Hi both
How can we still be in the a-n blog top 10 when we have so sadly neglected our joint blog? All those dissapointed people.
Elena, Franny and Julie are on here like hoeopathic vibrations in the ether and not a word written….
I have just sent this to Julie, so I will put it on here for you too Elena. My favourite place to look for residencies etc. I don’t apply. Just dream….
www.isendyouthis.com/opportunities.aspx
Any idea why this is typing in green. Have one of you been at it?!
Very strange seeing a proper photo of you Elena…I followed the Worcestershire Radio link and there you were. Very like your Facebook portrait painting , but more so if you know what I mean.
I will listen on Monday while I am putting up my show. Must remember to charge my notebook.
Interesting that Julie said ‘So thats what you sound like!’
We have been corresponding with some of the usual social clues under wraps haven’t we? Fascinating.
One other thing. I missed it. but our local needleworkers had a tiny exhibition in the church. It was about bonnets. Bonnets that the Australia bound women convicts made for themselves and embroidered with their names.
Sounded like an Eleana stream of conciousness that might land on a foreign shore somewhere and become something wonderful.
Hope the tax return is returned Julie. All that stuff is just hateful and scary. I am a complete wuss when it comes to dealing with it. Give me kids, animals, work and art anyday.
…..and an accountant!
Fx
I happened across this artists work http://www.brennamaag.ca/current/hortusacea.html
She’s taken a domestic craft and made it into this beautiful installation. I especially like the the way she’s categorised the doilies as scientific specimens. Thought you both might like it too.
Julie
Hi Both, I’m PTBB (pleased to be back) haha. No really I’ve missed you both. I have a few days before I go back to work and i am going to attempt to think creatively again. At the moment my brain isn’t working but I’m hopeful!
Julie
PTB
Project to be, as Franny named it right back at the beginning.
Proud to be, as she has just pronounced it.
We’re proud of each other, we decided. Proud of the hard work, the commitment, the ideas, the skill.
I like the fact that the initials could become something else.
Coincidentally…
I did a workshop for The Craftswoman’s Club at the School of Art this week, teaching people how to embroider monogrammed hankies. One of the vintage hankies I’d bought already had initials on it… V.H. And I wondered what it might stand for. (Very Hard) (Vera’s Hanky) Someone stated it would not be wise to embroider the initials B.J. onto anything, for fear it might be misinterpreted as something rude. So then my mind started to play with the concept of embroidering people’s initials onto things, but to have a secret phrase that the initials stood for instead. They could be REALLY rude, or complimentary. The receiver would never know that you had changed it in your head. You’ve heard of passive aggressive? This could be Decorative Aggressive. I think I might be quite good at being decoratively aggressive.
I have started thinking of sets of initials, and what they might stand for…
Apologies if any of the following are your initials…
PDC – Pretty damn cute
CT – Crooked teeth
WF – Walks funny
NB – Nice bum
MOC – Miserable old cow
These are the initials of people I have known in the past, it’s more fun when the description fits.
So PTB might go through many changes throughout this relationship… in my head anyway!
Put To Bed.
Goodnight both!
E
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