wool and water

I love these beautiful & dark articulated dolls 

from talented papersmith Amy Earles...

↑ This duo look to me like they are straight out of ↓

{ The Black Rider } 

(click here to read more)

An incredible musical fable by Tom Waits,

William S. Burroughs and Robert Wilson,

which I was fortunate to see performed 

in English at the Sydney Festival in 2004.

You can view a version of it here on youtube

The accompanying album is fantastic

and available here from Amazon

Now, who can resist a little dancing halloween skeleton?

Simply enchanting, are they not?

You can visit the wool and water shops 

                        (click here for website)

via bigcartel and etsy

or visit the 'wool and water' blog here

for more delights and inspiration

a winter walk

                          Ari's always looking for fairies...

                 

My wonderful piano key socks are by 

Kirsten Perry from her Numero Uno range,

you can purchase your own pair here.

The decoupage bangles are of my own label

and will be available from my shop in July.

  

Recently I stumbled across this interview 

on the Craft Victoria blog where Kirsten 

talks about her art,  life and inspirations.

I met Kirsten at the Rose St. Artist's Market,

where I also sold my wares for many a year.

I bought one of her fantastic ig toys for Ari 

and I've also got a handpainted ceramic 

skull necklace which I absolutely treasure.

I really love the humour of Kirsten's work.

You can visit her fantastic blog here 

I hope you've had a wonderful weekend too!

the dollybird

You can view all their links via this treasury

which I put together a few days ago,

and you can view my other treasuries here 

the haunting

I first heard this lovely song...

{ The May Queen }

by Sasha Soukup

when Sasha posted the link to it
(& others) on her beautiful blog 

...it has been haunting me ever since

sign of the twins

It was my birthday yesterday 

and I had a wonderful day.

Here are some of my favourite twin images

It was really lovely to catch up with so 

many of my dear friends this weekend.

I feel blessed to have 

such beautiful people in my life.

Thank-you for all the wonderful gifts

and loving thoughts and words...

 I'd also like to wish a very

✩ Happy Birthday ✩

to all my fellow geminis... 

I know so many.

image sources:

1. unknown 2. Billy und Hells 3.Diabolus 

 4. Sarah Ogren 5.Theremina via flickr

more incredible twin shots on this blog

looking through the kaleidoscope

a painting by Olaf Hajek,

interiors styling by Irina Graewe,

and a butterfly assembledge 

by Damien Hirst 

...and one of my collage work which will

hopefully be available as prints in the shop soon

sorry, not sure of the links for these images...