Apothecary Jars

There is not really a lot to say about this series, I recently purchased this replica apothecary jars, the old book, the lace doily and dried flowers on a vintage shopping spree trip (amongst many other treasures), they all just seemed to sit so nicely on my chippy table and with my magnifying glass. I…

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Share your world – 30th July 2019

Bake for another week of Share your world, hopefully, I am back on track and can keep up again, but hey! sometimes life just happens, right? So Mel, Sparkfromacombustiblemind has another set of fab questions this week, so let’s jump to it, shall we?… Is it wrong to sell store-bought pastries at a bake sale? Bake…

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Under Pressure

My Hubby often brings home bits and pieces of gauges and things from work, a little while ago I saw them in a whole new light, he brought me this one recently and I felt it worked beautifully with my wooden hand. I jokingly called this piece “Under Pressure” as there is obviously NO PRESSURE, I…

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Monday’s Musings…

It has certainly been a mixed bag and a completely crazy busy few days. From a whole day in the kitchen and studio, with more food photography, more test recipes and more shots. Oh and some eating too lol, this week seemed to focus around tomatoes. So many dishes this week ended with a wonderful…

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Regular Random – playing with fractals

I write a little while ago about how I played with some fractal prism filters at the Melbourne butterfly house, how I loved them so much I bought my own set. Between stuff and life and being sick, I had not had a chance to play with them until now. So I spent a simple…

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Pinnochio’s Apple

I recently purchased this wooden modelling arm, I think it is aimed at people who paint or draw still life, but I decided to use it to create still life. I really wanted to create a series, of this hand holding everyday objects, like this apple. It is a piece of light painting, but it…

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The painted dragon

Several months ago I was asked if I was interested in a collaboration with circus performer Gemma (I am sure you remember the Pyro Princess?) and a body painter I had not met before, Lucas from Living Colours. Sure! why not I said, I adore working with Gemma, she is such a creative person and we…

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Capturing the details

I recently had my friend Lisa come over to play and experiment in the studio, always a fun day, some days we have no idea of what we are doing and other days it is totally planned out. This day was planned, we had previously tried to shoot some flowers on a homemade lightbox, which…

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