tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30825652011-09-09T11:35:54.763ZTaking pictures of her obsessions since 2001Girl at the Bus Stophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01490578804897307042noreply@blogger.comBlogger4621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082565.post-1138876086852925342006-02-02T10:23:00.000Z2006-06-23T08:52:19.090Z

Seduced by the prospect of being able to categorise five years' worth of blog posts, I have defected to Typepad and can now be found at the new, fancier Thoughts From The Bus Stop - do drop by!

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Sailor Feebee by Sherri Wood. Tattoo art by Kate Hellenbrand, 1999. Embroidery, found doll. 26" x 16" x 13".Found while Googling for something else entirely... "The Tattoo Baby Doll Project is a collaboration between Sherri Wood and female tattoo artists from across the country that combines embroidery and tattoo as a vehicle to explore the images and roles that define and empower women today."

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Click on the pic for a larger version.Finally - a use for the box frame I bought from a charity shop two years ago thinking, 'that'll come in handy for something...' and a home for the bags of Fisher Price figures and other refugees from the charity shop 10p basket which have languished in an old vanity case in my cupboard for years.

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Paper artist Rachel Hazell with a short section of 'Ice Cliff' (34cm)Rachel Hazell, a book artist whose Antarctica-inspired work I've posted about before, has been nominated for a Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award. Well done, lady!

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Loop System Quintet. Photograph by Jonathan Shaw © Copyright Conrad ShawcrossMagnificent machines! Conrad Shawcross: The Steady States, currently at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool (till 26 Feb 2006).The Entwistle Gallery: Works by Conrad ShawcrossThe Walker Art Gallery: Interview with Conrad ShawcrossThe Observer: How I Work: Conrad Shawcross (which mentions these BBC2 Christmas 2005 idents)

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The White Stripes (c) CakeyvoiceHow fab. Cakeyvoice has knitted The White Stripes (and a LOT of zombies, too...).

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Reason #453 why I love reading stuff by Christian Singles Today's Camerin Courtney:Hello, I'm Camerin, and I'd Like to Get MarriedIt's nice to know someone else is in the same boat...Amazon.co.uk: Table For One: The Savvy Girl's Guide to Singleness by Camerin CourtneyAmazon.co.uk: Revelations of a Single Woman: Loving the Life I Didn't Expect by Connally Gilliam

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Really enjoyed seeing Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! on BBC4 over Christmas. I'd seen a traditional version of The Nutcracker in the autumn (my first live ballet), which I really enjoyed, but this was much more my thing. After the initial scenes, in a dingy orphanage, Clara is transported first to a frozen lake and then to Sweetieland, where she tries to follow Liquorice Allsorts, Marshmallow

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This is a great picture of Roald Dahl's first wife, actress Patricia Neal, spotted in a selection of Dahl's photographs on the BBC website.It wasn't till I watched a documentary about him which she took part in that I recognised her, purely by her distinctive voice, as George Peppard's mistress in Breakfast at Tiffany's (one of my favourite films, d'oh!).

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I can't remember how I came across these photos of Piccadilly in Manchester in 2001 (care of Eyewitness Manchester), but I was dead sad to hear that Lewis's department store is no more... and now a Primark - oh, the indignity! OK, it was never as chic as Kendals on Deansgate, but I used to be in and out of there all the time when I lived in Manchester and have affectionate memories of it.And the

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Japan, Taisho period, 1912-26. Montgomery Collection (C) www.vam.ac.uk"> (L-R) Kimono for a woman. Machine-spun pongee silk woven with stencil-printed warp thread (meisen) Japan, Taisho period, 1912-26; Kimono for a woman. Figured silk crêpe (omeshi chirimen) brocade-woven with lacquered threads (rama-ire)Japan, Taisho period, 1920-30.On at the V&A Museum in London until 1 May 2006, V&A -

