Week 51

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

1 weeks to go... ONLY 21 cups to go, 42 cranes to fold and an entire exhibition to plan, organise and run!

As I am burning the almost midnight candle writing this I am half wishing I hadn't drank quite so much in week 51 as I have been rationing myself to a strict 3 cups a day for the last week so I can end up having the 1000th cup at 3pm on the Sunday the 11 of january at E for Ethel. 

At the moment I do have the exhibition to plan, promote, organise, hang OH and a rather large number of cranes to fold, coffee cups to build, fire, decorate and fire again. I will  also be in residence at the exhibition on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday nights during the exhibition. On Saturday we have the origami mobile crane workshops - the link to the tickets are on the end of this post. So I think I will be ok as to what to do with my time. :)

And for the last time...

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition opening on the 27th of February and running until the 20th of March at Gallery One in Mitcham. Please Register your interest here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until February 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night on the 27th of February (or during the exhibition closing on the 20th of March), register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition. Also at the exhibition I will be running mobile crane making workshops. The tickets are now available to purchase through the fringe website.

Cheers Naomi - The Wonkie One

Week 50

2 weeks to go... it is a very bizarre feeling knowing I am so close to the end. 

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition opening on the 27th of February and running until the 20th of March at Gallery One in Mitcham. Please Register your interest here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until February 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night on the 27th of February (or during the exhibition closing on the 20th of March), register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition. Also at the exhibition I will be running mobile crane making workshops. The tickets are now available to purchase through the fringe website.

Cheers Naomi - The Wonkie One

Week 49 

3 weeks to go... it is a very bizarre feeling knowing I am so close to the end. 

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition opening on the 27th of February and running until the 20th of March at Gallery One in Mitcham. Please Register your interest here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until February 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night on the 27th of February (or during the exhibition closing on the 20th of March), register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition. Also at the exhibition I will be running mobile crane making workshops. The tickets are now available to purchase through the fringe website.

Cheers Naomi - The Wonkie One

Week 48 

900! only 100 to go! WOW the end seems so close now.

I have become very busy due to christmas. So here are the photos for this week.

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition opening on the 27th of February and running until the 20th of March at Gallery One in Mitcham. Please Register your interest here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until February 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night on the 27th of February (or during the exhibition closing on the 20th of March), register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition. Also at the exhibition I will be running mobile crane making workshops. The tickets are now available to purchase through the fringe website.

Cheers Naomi - The Wonkie One

Week 47

I have become very busy due to christmas. So here are the photos for this week.

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition opening on the 27th of February and running until the 20th of March at Gallery One in Mitcham. Please Register your interest here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until February 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night on the 27th of February (or during the exhibition closing on the 20th of March), register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition. Also at the exhibition I will be running mobile crane making workshops. The tickets are now available to purchase through the fringe website.

Cheers Naomi - The Wonkie One

Week 46

I have become very busy due to christmas. So here are the photos for this week.

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition opening on the 27th of February and running until the 20th of March at Gallery One in Mitcham. Please Register your interest here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until February 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night on the 27th of February (or during the exhibition closing on the 20th of March), register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition. Also at the exhibition I will be running mobile crane making workshops. The tickets are now available to purchase through the fringe website.

Week 45

I have become very busy due to christmas. So here are the photos for this week.

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition opening on the 27th of February and running until the 20th of March at Gallery One in Mitcham. Please Register your interest here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until February 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night on the 27th of February (or during the exhibition closing on the 20th of March), register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition. Also at the exhibition I will be running mobile crane making workshops. The tickets are now available to purchase through the fringe website.

Week 44

I have become very busy due to christmas. So here are the photos for this week.

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition opening on the 27th of February and running until the 20th of March at Gallery One in Mitcham. Please Register your interest here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until February 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night on the 27th of February (or during the exhibition closing on the 20th of March), register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition. Also at the exhibition I will be running mobile crane making workshops. The tickets are now available to purchase through the fringe website.

