Category Archives: art

The Artist’s Way and a giveaway!

By Lucy | Published August 10, 2010

Reading The Artist’s Way just now (after hearing about it on making it up), faithfully doing my morning pages, 3 pages of early morning scrawlings, uncensored beautiful brain drain, and recovering my creativity, dealing with my blurts of negativity and realising where they originated… very powerful stuff :)  I have experienced these sorts of connections through art [...]

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Notorious Kitsch

By Lucy | Published July 28, 2010

I was a very lucky girl recently on twitter and won a retweeting competition from Notorious Kitsch! My chosen goodies are above (and no, Willow will not be having her dinner off them ), they have lots of other gorgeous retro things including clocks, phones, aprons, bags, cards etc. It was hard to pick Roadhouse Cafe [...]

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new designs in shop

By Lucy | Published July 12, 2010

Great program photoshop I’ve created a few new designs for the spreadshirt shop, some based on flowers from the garden, some ballet, old pictures and still the original vegan and home ed categories too. There is an offer on from today, 12th July to 30th July (2010 for future clarification) – if you buy £40 worth [...]

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lovely herbs and the unintended

By Lucy | Published February 9, 2010

Cat has a wonderful new website: The Tasty Herbalist - go see Strange day today where a slight disaster led to us doing totally unintended things such as visiting the Wallace and Gromit exhibition at Satrosphere. It was very good, also being about other animation and techniques etc. Related posts:very windyamong the snowdrops swan lake

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art, literature and chocolate…

By Lucy | Published October 27, 2009

 chocolate sneaks in everywhere here… so will start blog post with it. After going to see the naked people at the art gallery (well worth seeing, wow, the newborn baby, the scared wild man… they speak of human vunerability somehow despite the size) popped into the new health food shop in Aberdeen to find that [...]

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rabbits, cliffs, cushions and steamed chocolate pudding :)

By Lucy | Published October 9, 2009

  Always together these two rabbits. They live under the rhoddies in the front garden. Gothic House on cliffs, sea must be so loud from there!   There has been some sewing and knitting occurring   Bracken sent us a great variation on our chocolate cake recipe, turning it into a steamed choccie pud with [...]

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he-art

By Lucy | Published August 17, 2009

he-art – (from the flyer) the first ever national exhibition of art by home educated children. Have you a fascination for photography? A passion for paint? Charmed by charcoal? Then be a part of he-art! Home educated children from all corners of the country express “why I love home-ed” random game pieces (from settlers of the [...]

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jolly

By Lucy | Published June 29, 2009

Gorgeous hot weather continues… gooseberries and rasps from the garden are making their way into the breakfast smoothies now Talking of smoothies, the green smoothie blog has been added to the sidebar, lots of good ideas there. The clearout has reached the kids wardrobes so many more puzzles and educational games are up here In [...]

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seasonal and busy

By Lucy | Published December 8, 2008

not exactly festive but I took these pics in St. Nicholas churchyard the other day and I like them Went to the panto at HMT – outside, beforehand: We sat in a box – was amazed to discover that it was almost the same price as the stalls would have been for all of us. [...]

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paint and flames

By Lucy | Published November 20, 2008

Had a nice time at Smarty Art in Granton-on-Spey with the HE group. We’ll get our glazed and fired pieces back at the Christmas party… lovely helpful people in the group Bits of science, first from previously mentioned Krampf: then chemistry set was dug out to build on what Ben was telling them about firework [...]

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