Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Saturday, 6 June 2009

Taxes and Treats

Not only have I sold a couple of brooches and made a weeny profit, I aslo got a nice tax rebate this week - hurrah! It would appear I overpaid the lovely people at HMRC by three hundred odd quid last year, and they've very kindly given it me back. What riches!

So, how to spend it? For starters I've bought this beautiful print from Sally Elford:


It's called 'Approaching Storm' and it's kind of what I was trying to achieve with the etching I did a while ago, although Sally's is proper art, and mine looks like a small child's attempt :) You can find more of Sally's work over at Boxbird, a cool little online gallery.
I'm also going to buy a shiny new mp3 player, and one of those doughnut speaker docking thingies (that's the actual technical term for them). Family pickledweasel has just 2 small stereo systems, one of which doesn't work, and another which lives on top of the fridge and has quite specific taste in music. It won't play some cds at all, and others it will play about half a song, get bored, and skip to the next one. It doesn't like Bjork very much, although I have no idea why. Anyhoo, the idea is to buy a big mp3 player, put all of our cds on to our laptop, and then sell the cds on Music Magpie. Therefore freeing up a huuge amount of space in the living room, and making a bit of moolah in the process.
The final wodge of tax money will be divided between 2 benefactors - British Gas (for we have just recieved a mahousive bill) and The Neverending Loft Fund, which is our savings account to get our loft converted into a 3rd bedroom. So everyone's a winner! Happy days :)

Wednesday, 18 March 2009

Unintentional table art



Instructions:
  1. Casually scatter saturday supplement magazine on dining table.

  2. Spill whole cup of coffee over saturday supplement magazine whilst serving dinner, ensuring that it is completely soaked from cover to cover.

  3. Intend to clear up immediately.

  4. Leave for approximately four hours, whilst feeding daughter, clearing up ensuing mess, changing daughter, bathing daughter, putting daughter to bed, washing up, hoovering because you've just remembered you've got people coming round tomorrow etc etc.

  5. Remember saturday supplement and coffee incident and go to lift saturday supplement off table.

  6. Find it is stuck.

  7. Gently peel saturday supplement from table, and marvel at beautiful coffee scented artwork which is left behind.

  8. Take photo.

  9. Reluctantly scrub at artwork, only to find that it doesn't come off properly.

  10. Put placemat over it and file experience under 'Lessons Learned'.