The paper sculptures are huge and they remind me of giants’ Christmas decorations. You can see the size in this photo. Louise Paramor has called this exhibition, which was commissioned by the NGV ‘Palace of the Republic’ as she was inspired by German Architecture she saw in Berlin. There are eight of these enormous…
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Melbourne has been my home for a number of years and I am amazed that it is only now that I have discovered Basement Discs. A friend suggested I meet her there as she was picking up a CD she had ordered. I crept down the steep concrete stairs feeling intrigued. It was hard…
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It is almost the time of the year for me to scramble under the spare bed and pull out the box of Christmas decorations. I’ve had these decorations for years and every year I try to find another bauble to add to them. Last year it was a mouse with bracelets and a scarf…
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It is so easy to take a photo and so easy for us to make our photos look like those of the professional that I wonder what I am going to find in a photography exhibition. The NGV is running a festival of Photography so you can check out how your photos rank. When…
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Mornington, the township on the Mornington Peninsula offers, sun, sand, sea, market day every Wednesday and a touch of New Zealand. I was spending the day in this pretty seaside town when a friend introduced me to the New Zealand Shop; call Kiwi House. It’s a place full of New Zealand memorabilia for the…
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December arrives and the fabulous and fun St Kilda Twilight Market is up and running again. It’s on again this Thursday, the 8th of December and goes right through summer until March next year. Every year during summer the St Kilda Twilight Market brings the local community and visitors together on Thursday evenings with…
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Have you heard of Laneway learning? It’s what I’m talking about at the moment . I have been getting updates on their courses for a while now but I have only just attended one – ‘Write Your Own Short Stories’. That’s something I’m trying to do along with writing a book that I mentioned…
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It has taken me some time to get to the exhibition called Making the Australian Quilt: 1800 – 1950 at the Ian Potter Centre. I read about it back in June and I have only just made time to view these historical works of art. Show me handwork done by women in the past…
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One of the current free exhibitions at the NGV is called ” Exquisite Threads – English Embroidery 1600s to 1900s.” These days we aren’t used to seeing embroidery that is done by friends and family and most of us don’t do it ourselves. As I walked in I tried to remember any of my…
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Tarlo and Graham are closing their shop on the corner of Chapel and McIlwrick Streets Windsor and moving to their base in Gertrude Street, Fitzroy. They have been in the Windsor location for eleven years. I will miss them. I love walking along and exploring the Windsor end of Chapel Street and Tarlo and…
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