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Bacon, Eek and Zombies, This is how seriously I take myself.
Published on 2012-05-23 19:19:19
Over the past 72 hours I have been accused of being jealous and of nursing a galloping case of sour grapes. This morning I was also told that it is very poor form on my behalf to have “attacked” the remarkable bloggers so viciously. Oh dear internet, you are being very defensive. If I had [...] > read more
The Remarkables, A blog post about blogging.
Published on 2012-05-22 20:07:29
The fact that a plain brown caterpillar can spin a cocoon and after a bit of a snooze, emerge as a multi coloured butterfly is pretty remarkable. Cramming hundreds of people into a tin can with wings and flying across the ocean at speeds of over 500 miles an hour is also quite remarkable. Alan [...] > read more
When your daughter is having a baby…
Published on 2012-05-20 22:23:51
Your world can be turned inside out in an instant. The words, “Mum I am pregnant” are not words you want to hear from your seventeen year old daughter on Christmas day and I well remember feeling an unhappy mixture of grief, fear and anger. Grief for my daughters loss of innocence, loss of freedoms [...] > read more
Sunday Selections #70
Published on 2012-05-19 17:12:33
The Blurb I take a lot of photos and most of them are just sitting around in folders on my desktop not doing anything. I thought that a dedicated post once a week would be a good way to share some of these photos that otherwise wouldn’t be seen by anyone other than me. I [...] > read more
This week in the Studio. #1
Published on 2012-05-16 20:32:17
Adriana Christianson from the Mud Colony Blog has a weekly link up of ceramic posts on her website. I thought that It would be nice to do a weekly what has, or hasn’t been happening in my studio and link these posts up with the Mud Colony Blog. When I decided to get serious about [...] > read more
Sunday Selections #69
Published on 2012-05-12 20:02:11
Happy Mothers Day everyone.I am going out to see my daughter Veronica and we will be having scones with jam and cream. I am going to dig out my Great Aunt Joan’s, Royal Doulton tea cups and we will sip cups of tea from proper tea cups. It will be nice. I am seriously pushed for [...] > read more
Untitled
Published on 2012-05-10 22:04:08
I think I have Titler’s block. The title of my blog post is generally the first half of a sentence, with the opening sentence of the blog post completing the thought that was started in the heading, with the post then following along in a semi-orderly direction. But not today. Today I have Titler’s block [...] > read more
Sunday Selections #68 A ceramic edition
Published on 2012-05-05 20:23:36
I like to make rocks. I get a great deal of personal satisfaction from making ceramic rocks. As I am making rocks I go elsewhere in my mind and I find a place of beautiful stillness and in this space I am working at my most intuitive. I enjoy making all the work that I [...] > read more
You dont have cancer, Mrs Foale.
Published on 2012-05-04 01:18:19
But you do have to come back and have another Colonoscopy next year. Inside my mind, the imaginary fist pumping and the “Fuck Yeah” thoughts are quickly replaced by the sinking feeling of, “Oh No not another colonoscopy.” *Gulps* But it could always be much, much worse and so today I am pleased to announce [...] > read more
When Magic Kisses and Wiggles Bandaids Don’t Work Anymore.
Published on 2012-05-02 22:02:47
There was a time when a magic kiss fixed everything and what magic kisses wouldn’t fix, a wiggles band-aid certainly could. It is a sad day in a mothers life, when she realises that the one sure fire cure in her arsenal, just doesn’t work any more. That the magic has faded from her kisses [...] > read more
Hello May, it is nice to see you.
Published on 2012-05-01 18:32:01
April was very hard this year and I spent an awful lot of time being very, very sad. Next April I am not going to make any plans or commit myself to any exhibitions or anything. I am just going to eat cake and be kind to myself for the whole month. I often wonder [...] > read more
Sunday Selections #67
Published on 2012-04-28 18:46:01
Good Morning everyone, the weather has turned decidedly chilly down here in Tasmania and winter is definitely on its way. Think of me today as I am up in my chilly studio, glazing, wearing a hat and warm jumper and wishing I had gloves as well. But gloves are not the most practical items in [...] > read more
A Tired Refrain
Published on 2012-04-26 18:10:43
But it is my refrain. I want my Mother, my Mother is Dead. Months ago I was listening to Pamela Stephenson in conversation with Richard Fidler, or someone similar. Stephenson was talking about her latest book Sex Life: How Our Sexual Experiences Define Who We Are By asking the audience how many times a day [...] > read more
The calm before the glazing storm.
Published on 2012-04-25 17:26:06
I was going to update my last post where I showed you, the total destruction that is my studio at the end of a making phase, with a photo of the tidy and sparkly clean studio. BUT. I think this level of studio cleanliness deserves its very own blog post. This is the carefully labelled [...] > read more
A cycle of creative chaos
Published on 2012-04-23 18:03:08
I have never been a tidy person. I leave a trail of destruction behind me where ever I go. I have accepted this aspect of myself now at the grand old age of 46 and even though I make a token effort to limit my mess making in the house, it is a totally different [...] > read more
Sunday Selections #66
Published on 2012-04-21 17:54:07
I was reading my friend Achelois blog the Tensile Times, the other day and Achelois was lamenting her lack of a view. I know a couple of other bloggers who read here have been stuck inside as well of late, as their recalcitrant bodies refuse to do as they are told. So this weeks Sunday [...] > read more
Snippets.
