Pinkie, the worry scrap

Leanne wanted a Scrap she could tell all her problems to at night, meet Pinkie!

Painting without paint

Emily at Tate Liverpool suggested I try painting with beetroot as it is a strong colour so I used beetroot, tumeric, coffee and parsley to paint these pictures. The parsley did not stay green but turned brown but the beetroot kept it's colour and the tumeric is very vibrant. Frank Leahy suggested using instant coffee and that proved to be much easier than filter.

Jewel and Summer go to London with Jane

This is Summer and Jewels (oh, and me of course) with Satish Kumar, editor of Resurgence magazine and co-founder of Schumacher college. We listened to a fantastically inspiring talk Satish Kumar gave at the Prince's School of Traditional Arts in East London. It was on the place of arts and crafts in everyday life.

Satish signed for me a copy of his book, 'Soil-Soul-Society'. Those who know me well know I'm usually too reserved to do the whole 'approaching the speaker thing'. But that little scrap, Jewels, is a spirited scrap indeed and is obviously having an effect on mewink emoticon

LA Scraps Update

Scraps Road Trip

Dead Goat Scrap

This just arrived on the Facebook page. It seems this little scrap has a better social life than I do!

Scraps at Tate Liverpool

We had a fantastic visit to Liverpool with the Scraps. Tate Liverpool was, as ever, amazing. We chatted to Emily who works at Tate about the scraps project and the Broken Branches ethos and she had the genius idea of painting with beetroot, will try this later and post the results.