Qua Circles

Here are some pictures from the finished Music video for Qua's song "Circles" featuring my Muppet puppets . I have also added the full video so you can have a look at it the whole way through. It is directed by Angus Kemp and features the Muppet's going crazy in a rock and roll manner and some adult themes so don't say I didn't warn you.

Making Love

Cut outs.

Eight meters of paper chain.

Packed and ready to send

First round of cards.

I have to say I have a real weakness for Valentines Day, I know some people think its cheesy but I just can't help loving it. Here is a look at some of the things I am working on which will appear soon on my little and very neglected Etsy shop , hold on to your hats its a new year and I am starting to get going!

Going to the Chapel

Un-puffed up puff balls

Puffed up Puff Balls

Blossom in the trees

Paper chains and Blossom branches

Blossoms in vases

My boyfriends sister got married on Friday and I had fun making the decorations. It was a summer garden wedding and she loves blossom so I made heaps of blossom sticks with tissue paper flowers, huge puff balls to hang in the trees that Martha showed me how to make, and paper chains of pastel flowers. It looked really pretty when it was all done, its amazing what you can do with a stack of tissue paper some florist wire and a dvd box set of David Attenborough's Planet Earth.

The Final Darwin

I went past to see my little paper sculpture in its exhibit at the Melbourne Museum today, here are some photos. It is in the top left hand corner of the display. And around the back I found this amazing specimen of pigeon.

Garlic Crop

I love gardening and not to be discouraged by our concrete backyard, last year I built a raised vegetable bed and I am now growing, corn, aubergine, cucumber, pumpkin, peas, beans, herbs, raspberries, strawberries, sunflowers tomatoes and lettuce in. After many months of waiting today I picked my garlic crop. It has been really exciting to plant out one head of garlic and from each bud a whole new bulb grew. I feel like Jason and his Argonauts planting the dragon teeth from which the warriors sprang from. It tastes amazing its actually juicy!!

Wolf Boy and The Red Velvet Curtains

I practiced by making my hand into a werewolf.

Our fantastically talented Wolf Boy in completed Make up.

Wolf Boy in his lair.

The Band Plays.

I have been co-producing and directing a new music video which we shot yesterday. It went really well and once again I am excited to see the final edit in a few weeks. There were two aspects to it a wild Wolf Boy and a Bar scene with the band playing. I did a crash course in special effects makeup and managed to turn an innocent twelve year old into a wild one. I have done a bit of make up before and successfully made a slit throat complete with pulsating arterial blood but this was a first try with tufts of fur. It was a great day, lots of work but exciting to see it all unfold in front of you. I will put up the completed video when it is done in mid January.

The Origin of Species

I have been working on a paper sculpture commissioned for the Melbourne Museum to celebrate the 200 anniversary of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species. The brief was to make a fish jump from the pages of the book, a lizard crawl off it and a bird fly away from it. The creatures evolve out of the book its self. I handed it in today and it will be on exhibit from next Friday for six months in the foyer of the museum in Exhibition buildings, so if you are passing pop your head in you can see it for free it will be just to the right of the doors. Ill go past and take a photo of the final set up in the next few weeks.

Like a ship in the night

We have recently bought a new super deluxe mattress which has changes our life. The previous one was hard as a rock and lumpy and somehow managed to leave you with numb arms when you woke in the morning. Now we have a beautiful soft ocean of comfort I can't believe the difference it makes. I woke up this morning and saw my Polly Woodside model next to the bed and the colour of the sheets made me feel like I should take this photo.

Summer Knitting

It is hard to think of wool and needles when it is over 30 degrees Celsius outside, but its winter in New York and Christmas coming up so don't look at this picture Baby Gabriel or your Christmas surprise will be ruined. It has been fun to knit again I haven't done any for ages. I was pretty excited when I found this giant rick-rack for the straps. I have never seen any so big.

Small Magazine

I had my String of Heart Paper Chain and a little knitted scarf featured in Small Magazine this month. It is a fantastic publication and I often spend ages clicking on all the links and ending up on winding travels over the internet looking at beautiful things.