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Category Archives: Art

Roverandom

41 Comments Posted by Diane on May 4, 2009

I took a break from my big project this week (still can’t really show you it!) It was a bit of a busman’s holiday as a friend’s daughter, Jemima, who is in the second year of a Visual Communication degree at a local uni, asked me to help her with her final project. She had [...]

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A very mixed bag…

22 Comments Posted by Diane on April 20, 2009

It’s been a funny old couple of weeks since I last posted. Lots of good things happening and a few bad. The good things included me finding out I was a runner up in a photography competition I entered a few weeks ago. This is the image they liked, it’s East Cliff, West Bay, Dorset. [...]

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Happy blog birthday to me.

25 Comments Posted by Diane on February 22, 2009

Those of you who know me will know that for a long time, my role in life has been that of a mother, housewife, lady-who-lunches, type person. I’m not complaining. I loved being at home with my children and being a full time mother, I considered myself very privileged to be able to enjoy this [...]

Art, Birthdays, Book arts, Bookbinding, Books, Dating, Families, Handmade books, paper arts, Pets, web design anniversary, blog birthday, empty nest syndrome

Busy, busy, busy…

20 Comments Posted by Diane on February 6, 2009

I have a huge bookbinding project on the go. I can’t give you too many details at the moment but the book in question is part of a huge 6 volume anthology and the plan is that I am binding volume 1 which is going to be used as a sample to show to some [...]

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Art for art’s sake

13 Comments Posted by Diane on December 7, 2008

I have been really useless at keeping my blog up to date this week. In my defence, I have been really busy finishing a website and a blog for a paying client (hurrah!) and also updating an old website so I can show it to potential clients as part of my portfolio. I almost feel [...]