When did I last do framing?

I have finally put some time aside to do a bit of framing.  The framing that I did was some that I started a long time ago but just haven’t got around to finishing.  I seem to spend a great deal of time procrastinating. The frame of the brown picture I made by using an…

What a bargain!

Those of you who have followed this blog over the years will know that my favourite illustrator is Robert Ingpen.  I have wirtten previous posts about him and this is another one. I was lucky to find another hardback book in his series of illustrated classics.  I found this at the Op Shop at St…

Such an unusual book

“Heather Rose’s novel, “The Museum of Modern Love,” is a part-fact, part-fiction tale of art, love, grief and convergence.” (Joe Wigdahl for The New York Times). I had not heard of Marina Abramovic before reading this book and I had to check her out on the internet to discover who she was.  The book revolves…

The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. . . .Tuesday Travels

The first museum that we visited on our trip was the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.  There was a Charles Rennie Macintosh exhibition there so I was keen to go. Unfortunately the exhibition had finished but there was still an impressive array of Mackintosh work in the Museum. The work of his wife, Margaret Macdonald…

These made me smile.

A book I borrowed recently from the library was a book of Punch cartoons.  I think my dad used to enjoy the magazine and the cartoons.  There were many of the cartoons that made me laugh but I particularly liked these two, the first as I used to be a teacher and the second because…

A handmade gift for my birthday

My birthday is on Boxing Day so it is at that busy time of the year but I never get forgotten.  One of the gifts I received this birthday was this lovely handmade one. I had seen the glass vases in Ikea when I was there with my daughter and I had said that I…