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Saturday, February 26, 2011
Just a note to say
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Quake
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My heart goes out to everyone affected by Tuesday's earthquake in Christchurch; it is just so, so sad.
We have been trying to work out what we can do to help; from now until the end of March, I will donate all proceeds from sales in my Felt shop to the New Zealand Red Cross 2011 Earthquake Appeal. Mr Millicent Crow is going to donate 100% of his CD sales from the shows he's playing this weekend.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Lanterns and valentines
It's the lantern festival in Albert Park this weekend, seeing in the year of the rabbit. One of my favourite things about the lantern festival is when it's all being set up and mysterious creatures appear in the park. Like these ones:
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It's quite magical having lanterns everywhere. This week I've been having fun taking photos of them during the daytime; it's kind of hard to get good photos of them when they're lit up at night...
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Oh and it was Valentine's Day. Mr Millicent Crow made a heart-shaped pizza and we caught the train to Judge's Bay and ate it. Nice.
Labels:
Albert Park,
Auckland,
beer pizza,
dragons,
lantern festival,
romance,
Valentine's Day
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Duckwall
Monday, February 14, 2011
Crossing the ditch
We're off on a fleeting Melbourne adventure next month; I will be selling my wares at the Rose St. Artists' Market in Fitzroy on the 26th of March and Mr Millicent Crow is hopefully going to be playing a show and is definitely going to be having a birthday.
We lived in Melbourne briefly about 4 years ago, and while we had lots of great times, it was quite stressful, so it will be lovely to go back on business/holidaying. So far on the menu we have: eating stuffed mushrooms and drinking wine at the Wesley Anne, swimming at Brighton, boating at Studley Park, taking in the Gustave Moreau exhibition at the NGV and a children's book illustration exhibition at the State Library, gelato in Carlton, finally going to the Exhibition Building and lots of wandering around. And lots of photos - when we lived there we didn't have a digital camera and most of our photos from that time seem to be out of focus shots of cats!
Pictures are from Cedric Flower's Picture Book of Australia When... which is a bit of a dubious history of Australia but does have some great pictures.
Do you have any cheap and cheerful Melbourne recommendations?
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Do you have any cheap and cheerful Melbourne recommendations?
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Botanical
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Patterns
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Colourful corners, cryptic clue
While I'm at it, does anyone know the answer to this cryptic crossword clue I'm stuck on?
"Monarch gets around in part." Four letters, second letter f...
Friday, February 4, 2011
Magnolias in February
I started a painting of this old bearded fellow back in...oh, September or so. When I started it, the magnolia tree in our garden was covered in flowers, so I decided to give him a couple of magnolias. Other things got in the way of finishing it, so he has been sitting on my shelf since then, looking accusingly at me.
One of the things that was getting in the way of me finishing it was the fact that the magnolia tree had finished blooming, and I didn't have any more flowers to draw from. But just recently it started flowering again. I don't know if it's weird or not for a magnolia tree to flower twice a year, but it seemed serendipitous. Today I picked its last bloom...
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Should give me the impetus to finish it off!
Labels:
magnolia,
painting,
spooky old man,
unfinished business
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