Just Thought I'd Share...

Sometimes I get real waves of affection for my studio, and as I've been pottering about in it this weekend, I just thought I'd share some of it's ordered corners...
favorite places...

scrap-book walls...
(often shipwreck newspaper cuttings...my phobia persistantly fascinates me)

car-boot cases...

mess amongst the Susie Cooper...

...and a bit more mess...

and old and new canvases waiting for new life...

...and I started putting some pylon moments into paint in a sketchbook, and when I put it up on the top Agatha Christie shelf, I discovered an old poster...
Why I havn't looked after it properly is a mystery, as it was from one of my happiest acting jobs about 9 years ago.

I was in 'Comedy of Errors' at Shakespeare's Globe, and here are a couple of the charaters I played featured on the poster...

Brace yourself....

I'm sure you can imagine how thrilled I was at the prospect of wearing a fat suit throughout the summer months with not a hint of vanity...mmm!

However, the designer must have taken pity on me and gave me lipstick, curly slippers (which I still have) a pretty top and mini cymbols for the Courtesan...

The fat suit was worth it...and maybe I'll share 'Fishboy' with you on another occasion!

Anyway, it made me laugh out loud this weekend...

And THIS made me absolutely scream with delight, as it was the first time I'd cooked roast pork at home (I never thought I'd ever be able to do crackling ever) and courtesy of my mother's guidance,

look how crispy I got it!

My mother is a wonder!

Anticipating Autumn...

I'm not really a Summer sort of girl; I never have been.

I enjoy the light and a warmth outside, but I always prefer being on the cool inside looking out.

Summer has felt like I've been whizzing around, way too busy (even to name the types of my beloved telephone kiosks in my last post!)

But I'm starting to feel my favorite season approaching, and my perfect weather.

So I've been trying to reconnect with home after being far too transient for weeks...

I've been 'placing' things: one of my favorite occupations, and one of my treasures from a Summer visit to a friend, was first to be 'placed': A load of vintage 1940's Housewife magazines, and then I became distracted with flower arranging...

One of my paintings seemed to have a very current connection with me, as I've been indulging my obsession with countryside kiosks during my Northern excursions...

I also visited my parents again, and really felt that 'the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness' was virtually upon us...

The 'apple tub' was changing colour too...

But even surrounded by all this natural beauty, I couldn't resist another pylon moment...

they're becoming a new thing for me!

And to round off August...as if to have a prize for survivng it...I've got an acting job at last!

A very small part in a new comedy film with Martin Freeman...

I'm chuffed, and will film in early September, and just hope I won't be cut out of the end product!

Adios...

A 'Cast Iron' Collage of My Month on the Move...

Then all the way home again...