Bibliophilia

I decided not to post my gushy fangirl ravings about seeing U2 live to this blog, but if you are really keen you can check out my photos and...

Looking through the window of Katherine Pigott' s cardboard house three stories tall and each interior perfectly and delicately drawn a...

Embroidered ammonite fossil As the end of the year approaches, I am reviewing my achievements of 2010. One of my proudest was the installati...

The sign says 'second biggest kauri 37 years old' The other day I heard a radio programme about ecological restoration happening in ...

Beads salvaged from Soul of the Sea. Even the most of the snippets of thread go in my scrapjar as future stuffing. Bulky old unsold works o...

Icebergs for Shelf - An exhibition of small objects opening 19 Nov at The Framing Workshop in Hamilton It's an ambivalent moment sending...

Poor neglected blog! I've been navigating a delicate recovery from existential angst, not a process I wanted to expose to the harsh lig...

A row of freshly brushed lower case 10pt c's I bought myself some lead type the other day. There's two fonts, a 10pt condensed sans...

I am busy doing lots of stitchery and even secretly working on binding an edition on my own. But the most fun, interesting and photogenic t...

After a winter lull, Bethwyn and I are back in the swing of our collaborative altered book project, Frugal with the Breugal. We are being ...

Storm battered poppies in ink It's been ages since I've been to a sketch crawl. The WSA has taken over the organisation so compete...

Boring, but extremely useful op shop blouse ruined with bike chain grease on the cuff, restored by cutting off the cuffs, hemming the sleev...

More stitching... this was inspired by an aerial photograph of the tailings lake of a open cast copper mine in the Atacama Desert in Chile. ...

I've written another poem about an Antarctic hero and Harvey Molloy has published it as his Tuesday Poem this week at Molloy Notebook ....

I just can't find the motivation to write at the moment. All I want to do is stitch. So here's some photographs of my icebergs to k...