Published on 2012-04-16 20:42:56
A few years a go one of my girlfriends went to the Doctor because she thought she had Alzheimer’s. We were both very relieved when the doctor told her that if she was aware of her memory loss then it was most definitely not Alzheimer’s disease. I have clung to that piece of information over [...] > read more
Sunday Selections #65
Published on 2012-04-14 21:07:23
The Blurb I take a lot of photos and most of them are just sitting around in folders on my desktop not doing anything. I thought that a dedicated post once a week would be a good way to share some of these photos that otherwise wouldn’t be seen by anyone other than me. I [...] > read more
‘Kidspot Ford Territory Top 50: Feel the difference’
Published on 2012-04-11 21:11:46
With this post I thee wed. I mean with this post I am entering a competition, somehow I have managed to get myself onto the kidspot social top 50 bloggers list. If I manage to claw my way to the top of the list I can win a trip to New York later on this [...] > read more
The cobweb collector
Published on 2012-04-09 21:14:43
If ever I was going to write a book, “The Cobweb Collector” would be the title, as my house is full of cobwebs and I guard them fiercely. An orb spider spun a beautiful web from one side of the verandah to the other and so naturally everyone was banned from using the verandah for [...] > read more
Sunday Selections #64
Published on 2012-03-31 19:18:17
Good Morning everyone, before we start with this weeks Sunday Selections, I have found a photo challenge that you might be interested in and so I thought I would share it with you here. I followed a tweet from Carly Jacobs to a link by Fat mum slim and this photo challenge caught my attention.I [...] > read more
Reasons to be Cheerful
Published on 2012-03-29 18:59:42
One. Two. Three. You can thank me for the ear worm later. I use this blog to sort out the words that are in my head. If I am lucky and the planets align I capture some of these words and they drip down from my fingers and fall onto the page, rather than spinning [...] > read more
Mired
Published on 2012-03-28 17:17:08
That is how I feel. I feel like I am stuck and unable to gain any momentum. I haven’t made any new work in over two weeks. There is an exhibition coming up that I am quite looking forward to but as for making the work for it, I have been reading instead. I haven’t [...] > read more
Sunday Selections #63 The Greatest Shave Edition
Published on 2012-03-24 18:40:04
Hi everyone, last night I went along to my very first roller derby match and along with some other brave souls I had all my hair chopped off to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation. So instead of hunting through my zillions of folders of forgotten photos I will share with you photos of The [...] > read more
Worlds Greatest Shave 2012
Published on 2012-03-23 19:04:34
Today is the day my lovelies. I am not nervous today at all which is a blessed relief. On Tuesday I was extremely nervous and every time I thought about The Shave my chest would tighten and I would have to concentrate on my breathing until the moment of minor panic had passed. With the [...] > read more
I am not brave, I just won’t look.
Published on 2012-03-19 18:10:43
In four days time someone from the Leukaemia foundation is chopping off all my hair. I will no longer be able to dramatically fling my plait over my shoulder for emphasis when I am being flippant. Numerous people have told me How brave I am being, I don’t consider myself brave at all. It is [...] > read more
Sunday Selections #62
Published on 2012-03-17 18:24:32
This is the last Sunday Selections I will be doing with long hair. Thank you to those of you who have written blog posts for me and an even bigger thanks to those of you who have donated. On a silly note, I am more nervous about publishing photos of myself with short hair than [...] > read more
I am lost in a novel.
Published on 2012-03-15 16:27:24
I have dived headlong into the Game of Thrones series of books. I have nearly completed book two and I am at the stage where I am thinking about the characters as I go about my daily tasks. I even took the book up with me to the studio the other day and during the [...] > read more
Sunday Selections #61
Published on 2012-03-10 17:44:14
Hello my lovelies, I am back from my sojourn to the internet free zone and as such will be hosting Sunday Selections myself today. I am also in full blown procrastination mode as I have all this new work in my head that is demanding to be made and the studio needs a darn good [...] > read more
The happy wanderer returns.
Published on 2012-03-06 15:19:55
Sometimes trying to think of a title is the hardest part of this whole blogging caper. I am home from my epic road trip to Burnie, I have a zillion ideas for new work burbling away in my head and I reckon that I am going to be very busy. Very, very busy. The Fired [...] > read more
Sunday Selections #60
Published on 2012-03-03 16:36:31
Hi Internet, It’s Veronica here. Sunday Selections will be held at my place this week, because Frogpondsrock is still in Burnie for Fired Up and sadly, has no Internet. If you’d like to click over and play along, the linky can be found here. Thanks! > read more
Fired up, The journey begins.
