tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328561512024-03-14T01:27:17.684+08:00VerbosityThe adventures of Georgia Mars,
Australian Artist/Crafter living abroadGeorgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11192606782016476312noreply@blogger.comBlogger1338125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32856151.post-63460120384871402812017-10-27T16:00:00.003+08:002017-10-27T16:00:53.082+08:00Haw Par Villa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I've been off work this week for October break and we've had a staycation with mixed weather, and quite a bit on with child #3 leaving home on Tuesday for university. On my to do list was to visit <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haw_Par_Villa" target="_blank">Haw Par Villa (aka Tiger Balm gardens)</a>. <br />
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A colleague had shown me fabulous photos he took there a few years ago with peeling statues and I've been keen ever since to take along a camera. I didn't really know what to expect, but we braved the intermittent rain and went anyway.<br />
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It's very difficult to explain what it is, except perhaps, a folly. Built by the brothers of Tiger Balm fame, it tells Chinese moral and folk law stories most of which are unfamiliar to me, and therefore unaccessible - although I did recognise the Monkey god stories from watching <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_(TV_series)" target="_blank">Monkey</a> as a child. It has a cavern showing the 10 stages of hell, and some modern and ancient stories.<br />
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I find it incredible that this place cost $1million to build back in 1937, and reading up about it, it looks like millions has been sunk into it since then. There is no cover charge and it looks like many of the statues are being repainted (although seeing under the peeling layers of ones that haven't been renovated yet, I do wonder how sympathetic the restoration is). I'm amazed that it has lasted so long!<br />
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Some of the dioramas are so random, and some of the faces of the animals do make it difficult to tell what they are! Although, apparently Haw and Par were the names of the brothers and mean tiger and leopard, so there's lots of those around.<br />
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My favourite part was the old section that hasn't (yet, maybe?) been restored. I love the more muted tones and seeing that under the layers of paint there was even glass on some of the animals. I think most of the statues are made with concrete, but it's really hard to find out all that kind of information about it.<br />
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The verdict: Definitely worth a visit. Only a minute or so from Haw Par Villa MRT station, and free to get in. We were probably there for at least an hour and you kind of meander and climb up a hill as you go. It was hot and humid and we were well and truly done by the end of it, but I'm sure there's areas we missed. A great place for taking photos, even if you don't take them of the statues.</div>
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It's been a while. I got caught up with school and basket making last year. Although it was this last basket of mine which sparked something new. <br />
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I loved where it was going at this stage, but I wanted to give it a bit more structure....<br />
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I have learned so much over the last year about the texture and structures that can be obtained with textiles and fibres that a new idea began to formulate... and hence this project was born:<br />
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It started simply enough. A piece of raw canvas and stitching straight into it. I very soon became brave and started cutting into it, changing shapes and tension.<br />
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The process is slow and each new stage requires some risk taking; lots of unknowns.</div>
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Whilst from the beginning I dyed some of my own threads, this has become a major part of the process with many slight variations in colours and many many different types of fibres (plant and animal) being used.<br />
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At one point, I incorporated some weaving, and I love how it adds another texture to the cloth.<br />
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It is still a work in progress, and it grows and changes on a daily basis as it obsesses my life right now. <br />
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Not a day passes when I don't work on it. A slight change here, an addition there.<br />
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I have been lucky to find the fabulous <a href="http://stringharvest.com.au/" target="_blank">string harvest</a> and the lovely Cass quickly supplies my needs. Not a small thing for me, living here in Singapore.<br />
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It has taken on a bit of a life of it's own; like some kind of microbe or bacteria, slowly growing, changing and adapting.<br />
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With new fibres, come new ideas. New colours, spark new shapes, and contrasts.<br />
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It is starting to remind me of a landscape from above, and there is still a long way to go....<br />
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But my palette is full and I am just enjoying the process so much.<br />
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After years of keeping art and craft as 2 distinct areas of my artistic repertoire, I feel such synergy in this piece. I could not have created it without the years of "craft", but it is so much more than that, and evolves in the same way as an abstract painting (albeit much, MUCH slower). So, if I'm not here blogging, you know where I will be. Instagram with it's instant point, shoot, feedback loop has become a really important part of the creative process for me, and with a full time job that is more than full time (as all teaching ultimately is) I just don't have time for the slower reflective process of blogging.<br />
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A lovely trip to Ubud in Bali staying at<a href="https://www.airbnb.com.sg/rooms/7604309"> this fabulous air bnb</a></div>
