Lately one of our neighbour’s dogs has been breaking in to our garden. A few weeks ago Phil caught him chomping a hole in one of the fence panels big enough to put his head through and watch what Phil was up to. Since then he’s moved on to creating dog-sized holes that he can […]
My Mandarin teacher asked the class to each try and write a few sentences every few days. I thought I might post my attempts on the blog , as a way of encouraging me to do it. Let me know if you spot any errors! As you can see these posts are necessarily going to be a bit
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This weekend me and Phil went to see the Lost in Lace exhibition currently on at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG). It included a really diverse collection of works inspired by lace, by both UK and international artists. Enclosed below are images of three of my favourite pieces from the exhibition. These give a
I thought I’d post an updated image of the embroidered Lum I’m working on at the moment. I haven’t had much time to work on her over the last week, but I’ve managed to fill-in her hair and bikini. I’m working on Lum’s boots at the moment and then plan to add in a background
Embroidered Lum – stage 2! Read More »
I’ve finally been to see The Artist at the cinema this evening. I read about it months ago in a copy of Empire at the hairdressers’ (the hairdresser being my brother). I am very thorough in working my way through the magazines when I go to the hairdressers’, I start with the film magazines, then
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I’m typing this post in front of the TV while watching Cartoon Network! I haven’t watched much kids TV lately, but I’m pretty impressed with the Amazing World of Gumball and Regular Show. Having mentioned the MAC (Midlands Arts Centre) in my last post, I thought this might be a suitable time to post the
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Most Saturdays me and Phil go shopping in Birmingham, but this week we had a bit of a change. First we went to the MAC (Midlands Arts Centre) to watch a screening of My Neighbour Totoro. We were supposed to be getting to the MAC in plenty of time prior to the screening to view
Embroidered art by Stewart Easton & a trip to the garden centre Read More »
While we’re on the subject of the Moomins, here is a embroidered Moominpappa. It’s based on an image of Moominpappa conducting – so my version is holding a baton.
Moominpappa embroidery Read More »
Here’s something I’m working on at the moment, an embroidered Lum from Rumiko Takahashi’s manga series. She is roughly based on a Takahashi illustration, I started off trying to copy the original illustration exactly but that caused some problems as parts didn’t look quite right when embroidered so I altered the image slightly to better
Lum Urusei Yatsura Embroidery – a work in progress! Read More »
As part of my project to make handmade Christmas gifts for friends and family this year, I embroidered two little Moomintrolls for my two closest friends. Luckily for me we weren’t able to meet up before Christmas which gave me time to get them finished. The image is based on one of Tove Jansson’s original illustrations. They are supposed to
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