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This Christmas I'll be digging out my tape of the first series of Love Soup, which I really enjoyed. Tamsin Greig never misses, does she? Black Books, Green Wing, and now this gorgeous, gentle, clever, witty stuff. Lovely.It's difficult to describe why it works so well, but it's wonderful. It's not 'laugh out loud' stuff, but consistently funny, well-observed and engaging. It helps of course that

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There's a great article on the Fiberarts site about Jennifer Angus's wallpapers and rugs, with fascinating photos of the details of her work - big fat shiny beetles in glorious shades of green, turquoise and brown. It's beautiful and gross. And I love that when you go to her website it says, 'Click on weevil to enter'.

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Gary Hume has done the Tate Britain Christmas Tree this year - he's covered it in blackbirds.The Victoria & Albert Museum's Christmas Tree has been designed by knitting and needlepoint maestro Kaffe Fassett. It's covered in pleated paper fans in shades of pink, red and orange, and crowned with a star made by Louise Lusby. Instructions for making the fans are available as pdfs here and

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The Natural History Museum's Flowers and Fashion webcast features botanist Sandy Knapp and fashion photographer Nick Knight."Flowers are perhaps nature's most flamboyant display; but it's not only bees they attract. Humans have long been drawn to their colours, forms, and scents, and used them for our own decorations and advertisements... find out about cross-pollination between the worlds of

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Via The Cartoon Church's Cartoon Blog: One million ideas for making your own Christmas cards, by Dave Walker.

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Photo: Kate FellerathVia Fiberarts Magazine: "A floral mehndi pattern, derived from traditional blackwork embroidery, covers artist Andrea Vander Kooij from head to toe. In April, the artist sat for ten days embroidering the same pattern in cotton onto linen in shop windows throughout Montreal.Gorgeous - I was only saying to my (tattooed) sister the other day that if I ever got a tattoo I'd like

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Excellent! Dara O' Briain's getting his own chat show (well, if the pilot goes well). Ever since I saw him do a fantastic guest slot on Jack Dee Live At The Apollo, I've wanted to see him live. Missed him at the Comedy Festival the other month cos it was a mate's birthday, but hopefully he'll be back in Brighton soon - maybe in May for the Fringe.

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Now, anyone who knows me knows I love buses... have spent years riding around on buses, fell for a band who wrote songs about buses, wrote a fanzine about them called Bus Stop (named after two favourite songs), have a Cardiff Buses bus stop sign propped up at home (rescued from a Cardiff pavement by a wellwisher)... so it made me smile to hear that a south Wales bus driver has spruced himself up

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The first time I heard Gogol Bordello's Start Wearing Purple, on the Mark Radcliffe show the other week, I thought it was awful (and a little scary... a bit 'You're MY wife now!'). The second time he played it, it started to grow on me. By yesterday night, when they were in session on the show, I'd completely fallen for it."Start wearing purple wearing purple Start wearing purple for me now All

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Inside Out: Psychology and Fashion took place on 12 October 2005 at the Royal Institution, and is now available as a webcast. It was organised by the Ri and Miss Selfridge, the speakers are Hilary Alexander, Dr Ali Guy and Dr Nigel Marlow, and the Chair is Baroness Susan Greenfield:"Most of us, when we’re feeling truly honest, will admit that what we buy on Saturday trips to Oxford Street isn’t

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Popaganda: The Fashion and Style of JC De Castelbajac is on at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1 February – 1 May 2006:"A Campbell’s soup can dress, a ‘fur coat’ made of teddy bears, giant Snoopy T shirts and inflatable ponchos – the witty and flamboyant designs of French fashion maverick Jean Charles de Castelbajac will be on show… the most prolific fashion designer who emerged in the 1970s,

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Designed by Mary Quant for the Ginger Group, London, 1967. T.351-1974. Given by Miss Mary Quant (c) www.vam.ac.uk">Sixties Fashion is on at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London from 6 June – December 2006:"40 years after Time Magazine’s famous 1966 ‘Swinging London’ cover, the V&A explores the Swinging Sixties. The display looks at the influence of Mary Quant on other designers who