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After nearly 2 months of horrendous "<a href="http://www.haze.gov.sg/">haze" in Singapore</a> it was just so lovely to sit out and enjoy the outside. And where we were staying in Ubud, overlooking a rice field, had the most delightful breezes.<br />
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While we were there we got to watch (from the luxury of the pool) women planting rice in the fields over a few days, a flock of 23 ducks trying their best to undo the good work (which had me leaning over the pool wall clapping my hands trying to scare the ducks away) and late one night the man standing out in the fields in the dark singing a blessing over the rice fields.<br />
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There were cats to befriend...<br />
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a gorgeous day at the beach snorkelling in the most divine water (while Matt made promises to come back and climb Agung the volcano)<br />
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Kit, Ella and I did a silversmithing workshop<br />
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I may have got a tattoo....this is the morning after while it was still quite sore<br />
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I love it to pieces.<br />
The pups were pleased to see us back....<br />
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And I had a few gifts for myself...</div>
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more weaving</div>
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and basket making....which has evolved into these which I am rather obsessed with:</div>
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Meanwhile at school:<br />
In our screen printing after school activity we've been doing layers. I'm so lucky to be working with my colleague and am learning as much as the kids right now. This was my tester to make sure all the screens worked. Next week I will mix my own colours as we start to do a repeated pattern on fabric.<br />
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this year, as I have longer lessons with my students (80 minutes) I've instigated 15 minutes of silent focused drawing at the beginning of each lesson. I find it calms the kids, gives them a chance to explore, work on what they like etc as it is their own work, time, and I don't grade that work at all. They love it and often moan when I ring the bell to stop.<br />
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I also love it as for the most part I draw when they do; if there's room I sit with them as I feel it's important to model. I have a whole drawing resources section of my classroom with photos, "how to draw", colouring in sheets, old sneakers and other interesting bits and pieces that they can use. I've been loving working through a series of photos I tore out of a national geographic years ago...<br />
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right by my drawing resources I've set up some textiles exploration tubs with weaving and sewing for students to "play" with if they finish early. Last week I had six 5th grade boys getting right into it which makes me EXPLODE with happiness inside.</div>
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Here's a fabulous piece they produced!<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VLApLXLhiA8/VjyRfVYvV2I/AAAAAAAAZh0/tsTibD_IxiY/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-11-06%2Bat%2B7.31.19%2Bpm.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="638" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VLApLXLhiA8/VjyRfVYvV2I/AAAAAAAAZh0/tsTibD_IxiY/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-11-06%2Bat%2B7.31.19%2Bpm.png" width="640" /></a><br />
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Also, I've been tagging along to a few of the grade 11 and 12 art student weekend field trips this year: the last one to a fabulous place called <a href="https://www.gillmanbarracks.com/">The Gillman Barracks </a>.</div>
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We saw an intriguing exhibition with spider webs which really plays into my whole fascination with <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_shares_nature_s_designs" target="_blank">biomimicry</a></div>
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We also found some other fabulous and inspiring work:<br />
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Oh, and Halloween:<br />
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And more scary house of horrors for the middle and high school with my wonderful friend Paola.<br />
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and gorgeous cookies created by my wonderful and talented daughter...<br />
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Who's also pretty awesome at redesigning a bedroom....<br />
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Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11192606782016476312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32856151.post-32820497006590179022015-10-11T21:12:00.002+08:002015-10-11T21:12:25.281+08:00Multipotentialites<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I watched a fabulous <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/emilie_wapnick_why_some_of_us_don_t_have_one_true_calling">Ted Talk </a>the other day about how some of us just can't commit to one thing in life. The speaker called us "multipotentialites"- people who dive into something, whole heartedly, and after learning all they can, move on to something, often totally different, new and exciting.<br />
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I've often thought of myself as encapsulating the phrase "jack of all trades and master of none", and I totally relate to the feeling of needing to explore new things. Even though I know that the most successful artists and makers are those that brand themselves and really focus on one thing, the thought of that fills me with dread- oh the boredom of having to make the same thing over and over. I want to learn, to explore, to make new connections between what I learn to do. And so, people call me "clever" or "creative", but rarely "successful".<br />
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And I know I'm not alone here. My memories of growing up are of my mother, in particular, flitting from one obsession to another- at one point it was mud brick houses, another time basket making (and she was quite a successful basket artist; selling her work in galleries). When I was young, I didn't understand it (probably like my own children who roll their eyes in that knowing way and say "mum's latest thing), but NOW...now I get it. <br />
