RIP MADIBA

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.