This week my Mandarin teacher taught our class a quick and easy method of creating paper cuts to celebrate the Chinese New Year or Spring Festival. This paper cut features the Chinese character 春 (chun) which means spring and is the first part of the word 春节 (Chūnjié) which means Spring Festival. All you need to […]
Quick and dirty Chinese New Year paper cut Read More »
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
我的花园 – practicing my Mandarin Read More »
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
Stone Carving – my one and only attempt Read More »
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 »