Capturing

Sarah Gleeson

Ceramic Love

I love ceramics: old and new. I hate that they break but I guess that's part of the precious feeling we experience.
This week I have been having a hard time dealing with the final and most intense of a trilogy of breaks.


Dawn Vachon new works are basically my dream of perfect.
Available at SMALLpieces
and CRAFT

These images are of Big Creek Pottery Workshop I found via an ambitious project collapsing. They could very easily be the photos of my parents and friends. My mother lost her wedding ring while throwing a pot and falling in love with the real love of her life.

Feburary

Alas, our long evenings are shortening. For the last week or so I have been noting each and every of the earliest autumn leaves on the ground. February marks the end of summer. It is always hottest once all the little people return to school, drink bottles filled with cordial frozen over-night by intelligent guardians, both destined to sweat it up and melt. I was worried about my first summer in country Victoria, but I have rather enjoyed it more than the three days of summer which Hobart generally delivers. Cold showers are fun, icy poles can be for dinner, fruit salad improves throughout the day, and raspberry fizzy is medicine. Here are some things from my summer, in not order and just off the top of my head
1 through 10.

1.     Pinky Pale Hair

2.     Watermelon

 

3.     Wearing a boater everyday

4.     Yellow

5.     Bikes

6.     Driving 

7.     Icy poles

8.     Mini Golf

  If you can only listen to one hour listen to this one

9.     Stories

10.   Thinking about space the universe and everything

1.Hair  a,

2.Watermelon  a

3.Boater  a

4.Yellow  a, b,

5.Bikes  a 

6.Driving  a

7.Icy poles  a

8.Mini Golf  a, b

9.Stories a, b

10.Space a, b, c

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1922

These colour plates are from my copy of Hodder & Stoughton's 1922 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The lovely illustrations are by the mysterious Gwynedd M. Hudson (b.1909-1935). The only information I can find on Gwynedd is that she studied at Brighton School of Art. She was a figure painter, illustrator, and poster artist. She exhibited at the Royal Academy of the Arts, London around 1912. She designed posters for the Underground Group (London's underground railway)1926-1929. She is best known for both her editions of J. M Barrie's Peter Pan and Wendy and Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Her depiction of Alice is widely regarded. She illustrated perhaps a half dozen or so other books, mostly for poetry and religious, published for Hodder in delicate Art Nouveau watercolours. Having died so young, unfortunately I imagine her story is lost. I feel so haunted by these sorts of mysteries; it is the perfect day for it lazy, chilly, windy, and rainy.

Super cute Shoes

All my shoes are headed to deaths door. This is the start of my dream shoe shopping list.

Cream Annie Hall Flats 

Handmade Leather Sandals

Aurora Shoe

Triple Strap Flats

Ballerina Slippers with Bow Clips in grey leather

Caramel Chews
I think the caramel chews win

Bloss