We have been enjoying morning walks to the fishing cove at the end of the village. There is a reasonably steep walk down into the cove where there is a stone ‘beach’. It really is a stone persons heaven.
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A few older images from where we call home - the two cottages - Maleny and Armidale. A transition type of Wednesday blog post.
Because this blog is coming from Armidale the first set of images are from our Scotland home.
The second set are from '119' our home in Maleny - last image shows our cottage in Maleny
How very fortunate to even be able to say that one can call two places home; and also feel that each place is in fact home.
It was a letterpress kind of Saturday. I have started printing the reverse of my pages for my Daily Words 'poetry' booklet. The words on the sheets printed don't march the titles as the sequence of the pages is all about how the booklet is finally stitched.
The words above are about Hope not Wonder. A few images of the print run of the two sheets set and printed - 25 copies.
The words in the last image above are about Love.
We packed some of our NO TO WAR posters on Friday and sent them out into the world.
I will be away from the letterpress studio for a while - the printing of the 'poetry' booklet will be on hold again for a while.
Whilst we are at the cottage in Scotland, Fiona and I have booked a stall in April at a market day in our local community hall in Armadale.
The bits I'm taking over for the stall are metal including functional leaf items, small metal books and metal pendants and earrings. All made from recycled metal.
I have just finished off some more star and heart pieces - pendants and earrings including the star earrings and pendants in the first photo.
More photos of the bits follow. Some of the pieces still bear the marks of the saw and the moulds.
It will be a joy to display and hopefully sell our art in our local hall in our local Scottish villag.
The good news about the walk this morning is it did not take place in the rain. The morning started off quite dark but I walked in an autumnal morning - cool and with grey light. The photo above is of a small installation Fiona and I put in place in a garden below us - taken this morning. The photo below shows just how autumnal it is.
I was delighted, as I often am, to discover bits of beauty along the way.
G's orchids continue to surprise. I love the tiny strands of orchis that have all burst forth over the last couple of weeks; and the unusual pattern on a single orchid flower at the end.
Another one of those mornings that reminded me to look for the beauty in the darkness.
Over the weekend Fiona and I printed our No to war posters. A simple message really - war is just not acceptable in any form - the people who will truely suffer and be destroyed are ordinary people - ordinary people going about their daily lives - trying to live ordinary lives of love and joy.
I printed two versions of the poster - one simple and one that resulted from over printing three times with one ink up; and masking off the attribution between prints. Though the poster at the bottom of the image has a ghostly second print of the attribution - ink bleeding through the masking paper. The posters are 25cmX35cm.
I like the grain and historic colouring on the wood type I used.
Today I managed to complete a few metal hearts and stars - maybe be fitting given the no to war message. I made pendants from the star metal pieces that had a shadow of a star still on them after I sliced off the bits for earrings.
May we say No to war and yes to Imagine peace.