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Anna Piaggi, Vogue ItaliaAnna Piaggi: Fashion-ology will be on at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London from 2 February – 23 April 2006:"An exhibition on the life and work of Anna Piaggi, the influential Italian journalist, stylist and editor. Piaggi is best known for her work for Italian Vogue and has been muse to designers and photographers including Karl Lagerfeld. This V&A display is drawn

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Well Fashioned: Eco Style in the UK is on at the Crafts Council Gallery in London from 23 March – 4 June 2006:"Two rooms of fabulous fashion from the UK’s hottest young designers who make clothes that don’t cost the earth... Twenty-one fashion labels present their ecologically and ethically sound clothes and accessories. If this sounds more worthy than groovy think again: this gear is chic and

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Via 24 Hour Museum:"A 16th century bed in the house’s crimson bedroom was used in some particularly steamy scenes and Sharon had to make sure that the romps caused no damage to the valuable antique..." (more)

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Photographer: Ola Bergengren for H&MThanks to Fluxuries for mentioning the new jewellery collection which Solange Azagury-Partridge (whose stunning top-of-the-range jewellery I heart very much but could never afford) has done for H&M - click here for the full press release, and images."The collection Solange has created for H&M mixes passionate red with decadent smoky-grey metal. One theme

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On till January 22, 2006 at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (part of the Smithsonian) in Washington, D.C. is Style and Status: Imperial Costumes from Ottoman Turkey:"The first international exhibition devoted to sumptuous and graphically stunning imperial Turkish robes (kaftans) from the 16th and 17th century - the embodiment of the maxim that 'clothes make the man'... robes that dazzle with their

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Isn't it pretty?Show Me: Bone-Eating Snot-Flower And Other Animal Discoveries

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Clearing out my flat in preparation for our move, I came across these shoes, which were part of my work on my Art & Design foundation course (twelve years ago, when I was 18!). They've been on display in most of the places I've lived since then, but they'd been in a crate for two years and our new place doesn't have much shelf space, so I thought it was time to snap them for posterity and bin

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Have been meaning to write this post for months. In August I went to stay with my best friend from school in the Medway area of Kent, and she drove me out to Dungeness, to visit the cottage where the late artist and filmaker Derek Jarman spent his last years, and created an unusual garden full of found objects. I'd wanted to go for years - since getting hold of the book, Derek Jarman's

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This and many other questions answered in last night's Emmerdale, when Ashley and Laurel finally got married!

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As Bonfire Night approaches, thought I'd flag up Gunpowder, Treason & Plot, a new website for kids explaining the story of Guy Fawkes & co's failed plot to blow up Parliament, 400 years ago (by The Parliamentary Archives and 24 Hour Museum / Show Me). There's also a version for grown-ups.

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A cry for help from the Centre for Knitting and Crochet in Holmfirth:'"We’re looking for Lego!" says Mary Hawkins of the Knitting & Crochet Guild of Great Britain. "It’s not that we’ve changed tack in what we are collecting – it’s to support our knitted village!"Much-Knitting-by-the-Sea is the name of the village created by Morecambe resident Dorothy Entwistle by way of recuperating after

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42short loses his cool:"Sometimes you think you're so cool, then you're eating an apple in the breakroom at work when a sneeze catches you off guard and little flecks of apple shoot out of your mouth and into your hand. That's right, ladies - all of this can be yours."

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I was dead chuffed to see that Laura Cantrell, one of my favourite singers, has renamed the stations and lines on the NYC Subway Map to pay tribute to her musical heroines (most of whom I'm ashamed to say I've never heard of) and flag up the free download of 14th Street, a track from her latest album, Humming By The Flowered Vine:"This map places some the women artists I most admire along the

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BBC: Fire hits Wallace and Gromit sets. Farewell, old friend...

