Friday 20 December 2013

MERRY HAPPY LOVE 2013




































To all my Lovelies

Thank you so much for keeping me company through this year and for following our MESSY STUDIO journey so avidly. It has been a tough year not just for us but for many people but (and someone famous once said that anything after a BUT cancels out what came before) we have learnt amazing things! I have made some plans and let some plans rest. 

So wishing you all a very splendid, prosperous 2014 full of new adventures.

I will be back in the second week of January. Toodaloo!

Big love
xxx
MissKim

Thursday 19 December 2013

SASHA SKULLS LOVE





























SASHA VINOGRADOVA is a digital artist, I wish these beautiful skulls she rendered were real! Russian patterns are my fave.










Wednesday 18 December 2013

MORBID ANATOMY LOVE




































I have been chained to my desk with burning brain doing tax admin for days and finally finished yesterday. Took some Google medicine and found this amazing site, MORBID ANATOMY. It is as if someone scooped out my heart and laid it on a plate, yours too Juzee!











Thursday 12 December 2013

MESSY STUDIO GRASS




































In between the wonderful bitter sweet lightning visit by my parents (who leave this evening - sad face), being audited by SARS and relentless rain we managed to lay the new grass in the back yard. No more building site! Waiting for the victorian bath to come back from the enamelers, finishing the planter with topiary frames and lavender, then the outside will be done and dusted.


Monday 9 December 2013

MESSY STUDIO B&B




































We got the best surprise early Christmas present, my Mom and Dad here from Perth for a very short week to attend a friends big birthday festivities. I had 5 days to convert the MESSY STUDIO into a habitable room for them, the big spanner in the works being the flood last Tuesday. One inflatable mattress and some rearranging of the cubbies and work table and Hey Presto! the MESSY STUDIO B&B. It is one heck of a tight squeeze but has done the trick. How awesome is the brass clothes rail/picture drying rail that I had made by PROJECT ROOM.




Friday 6 December 2013

Wednesday 4 December 2013

WILD WATER LOVE




















Nature is crazy and powerful, even when you live in the burbs in a city. At 1:45 pm yesterday the heavens opened with not a whimper but a bang, dumping a huge wave of water in a very short space of time. The MESSY STUDIO flooded, a year of building to make sure this did not happen and it did! Luckily Scott was at home and rescued the bags of new stuff on the floor waiting for me to style up for the big reveal. Luckily I had not moved the cowskin out yet, was planning on doing that this morning! Needless to say it is a lovely sunny day today, Scott mopped all the water up and the MESSY STUDIO is dry again.
pic Thomas Baines 1865











Tuesday 3 December 2013

MESSY STUDIO EVEN MESSIER GARDEN




































So we arrived back from the lovely FORDOUN pampered and rested, I then did what felt like 400 loads of muddy washing and decided to embark on the fixing up of the backyard - as one is wont to do when our muscles are nice and loose and we have a French manicure. Our poor backyard has borne the brunt of a year of building, of cement slurry, cigarette butts and a weird array of construction detritus.

So I carefully lined the base of the planter with thick plastic and then began the wonderful mystery of recreating the layers that you see in the pictures of the centre of the earth. All the wet bark that had been a Frenchie ablution went in, so did a few roof tiles and the old metal grid from the drain, two small planks and a piece of wire, two bags of hay and the rich compost that we created our very own selves in a green plastic bin. We then thanked the chili, tansy and rose geranium that contributed their green selves to a layer and freed up the cast iron bath to be Swan's summer pool. A flurry of little green praying mantises were re-homed on the Jasmine. Scott leveled the land and now we have a lovely mud bath, ready for grass, gravel and some snooty cement borders.

The bath is being collected this morning to be re-enameled on the inside, I love the rusty base so we are keeping that as it is. The lime tree will be moving to join our mini orchard down the sunny side of the house and then we will have a glorious handkerchief of grass just big enough for a picnic blanket.


Monday 2 December 2013

WAVESCAPE BOARD STEAM PUNK 2013




















How cool are the official catalogue shots of our board for the ART AUCTION on Wednesday, 4th December, at Superette, Woodstock Exchange. Have a sneak peek at the rest of the submissions HERE.

Tuesday 26 November 2013

FORDOUN 2013 LOVE








































Our Small is going on a school outing so we are going on a big people outing. No posts 'til Monday, see you later gators!
Image of FORDOUN HOTEL & SPA by MAPQUEST

Monday 25 November 2013

WAVESCAPE BOARD 2013 SCOTT LOVE







































Scott had a wonderful concept for his side of the board this year, I love the colour palette that he used and the bold graphic pattern. It is a happy resolution of a tough year BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS.

Friday 22 November 2013

OIL PAINTING HIPSTER LOVE





































I have been wanting to paint a hipster man with beard and tattoos for a while now, so jumped on the fashion wagon yesterday. This is my biggest canvas so far and I had a blast with my large paint brushes. Still have to fill in detail around his eyes and add the tattoos.


























































































































































































































































































Thursday 21 November 2013

VISUAL CONTRAST LOVE




































Have ordered this cool book I saw in British HOMES & GARDENS, online.
VISUAL CONTRAST: THE ART OF DISPLAY AND ARRANGEMENT
by TIM RUNDLE. Can't wait for it to arrive!






Wednesday 20 November 2013

BUSY BUSY LOVE
































It is that crazy time of the year and I must dash here and there! I am working on a fantastic moodboard for a project at the moment and a trillion other things. So if I am scarce for a little while, forgive me do xxx oil painting by Gil Elvgreen

Tuesday 19 November 2013

CUPCAKE PAPERS LOVE




































How awesome are these cupcake papers! The Small has a Cake & Candy sale at school today so went to PARTY THEMES CLASSIC to stock up. They have a wall of cupcake papers in gorgeous colours, shapes and patterns. There was only one pack of these, otherwise I would have bought heaps as stocking fillers.

Monday 18 November 2013

WAVESCAPE 2013 BOARD LOVE FINALE







































And here she is, my sixth board, how the years fly by! The first work completed in the revamped MESSY STUDIO.