Art & About

I went exploring at lunchtime on Tuesday.

Found...William Bede Dalley (loved the birds, his sunnies and cool pants!)

Prince Albert

Queen Victoria

Shakespeare

and Captain Cook

Also, in Martin Place was this very cool installation called  The Bike Bike - made from pre-loved bikes.

I love Sydney!

Sydney Statues: Project!

I love surprises - especially art ones.  I walked out of my building this morning to get a coffee - and across the street at the Queen Victoria Building was Queen Victoria herself...dressed!  Awesome!!

Watch this space because I read on the Art & About website there are more!!

Formal Tickets

What did Lori do all weekend??  As some of you may know - Grace and Emma were School Captains last year.  As part of their "duties" - they were to organise their Year 12 Formal (parents had to sign a document consenting that if their daughter was selected Captain - we would also be responsible for helping to organise the function).

Fast forward to 2010 and here we are organising things.  I'm responsible for the $$ (collecting, banking, tracking) - and the tickets.  Russell is dealing with the venue. Grace and Emma are fund raising and sorting out tables, etc.  As teachers, parents and students (plus partner) are included - that could mean we have close to 500 people at the function.  

Tickets - I designed and printed and then hand-stamped - 565 to be exact - with black paint which I had sprinkled with fine, silver glitter!!


[Formal dresses have been found!!]

Journey

On Wednesday, 8 September - I got on the train and sat down. I sat in the first seat in the carriage and looked in front of me - there was a piece of A4 paper - with a poem on it called Journey - wow - how random and how cool.




Thank you "The Poet" - it was a lovely surprise on my journey to work!



In the train home we contemplate zero with the shape of our faces.
The scenery rushed past slowing down to offer us
a few more black trees, different from the last ones but the same also.
We look and decide against them - where you do not live you
are not
   alive
we want to say.

Another dark sky breathes on us, a strip of name is photographed
and we move on, inertia-scrolled to some moment
when we will meet the rain
and avoid the eye of home.

Janice-inspired necklaces

When I was in St Louis in March, Maggie showed me Janice's jewelry that she made - it was incredible - amazing!  I was lucky enough to be given a green dragonfly ceramic piece that she had in her collection and knew I would sit down and make a necklace inspired by Janice!

I went through my supply of charms, etc this weekend - bought in Chicago, St Louis and here in Sydney - I'm pretty excited how they turned out!

Coffee helps...

Now that HSC trials [I'm not sure if "HSC" stands for High School Certificate or High STRESS Certificate] are finished - and Grace and Emma have handed in their major art works - I get my "craft room" back [aka kitchen] and have been doing some art. 

Here's a page for my ongoing Art Journal - although I don't put sugar in my cappuccino - I love the colourful packets and decided to incorporate some that I have collected.

I was inspired by this sketch I saw in a magazine called Notebook.

Yes...coffee does help...especially beautiful working warriors!

A Little Clue

Rosie O'Donnell [aka Becky] in Sleepless in Seattle says "It's cute. It's like a little clue." 
I'm reminded of this quote when I see words when I least expect them...sometimes they appear at just the right time - when I'm trying to figure something out - need some worldly advice...

"you are my everything" - spotted on a sidewalk near my GP's office.

"Learn to Understand...Chill" and "Be Content" were in the streets around West Ryde.

Look around...you never know what messages are out there for you!