Guilty.........

A friend sent me this. It's been doing the rounds on Facebook and is very funny.  I add birds onto lots of my designs but I will try and stop now though.

Embroidered Graffiti

 
If you live near Ashton-under-Lyne, this fab. exhibition
called "Pulling threads - Embroidered Graffiti" looks well
worth a visit. Sarah Greaves creates work which pushes
the tradition of embroidery and questions women’s roles
in society. I love the fact that Sarah has to use ‘masculine’
tools such as drills and clamps to create her work. She uses
the traditional craft of embroidery in the same way a graffiti
artist would spray-paint his or her comments in public spaces.
According to Greaves we live in a world where the image
reigns supreme. We judge ourselves by the perfect ideals
we see every day in magazines and television programmes.
In her piece ‘Kitchen’ she lays bare our thoughts around food
and how we automatically weigh up the pros and cons of even
eating a piece of toast. The exhibition is on now until the 3rd
of September at Central Art Gallery located above the library
on Old Street in Ashton-under-Lyne. To see more images and
information take a look at Sarah's brilliant website
www.sarahgreavesart.com

If you live near Ashton-under-lyne, this fab. exhibition

called "Pulling threads - Embroidered Graffiti" looks well
worth a visit. Sarah Greaves creates work which pushes
the tradition of embroidery and questions women’s roles
in society. I love the fact that Sarah has to use ‘masculine’
tools such as drills and clamps to create her work
and I like the diversity of the sufaces she has embroidered
onto. She uses the traditional craft of embroidery in the
same way a graffiti artist would spray-paint his or her
comments in public spaces. According to Greaves
we live in a world where the image reigns supreme. We
judge ourselves by the perfect ideals we see every day in
magazines and television programmes.This bombardment
of body ideals influences the way we see ourselves; we
try to conform or deviate from these ideals of beauty and status.
This means that we often find ourselves in conflict with
society and how we view ourselves. In her piece ‘Kitchen’
she lays bare our thoughts around food and how we
automatically weigh up the pros and cons of even eating a
piece of toast. The exhibition is on now until the 3rd of
September at Central Art Gallery Located above the library
on Old Street in Ashton-under-Lyne. Take a look at Sarahs website
for more brilliant images http://www.sarahgreavesart.com/

 

www.sarahgreavesart.com Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000190 EndHTML:0000006488 StartFragment:0000003087 EndFragment:0000006452 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/imacg5/Desktop/correspondance/counciltaxletter.doc If you live near Ashton-under-lyne, this fab. exhibition
called "Pulling threads - Embroidered Graffiti" looks well
worth a visit. Sarah Greaves creates work which pushes
the tradition of embroidery and questions women’s roles
in society. I love the fact that Sarah has to use ‘masculine’
tools such as drills and clamps to create her work
plus I love the humour and the diversity of the sufaces
she has embroidered onto. She uses the traditional craft of
embroidery in the same way a graffiti artist would spray-paint
his or her comments in public spaces. According to Greaves
we live in a world where the image reigns supreme. We judge ourselves
by the perfect ideals we see every day in magazines and
television programmes.This bombardment of body ideals
influences the way we see ourselves; we try to conform
or deviate from these ideals of beauty and status.
This means that we often find ourselves in conflict with
society and how we view ourselves. In her piece ‘Kitchen’
she lays bare our thoughts around food and how
we automatically weigh up the pros and cons of even eating a piece of
toast. The exhibition is on now until the 3rd of September at Central Art Gallery is a real gem. Located above the library on Old Street in Ashton-under-Lyne,her website 

Take That

Hello my name is Stephanie and I am a Take That fan. They are my guilty pleasure. There, I admit it, I went and saw them at Wembley last night. I wish I had trendier musical taste, (I do like some trendy bands honest) but they just make me feel so happy. They put on a FANTASTIC visual show, it's great to have a sing and dance and to get really groovy, to be part of the huge crowd makes me feel like I am at one with the world. I know they are a boy/man band and that they are seen as a bit naff but wow what a show.  It's amazing what five men (and a creative team of 100's) can do to a crowd of 80 000 people.

More beautiful work

As promised, here is some more work from the Curry family, this time Lois's children's gorgeous work. I always love the free way children draw and Lois has taken her girls drawings and screen printed them onto canvases and cushions. Don't they look fab?

Beautiful work

 

Here is some gorgeous work by a super talented friend of mine Lois Curry. She is hoping to do a website sometime soon so I will let you know when it's up an running so you can purchase some of her lovely work. Meanwhile, feast your eyes and admire her creations. Tomorrow I will post some of her childrens work, they are a fantastically creative family!

Stripes

This year I'll mostly be wearing, STRIPES! Last year every purchase seemed to be silver shoes, this year the last five things I have bought to wear have been stripey. Does anyone else have obsessive purchases?

My new home!

Well in my dreams this is where I live anyway. To see photo's of the inside of this fabulous home follow this link http://www.costaverde.com/727.html

Sulgrave Manor

 

My daughter has been studying the Tudors at school so we recently visited Sulgave Manor, a lovely Tudor house and the ancestral home of George Washington, the first President of America. The visit was a real insight to the Tudor lifestyle. My kids weren't impressed by the lack of toys the Tudors children had and where even less impressed when I explained that only rich kids would have toys, the young ones like them would be a working!

Lovely Day - Bill Withers

Because in my corner of the UK it is a "Lovely Day".

Why?

Why would a snail want to climb up the side of our house? There's a snail trail from the path up to the roof (you can't see it on the photo but believe me it's there, although I am a bit disturbed by the fact that I have tried to take a pic of a snail trail!). Do you think he's just lost? Where is he now and do think he fell down or slid his way down? One of life's mysteries.