My daily dilemma...

Some photos of nice stuff...

A Kiwi inspired illustration...

A dog made by one of my pottery students...

And a funky pot with legs!

A stormy sunset...

Found object assemblage!

Making

I've been pretty creative the last couple of weeks - last Sunday I went to a workshop about printing on clay at the Fremantle Arts Centre - we learnt how to mono-print and screenprint onto clay which was really interesting and has given me lots of ideas of new pottery projects for myself and for work.

These are my tiles which are waiting to be fired - I'll share them when they come out of the kiln!

Speaking of pottery, here's a little video I made of my pottery guys at work doing their stuff -

you can find other films by Ability Arts here.

           

Also for work I designed the poster and flyers for our drama group's latest production, The Journey.
At the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre on the 29th and 30th April - tickets are free!

I had a day off yesterday and headed straight to the op-shops - I bought a pile of old plates and a scruffy Ikea lamp base -

I've just grouted it and now I need a plain white shade - I'll show you when it's finished!

Drawing Frenzy!

My colouring-in project at Crab Fest turned into a drawing free for all!

It was great - here are quite a lot of photos -

And a little video I made...

Crab Fest Colouring-In Project from Elli Moody on Vimeo.

Ginormous Colouring-in

Isn't it nice when a project (eventually) all comes together?

I was asked by the organisers of our local arts festival to design a big colouring-in design to go onto 18 MDF blocks - 

My initial sketch -

The finished blocks - ready to be coloured in by members of the public at Crab Fest this weekend -

I'll be down there this weekend with my blocks - trying not to get too uptight about people colouring outside the lines...

Blogging from the garden

Sitting out in the garden to catch a breeze - summer is definitely still on... 

And it hasn't rained for nearly 100 days. 

Imagine!

Noughts and crosses on the watertank...

Pecan Pie - I can't eat a Pecan Pie without thinking of Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally!

A sketch for a project I'm working on for Crab Fest ( yes, the festival of the crab) this weekend coming...

Breaking into cars and other things

I'm blogging on my iPad which is not fun... Anyone else have the same trouble??

The reason for this is that the hard drive on our laptop died this week.... Hopefully they can save some of our files, but luckily (and unusually) I had backed up all our photos just last week. Think I must have had a premoniton! Go and back up your photos now- you never know.....

To finish off a less than perfect week, last night Mark managed to lock the dog and the car keys... in the car.

Who knew that you could google ' how to break into a Ford Falcon' and 23 minutes later you would have achieved just that? Slightly worrying...

Molly survived her ordeal fine, if it had happened earlier in the day when it was about 37 degrees outside, we would have had to break a window to save her!

I've become a bit hooked on mixed media painting demos on Youtube - they're really great if you can't get to sleep! So on Thursday I recycled an old canvas and did a little painting of my own.

                           

                           

                           

                           

As usual I like the details better than the whole!

Around here..

I feel like I've been really busy... but in reality I've been doing a lot of this...

My mother-in-law came to stay and taught me how to make a dress. 

Ok, she made me a dress...

The boys have been doing a bit of this...

And a bit of that...

And I did manage to make myself a new website - here if you fancy a look :)

Number 12

I got a bit carried away painting our house number on the electric meter cover by the front door...

Monday I'm in love..

Strangely, Monday is my favourite day of the week. After a weekend with the lovely Moody boys, a day without them all is bliss..

Today I...

*Fixed the Wifi (with the help of Telstra who were on this occasion genuinely helpful!)

*Did a spot of Christmas shopping (snorkels all round)

*Bought Mark two more hibiscus plants to fill the gaps in his hedge

*Ate lunch on my balcony

*Rode my bike around the block and embarrassingly lost a Birkenstock halfway round (maybe should wear trainers next time?) (If I owned trainers..)

*Took some photos of my new greeting cards!

I'm thinking of resurrecting my Etsy shop - will let you know when they are available to buy.

I'm also thinking a giveaway may be in order soon!

Around here...

Fishies...

I want to call these flame trees but I'm sure they have a proper name - anyone? They're gorgeous and such a bright red.

Small collage on wood...

Looking up from our garden last night...

More rain coming - when you can see it on the horizon you know it's time to run home (except Molly casually saunters along - she's too cool to run...)