Week 43

I have become very busy due to christmas. So here are the photos for this week.

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition opening on the 27th of February and running until the 20th of March at Gallery One in Mitcham. Please Register your interest here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until February 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night on the 27th of February (or during the exhibition closing on the 20th of March), register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition. Also at the exhibition I will be running mobile crane making workshops. The tickets are now available to purchase through the fringe website.

Week 42

I have become very busy due to christmas. So here are the photos for this week.

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition opening on the 27th of February and running until the 20th of March at Gallery One in Mitcham. Please Register your interest here.

 

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until February 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night on the 27th of February (or during the exhibition closing on the 20th of March), register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition. Also at the exhibition I will be running mobile crane making workshops. The tickets are now available to purchase through the fringe website.

Week 41

I have become very busy due to christmas. So here are the photos for this week.

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition opening on the 27th of February and running until the 20th of March at Gallery One in Mitcham. Please Register your interest here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until February 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night on the 27th of February (or during the exhibition closing on the 20th of March), register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition. Also at the exhibition I will be running mobile crane making workshops. The tickets are now available to purchase through the fringe website.

Week 40 

This week we attended the Crazy Cat Capers show on the Sunday. It was a nice relaxing afternoon. Mum's friend Jackie came by to say hello. 

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition opening on the 27th of February and running until the 20th of March at Gallery One in Mitcham. Please Register your interest here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until February 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night on the 27th of February (or during the exhibition closing on the 20th of March), register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition. Also at the exhibition I will be running mobile crane making workshops. The tickets will be available to purchase through the fringe website in the near future stay tuned for more details.

Thank you to the three lovely people who stopped at the crazy cat capers and coloured a square.

Week 39

These next few blogs will be brief so I can catch up. SOOOO busy getting ready for christmas with exciting new collaborations, decorations, christmas products and and influx of orders for christmas.

This week Susanna and I had 2 more days of Clay making students at Really Useful Pots. So amazing. Can not wait to do more classes.

I met with Joanna from the Woman's Community Centre in Stepney. To book in 2 classes on

Mondays:

Clay Basics  - 10:30-12pm

and 

Beginners landscape painting - 1-3pm

   Starts 13th Oct-15th Dec, 64 Nelson St, Stepney

$15pp $12conc per session, term packages available

Bookings required: enquires@wccsa.asn.au or 8362 6571

Finally we finished out the week with the BIG 19 hour walk at the relay for life. out Team - Team GKR v's Cancer Round 1 raised a whopping 11K + and took out the most raised at the Mclaren Vale Relay. It was an awesome couple of days. It looks like we will be back for Round 2 next year. 

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition opening on the 27th of February and running until the 20th of March at Gallery One in Mitcham. Please Register your interest here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until February 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night on the 27th of February (or during the exhibition closing on the 20th of March), register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition. Also at the exhibition I will be running mobile crane making workshops. The tickets will be available to purchase through the fringe website in the near future stay tuned for more details. 

Cheers from the Wonkie One - Naomi Campbell

Week 38

This week Susanna and I ran some Clay making classes for school holidays on wednesday and thursday. The classes are so much fun and the children and adults make some really awesome creations. 

We  had the Relay for life Quiz night on the Saturday night at West Adelaide Football Club. It was a fantastic night and we raised a LOT of money for the Cancer Council. 

I also had a clay making class on the sunday, and we launched the idea of making Wonkie Pet Pots. The idea is that people make their creatures with their mouths open and once they are fired a succulent can be placed inside. So some of my creations will be available with succulents inside very soon.

Please check out Alyssium Delights, some fantastic goodies and a supporter of our fundraising efforts for the Relay.

Also I have been a little crazy busy so I have included the squares decorated at the Dog Day Out and Flinders St Market below the images from this week.

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition opening on the 27th of February and running until the 20th of March at Gallery One in Mitcham. Please Register your interest here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until February 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night on the 27th of February (or during the exhibition closing on the 20th of March), register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition.

