A new day & new art..................

A new day has come and a new attitude with it. I had a kinda unhappy day yesterday but today is much better........better because a few lovely ladies sent me well wishes and also I got a phone call from the post office. My husband bought some new artwork a while back and it finally arrived all the way from Santa Monica. Above you can see one of the 3 Kukula prints he purchased. They are very lovely and much better in person than what you see on the internet which is always the case. They have brightened me up immensely and will also do the same to the house when we decide on where to put them.

Monday art............

I find bits of installation art all over the house at different times, in different places. This morning was the same as any other morning but when I got back from taking the kids to school I discovered this in the bathroom. Two toothbrushes and a piece of packaging. My girl is very clever I thought to myself and I will leave it there to show her dad when he comes home for lunch. I am also wondering what she would name it if she had too. I will ask her when she gets home.

The weekend.........

Our weekend passed with rain & sunshine & eating out & some sitting around relaxin'. Always a nice combination for me........a bit of doin' & a bit of sittin'.The weekend started with a visit to a small art exhibition on Friday night. The kids did an art class when we got back to Noumea this year and this was the fruits of their labour. The classes revolved around theirs hands not just what they could do with their hands but decorating copies of their hands.

Their little expo coincided with a much grander expo from a local artist Miriam Schwamm.....she had taken a picture everyday for a year of her hand with something written on it. I think the kids liked that there work was up on the wall with a much bigger artist than themselves but I think what they liked more was running around the yard of the Centre D'art playing cache-cache.

P.S I meant to add I finished this book over the weekend and I really liked it. I didn't want it to end, I wanted to read more letters between all those people.

Kids drawings- no 2.........

Monkey television boy- Django

The girls-Juliette

My creative space........

Juliette's creations

It's not my space that I'm showing today. It's the space of my kids. When I'm on my cleaning rounds I am forever picking up pictures drawn by the kids then put aside. They are prolific! I just don't know what to do with them all. I can't keep every single one of them ( all are not worth keeping) but most are usually very cute.

Django's creations

I thought I might start putting up a drawing a day featuring the kids work as I literally find them everywhere notepads in my bag, bits of paper lying by the computer, beside their beds. This may also be a good way of keeping the images other than having stacks of paper everywhere.

If anybody would like to join in let me know and I will come have a look.

Love Friday...........

I'm back! There has been a bit of a lull in blogging around here not sure quite why maybe nothing to say or show, to hot, other things always seem to get in the way. Not today though things got finished this week and it is raining today and cooled everything down considerably so moods are good. I got baking this morning with all those black bananas. A favourite cake recipe and it will be eaten when everybody is home for lunch.

Juliette's cards

Later this afternoon I am going to send of the art cards to the other side of the world for the swap I signed the kids up for. They are now going to be waiting patiently for the returns. I am very happy with what they came up with. Colourful and diverse.

Django's cards

My Friday so far has started off very well so I hope you all have a good one as well. Lets hope my blogging break isn't so long next time. Pop over to TinnieGirl to see some other 'Love Friday' gals.

kids artist trading card swap................

I have signed the kids up for this kids artist trading card swap. They were quite excited to do it when I suggested it. They love the idea that they will receive things in the mail box from all over the globe. Now we just have to do a bit of research on what an artist trading card is and find out where we are to send ours. If you are interested in it for your kids you can find the relevant info over at wise craft or house on hill road( this is a new blog for me).