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I love it when a chance 'click' sends me off on a journey round the net. Reading comments on the blog of a friend of a friend, I came across these beautiful tsumami kanzashi flowers, made by Naomi Graham-Diaz, who sells them on her PuchiMaiko site, and also runs Immortal Geisha, a fantastic info site about geisha and maiko (trainee geisha) culture and dress.Kanzashi are hair ornaments used in

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"The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on."Sad news today - Ronnie Barker has died. Ronnie and his comedy partner Ronnie Corbett were a big part of my childhood. The Two Ronnies and Porridge were regular viewing in our house, but most beloved was Open All Hours - still one of the finest British sitcoms ever written, starring Barker as Yorkshire

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Oh joy - it's an Elizabeth-fest! Tonight it's the first part of Channel Four's Elizabeth I, starring Helen Mirren.Then in January Anne-Marie Duff (Fiona from the genius Shameless) plays Elizabeth in the BBC series Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen. This will cover Elizabeth's life from her teens to her death at the age of 70.And it's possible that Cate Blanchett will reprise her role as Elizabeth in

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It's been a cracking week on Emmerdale - two hour-long episodes packed with suspense and plot twists... Patsy Kensit's Sadie turning up in the middle of Zoe's flight from the law, to secure Home Farm for the hated Kings by blackmail; Zoe's trial and surprise aquittal; Scott going loopy with a shotgun; and finally, just as Zoe leaves Home Farm for the last time with her kids, and the triumphant

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If you happen to be listening to Radio 2 on Saturday lunchtime, don't miss The Flight Of The Conchords - improvised comedy starring Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, and narrated by Rob Brydon:"Over six weeks, New Zealand's fourth most popular folk parody band attempt to crack the UK's lucrative novelty music scene with songs such as 'Frodo, don't wear the ring'. Despite the fact The Conchords

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The Museum of London has used their vast collection of objects from all over London to produce the The Postcodes Project:"To highlight some of their fascinating local stories we have selected a single object for each London postcode area. You can add to the richness of the site by submitting your own local stories."

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Fabric to Fashion: Scottish Textiles and International Style runs from 7 October 2005 –12 March 2006 at the Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh:"Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen and Louis Vuitton are just a few of thetop designers whose work will feature in an exciting new exhibition (which) will demonstrate how the world’s leading designers draw on Scottish textiles to create cutting-edge catwalk

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Mmmmm. Am contentedly full from a delicious plate of piping hot meatballs and mash wi’ gravy from those lovely people at Capers this lunchtime. And there might be nothing on the box tonight, but I do have my brand new DVD of Pride & Prejudice (the gorgeous BBC version). So I think I’ll settle in with that and a glass of cheap red and my knitting (got a deadline for someone’s birthday)...

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The Cast Off Knitting Club for Boys and Girls invite you to The Knitted Wedding:"Please help us knit the first completely knitted wedding! Everything at this wedding will be knitted, from the cameras, to the dress, the food, the decorations, something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue. Our bride is curator of the exhibition ‘Ceremony’, and Knitting Doctor, Freddie Robins.

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Fashion Lives is a new exhibition at the British Library, running from 11 November 2005 – 7 February 2006. It will bring together a collection of post-war fashion leaders who have defined their profession and played a unique role in shaping the fashion industry as we know it today:"The exhibition, curated by Alistair O'Neill from London College of Fashion (LCF), features exhibition design by St

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Via The Guardian: "Opera meets knitting in the latest project from Tête à Tête. The opera company has already met over 100 knitters and spinners in preparation for A Shetland Odyssey, its retelling of Odysseus's journey home from Troy, to be performed by six singers, seven musicians and five craftspeople in autumn 2006."The production is explained in depth in a great article from the Highlands &

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I am agog having watched KT Tunstall's performance at the Mercury Music Prize the other night.I didn't see it live but I was listening to it on the Mark Radcliffe show and he was chatting with her about how she'd performed without her band this time - though her performance definitely sounded like she'd had backing singers and percussion.The video of the performance on the BBC site revealed all -

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Popped into the AKUS website and took a look at the video they've made for the achingly gorgeous Restless (from Lonely Runs Both Ways).Unlike the song, it's nothing special - just Alison skulking about looking melancholy... in shoes she can't walk in, poor lass. Click here to launch the video (.ram).

