Mouthing Off

Things come in two by two. It is a strange phenomenon that within 24 hours of seeing one image, a similar image appears in my life. I find these two artists fascinating. The first work is by sculptor Hirotoshi Ito. The second, by Julia D Harrison (sorry I can't find anything that links to her site other than pinterest boards).

Wooden Brooches

What A Wonderful World

I have not been out much lately, but the interwebs hold delights which I thought I would share with you. Sometimes the world is a wonderful place.

HOME

Lately I have been thinking so much about what constitutes home and moving home and reconstructing home  that when I found the work of these two artists my heart missed a beat.

These paintings by Amy Casey just blow me away (excuse the bad pun).

Then there is the photographic work of Laurent Chehere.

Ephemeral Portraits

I love these three ephemeral portraits. The first two are by Todd Murphy and Cecilia Carlstedt. The third is made by overlapping layers of wire mesh and is by Seung Mo Park. 

You Don't Have To Be Pretty!

I love this quote from Diana Vreeland that I found on Pinterest.

"You Don't Have to Be Pretty. You don't owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend / spouse / partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'."

Vintage Toys 2

This morning I am loading some of our huge stash of vintage toys onto the ONCE Shop. There are boxes and boxes to come, but I am trying to be more balanced about work and do need to get painting again too, so slowly, slowly things will be trickling into the shop. These items should be up later in the day.

Vintage Toys

Here are pics of some of the little gems that are going up onto the ONCE Shop tomorrow.