I was tidying up (read, wandering around the house looking at things) and I stumbled upon one of my old sketchbooks. So here are some pictures from a couple of sketchbooks ago...maybe I should make a quail print. You know in bird books, how they write down what the bird call is supposed to sound like? I love the way the quail is supposed to say "Chicago, tobacco, how are you?"
Now Mr Bond St Bridge just happens to live with me, and can get all the huia prints he wants, so I thought it wasn't fair to let him win.
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Because it was a (rare these days) sunny afternoon, I did a little photoshoot of some of my favourite sights in Grey Lynn park on my way home from work. When I first moved to Grey Lynn, when I was 18, the area confused me. I called up my friend and said "I don't know how to get to the supermarket." She said "see the church that looks like a cellphone? Follow it and you'll get there." It was great advice, though I wonder if it would look like a cellphone to someone looking at it now.
This path always seems magical.
I walked under the sculpture by Inia Taylor...
Past the one by Richard McWhannell...
Past my favourite house in all of Auckland...
...and then got a ride home the rest of the way. Hope your weekend is full of some of your favourite sights.
I stumbled upon it on the "recommended" shelf at the library, and I do indeed recommend it. It is funny, sad and sweet and deals with such topics as nits, ex-boyfriends, mistreated dogs, people's houses that smell funny and mythical beasts.
A good place for wearing colourful shoes!
And here's the house that I used to live in in Aro Valley. It's boring old cream, but very beautiful. I wonder if my landlord would let me paint my house bright red?
To enter, all you need to do is leave me a comment telling me your favourite home hint. My favourite home hint is that if you are as partial to a cup of strong black coffee as I am, you probably have the problem of your white coffee cups getting stained brown inside. Just rub a bit of baking soda on the stains and give them a wash and they'll be good as new.
Once upon a time Mr Millicent Crow came home from tour with a beard and wearing a t shirt with a wolf and an American flag on it. When I saw this giant wolf t shirt at the op shop the other day I knew I needed a wolf t shirt too! But it was huge and a bit manky, so I gave it some surgery, and now I've got a comparatively tasteful wolf singlet!
This fellow's the next one of my ghosties that I'm going to paint. I want to do another series like this one only much much smaller. Which means I'd better get cracking on it while there are plenty of spring flowers around to paint!
Inspired by this awesome blog by Sarah Laing (who's the Sargeson Writer-in-Residence at the moment) I have been drawing a few comic type things. This one's about my quest to find a particular smell, a stupidly difficult task! You might need to click on the picture to make it bigger.
In the wee small hours of this morning I declared this painting finished. I might go back and fiddle around with a few bits of it, but I really want to get started on some more paintings! This one took me a really long time, I think partly because it's a bit bigger than paintings I usually do; it's about 76x38cm.
Gathered a sneaky bunch of spring flowers...
Found yet another beautiful magnolia tree...
...and finally took a photo of this tiny sculpture in Potters Park. A little villa too small even for a mouse. I'm not sure who it's by but I love it. 
Here it is up close. It's made of copper I think.
...and with a dog paw print to give you an idea of the scale!
I like the way it's so small and easy to miss. It's like a reward for keeping an eye out for interesting things.
Bit of a pinkish theme today. Love that pink Crown Lynn Swan, ah but I have 3 Crown Lynn swans, don't think I can justify another one!
