Now that I have retired from the university, like lots of the retired, I find myself in straitened circumstances. One of the things that I do to support myself is to work as a Humanist celebrant. I create Wedding and Naming ceremonies. Humanists do not believe in supernatural forces, including God, fate, destiny, and so […]
Some of you may know the work of the mighty Ann Wood who makes lovely fabric dolls and other creatures as well as a range of galleons and little boats and so on. She has a variety of free patterns on her website and an Etsy shop which is worth a look. She has a […]
I was in the Wallace Collection a couple of weeks ago having a look at the delightful Manolo Blahnik exhibition. The shoes are dotted throughout the exhibition which means there is a kind of treasure hunt to find them. One of them was placed in front of this famous portrait. Now, The Laughing Cavalier was ubiquitous […]
There was a very good documentary on BBC 4 last night about Dieter Rams who was, for many years, the head of design at Braun. I had an orange Braun hairdryer throughout my adolescence which I really loved, and was slap-bang in the middle of his tenure so he may well have had a […]
Yesterday I treated myself to a trip to the Wallace Collection to see the Henry Moore Helmet Head exhibition. Moore apparently went to the Wallace Collection to study and draw the helmets in the Collection’s armour exhibitions. He worked on these ideas throughout his life. I only like three elements of Moore’s work; his drawings […]
Last weekend I went to a wonderful workshop with Megan Ivy Griffiths. Megan is an illustrator who discovered embroidery and decided it was the medium she wanted to work in. Perhaps this is the reason that her work is so small. She is used to working in a scale which fits books. The result of […]
I am so sorry that there has been such a gap in between my posts. Some of this has been because I have been posting on Instagram quite a bit. If you want to follow me there search for Ann Rippin or #pomegranatestudio. This will let you see work in progress. I am back […]
There was a piece on the news a couple of weeks ago about the negative impact of the over-fifties watching more than three and a half hours of television a day. It seems that over these three and a half hours people became more forgetful. I was never much of a social scientist, but even I […]
For some time I have wondered about doing a pictorial blog, and so this is an experiment using pages from my little ideas notebook. I am going to start with a bit of a summary in case my writing is too hard to decipher, but after that it is notebook pages. Any feedback gratefully […]
Every year I make a doll on New Year’s Day. I have a few rules. It must be made from scratch and it must be completed in a single day. It also has to say something about the year that I have had or the year I want. This year I broke the rules […]
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