james took friday off and now we're re-watching a Bourne movie
— prepare for impulses to join a gym

animal ambush

walked to and from work today — i think i'm going to cycle less and walk more
maybe get a better umberella...

it's enforced reflecting time.

— Noah's Ark on New Year's day
— My brief flirtation with Masanobu Fukuoka's planting method two Springs ago.

"kill your darlings" (your creations, not your overfed children)

Scout! our newest foundling

if i sit down to "make something" i get a block, but if i sit (or crouch on the floor) and imagine i'm making a card for somebody things just fall into place and time slips by.

this is not the case with jewellery. i make it only for me — if i think it's for another person, i start wondering what they'll like and the design generally descends into pasta on a string (which i think is really cool if somebody under 8 made it for you but is generally not a good thing).

i collected the shells, above, on the beach, below, last time i was in connemara. we walked over to an island at low tide and just about made it back before we got soaked.

today's weather

yesterday's weather

grilling potato farls while looking out my kitchen window this morning

is there anything better than a farl fried in butter? ...but that's weekend talk
it's healthy living all the way through the week

lots of bright brown twigs on the road this morning

holiday photos from five years ago!
Nice, Berlin, Venice to Vienna by train — all recorded on my tiny digital polaroid.
we look so young.

some fun work in process

saw Alice Maher's new show and thought it was beautiful
— some things you shouldn't talk about, you should just go and see.

summertime trampolining!

another rainy day in Dublin

fireside brothers

here's a face in a place for Sarah!

just like crying, there's pretty rain (like this a few days ago) and there's rain you have to cycle home in. i was not pretty

sunday evening in wexford

cold outside
warm inside

i've been having a minor love in with yellow the past year.

for some reason i can't bring myself to post my real jewellery here
so my fun sketchy (half made) stuff will have to do for now.

maybe i'll work up the guts someday.

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just got an e-mail that the new tools i ordered are just in!
butterflies!!!

sorry bank account — i can't say this will be the last time

last night was "for the love of" live.

way to go on the live illustrations sweetheart!
it was brilliant.

i was enjoying it too much to take pictures

it's a peek at amy making a dress live which was amazing to watch — i love how dress makers handle fabric and measure and pin — it looks like it's just coming out of their finger tips.

james preparing

chicken broth with apple and barley
hot water
hot chocolate
apple juice and echinacea
more hot water
more chicken broth

so many liquids
so much cotton wool behind my eyes

— i've got a man cold

i see this guy on the bank of the canal on my way home from town

this soup looks like what i need for the scratch in my throat.

four and twenty magpies in herbert park on our walk
chocolate milk in the morning and hot chocolate in the evening

i can't believe i'm already looking forward to christmas!