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Widows (detail). Joss Graham Oriental Textiles.Via 24 Hour Museum:"Intricate embroidery produced by a women’s organisation in India is currently on show at the Art Exchange Gallery in Nottingham. Stitching Women’s Lives, featuring highly detailed examples of Sujani – running stitch on layered cloth – and Khatwa – appliqué work with chain and running stitch – embroidery, is on display until

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Comic performers Mitch Benn and the Distractions gently extract the michael with their new single Everything Sounds Like Coldplay Now. Click here to see the video.

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Thanks to Craftlog for flagging up The Lost Art of Knitting Nancies, which in turn links to a KidsCanMakeIt article on fingerknitting.Speaking of learning new ways to knot yarn into pretty shapes... I've tried crochet for the first time, with dubious results. I got a simple chain thingy going and produce a quite acceptable rectangle of cloth, but after that I tried to make a round shape and

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Via www.artdaily.com:'Dave Cole is in residence at MASS MoCA with his project The Knitting Machine which comprises two excavators specially fitted with massive 20’ knitting needles. The product of The Knitting Machine is an oversized American flag – a flag which can be seen as both a celebratory gesture of pride and a commentary on America’s role in world affairs....Cole explains, “The Knitting

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I completely fell for White Town's 'Your Woman' when Mark Radcliffe started playing it on his Graveyard Shift show on Radio 1 in 1996. So I was gobsmacked to walk into my local caff the other day and hear a cover version playing. Here's what White Town's Jyoti has to say about it: Tyler James Covers 'Your Woman'.Manchester Online: Tyler James - Your WomanBBC Derby: The White Town revival starts

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On my recent break in the Kent I went to Canterbury, and wandered into the Royal Museum. There I found the Elemental Insight exhibition - 'an exploration by artists of the heavens and atmosphere, weather and climate, environment and earth, a complex system that extends from the surface of the earth to the sun and moon and beyond...'. Four artists were commissioned to make permanent works for the

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Have come across the website of the London Pearly Kings and Queens Society, which tells you all about the origins and traditions of these London icons and has a fantastic photo gallery."Each outfit can hold many tens of thousands of buttons on it and can weigh as much as 30 kilograms or more. There are two types of suit - a Smother Suit and a Skeleton Suit, the former having very little cloth

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I welled up when I heard the news this morning. What a woman. What a loss. Mo Mowlam was warm, brave, principled, honest, witty and intelligent. Why aren't there more politicians like her?'Marjorie ('Mo') Mowlam', by John Keane, 2001.Oil on canvas, 60 1/4 x 48 1/4 in.On display at the National Portrait GalleryBBC: Former minister Mo Mowlam diesGuardian: Mo Mowlam, in her own wordsGuardian: Mo

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ALA introduces Banned Books bracelet (via Managing Information):' Just in time for Banned Books Week (September 24-October 1, 2005), the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom has added bracelets to its Banned Books materials. Debuted at the ALA Annual Conference in June, the bracelets (designed by Carolyn Forsman) feature covers of popular challenged books and remind

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Mo Mowlam in hospital as health deteriorates

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Great news - Edwyn's on the mend: Collins walks after brain surgery (BBC)See also: www.edwyncollins.com

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Great 'day in the life' article about Manchester Cathedral on the BBC today: Doing the work of God in the city. Several parts of it made me want to cheer and a couple bits were quite moving.I was so impressed to hear about the Cathedral's drinking garden, where people who would normally drink in the street (illegal in the city centre) can go to drink. It's attached to the Cathedral's homelessness

