there is only yes

perhaps it is summer after all...

a moving painting

alas I still have yet to see a performance of 'sleeping beauty' and the infamous rose adagio. my ideal would be this one with margot fonteyn as it looks like a moving van dyck painting... but I'll settle for one in an old european opera house with faded painted backdrops and red velvet seats...

crinkle & pink

some lovely crinkly glasses and a saccharine-pink crown lynn bowl were recently found. fairy parties will ensue...

rhyming with hemisphere

a feminist collaborative intervention of sorts...

do go have a look!

eve armstrong & gretchen albrecht
"making arrangements"
michael lett
19 november - 23 december
285/2 great north road

six o'clock legs

echo

it would be nice to be in london at the moment, if so one could see francis upritchard's echo at kate macgarry. the exhibition runs from 7 september to 8 october 2011.

francis upritchard
"echo"
kate macgarry
27 old nichol street
london, E2 7HR
7 september - 8 october

other things to do

things to do rather than sit for very long periods of time at a computer:

watching the fire, playing cards, going for walks and picking flowers that hang from people's gardens over the footpath, knitting and knitting, making biscuits, reading diaries, strolling, drinking water, buying vegetables for dinner, eating raisins, brewing tea in the special tea-pot, re-arranging the furniture in my house and having afternoon naps.

ume

plums & honey, honey & plums... dacia at miller's on cross st makes a novel concoction known as ume. it is lovingly crafted from particularly fine plums and alpine honey, brewed for six months to a year before it is made into a syrup that one drinks with soda water. according to dacia two glasses a day keep the heartburn away, additionally it is fizzy and frobscottle-esque.

ume
miller's
31 cross st
auckland
open 7.30-12.00

j.d.

"when you look at a good painting you don't have to work out how or why it was painted, because you are too busy thinking how much sense it makes"

- julian dashper, 1987

frivolity

little things

i try not to get too attached to objects but some things seem to wriggle their way into my everyday life and become a bit special even though they are cracked, imperfect and worn... tiny pair of glasses inspired by Adolf Loos's perfect set of drinking glasses- one of the few domestic / utilitarian objects he ever designed, a small lime green bowl apparently used to make little steamed puddings in the 50's, a delicate pair of miniature china cups, a chunk of obsidian - volcanic rock found around Rotoiti, and a small hand made sage green ceramic vessel cracking in a cob-webby beautiful kind of way.

freshly new hair ribbons

slowly exhaling...

"words words words"

how is one to create a simple, elegant, fluid and seemingly effortless piece of writing?

friday night takeaways

crimson-heart-shaped-mouths

smalls...

looking forward to seeing kate small's new show
in the club at anna miles gallery
suite 4j, 47 high st, auckland
25 august-18 september

she always has such a delicious mango-pastel palette...

clubs. clubs. clubs.

concertina effect

this evening
when taking the bus home
I sat inbetween.
it was one of those very
very long buses, like two buses
sandwiched together...
in the middle is the concertina-like rubber
that connects them.
I was sitting in the middle, in the circular
elbow joint of the two parts.
the rain on the grey concertina-part
sounded like it was falling on
the roof of a tent.
the windows were all fogged up.
I could have been anywhere...

"golden, you came then..."

"golden
you came then,
hitching up your chariot: lovely sparrows
drew you quickly over the dark earth, whirling
on fine beating wings from the heights of heaven
down through the sky and
instantly arrived..."
- sappho

thriftiness is next to godliness?

this handsome, autumnal crown lynn jug was found today at the antique alley on dominion road. ooo it would be lovely if it were an actual alley full of antique shops, alas it is just a charming little store. this jug will be used for iced water when I have guests... although I fancy if I one day buy a bottle of whiskey, I could also use it to put water in whiskey too... I found lots of other treats today, but if you'd like to see them you have to come over for tea.