Cheers from the Wonkie One - Naomi Campbell

Week 37 

700! WOW!

I have started getting very busy and the blog gets bumped for preparing for markets, writing grant applications, writing reports. I wish I could just write my blog and create art. But unfortunately when you are a one woman show, you have to do it all. Mum has started assisting me with some of the administrative stuff that I can ask her to do. THANK GOD FOR MUMS!!!

It has been a while since my last entry so I am going to attempt to be short so I can catch up. 

This week I had a week off from the markets and did some running around to prepare for the busy Spring and Summer market season. I did however drop into Flinders St Market for a coffee from The Macaroon Man, it is very nice coffee. 

The exhibition dates have been moved a week earlier and will open on the 27th of February and will run for 3 weeks until  the 20th of March. I will also be holding Origami mobile workshops on the Saturday 28th feb, 7th and 14th of March. Tickets will be available through the Adelaide fringe website. 

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition opening on the 27th of February and running until the 20th of March at Gallery One in Mitcham. Please Register your interest here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until February 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night on the 27th of February (or during the exhibition closing on the 20th of March), register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition.

Cheers from the Wonkie One - Naomi Campbell

Week 36

Hello, Monday the 15th was my Birthday! It is the year of the horse this year, MY YEAR! I can feel the awesomeness already! My sister Hyeon took me out for some Yum Cha and we also had coffee at Mooi in mitcham. 

I would LOVE it very much if you could all help me. 

 I will be selecting one image from each week to be on display at the exhibition. I am really not quite sure HOW I am going to do this. 

So this is where you come in. I would appreciate it very much if you could 

PLEASE comment on each blog which image is your favourite. 

THIS will help me so very much and I thank you in advance.

If you comment you will be in the running to WIN an awesome prize! 

I have not decided what the prize will be yet, but it will be awesome!

This week I worked on a drawing of Panther, I am not sure if I am going to keep it or sell it. I guess if anyone wants to make an offer on him, for the right price I will sell it. ;o) The photo of the drawing is below this weeks crane images.

I went up to Really Useful Pots this week to catch up with Susanna and work on the coffee cups. I had a collection of cups that had been through a bisque firing and so I decided it was time to do some decorating and have some completed cups, to show you all. I spent the day underglazing as many cups as I could, from memory I believe it was 17 cups. I am very excited to see them. Susanna, bless her heart put on the clear glaze for me and fired them for me. So I will have photos for you very shortly. 

Susanna and I have set up some more classes for some school holidays fun:

Clay Making Classes are on Wednesdays & Thursdays 

1 & 2 October and 8 & 9 October 

2 sessions 11-12.30pm & 2-3.30pm. 

At Really Useful Pots studio in Angaston

Contact Susanna via Facebook or Message her on 0421331181  

Also I will be running another Making in the Markets at Flinders st Market

visit the event for more infomation

this is on sunday the 5th of October, 10am, $30 per head

or to book your place

email me naomi@wonkiekneeart.com or PM me on Facebook

I also attended the Dog Day Out in Mawson Lakes on Sunday this week. It was such a wonderful event, with so many people and their dogs. Mum and I didn't really have time to eat lunch. I had the privilege of drawing some beautiful dogs on the day and I look forward to meeting with all the people who won the raffle prizes I donated and the people who received the 10% off vouchers that were included in Doggie bags given out on the day. 

Time for me to sign off now. I apologise for the REALLY long post... but there is soooo much going on over the next few weeks, but until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition opening on the 6th of March and running  until the 27th of March at Gallery One in Mitcham. Please Register your interest here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until march 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night on the 6th of March (or during the exhibition) , register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition.

