Hobbosmum’s Happenings

How Ideas Grow from Cigarette Packets!

IT STARTED OUT AS A SKETCH ON THE BACK OF A FAG PACKET, MOVED ON TO PAPER ON THE DRAWING BOARD , AND HERE YOU ARE THE FINISHED ARTICLE .  FANTASTIC.   👍😃😃 “Great model, thought it looked like a paper and plaster construction . So added the pun reference paper drawing etc.   d”, so… Continue reading How Ideas Grow from Cigarette Packets!

SSKELETONS IN THE BACK YARD OUR (REALLY) OLD NEIGHBOURS

Bronze-Age skeletons unearthed over our back fence Excerpt from my Campus Life journal This is an exerpt from my Journal Campus Life that I have attached to Mee Memoirs Intro to Campus Life P83… WednesdayRang to see if I could contact Ursilla Spence re: visiting the Raymoth Lane artefacts dug up at the bottom of… Continue reading SSKELETONS IN THE BACK YARD OUR (REALLY) OLD NEIGHBOURS

Making an Impression(ist) Painting

I sent his digital portrait to Monty Don, done as a thank you, not only for his delightful programme on the Impressionist gardens in France, but for all his lovely programes I watched while back in the UK for a few years. In this programme Monty Don spoke of how he worked in gardens in… Continue reading Making an Impression(ist) Painting

Bathtime in Venice

I have never been to Venice. My sister has. She didn’t seem to find it romantic, but she is more sensible than I. This painting, was done in Singleton.Aus when I was a young Mum with two young young boys, around 1982. The scene was taken from a wonderfully evocative photograph in a Badidas bathtime… Continue reading Bathtime in Venice

A Real Hardware Shop

..is a joy! So much shiny treasure, bright plastic, gadgets you never new existed and, best of all, a person who understands exactly what you need, and where to find it. (though not like Ronnie Barker in the famous ,’Fork Handles ( four candles) skit in the Two Ronnies TV series…….https://youtu.be/gi_6SaqVQSw Most hardware shops have… Continue reading A Real Hardware Shop

Candle Holder from Outdated Lamp – something from nothing

I like sparkly! Love crystal, the way light prisms through it, throwing rainbows on the walls or celing. Outdoors – well the chandelier made the regional paper!This time I have updated my lighting and a spare table lamp passed on by my daughter-in-law 5 years ago is now obsolete. So… I took the hook and… Continue reading Candle Holder from Outdated Lamp – something from nothing

Music Video from Newcastle Australia -With a Little Help From My Friends by Glovers Lane

I keep playingThis fun video by great local musos! Newcastle, on the east coast of Australia is the home of much great music, acting and producing talent.It is also home base for a number of well known global entertainers. Name Dropping. Gareth Hudson in this video is the son of my late good friend, Sue… Continue reading Music Video from Newcastle Australia -With a Little Help From My Friends by Glovers Lane