more soapstone

I finished off another soapstone series this week at Art School,
I really like these 3 pieces




one of my favorite sculptors is Robert Klippel, the cover of his book has all little coloured pieces on it and when I found some of these things at the Op Shop I knew what I had to do with them

Art School

life has been busy these past few weeks as my family (husband and no 1 son) came home from Europe where they had been for 4 months touring around performing shows on the summer festival circuit, so I've been busy being wife and mother.

I have been busy though at Art School and have become obsessed with carving soap stone, this one was influenced by Henry Moore, whose work I just lurvvv



and this piece I just let the stone and colours dictate what I did to it, the pinks and greens in this piece are just stunning


in between I've had a play with slicing up this wooden African mask

Simple pleasures

I have just come home from running errands in town, there are 2 exits off the freeway, even thought the second exit is my street I take the first one as it takes me past a couple of properties that I enjoy, one has 4 donkeys and the other has ponies, then around the lake to my house.
As I drove past the paddock with the donkeys they were all at the fence and a father and young daughter were there talking to them and it made me smile and started thinking about the simple things that make your day just right.
Here in Australia it is the first day of Spring and it is a glorious sunny day, it almost made me want to stop and talk to the donkeys as well.

Another simple thing that I discovered last week was the pleasure a new vegetable peeler brought me, my old faithful has disappeared and I'd been battling with the odd collection of supposed "better" peelers that the other cooks in the house had bought over time but I preferred my $2 shop one BUT IT VANISHED..........
I went searching for another like it and couldn't find one and resorted to this one from the supermarket but joy oh joy it glides over the potatoes and almost makes it a pleasure to peel the spuds


and for anyone that knows me well - knows I hate to cook

Talking of cooking, my boys (husband and son) will be home tomorrow from a 4 month tour of Europe and will be home for 3 weeks - and guess what I WON'T HAVE TO COOK YEAHHHH, Tim my husband does all the cooking when he's home and boy am I looking forward to some of his specials