knit the beach

Knit the Beach is a community project I have been working on with the City of Stirling for their Summerset Arts Festival.

I was absolutely astounded by the number of knitter and crocheters and beginners who were interested joined in and created the most colourful pieces for the project. Thank you!

Two community workshops were held, and I was unable to facilitate them, as I was in bed sick :( but never fear, the lovely Annie Rawle took over the workshops - thank you Annie! Annie is a super lovely person, and an amazing textile artist. She sells some of her creations here :)

On install day, I headed out to Scarborough Beach, and with the generous help of about 8 committed people, we installed metres of colourful creations!

The amphitheatre where we installed all of the work was the location for a number of Festival shows, with huge crowds getting to experience Knit the Beach! You can see more photos on my facbeook page and on the Knit the Beach tumblr blog.

the arts are AWESOME!

This year I started a new job. It is at AWESOME Arts! I am so passionate about this organisation, as well as my role there. Managing a community arts development project is such a challenging and exciting and dynamic experience, and my colleagues at Awesome Arts are totally lovely and talented! We are have a super rad office too!!

Our office is opposite a great cafe - Little Willy's - and artist studios - Paper Mountain.

love is in the air!

BIG LOVE to all of you in blog land! It's Valentine's Day! My beautiful G made some delightful cupcakes (which I helped decorate) for all of our work colleagues. Here are some pics of them before they got all gobbled up!!

32 candles ....

Yep! I have a birthday - with 32 candles ....! I got some stunning gifts!

A new camera - the Cannon Powershot G12 - from my parents
















A new (VERY expensive pillow) from my brother. (SOOOOOO worth it!!)

A super lovely card and JB Hifi voucher from my in-laws.

An array of exciting gifts from my beautiful Geneveive xxx

I was also spoilt with cupcakes and gifts from my new colleagues at Awesome Arts.

And a cake and pressies from the team at DADAA.

What a happy chappy!! Thank you all xxxxxx

yarn bombing at beaufort street festival 2011

I am playing a game of catch up now! Filling you in on all the great arty craft things of the last few months. This pics are from last November, a collaborative yarn bombing piece for the Beaufort Street Festival with Loopopoly and MisterY Spinster.

whiskers!

It has been over 2 years since I started taking testosterone, and it has been, and still is, a very slow process - just like puberty! I have started getting some pretty decent facial hair growth, which is super exciting!! I am totally stoked, so I though I would share a little peek at the whiskers with you! I hope you can see them! Haha!!

a little bit of love and happiness

I have been a bad bad blogger! And i have been unwell for about a month now .... It is really getting me down, but I have the most amazing people surrounding me - my amazingly loving partner, very caring parents and brother, and family-in-law, wonderfully supportive workplaces and employers and some seriously beautiful friends. All of these people have been there for me, and right now I have the happiest vase and most joyful flowers to cheer me up! I do love you all! xxxx

The vase is a Rob Ryan design, a sad but beautiful leaving gift from my dear friend Emi (who has an awesome new crafty blog that you should check out!).