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Ulla-Maaria at Hobby Princess flags up a great site which records Helsinki street fashion: HEL LOOKS. It's in the same vein as Japanese street fashion mag Fruits, which is endlessly fascinating. I still haven't got around to buying the Fruits book and now there's a new one - Fresh Fruits.Ulla (31): "I'm a big fan of vintage clothes. I think 50's is always in fashion."Jacket CELYNb, skirt Nanso,

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The Knifty KnitterMaybe I've been living a crafty rock, but I'd never see these before - Knifty Knitters. I spotted them while I was on the Fun 2 Do site looking for bag handles. They come in various sizes and produce tubular knitting which can be made into hats, scarves etc. I wondered if they worked like large french knitting dollies, and having watched the manufacturer's instructional video -

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Reader, I......went to see an adaptation of Jane Eyre at the Theatre Royal, Brighton last week. I'm very glad I got to see it - Jane Eyre has been my favourite book since I was a kid and I've never seen it on the stage before - but I can't say I was impressed. Obviously the story had to be abridged, and of course I wasn't expected a whole variety of sets to cover the different places Jane lives

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A Bag For Sarah

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'Upon completing His outburst, God fell silent, standing quietly at the podium for several moments. Then, witnesses reported, God's shoulders began to shake, and He wept...'God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule(originally from The Onion, September 2001; this link from Mike's Free Gifs)

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Midnight's CarnivalNow, I have to behave myself in my line of faith, but even so, as a night owl and someone who appreciates a great outfit, I still think I could find some permissible fun at Midnight's Carnival, happening at Glastonbury Festival this year:"Highlights include: Carnesky's Ghost Train loaded with ghoulish beauties; the CanBootyCan showgirls; the Pretty Freaky all-female burlesque

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Fairground AttractionLooking through the websites of the Fairground Heritage Trust and the National Fairground Archive at the University of Sheffield, I remember how when I was at art college I was really into collecting images of fairgrounds and fairground rides for my sketchbook. It fitted in with my love of seaside amusements - and of course the two often go hand-in-hand. Bright colours,

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Sweet!Elaine Decker's sewing box CAKE - spotted when random Googling sent me to the website of ICES (International Cake Exploration Societé). Click here for a larger version where you can really appreciate all the detail.

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Flickr: Haberdashery / NotionsHave just started up a Haberdashery / Notions group on Flickr - photos of buttons, threads, pins, trims etc very welcome! assortment of sewing notions by strph.

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Draft Craft ManifestoThanks to Hillary @ Wee Wonderfuls for flagging this up - Boing Boing's summary of a conference presentation by Finnish crafter Ulla-Maaria Mutanen (of Hobby Princess), 'a draft crafter's manifesto that reads like a blueprint for the Enlightenment crossed with an entrepreneur's prayer...'. It's brilliant - absolutely spot-on:1. People get satisfaction for being able to create

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Branching outThanks to Plums' LJ friend Revelatrice for flagging up the gorgeous Minette - out-of-this-world crocheted, knitted and felt accessories. How have I never seen these before?! Yet again I tell myself: you MUST learn to crochet. But I have the Fear... it looks so complicated compared with knitting...16.06.05 - edited to add: if and when I learn to crochet, I'll be visiting the

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Fashination: Between Art & FashionThe National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford opens Fashination: Between Art & Fashion, 'a major, mixed media exhibition from the Moderna Museet, Stockholm that reflects on the interplay of images and ideas between the worlds of contemporary art and fashion'.Artists involved include Hussein Chalayan, Alexander McQueen, Steven Meisel, Maison

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A Showcase of Book ArtsFrom the website of Fiber Arts magazine, a selection of artists' books. My favourite of the works displayed here are the pieces by Gail Smuda - they have wit and colour, not seen often enough in book art.I've been looking into bookbinding courses again. There's a week-long summer school in July at the University of Brighton - a beginners' guide to traditional and creative

