Introducing the wikipedia challenge.

1. Go onto wikipedia.
2. Click Random article up to 10 times.
3. Create a piece of art, a song, a poem, a film or something else creative based on one of your random articles.
4. Report back

I'm going to do it. You're welcome to join me.

One hundred

I made a little movie. It's my first foray into this sort of thing. I hope you like it. 

How to Make Buttons

This is a pretty useful video, which helped to explain to me the scientific processes behind the manufacture of buttons. Enjoy!

Plate

I wanted to make something about starvation, and I chose a plate. I thought I would subvert cheery propaganda, with images of starving children. It's not happy.

T-Shirts

Just another weird little image for the front of a T-shirt, made by me.

Trails and Connections

I was thinking about how we physically occupy spaces and the paths that we take as we move around them. Wondering about how they would look if we saw them. I decided to try and recreate it using thread. For a start I tried using thread to wrap around the furniture in a dolls' house, creating criss-cross paths. I think I will do some more on this idea though.

Butterflies again

You probably know I'm fascinated by butterflies already. Here's a really easy way to make them, I learned it when I was about 4. You simply fold a page in half and open it out again. Next you paint on one side to make a roughly 'half butterfly' shape, and then blob or decorate with paint. Then fold the paper together and open it out agin to create a symmetrical butterfly. Here's one I made earlier.

Chapter 2

I know you've all been waiting for it, so here it is: Chapter 2 of my firstA novel.

Chapter2

It is because I'm at 

the desert. It does not rain very often in the desert.

The desert is hot

The end.

Don't worry though, this is isn't actually the end, there's one more chapter of breathtaking action before this story draws to a close. 

'Chapter 1 is about a ship'


So here's Chapter 1 in full. Just in case you can't understand it, I've also typed it out below:

Chapter 1 is about a ship.
How can I get there?
I know I'll use this map.
I'm on the ship.
I'm over the sea.
Now I'm on the desert.
Very very hot.
Yes it is.
No it isn't.
It is.

Necklaces

I've been making some necklaces in preparation for the many summer fairs that approach (there are fairs, but no summer!) and here are a couple of them. I don't know whether anyone would be interested in some DIY's. If so, comment below. But otherwise, hope you like.

I've made a weeny little shop, it needs a bit more work. But I haven't yet worked out how to make the typical butchers counter, with the curved glass. Tricky! 

There's been a lot of hype around the Yayoi Kusama exhibition at the Tate Modern. Understandably so, her work is engaging, exciting and weird. So inspired am I that I've been polka-dotting all weekend. It is obviously very repetitive, which could drive you dotty (what a joke). Here are the results of my labour, most of them are actually pretty ugly, which is a pity. But at least I had a 'productive' weekend.

Top image courtesy of:  http://theredlist.fr/wiki-2-351-382-1160-1284-view-japan-profile-kusama-yayoi.html