Wednesday, August 4, 2010

She who blogs on Monday has all the week to write....

to paraphrase an old nursery rhyme relating to tardiness! I really thought I had it down to blog every Monday but here we are, it's Thursday, two weeks later. Oh well. I've another blogging workshop with Tina this Saturday and who knows, maybe I'll find some extra hints on keeping up!
I'm painting like a crazed being at the moment, in the hope that the exhbition I had set down for 1st May, then 1st June, then 1st July then 1st August and now, 1st of September or really, Friday the 3rd, will actually happen. Everything is crossed. I'm hoping to again exhibit other works of art by some of the very talented people in our community. My December exhibition also showed works by Leslie Jenkins. Plaiting or weaving of the island flax is a traditional art for our culture and Leslie's plaiting is really fine. She displayed half a dozen hats with different styles and decorations. All the hats were in the natural colours of the dried flax but she had trimmed two of them with pieces that she had hand dyed ~ one in red and one in blue. I'll try very hard to get a photo out of her because they were spectacular.