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Button up!Via Artdaily:"Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is seeking buttons and more buttons for its upcoming exhibition, Patrick Kelly: A Retrospective. The late fashion designer and Vicksburg, Mississippi native emerged on the fashion scene in the 1980s just as the industry was welcoming color, ornamentation, and exuberance. Kelly was well known for his whimsical use of buttons in his designs. His

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The Button MuseumThis was one of my favourite things at Streets of Brighton last month. You picked a button from the tray, took a slip and wrote down what the button reminded you of. Then the secretary typed up what you'd written onto an index card and filed it in the Button Museum. Lovely, in so many ways! Click on the pics for larger versions.

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Reasons to be cheerful: 1, 2, 3...1. I'm off to see Laura Cantrell tonight even though I thought I wouldn't be able to see her this time around!2. The Blonde is taping me the double bill of Desperate Housewives while I'm out!3. It's the Blonde's birthday soon, so we're celebrating with some lovely folk on Saturday, which I'm really looking forward to.

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The Bowlie WeekenderBecause I'm feeling nostalgic...* All My Friends Are On Their Holidays (Bus Stop)* Inside The Belly Of The Beast! (Popfest 3000)* Ink Polaroids Of The Bowlie Weekender (Salon)

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Laura Ellen Bacon: Nesting VesselsLaura Ellen Bacon makes beautiful forms in willow for inside and outdoors. Go to her website's gallery for larger versions of the photos below, which do the work much better justice!She's coming to Hove Museum from 1 July - 28 August, so I'm looking forward to seeing these works 'in the flesh'. The exhibition is new work, partly inspired by the museum's interior

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How many lightbulbs does it take...?An interesting conundrum covered by The Art Newspaper:'Museums and the market are re-evaluating US Minimalist artist Dan Flavin’s sculptures made up of coloured fluorescent light tubes and bulbs arranged against plain walls... So where exactly do they go when the bulbs in his installations blow?' more...

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Elegance in the BlitzI found this photo of Kirkby munitions factory workers posing around a bomb (from National Museums Liverpool's The Blitz website) intriguing - the juxtaposition between this huge lump of lethal metal and the group of well-groomed, elegant young women.I shouldn't be surprised - if I had to work in a bomb factory, I'd still want my mascara and some great shoes. It'd probably be

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* Harriet the Recycled Monster - brought into this world by Theresa at Rock, Paper, Scissors* Hillary at Wee Wonderfuls' latest robot - an elegant ladybot in fashionable shade of green* Samantha Bryan's magnificent 'domesticated fairies' and their flying machines (from her recent show at Leeds Craft Centre & Design Gallery)

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Tell Laura I Love HerA few days early, we welcome to the Clipson/Hynes clan Miss Laura Susan Hynes! 7lb 8 and about six hours of work from Mum - not bad for a first go!Edited to add: I'll see you soon I hope - if you're a good girl I'll take you along to the Galway Arts Festival!

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'I am WARM for yo' form!'Just seen the trailer for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - it looks fantastic (and I was very tickled by poor Ron's expression to seeing Hermione looking all womanly in her party frock!). Empire has lots of stills from the film too, which is out November.

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Colour is its own reward* Hew Locke at The New Art Gallery, Walsall until 26 June - including his vibrant collage sculptures, many of the Royal Family, made with materials from markets and pound stores.* Gardens of Glass: Chihuly at Kew, 'a spectacular sequence of organically shaped and vibrantly coloured glass sculptures set throughout Kew’s 300-acre garden landscape and inside the great

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Now there's a frood who really knows where his 4-ply is...Went to see Hitchhikers yesterday - funny, surreal stuff, though it didn't grab me quite as much as I'd hoped it would. Worth it though even just to see the five main characters turn into knitted versions of themselves. And it turns out you can buy them as well! Expect to see the knitting patterns appear on the crafty sites soon.26.05.05

