..
Meanwhile, though I am barely getting into the studio due to the extreme heat, I will share an update on some recent work, drying as we speak ... I liked the tool marks so much, I decided to leave them there. Elaine
The idea behind the Mud Colony was for Potters/Ceramic Artists-anyone really who works with clay, to add a link to your blog post describing what your up to in your studio ... easy peasy...and post a link back to HERE. Remember its not an advertising space...its a 'building community' space, so a little chat about Mud Colony and what your doing in your studio space is what its all about !! You can add to the Mud Colony until Saturday night..
Meanwhile, though I am barely getting into the studio due to the extreme heat, I will share an update on some recent work, drying as we speak ... I liked the tool marks so much, I decided to leave them there. Elaine
Friday, January 27, 2012
A good life!
So far this year has been pretty good, stifling climate aside. For my lot this is the season of birthdays and anniversaries, they all cluster round the end of and beginning of the year, then we suffer a long drought. This week we had my birthday, something I'd normally shrug off but it is an undeniable significant one. I have finally embraced being able to say the F word and it isnt Forty!! It is 50, somehow easier for me use in its numerical form rather than the actual word Fif... no, can't do it. I am not a party girl, a quiet, quality dinner out works for me.
We dined on Tuesday at Indiana, Cottesloe Beach. I mention this for out of towners like my family in Europe so they know what I get up to. Indiana is an iconic building right over the beach, facing onto the exquisite Indian Ocean. The service and food were great, I'd requested a good table at one of the end windows, we enjoyed the glowing sunset, observed Perth families swimming and cavorting below us on the beach getting respite from a stonking hot day and as the GANGgajang song says 'laugh and think this is Australia'. Click Australia to hear the song.
We dined on Tuesday at Indiana, Cottesloe Beach. I mention this for out of towners like my family in Europe so they know what I get up to. Indiana is an iconic building right over the beach, facing onto the exquisite Indian Ocean. The service and food were great, I'd requested a good table at one of the end windows, we enjoyed the glowing sunset, observed Perth families swimming and cavorting below us on the beach getting respite from a stonking hot day and as the GANGgajang song says 'laugh and think this is Australia'. Click Australia to hear the song.
MARIANNE HALLBERG, SWEDEN
Australia day, Darl!
It is hard to beat the lethargy in 41C here in Fremantle, we are enduring a heatwave but that is no excuse for not blogging. Procrastination and busyiness took hold of me again and I have now firmly kicked their asses ... I hope. I was updating my status on Facebook just now when it dawned on me, darn this should be on my blog. So .. here it is .. and a promise of more blogging and bleating from here on, but perhaps not always on clay, insights of our homelife may creep plus it is too darn hot to get any work done at this time of year.
'We saw the Fremantle Australia Day skyshow from the beach at Arthur's Head Fremantle, just past the J Shed (a three minutes walk from my Freo studio) see Joel's blog http://freoview.wordpress.com/
We had a long chat in the darkness after the brilliant skyshow. Henry, Oscar and Gaelan had sat on the steps with the water lapping at our feet, surrounded by people quietly enjoying the fireworks zooming from a pontoon only about 100m out in the bay. It was like having our own personal fireworks show right over our heads. Fantastic!!' Now, I could include a photo of the beach or the fireworks here, but I feel sure my (legions of) readers have seen such like before. On selecting an image to share with you I realised my son's new ipod syncs it's photos to my laptop so here is Gaelan getting to grips with his specs made from drinking straws and tubes, much more fun don't you think?? The art in the background is by Mitjili Napurulla - a similar piece is in the Art Gallery of WA. My what good taste I have.
We had a long chat in the darkness after the brilliant skyshow. Henry, Oscar and Gaelan had sat on the steps with the water lapping at our feet, surrounded by people quietly enjoying the fireworks zooming from a pontoon only about 100m out in the bay. It was like having our own personal fireworks show right over our heads. Fantastic!!' Now, I could include a photo of the beach or the fireworks here, but I feel sure my (legions of) readers have seen such like before. On selecting an image to share with you I realised my son's new ipod syncs it's photos to my laptop so here is Gaelan getting to grips with his specs made from drinking straws and tubes, much more fun don't you think?? The art in the background is by Mitjili Napurulla - a similar piece is in the Art Gallery of WA. My what good taste I have.
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