Sunday, February 26, 2012

Yummy Birds


I have been messing around with paper treatments and ended up with lots of pieces which I painted and stitched into.  However what to do with them.  I cut some of them into rectangles and patched them together and made a teacosy for our kitchen.  It is amazing what you can do with kitchen roll and baby wipes.


The other thing I have been doing is some practice with watercolour.   I had two commissions which I painted in acrylics in early December and had taken photos but lost them.  They are well settled in their new homes.  I started back into watercolour in the last few weeks and had a gift to paint for someone's 60th birthday.  It went down well and I didn't lost the photo of this.






We recorded this brilliant series on the migration of birds called Earthflight. The camera work is amazing and in the last episode you are shown how they were able to film some of the sequences. Anyway every time we are watching an episode our very lazy Borris who is usually fast asleep gets very interested in the programme. It's his favourite show.






 
Oonagh, my daughter got her PhD last month.  She worked so hard for years and it is richly deserved.
Well done Oo!    She got a job straight away and has a research fellowship in Reading University.  Great,  somewhere new to visit!