Wrapping it up for tonight

To you Miss Bling

Joyeux Anniversaire

from Shamane and I, who bestow on you

abundance...

Recycled wrapping thanks to: 1 spiral notebook binder,  1 found oval metal tag, calligraphy cast offs and a bedspring (all delightfully offset with a few magnetic words!).

And it's goodnight from her and it's goodnight from her!

Making Postcards- From the Edge of Reason

It is not entirely reasonable that I sit here 'playing' while I should be 'working.' So, from my vantage point out here at the 'edge of reason, ' let me send you a postcard inspired by Corsica and it's grand bleu so that you may play too at least!
Who was it that said 'The secret to being Happy is making your Vocation your Vacation?" Maybe one does not have to be reasonable to be wise... PS original photo taken of the blue depths off L'Ile Rousse, Scribbled on in blue Abraxas ink then juggled around a bit with two other photos... SignedbyAnge

Postcards from the Edge

There's nothing like adding a bit of graffiti to holiday photos
 to colour up a cloudy day...
Corsica
Eternally Blue
Gesso and ink + photo
SignedbyAnge

Chasing Rainbows

There's nothing like wrenching old wiring from the claws of crumbling stone walls to prove that...
colour has a way of surprising you where you least expect it!

(Electrician must've been ripping his hair out trying to match them all up at the end ... )

Flower Power

S'il n'y a plus de fleurs dans le jardin...
il faut aller en cueillir ailleurs...

Ajoutons un peu de couleur à nos vies ...
C'est l'automne, un peu d'orange fera l'affaire! En plus, c'est écrit! Elle est capable de sauver une vie!

A little Magpie told me ...

... to "leap and the net will appear"... Ah miss magpie, if only you knew! 


I am big on leaping.


I even once conquered my fear of heights by bungee jumping off an old roman viaduct during an adventure race in Normandie! Conquered it so well that I did the race again the following year and jumped for TV to inspire other people to conquer their own fears! 


Sometimes you get pushed! Like, when our house burnt down 3 years ago (no sympathy please, we were in Australia sipping champagne on a beach and watching dolphins, no one was hurt!)
With nothing much left by way of furniture, and home wares and personal effects etc however, there was a HUGE hole to jump into! Suddenly, as if by magic, this gigantic net of friendship appeared out of nowhere, enveloped us and led the family into adventures that would never had existed, had we not had that hand encouraging the next leap forward...


Not to mention the fact that my recycling ideas really paid off during that period ;-) Nothing like having a crooked insurance company and a few burnt pickings to teach you how to be creative with what you've got! 


To the honorable Monsieur Lagerfeld and Coco, who are surely turning in their graves at these words (bless 'em), through my own experience I offer this humble thought, "Comfort Kills Creativity." 


I dedicate my next plank to you Miss Magpie (you definitely have a talent for seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary), and offer you this in return:


" Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps!! 

Speaking of leaps of faith: here is today's plank. ECCE FIAT MAGNIFICAT
Eternal gratitude to SkippY for fixing his roof and bestowing me with the condemned planks...

L'Anglaise et le Punk

Il y a une plage blanche qui me regarde avec une détermination normalement réservée à mes messmonsters quand ils me contredisent. Cette plage blanche s'apprête à se faire habiller d'une belle parure Anglaise...
La pauvre, elle risque de sortir quelque peu tachée de noir, ressemblant plus à du London Punk qu'à l'Anglaise dans toute sa splendeur. Pourtant, il faudrait que j'arrive un jour à l'habiller dignement et pour cela, la plume et mon encre Waterman noire préférée m'appellent... Comme mes messmonsters, j'ai des devoirs ce soir!

L'inspiration de ce soir: "Je ne trempe pas ma plume dans un encrier, mais dans la vie ..."
Blaise Pascal

Past lives...

Once upon a time I used to transform old chandeliers and other abandoned objects like this ...










Into faaaaabulous sparkling diamonds and eternal stars like this...
Now, painting then wiring up a chandelier of this dimension is an absolute 'casse tête' as the French would say - which is why, exceptionnellement, we decided to abandon the idea in favour of the candle option. But numerous are the other chandeliers that I spent many an hour and bottles of wine on a winter's evening patiently swearing to myself while trying to "push a camel through the eye of a needle..." electrifying 'em up!

Now, while most days I paint my wordsonwood, I also host small workshops on giving fleamarket finds a new lease of life... Stay tuned for some handy hints on transforming your treasures!!

Eclairer le chemin (Light the Way)

En effet, "Eclairer le Chemin" me semble plus approprié comme devise (à discuter avec les 3 messmonsters autour d'un repas) que "Redefinir l'Impossible."

Un peu d'ordre (au milieu de tout ce désordre) nous ferait tous du bien dans notre Cocoon à la campagne...

Soyez les bienvenus à notre nouvelle table de salle à manger...

N'hésitez pas à passer pour partager un repas simple avec nous. S'il fait sombre - on vous éclairera le chemin...