in the dark

I don't want to moan about the weather because this weather makes me quite productive:

I have five knitting projects on the go, few crochet ones and some sewing to finish.

I made new pastel pink clouds (although with this light it's hard to show you the real colour).

New cat dolls which I had fun dressing and naming them, the one below is called "Milou".

And yesterday night in my dark, dark studio I made another collage.

London

We went to Brixton last Sunday, 
we lived there for 6 years, it was intense.

Rock bottom raiser (beautiful video too)

at the seaside

On film, from our last camping trip of the year.

grey+brown

Greys and browns a favourite combination.

I like black but I find that the more I ageing the less I fancy it (it was mainly the colour of my teens years).

Have you seen Morran collection of artworks?

I went for a walk this morning, such a beautiful day, but my friends in the local wool shop are not happy at all.
I must be one of the few crazy knitters who knit even at the seaside with 40C.

just because

A. wears mushi hat by Barbara Berrada for les zigouis.

Have a nice weekend.

today

stranger in my home

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To the copycats (strangers in my home):
it's annoying, it puts me off, it's not nice. 

Ha! as if you care.

collected

I collect teapots, and my curtains are always either too short or too long.

*for Christine

with paper, scissor and glue

A collage I made last night with paper, scissor and glue, perhaps I'm dreaming of Switzerland! :)

"cloud head" a photo by  Séverine of iwishiwasacatfish blog

Vermeer's Women Secrets Silence

Hello,

I'm spending my weekend at home with a huge cold! 

Yesterday I went to see the exhibition "Vermeer's Women Secrets Silence" at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, if you are in the area I highly recommend to go and see it.

Also, the museum has lots of "hidden" gems too, well worth a visit (even more than one if you can).

The exhibition rotates around the famous painting of Vermeer "Lacemaker", there are paintings from other seventeenth-century Dutch painters and it's an insight of the domestic life of women and children in that historical period in the Flanders. It made me think a lot about the role of women in the house (I'm not going to say family life because it's not about family only) and I was left with a question: "how much, really, has changed since then?" I can relate to those women somehow, feeling a connection almost. I can understand the silence and the focus but what puzzles me most is the painter, the man that recorded such intimates scenes. It's indeed a predominantly female world but we can only witness that through the eyes of a man, well, not ordinaries men though ;^)
Hope I didn't bore you with all this gibberish.
Have a nice weekend.

on sunday

My lunch today.

I'm making new things for the shop.
I will also add some vintage items too (again) and if  everything goes as planned it will re-open in about a week.

In the second picture there's a glimpse of what Anita calls "grandpa cat" because it reminds her of my father and of course the she cat has become "grandma cat".

Do you think it's possible that while creating, unconsciously, you make something that resemble to someone that you are thinking of?

Anyway, it makes her laugh so much.