Published on 2012-02-29 16:00:54
Today I leave for Burnie 325 ks away in the Northwest of the state. I don’t know if I will have access to the internet or not, as I will be using my portable Telstra plug in internet stick thingy and Telstra’s coverage in regional areas is a bit iffy at the best of times. [...] > read more
Sunday Selections #59
Published on 2012-02-26 01:22:35
I am sorry this post is so late, I have been at a Ceramic workshop all day. It is a zillion degrees outside and I am melting. The Blurb I take a lot of photos and most of them are just sitting around in folders on my desktop not doing anything. I thought that a [...] > read more
A question of personal ethics
Published on 2012-02-24 17:57:03
I would never in a million years deliberately align myself with a brand like Nestle. The evidence of poor corporate practice is far too overwhelming for me to ignore and the thought of supporting a brand like Nestle is anathema to me. I lump Nestle in with my other least favourite brand Monsanto and I [...] > read more
“Fired Up” The exhibition.
Published on 2012-02-22 16:04:55
In one weeks time I leave home to make the 325 kilometre (200 mile) road trip, up to Burnie in the North West of the state. I will be firing the kiln today and as per usual I am skating very close to the edge. One toss of the coin and all is well or [...] > read more
Blue Tongue Lizard Photos
Published on 2012-02-20 16:35:36
The other night we were all outside, doing outside things. The Spouse was watering the veggie garden and I was picking what was left of the plums whilst loudly bemoaning the fact that the bloody possums were destroying my plum trees. I gave Harry the dog a stern talking to about keeping up with his [...] > read more
Sunday Selections #58
Published on 2012-02-18 15:08:54
I can’t believe it is Sunday again, wasn’t it just Sunday yesterday? The days are whizzing by in a giant blur. Today I will be glazing in the studio with Philadelphia, preparing for the final firing for the Fired Up Exhibition. It is very exciting. The Blurb I take a lot of photos and most [...] > read more
Writing An Artist Statement.
Published on 2012-02-17 16:09:13
As an artist I have to write lots of artist statements. I am always so grateful for you my dear internets, because each and every artist statement I write I always treat as if I am writing to you. I generally give my artist statement a trial run here on the blog to see how [...] > read more
A time to write…
Published on 2012-02-15 17:37:45
And there is a time to faff about but if you faff about for too long you lose your writing time Or I do at least. I write my blog posts in the early morning. Each morning I get up and make a pot of coffee and I sit down at the computer. I check [...] > read more
Sunday Selections #57
Published on 2012-02-11 17:27:25
I would like to thank you all very much for sponsoring me in the Worlds Greatest Shave. So far 55 people have donated $1660 which is an amazing amount of money. Thank you all very very much. Now without further ado here are this weeks photos. The Blurb I take a lot of photos and [...] > read more
The Greatest Shave Adventure…
Published on 2012-02-07 16:22:04
I would like to start this blog post by thanking you. The words thank you seem so small when I write them down, they don’t really capture the enormity of grateful emotion that swells in my chest every time I receive help from you. As each email telling me of a donation comes in, I [...] > read more
Sunday Selections #56
Published on 2012-02-04 19:01:52
Good morning my lovelies, I am home all day so I will be over to visit you all today. Not like the past few weeks where I have been at work on a Sunday with minimal internet and then before I know it it is Thursday and I still haven’t seen your photos. I am [...] > read more
Twenty Five years.
Published on 2012-02-02 18:06:03
Wow internet that is a long time. Well it’s not really a long time if you are a tree or a rock or a giant squid. BUT it is a long time to have been married. Today is my anniversary, The Spouse and I have been together for 25 years. I often flippantly say that [...] > read more
If 500 people donate $10 each I can reach my total
Published on 2012-01-31 16:42:53
I think that is do-able internet. I am sure that between us we can round up five hundred people who are willing to donate Ten Dollars each. What am I talking about? In October 2011 I was sick of dyeing my hair purple. My hair grows so fast and I am almost totally grey these [...] > read more
No rhyme or reason
Published on 2012-01-30 16:45:24
To the words that pop into my head. Or to the order in which I do things. I am so time poor at the monet internet that this blog is sorely, sorely neglected. Maybe tomorrow I will write an insightful blog post full of charm and wit. I am typing so hurriedly that I wrote [...] > read more
Sunday Selections #55
Published on 2012-01-28 13:30:12
Hello my lovelies, number 55 has a nice ring to it don’t you think? I am at work in the Off Centre again today so I don’t know if I will have time to visit you today or not. Anyhow without any further babble from me here is… The Blurb I take a lot of [...] > read more
Sunday Selections #54
Published on 2012-01-21 18:34:36
The Blurb I take a lot of photos and most of them are just sitting around in folders on my desktop not doing anything. I thought that a dedicated post once a week would be a good way to share some of these photos that otherwise wouldn’t be seen by anyone other than [...] > read more