Cheers from the Wonkie One - Naomi Campbell

Here is my drawing of Panther from this week 

Title: "Panther's Gaze" 

Size: 35.5cm x 28cm (11"x14")

Medium: Pastel pencil on pastel paper

Artist: Naomi Campbell (nee Wrightson)

Price: Make an offer

Week 35

Hello, so in this week in my downtime I spent the week researching for a new kitten for my birthday as Sean wanted to get me one but was unsure if it was too soon until I ask. He didn't want to come and meet the kittens as he would have wanted to take them all home.

In my working hours as well as getting ready for the Dog Day out in Mawson Lakes which is on the 21st of september.  I spent most of this week working on some more coffee cups for the exhibition in March. 

I also had a meeting with Gallery One on the Friday. I can announce that I have booked the exhibition. Opening night will be Friday the 6th of March and the exhibition will run for 3 weeks and close on Friday the 27th of March. Now the planning and fundraising begins! If you know of any grants or any parties that might be interested in partnering, sponsoring or assisting with the exhibition please let me know. Also need someone to make a deep frame for my large pieces, at a very affordable price!

On the FridayI went out to parafield gardens to meet a black kitten that I found on gumtree that just see to say come and find me. I met with him and his foster mum and well obviously as you can see in image '673. Little Panther' he is now ours. He is a beautifully affectionate kitten and he is mostly black except for his little white marking on his neck, that we call his cravat and he has another small blotch of white down below his belly, that I call his budgie smugglers. Padme is not too happy that he is here, but she is getting used to him sort of. They both like to eat each other's food, the other day she was just sitting there watching him eat her food, what is with that?

On the Saturday, Sean and I went to the Adelaide Zoo for my birthday and so he could take photos of the animals for his photography class. It was a very enjoyable day. I attempted to take the crane photo with the meerkats and giraffes as a background but the wind blew one of the cranes into the meerkat enclosure. So as I am kind of fond of my fingers I decided to refold a crane and take a better photo. I really love the shot I ended up with in the petting zoo with the textured post and the alpacas in the background. 

On the Sunday was the State Titles for GKR SA. I went along and helped set up and then I walked over to the Art Gallery of SA for a Japanese Calligraphy class with Hiroko Watanabe. In which we learned about Hiroko's Calligraphy and she taught us to paint the kanji for wind - Kaze. We then painted the first stroke of the character and Hiroko went around and completed the Character based on the initial stroke. This was a very interesting exercise and a very enjoyable class. I wish there was somewhere I could learn japanese calligraphy on a regular basis.

 

During the class Hiroko spoke about when writing Kanji the Shinto-Buddhist concept of nothingness is very important. In western Graphic design we talk about negative space, but in Japanese it is more about the potential of something, that all things flow from nothing to something and from something to nothing.  I found this very interesting, Hiroko said that as she spent more and more time learning calligraphy she realised that if you can make the white space beautiful you succeed. She also spoke about how students who learn calligraphy usually give up before that are good at it and can truly enjoy it. I think that this is true with so many disciplines, I feel similar frustrations while teaching my karate students. 

After the calligraphy class I went back to the Karate Tournament, had a beautiful cup of coffee from Gianni the owner of Cirelli Coffee. Thank you to Gianni, his dad and his Barista for setting up their coffee cart and donating some of their takings to the Relay for Life team. 

The cranes featured in this week were decorated by people at SALA on Show.

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition in March 2015. Register here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until march 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night, register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition.

Week 34

I spent this week creating my donations for the Relay for life and organising the donations, I received from the Flinders St Market stall holders. I also worked on a poster for the fringe festival. I used the butterfly image in photo 644 for my poster. I haven't heard anything yet so I am going to go with - I was unsuccessful! 

Almost all the paper used to fold cranes this week were decorated at SALA on show. 

Mum and I attended a Mongolian Calligraphy class at the Art Gallery as part of OZ Asia. We had such a great time and the artist Odontuya Byambaa from Ideal Brush painted all of our names for us (651). I really love the image with the character for perfection in it. (649) If you are interested in Mongolian Calligraphy you can email Ondontuya at byambaaodontuya@yahoo.com

Sunday I spent the day folding a variety of different origami creations. 

