Over the time I’ve been reading blogs, I’ve discovered that whatever your passion, you’ll find plenty of others eager to share their ideas – successes, failures, tips and so on. It doesn’t seem to matter what the interest is – science experiments you can do at home, knitting patterns for tiny babies – there’s plenty …
Category archives: Art and visual
Sweeping clean
Remember all that spring cleaning earlier in the year? It kind of ground to a halt. But we’re trying to get going again – or at least, a bit more clean and tidy. A new broom sweeps clean, we’re told – and when you’re sweeping the same mess (or variants on it), sometimes you just …
Plotting, plotting
I feel like I should be stirring a cauldron at this point. Or meeting with others in some dark building with one naked bulb overhead. Two different forces are at work just now. One is following the words, a bit like the children following the Pied Piper. (I’m hoping for one of the friendly versions …
Down in the fibres
This week’s spring cleaning activity: carpet cleaning. Hire a machine that swooshes foamy stuff on your carpet and hoovers at the same time. Having never done this before, I was a bit unsure about how it would go. Having done one and a bit rooms yesterday, and the same today, my arms are reminding me …
Glossing over
It’s Monday, and it’s normally Lit Kid. It’ll come, folks, it will. Just not tonight. It’s easy to be high on children’s books, but tonight, it’s fumes from white spirits. I have been learning the slow and delicate art of gloss painting. I doubt anyone is going to take me on as a painter, but …