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'I see you on the street - you kiss my cheek, my knees go weakIt's clear you've got nothing to lose, while I'm losing sleep'Oh my, I'm smitten. Again. The first MP3 from the new Laura Cantrell album 'Humming By The Flowered Vine', '14th Street' is now available from Laura's page on the Matador Records site. It's an everyday day tale of unrequited love, by Emily Spray:'To a lot of New Yorkers,

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Couturier to the Queen honoured with English Heritage Blue Plaque'Sir Norman Hartnell will be remembered with an English Heritage Blue Plaque which is due to be unveiled at 11am this morning at 26 Bruton Street, W1, where he lived and worked from 1935 to his death at the age of 78, in 1979.First commissioned by the Royal Family in 1935, Hartnell dressed Queen Elizabeth (the late Queen Mother) and

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Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from the UKI had to flag up this gorgeous pincushion, part of the Barbican Art Gallery's current exhibition, organised by Alan Kane and Jeremy Deller.

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TeatotalShauny converts to tea!. Marvellous.

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The Giant Zip PondIf I ever have a garden I want one of these! By British sculptor Mark R Hall.His 'conker' pieces are lovely too - they remind me of a couple of conker-inspired handbags I've seen in Crafts - a metal one by Emily Jo Gibbs and another, a green fabric one whose maker's name eludes me but was on the cover of one issue.25.05.05 - edited to add: Just spotted this photo on my work

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Quick! Last Chance To See Knit 2 Together At The Crafts CouncilIf you're into knitting and near London, don't miss this show. If you can't make it, here's my review.

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The Knitting MapAnother great piece of knitted art in progess: Cork's Knitting Map:"Above the earth there is a satellite which looks down at Cork and watches the movements of people and cars around the city. Through a strange technical alchemy, this information is transformed into a knitting pattern, which constantly shifts - some hefty cabling during rush hour; quiet lulls of stocking stitch on

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Book art: curious and cold...This looks amazing: M.L. Van Nice’s installation The Library at Wadi Ben Dagh at the National Museum of Women in the Arts:"The Library at Wadi Ben Dagh uses the book as an artistic medium to produce an insightful response in the visitor. Visually translating such popular titles as Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Joyce’s Ulysses, and Baudelaire’s Flowers of

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One more robot learns to beSomething more than a machine...As soon as I saw the wonderful robot which the very talented Hillary at Wee Wonderfuls had made back in January, I knew I had the answer to the thorny 'What on earth shall I give Plums for her 30th birthday?' question. Heavily indebted to Hillary's original design, I give you PHIL:EO, the robot of loving friendship:PHIL is made from red

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"'He has been singing these past few days... his tuning needs working on."Extra brain op for singer Collins

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Plankton Portraits - Invisible MonstersPart of Fleetwood Museum and Lancaster Maritime Museum's Netting the Bay website, this online exhibition of John Angus's images of Morecambe Bay plankton is very inspiring... I'm thinking embroidery. They remind me of the embroidery I did as part of my A-level Art - I'd been flicking through biology books looking at microscopic bacteria and cell formations.

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Vote for your favourite hymn!Songs of Praise is running a vote to find out the Nation's Favourite Hymn. They're down to a top 20 - I've voted for In Christ Alone - I love Stuart Townend's songs.I also dearly love And Can It Be, which my Dad got me into and which I chose for my baptism; How Great Thou Art, which an old Welsh friend of my dad's sang solo at his baptism and Great Is Thy Faithfulness

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Silent Witness: The Story of Lola Rein and her DressWhile browsing the other sites nominated for Webbys, I came across this site from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Silent Witness: The Story of Lola Rein and her Dress. It's based around a dress donated to the museum by a Jewish lady, Lola Kaufman, nee Rein. Lola's mother had made and embroidered the dress for her when she was an eight-year old

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