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition in March 2015. Register here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until march 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night, register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition.

Week 33

I have been distracted again. This week we attended the Gawler show, George next door to us had these amazing trucks and other vehicles made from coke, beer and spirit cans, they were very cool. Mum and I met an amazing amount of people and 85 of you participated in the 1000 cups of cranes project by colouring in a square of paper for me. I thank you and stay tuned to see your creation become one of my crane creations in the new future. 

Here are all the squares decorated at the Gawler show. 

Some of the backgrounds used in this week are items donated by the wonderful and extremely generous stall holders from Flinders st Market for Team GKR vs Cancer fundraising efforts for the Relay for life. Thank you so much to all the stallholders their facebook or website pages are listed after the photos from this week, please visit their pages and look at all their amazing creativity.

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition in March 2015. Register here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until march 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night, register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition.

Thanks, Naomi - the Wonkie One

Amanda Donald - Your Inspiration At Home Consultant - "Natural seasonings, spices, salts and other gourmet items, Australian Made and Owned Company"

April 12 - 'Wonderful creations items for the home from folders to baby blankets"

Babycakes - Jewellery from Lego to Dr Who and even Vincent Van Gogh

Chloe Jane candles co - "Natural soy candles lovingly hand-poured in Adelaide, Australia; for a wonderful candle experience."

The Fabulous Scavenger - "Unique homewares made from recycled and repurposed materials"

Fleeci - "Designed and created in South Australia with huge amounts of love! The Fleeci range of Eco-friendly giftware will make your heart smile"

Glacier Jewellery - "Contemporary silver jewellery design incorporating gems, fossils and found objects to create unique pieces"

Inspired Candles - "A home based business selling high quality soy candles in Mawson Lakes, South Australia"

Juice Excuse - "Providing delicious fresh juice at Markets!"

Little Green Cat - "Little Green Cat is a textile craft, costuming and design business based in Adelaide, South Australia"

Minnie House - "Handmade beautiful Crocheted items from gloves to rugs"

Poschka Designs - "Gorgeous handmade earrings and accessories for every day wear. Handmade in Adelaide"

Really Useful Pots - "produces an eclectic range of classic hand thrown pots designed to be touched, to be used and above all loved."

Serenity Jewellery - " All Serenity pieces are one-of-a-kind and bring together high quality materials such as semi-precious stones and freshwater pearls."

The Sunshine Van - "The Sunshine Van is a delightful little old caravan transformed into a snazzy Art Gallery Store - showcasing beautiful artworks by 27 talented artists."

Uanfink - "Handcrafted and upcycled gifts"

With Love By Ky - "include vintage covered button earrings, wood inspired earrings, rings and hair clips"

Also received a donation from Kelly Lakeman Avon consultant.

Week 32 

600 plus cups of coffee, less than 400 to go!

This week was very much a rollercoaster ride for me. Mum and I had coffee and cake at Michel's in Castle Plaza while we visited the Optus shop as I thought my phone was going to have to go in to get a repair. But luckily it was just the charging port. Woo Hoo!

I had an awesome day up at Susanna - Really Useful Pots making cups and the first four have been through their first fire and I am very excited at how they have turned out. I also now have a copy of my instructional video to wheel throwing that Tim Wilson and I created for a Uni Assignment. If you are interested in purchasing a copy please email me naomi@wonkiekneeart.com

Then Thursday and Friday HAPPENED! Thursday was fairly relaxed I had a rest day after a full on weekend and travelling to the Barossa on Wednesday. Even stayed home from Karate as my body wasn't playing fair. Tiger and I watched some TV on the couch and I headed off to bed just before midnight. I had just settled into bed when Sean started yelling from the other room. I came out to find a very distraught Sean and Tiger unable to walk on his right front leg. It seems his right front leg was paralysed and he was having great difficulty to breathe. We took him into the bedroom and made him comfortable gave him some of his medication to ease his breathing issues. Then we decided to go to the emergency vet on Anzac Hwy. 

