TOOL OF THE WEEK

hunka hunka burnin' love

Beck's mile-stone (or is that millstone?) birthday last week provided many highlights: a magnificent 'choc'embouche cake mountain, some top drawer OPC embroidery,a bevy of floral tributes and a choice browny-orange West German ceramic vase. However the pick of the day was this most excellent wood burning tool she received from Ramona. Every ready to doodle, she's already started illustrating the teak salad bowls at hml headquarters with all manner of dumbstruck animalia. And hey, call us crazy, but it seemed important to talk up another 'tool of the week' so soon after Ramona's interview with 'Stubbsy'.

INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK

This afternoon Ramona will be chewing the fat with Stubbsy on ABC radio 774. Talking up craft, handmadelife, making stuff and, knowing local radio, giving a traffic report and taking calls from listeners. crikey!

I MADE IT MYSELF

Somehow, amidst the chaos Ramona managed to get these little fellas done this past week. She should have been packing boxes for Beck and The Architect, not to mention the mountain of work for Design Made Trade...

Instead she found herself spending some quality time with these furry people. They are now on the wall of the Brunswick Street Gallery - along with 3 million other paintings - as part of the Small Works Prize show.

Big opening on Friday night if you want to say hello. She promises not to talk in the third person.

SHOW OF THE WEEK

Dear readers, our apologies for the lack of posts last week. It's not that we don't love you. We have been beset, besieged and beleaguered by illness, exhaustion and general malaise from work, babies, moving house, bad weather, lack of funds and looming deadlines.
But this week promises to be better. We'll be ticking things off the to do list like there is not tomorrow! Including busting our way into Craft Victoria to see these amazing knitted forms by Alana Clifton Cunningham.
there is nothing we can do to improve the weather. sorry. 16 and showers all week.

SHOW OF THE WEEK

The ladies of HML don't often venture in to Sutton Gallery. Which is dumb really given its proximity to our abodes. But we will make the effort in the next week to see the new show by Helen Johnson whose work we've always really loved. Acrylic paint, pencil, collage, pop culture refrences and social strains make her shows always a content-rich experience. And then we can go to Babkas for some soup!