Some faces, sigh! Above via Shiny Squirrel .

Terrence.

Syd.

David.

Thanks to Andrea for re-igniting my love of Basil.

A face I made, kind of stern.

Wish I were here.

Will soon be there, so I am reading this.

Work by Chiharu Shiota from the Lost in Lace exhibition I managed to catch at The Gas Hall in Birmingham. Finishes in a couple of weeks, get along if you can.

Adore Maissa Toulet’s Curiosity Cabinets via Design Milk.

Also from Maissa above.

So unhappy that a New Year virus prevented me from visiting Grayson Perry’s The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman. Happily there is a wonderful book to accompany the exhibition. I love the page (above) entitled The gardener and the Bear (from a manuscript of The Lights of Canopus by al-Kashifi). The man has done the bear a good turn and in reward for the man’s kindness, the bear seeks to kill a fly on his face with a stone. The inscription reads: ‘A clever enemy is better than a stupid friend’. Delightful!

Hold your beliefs lightly indeed. The exhibition has been extended until 26 February.

I spend a fair bit of time melting silver these days, I can also be found admiring my tools, I especially like my ring mandrel and hammers. Pop back to see what the unprepossessing bit of metal becomes (if it works!).

If Father Christmas slipped one of these knitted tails into my stocking I would be the happiest girl in the world.

I will take the wolf. From here.

Slowly, slowly, getting it together, another girl nearly finished and a glimmer of possibility that the new shop could be up by early December.

I would love this guy from here.

Inspiring image via Wikimedia Commons.

Today we built a space ship so that we could fly to the moon. Ishi made a star map to aid navigation.

Horse Print by Cathy Cullis.

The Ship print from Faye Moorhouse.

Bug Me-Hand painted Silk Dress by Coni Matta.

Thankful to catch the tail end of Diamonds in the Rough at The Scottish Gallery yesterday. I was particularly taken with Kirsty Sumerling’s work.

Just because I love this window.

Via a little more like this.

Kirsty Sumerling.
The Scottish Gallery.

I rarely do fashioney posts but I do like to keep my eye on what is happening at the various fashion weeks throughout the year. I do fantasize about dolling my creatures up in a bit of Preen or Kenzo although I don’t have the skills to recreate the outfits and perhaps that would be a little too Fifi Lapin. Preen’s Spring 2012 Ready-to-Wear collection makes me sigh a little, so girly, the colours, yum, like macaroons!

All of the above a diversionary tactic, I’m beginning a class on Monday and I’m nervous already, not a course to be undertaken with shaky hands-boo.

Images via style.com.

Making more of these girls, now named Otylie.

Eating clouds for breakfast, taste best with blueberries.

My child in Wicker Man mode

Wholeheartedly agree with this phrase appended to Stirling Boys Club.

Went to see this, love, love, love. And yes, life was that brown and grey in seventies Britain!

Love the collection of prints over at Little Paper Planes more than ever.

Oh, the one below from Debbie Carlos too.