Tiger HATES the car and he becomes extremely distressed and starts malting, panting and meowing. So by the time we got to the vet he was really anxious. The nurses were very polite and concerned. We were made to wait for what seemed like a really long time to the sounds of laughter and merriment coming from the back. Once we actually saw the Vet. I found her VERY abrupt and also not very informative. I understand she might be working in emergency but bedside manner is still necessary. Once she actually did give me just two choices I asked for her to give him some pain medication and we took Tiger home. 

Tiger held on tight to me all the way home. We tried to make him comfortable but it was very difficult for any of us to settle as we were concerned for him and that he might be laying awkwardly on his arm. Eventually he settled  in between us under the covers. I was able to check him, make sure his arm was not underneath him or twisted and we got a little bit of sleep. 

Friday came and he was struggling to push himself up just to change position, his arm was still very cold to touch. He had not eaten, drank or been to the bathroom and his personality was fading. Tiger and I hung out in bed, I cried and cried. We went down to our local vet that afternoon. The vet said it was most likely that he had a clot restricting the blood flow to his arm and as his breathing had not improved, it was extremely likely there were other clots restricting blood to his internal organs. We decided it was time to say Goodbye to our most beloved friend and companion. 

Tiger was really the most amazing animal I have ever had the pleasure of spending time with. I am so incredibly grateful that I was given the privilege to be his person for 11 years of his life and that I have known him for all of his nearly 16 years on this earth. He brought so much joy into my life. He was very funny, friendly, cuddly and sometimes demanding in a very loving way. He was chirpy and considerate. He was a bit of a tease to my other cat Padme. But I truly believe she has been looking for him for the past week. Tiger would snore when he slept. He would say Thank you when you let him in. He would also say Hello when you walked by and came home. He would headbutt to say 'I love you' and he would also give you a reverse head nod, which is the feline equivalent of the Fonz going "Eyyy". TIGER was definitely a COOL CAT and my best friend. Everyday I'm shock how much he was always around me, but I am not shock how much I miss him because I knew saying goodbye was going to be one of the hardest things I have ever had to experience. 

That was Thursday and Friday. 

Saturday morning I ducked into Flinders street Market to collect some donations from the stall holders for our Relay for Life events. Thank you to all of the stall holders for you donations, your kind words on a difficult morning and your hugs. This market is becoming an extended family to me. I spent the day making coffee cups at Gallery One. Which was a lovely day and I tick over 600 cups of coffee! Thank you to the friends and family that came to visit me. 

Sunday I attended SALA on Show as an Artist in Residence and I also had work in the pop up gallery in the shopping centre carpark. I spent the day making coffee cups in the beautiful memorial gardens in Unley. Mum and I talked to so many people about this project and it was fantastic to meet you all. 79 people decorated squares for me fold into cranes as part of my project. Thank you so much for your involvement and enthusiasm towards my idea. Here is a photo of of all the decorated squares. SALA on Show was brilliant day and thank you to the organisers. 

Some news on the exhibition, I will be meeting with Sanya from Gallery One to lock in some dates and start the planning, grant writing etc that goes with organising an exhibition! So stay tuned for details in the near future. 

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition in March 2015. Register here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until march 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night, register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition.

Thanks, Naomi - the Wonkie One

Week 31

This week my sister gave me some really nice material and some origami papers that she had, so I could start working on her crane artworks. So a large portion of this weeks cranes are made from origami paper. Also a few of the cranes were decorated by the Brown Owl craft ladies from Gallery One. 

On Saturday this week I spent the day making coffee cups inspired by the photos from this blog at Gallery One in Mitcham. It is really interesting going back to the photos I took in the beginning which were just images not influenced by countless other images and the concept of having to find inspiration from the photo for the coffee cup. I feel like the first 500 photos will be inspiring the coffee cups and the second 500 the idea of creating coffee cups are inspiring the photos. 

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition in March 2015. Register here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until march 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night, register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition.

