quiz eubank holiday

My bank holiday weekend included:

• Drinks with an old housemate.
• A new housemate.
• An old man with a fez & a bow tie.
• An afternoon play.
• Adventure golf with the national crazy golf champion.
• Fire & lanterns in the park.
• A trip to the sunday market.
• A vintage car rally.
• Tea & victoria sponge at the Mock Turtle.
• Pub quiz!
• Cycling along the cuckoo trail.
• Three big dogs (and a quick furry hug).
• Lasagne, cheese straws, vegetable pasties, picnic omelette, a tuscan mule, fruit loaf, pineapple.
• & bed.

Only two weeks until another one.

distraction

Why is it so easy to create things when they aren't for my MA?


• A card for a friend's birthday.
• A painting of my mechanical bird.
• Some preparation for my screenprinting course.

Tonight I'll do work on inventions...

click clack clunk

It's a bit broken but at least it can type - I'm very happy with it!

an afternoon in a graveyard

Today I went drawing at Woodvale Crematorium with Yumi. It was very beautiful there - the sun was shining and we saw lots of wildlife (including some butterflies, woodlice & a fox). We weren't very impressed with the pond but we did rather like the wide selection of trees:


The blossom smelt lovely!
Yumi drew some wonderfully colourful flowers & I drew some of the chapel spires which I could see above the tree tops.


Next week we are trying to recruit some fellow cyclists for a trip along the cuckoo trail.

pots

On Friday night I went to a dinner party & yumi made a rather delicious japanese curry pot for us all to enjoy. I promised I would bring pudding and cobbled together these mini blueberry cheesecakes (after first going on a charity shop trip to find some suitable pots).

And I think it was a success! Everyone finished them at least. Much better than the time i made the disastrous peppermint creams, or when me and Chris made a cake that was as thin as a biscuit.

I'm learning...

what treats!

Some lucky finds from a recent charity shop hunt.
A mini basket:


I might use it to take an apple and a banana to work with me.

And this letter file:


I love it very much and am now awaiting some nice post to fill it with!

activity day

On Easter Sunday we had an egg painting activity hour and here are the results:


Clockwise from top left: Eggwina Curry by Danni, a Jackson Pollock egg by Tim, a proper gent by me & a pretty little bug by derek.

Good effort no?

Hope you all had a nice easter - I still have a chocolate bunny & kitten left to eat...which one first though? I can't decide.
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some favourites

I thought I'd share some images that have pleased me lately.


1. Toy strip, 2. Woody Screenprint!, 3. a closer look, 4. liza, 5. Orange Twin Night, 6. Going To See My Baby Blue, 7. Whale Tale, 8. ToyCitie Kings, 9. HOPE pigeon, 10. •••, 11. Chicken Mince, 12. sold out!, 13. tweed pigeon, 14. k, 15. the royal bakers, 16. En till grytlapp!, 17. ............, 18. You don’t need vehicles to move something!-Screenprint-Poster, 19. Pretty Green Business Cards | Design Friendship, 20. Orange bike

easter is upon us...

Some things that have happened already today:

• I had my first hot cross bun of the year and it was good.

• My landlord has amazed me by finally beginning to tidy the yard outside my window...maybe one day soon I'll have a pleasant view from my bedroom.

• I stumbled across this website and it pleased me greatly.

eggcellent

We had an easter party on saturday - it was pretty special indeed!

We made baked goods and hid treats around our flat inside little origami boxes. Some had chocolate eggs inside, some had jokes by me & Yumi, and some had the odd special prize (like a penny).

Here are some of the decorations we made for our house:


The bunting is mainly down to Rosie who did all of the sewing and provided most of the delightful fabric. Though I did use my newly acquired screen printing skills to add the odd chicken into the mix:


I also painted some eggs for the wall:


And found a selection of these paper lanterns in a charity shop in Kemp town which added a nice finishing touch to our lounge:


I think we are going to keep the decorations up for a while now as our house feels a lot more summery and pleasant with them! After all, how can you have a bad day when there's bunting hanging overhead.
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is it summer?

Today was the first day of British summertime, which is rather good news. Unfortunately I didn't manage to appreciate it as I was stuck inside all day showing people round the upcoming spare room in our flat.

I did, however, make a pile of origami boxes for an easter egg hunt we are planning, and also managed to break free in the evening to go to the pub quiz.

It was good, we came 3rd (one place better than last time) and won some breakaway biscuits! We almost managed to win as we were in joint first place before the last round. But alas, the quizmaster chose football and we only got 3 right.

Maybe next time...

www.debbie-hill.co.uk

Today I made a few updates to my website.

adventures in screen printing

The first layer of a 3 colour print.

a tiny bit

Here is a mini sample from my first & second screenprinting class.
I printed a pile of A3 kite/rain/pigeon combinations and then decided to print a few lone pigeons on different types of paper.

I can assure you that not all my work on the course is going to be pigeon related - this week I began printing a chicken, and an egg.

Maybe I'll even move away from birds in the near future...

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Oh, and also, I'm VERY excited about this event coming up as part of the Brighton Festival Fringe 2009.
Hope to see you all there on the 25th May.
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the paperclip

I'm not sure what I'm doing anymore, but at least I'm producing a lot more stuff.

screen printing

Today I started a screen printing course.
I didn't print a pizza, but I did eat one for lunch.


Did you know the margherita pizza was invented in 1889? Now you do.
See, my blog can be educational too!
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on fire

Today I drew a lot of candles and matches whilst listening to the ricky gervais show.


Good stuff!

In other news, it turns out that I won the library card competition mentioned the other day! So in a couple of months they'll be being issued to new members of brighton jubilee library - exciting stuff. (probably much more exciting that the goody bag that I won, which was full of books the library must have been trying to offload).

I hope you've all had nice weekends - a highlight for me was watching parenthood yesterday.
I think I might just be a little bit in love with steve martin.


And that is all.
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underwater

southern comfort

This week I'm experimenting with watercolour.

this and that

A little bit of an update:

Today i got a new book in the post. I look forward to giving it a read.

On saturday I got locked out of home but used the day productively by going to Yumi's and creating some library card designs for our local library (there's a competition on at the moment). We don't have high hopes of winning but we had a good time drawing so all is well.

I tried to draw tiffany from memory:


As you can see I missed out some key elements (turns out my memory isn't that good).

Also last week I had some bad news...my cat Shadow passed away. It was quite expected as he was almost 20 but also very sad as he has been a lovely friend for most of my life. Poor little lamb.



Tomorrow me and Yumi are going to head to the library to see the outcome of the competition - wish us luck (we really do need it!).
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