In 2013, my friend L and I attended some crafting classes.
I was very keen to learn how to make mosaics. So one of my first projects with Amelia, who runs small classes from home, was to mosaic the numbers of our house.
Do yourselves a favour and pop on over to Alan’s blog (otherwise known as Houdini). He is a hugely talented musician, artist and teacher, who has composed and recorded a hauntingly beautiful song, “Making Time (To Love)” for the play The Last Cuckoo. Go on, have a listen here. Simply exquisite. Thank you for sharing…
Scott Kelby’s Second Worldwide Photo Walk is coming up on Saturday, 18 July 2009 (which happens to be not just MY birthday, but that of our much-loved and revered Madiba, the Father of our Nation). As soon as I heard of this exciting event, I clicked my way over to their website and signed up.…
I picked up 200 brand-new copies of Gold Mines, Elephants and Foefie Slides from Saltyprint in Salt River on Friday. They look really good. So now’s a good time to place your orders! 😉 If you would like to obtain a copy of the book, I am selling it at R100.00 a copy (excl. postage).…
A couple of days ago, a friend forwarded me an invitation she had received from the Friends of the South African National Gallery to attend a walkabout with Obie Oberholzer at his exhibition Diesel and Dust. She wasn’t able to attend, but she urged me to go. I didn’t know anything about him, so I…
… is coming along nicely, thank you. 🙂 In the week before Easter, Richard’s sister Tanya flew down from Windhoek (Namibia) to stay with us for a couple of weeks. Needing a bit of a holiday ourselves, we headed off into the wilds of the Garden Route with her and had a totally wonderful time…
Last week, we had Lesson 5 of our Beginners’ Painting Course at the Pinelands High School. In the previous lesson, Lesson 4, we had done some sketches for a landscape painting on the theme of a tree. She had asked us to bring some photos that we could use as inspiration, but cautioned that she…
I have just returned from the offices of Salty Print in Salt River, where I handed over the PDF of Gold Mines, Elephants and Foefie Slides: An adventurous Weekend on the Garden Route to Ian for final origination and layout. They’ll now prepare a proof for me so that I can double-check that I am…
My friend Alison sent me this list of trivia questions and answers. I did a bit of searching around various sources on the internet to double-check some of the answers, but as you know, the internet doesn’t always tell the truth, with so many sites quoting each other. Anyhow, I hope you enjoy reading through…
The Pinelands High School runs a Continuing Education Programme, which offers short courses in all kinds of interesting and unusual topics. When the programme for the second term was released, I immediately signed up for a course I’d always wanted to do: A Beginners’ Painting Course, offered by Merle de Jager, a South African artist…
Well, THAT was pretty nifty! I’m particularly delighted that the photo came out, although when I click on it, it doesn’t open like my photos usually do. And it doesn’t have a caption, and it didn’t retain the name I’d originally given it on my hard drive. But those are minor things. Maybe there’s even…
A couple of days ago, WordPress surprised us with the creation of a new feature: posting by email (see their support page). I duly followed the steps to enable post-by-email and obtained a special email address to which my posts must be sent. They promise: “You can send email from any email client, whether in…
Today was an exciting day. Today was the day I collected 50 shiny new copies of my very first REAL book, Gold Mines, Elephants and Foefie Slides*: An adventurous Weekend on the Garden Route, from the printers – appropriately named The Printing Press – in Little Mowbray this afternoon. They came out beautifully. Look: I…
This morning, with fear-induced nausea in the depths of my stomach, I delivered the PDF of my very first REAL book, Gold Mines, Elephants and Foefie Slides: An Adventurous Weekend on the Garden Route, to the printers in Little Mowbray. I’d spent most of Sunday afternoon, evening and night frantically re-reading the document and tweaking…
It has been faaaar too long since my last post, and if you’re a regular reader, you’re probably wondering whether I’ve given up blogging. Never fear, I haven’t. What I have been doing is putting the finishing touches to my book. My very first REAL book! There have been a number of home-printed books, mostly…
Grains of Sand 
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