Thanks, Naomi - the Wonkie One

Week 30

Hello I have been busy/slack for a couple weeks again. I have decided to put what the backgrounds I have used in the description of the photos along with either the name of the person who decorated the paper or the up-cycled item I used to fold the cranes so that the information is all together and you can all find your contributions much easier. 

This week some of the adventures that I got up to were:

On Tuesday I was invited to by one of my Karate students along with her mum and fellow instructor Eliza to introduce her classmates to Karate. So on the way I had breakfast at a lovely little cafe "Suzette's Caffe" in Burnside. I met Suzette herself, an what a wonderful lady, great coffee and food.

Wednesday I traveled up to Really Useful pots Studio/farm to work on 1000 cups of cranes coffee cups and to plan the handbuilding and wheel throwing classes Susanna and I will be running in the school holidays and next term.

Friday afternoon I met my sister at IKEA to find some frames for a crane artwork I am working on for her, then we had dinner at mum's place.

Saturday we had a Relay for life GKR vs Cancer Team meeting to plan and update each other on our fundraising efforts. We will be having two events

GKR vs Cancer Auction Night  -  Sept the 13th at The Griffins Head 

and

GKR vs Cancer Quiz Night - Oct the 4th

more details to follow

The Relay for life that we are participating in is on the 11th and 12th of Oct 

Sunday would have been tournament day, but unfortunately I came down with a bug! Hence no coffee that day.

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition in March 2015. Register here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until March 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night, register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition.

Thanks, Naomi - the Wonkie One

Week 29

This week was a monumental week for me, as my work is now on display at Gallery One in Mitcham. I am finally living my dream I have had since I was 15 years old. 

The backgrounds of the photos this week are a table, block of chocolate, the seat at the fine frame studio, a loom my grandad made, a jumper of a volunteer/artist at Gallery One, sponge at Really Useful Pots, another sponge, an item in Susanna's living area looks like an old pan used to heat the bed sheets, wall of pebbles, pink pj's, jumper hood, quilt cover, ceramic bottles, jewellery, another sponge, a bag, some homemade critters, scarf, car console, my cousin's top, my notebook, canvas and half of the square my cousin decorated. 

As you may know I have started a drawing table at the markets and it will also be available during the open studio sessions at Gallery One. I ask people to decorate a small square of paper and I will use them to fold cranes when I needed. I have stated who decorated the cranes under each of the photos. 

If you would like to participate in the 1000 Cups of Cranes project you are welcome to decorate 2 small squares of the same size. (between 3 cm - 4.5 cm square). Please be aware that when they are folded into cranes there is not a large surface that is visible, so you do not need to spend a lot of time or be artistic. Please post to 6 Alma St Panorama, with your name on the back of your squares and if you include a return address I will do my best to post you back the crane if it is used in my project. 

This week on Saturday Susanna and I had a making in the markets session at Flinders St Market. We had a fabulous group of ladies who made some AMAZING creatures from clay. If you are interested in more clay classes please let me know Susanna and I will be running classes at Really Useful Pots studio in the Barossa and if there is enough interest I will run some either at Mum's place in West Beach or at another location (if i find one) 

534. Faith, love, hope - Serenity Jewellery. Sarah makes some fabulous jewellery out of pearls and other semi precious stones and metals. 

537. Happy furry faces - little green cat. Hillary makes awesome creatures That are tactile and GORGEOUS! Also makes costumes, jewellery and other items. 

Today I am going to be working on sorting, collating and putting the cranes from the past few weeks into the 2 Crane artworks for the exhibition in March. 

In August I will be at

Sat 16th, 11am - 4pm  In residency @ Gallery one 1 Torrens st Mitcham

Sat 23rd, 11am - 4pm  In residency @ Gallery one 1 Torrens st Mitcham

Sun 24th SALA on Show in the memorial gardens (on the corner of Unley Rd and Thomas St) adjacent to Unley Shopping Centre 

I will also have work in SALA on Show Marquee

Sat and Sun the 30th and 31st @ the Gawler Show

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition in March 2015. Register here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until march 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night, register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition.

Thanks, Naomi - the Wonkie One

Week 28

Wow I am now up to date with my blogs! 

YAY!

Tomorrow I will be at  Flinders St Market I will have my stall set up and my Fabulous mum, Shirley will there to take orders for pet portraits and/or specialised artworks. Or help you pick out some art cards, prints or an original artwork. Or you can also decorate a square for me to use to make cranes out of. While Susanna from  Really Useful Pots and I run our  Making in the Market session #5 - Making creatures from clay, there are still seats available so come on down and get messy.

On Sunday I will be at Gallery One for the opening of the SALA exhibition Elements that I have 4 paintings in and together are called 5 elements Wu Xing.

The exhibition is on at Gallery One in Mitcham from the 3rd of August until the 24th of August. Weekdays 10:30 -4:30 pm. Weekend open studios 11-4pm.

The exhibition opening is on Sunday the 3rd of August from 2-4pm.

I will be in residence for Open Studio Sessions on Saturday

the 16th and 23rd of August. 

During these open studio sessions I will be creating the coffee cups for the 1000 cups of cranes exhibition in March 2015. You will be able to come to the Gallery and colour in a square at the drawing table. If you are lucky you can have a coffee with me and be a part of the whole process, watch me fold the crane take the photo and even contribute to the coffee cup. 

The backgrounds featured in this weeks images are the flowers and grass in the backyard, the cat's biscuits, piece of paper and the cranes are made from painted plastic, a ramekin, a leaf, painting number 4 for SALA exhibition at Gallery One The Vermillion Bird of the South, shopping bag, the floor of my studio with packing material clouds and wooden frame wedges as buildings, my cat Tiger's Belly, raisin toast with butter, piece of paper, the tail of The Vermillion Bird, the box of laminate sheets, a t-shirt, a handmade bag, a basket, a case and a pot, pencil shavings and a rug, record player, neck ties and earrings, bottles on a tie dye bedsheet.

Last weekend I was at The Flinders St Market. 

515. 100 Percent Hand Made - Uanfink. Sue from Uanfink makes handcrafted and recycled gifts. Mum bought me a hat to match my personalised Wonkie Knee Art, art jacket. It is very warm and is a really nice hat!

516. Basket, case, pot - In the moment ceramics. Kym specialises in unique ceramics and vintage kitsch. Some fabulous items from an fabulous lady. 

517. Pretty pencils - efrossini chaniotis. Efrossini creates colourful caricatures of people and other colourful imagery.

518. Scratch out some tunes - ModStore Records + Vintage. Rolly plays the awesome tunes you can hear most weekends at the market. Rolly's stall has fine second hand vinyl, vintage cameras, books and more. The cranes in this image were decorated by Lucinda from Friends with benefits

519. Coffee and patterns - Dressed for Sunday. Leah creates some amazingly lovely handmade accessories to brighten your life. From coffee earrings to very stylish neckties. The cranes in this image were decorated by Ella from The lunch Lady. Ella is Anelis's daughter, she had a ball colouring in a number of squares for me. I folded and addition crane for her.

520. Alchemy - The Fabulous Scavenger. Sam is definitely an Alchemist, her products are beautiful. I have one of her tiny bottles of trinkets. Mine has a feather, a peg, a key and number of coloured stones in it. (I am going to add a crane too.) Sam also decorated the cranes used in this image. 

Until next week may all your cups be delicious and all your cranes fly free. Make sure you register your email if you found a little bit of luck (a crane) or would like to attend the exhibition in March 2015. Register here.

If you have found one of these cranes please keep it until march 2015 when you will be asked to bring it to the exhibition opening night, register your email address HERE so I can send you an invite to the opening night of the exhibition. So your crane can be placed into an artwork at the exhibition.

Thanks, Naomi - the Wonkie One