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And so....my latest obsession: WEAVING. Now, I know that weaving is going through a bit of a revival right now- it's "on trend" (as is macrame weirdly), but in my defence I've been wanting to learn to weave for about as long as I first started spinning wool (around 1999). As with spinning, it seems like such an extravagance to buy a loom (I only got my first spinning wheel after spindle spinning for years because my lovely sister in law sent me hers), and so I persevere an A4 page sized hand held loom that I picked up in Spotlight on sale.<br />
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But OH! Oh.... I have been working with wool since I was about 8. A pretty long time in the scheme of things. I can knit, crochet, spin, felt etc, and the fabric/yarn made with all of those techniques is slightly different. As is weaving. I am just loving, right now, playing with wool in different ways; seeing what happens and how different colours, textures, patterns play off each other. Unlike trendy weaving right now which is chunky and tassel-ly, my weaves are subtle and understated and create nothing more than a simple wall hanging. But they please me immensely.<br />
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In the interests of keeping this blog alive, here's a bit of a round up from the last few weeks.</div>
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If you've seen it in the news; the haze has been horrendous. My poor pups have been walked maybe 2 times in the last month! It seems like forever since we've seen blue sky. Some days are better than others, but it can change in just an hour from being ok to being "unhealthy" or "hazardous".<br />
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This lovely lady and her daughter came and stayed for 2 nights on their way to Bali. I'm so lucky to have met<a href="http://embers.typepad.com/e/"> Em</a> online years ago, and find out (in one of those quirks of my life) that she knew 2 of my brother in laws. Then she moved to NH; an hours drive from our house in VT and I get to see her when I go home...my Aussie friend in New England. Earlier this year I was fortunate enough to have just a few days on her<a href="http://www.soulfulescapetobali.com/"> Soulful Escape to Bali</a> trips. Unfortunately these just don't coincide with when we have school holidays at our school...but I was so happy to have her and Ivy stay for just 2 nights.<br />
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We spent a day exploring Arab St and Little India..<br />
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We stopped for some henna (I'm so in love with this on my foot!)<br />
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Ivy and Ella- their birthdays are a week apart, and they did the caving camp over summer together. And apparently they dress the same.<br />
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Love this girl.<br />
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Last Saturday, Matt and I went to a MUSE concert which was fabulous. 3rd time for me, and I'd see them again in a flash.<br />
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I'm working on some set designs for the music department's production of Mulan. I love the way these transperancies look over the original ink calligraphy that I did (yeah, I know- what do I know about that!) . Old school layering.<br />
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Here's my image I'm working on for our screen printing after school CCA. 4 layers...can't wait to print this.<br />
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Meanwhile, at home, I've been on a bit of a stitched bowl blitz...hand stitching...<br />
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And machine stitching...<br />
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The machine stitching one required a trip into the heartlands of Singapore with Matt to buy a new machine...<br />
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I call her "Bertha" after "Big Boobied Bertha" from the How to Train your Dragon series.<br />
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And so began the weekend rope bowl frenzy.<br />
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I'm going through an active phase in my creative endeavours at the moment. Totally inspired by my new studio (and the Haze that's plagued us here for the last few weeks and means dog walking is out of rotation), I come home from work and go straight upstairs to "work" on my art. I finished this piece within days of the studio move and have sold it already. It's waiting to go to it's new home. I'm totally in love with the colours. </div>
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The dogs were very interested in my attempts to photograph it before it goes.</div>
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This piece hasn't made it into Matt's work (for which it was intended) yet and I'm loving it where it hangs right now; it catches the light really well.<br />
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Meanwhile I have finished painting the background for this piece today, but I'm still working on assembling the collaged part. I used my Indian woodblock stamps to stamp some papers. One of the stamps is a peacock and it inspired these tiny slivers of paper cut up and assembled into a peacock feather. Lots of gluey fingers, but I'm enjoying the process.<br />
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Here's the background; purple is a notoriously difficult colour.<br />
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I'm on a bit of a roll at the moment- as it always tends to happen. Above is the beginnings of a new art piece that I'm working on. I bundled up the paper tiles I made to keep them flat and I really liked how they looked like that. Below is a series of other makings I have going on at the moment...</div>
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I bought myself a little fixed weaving loom a few weeks ago and I have discovered a new creative outlet!</div>
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I'm loving how my dyed and spun wool from a few years ago comes out woven.</div>
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I'm glad I got a picture of the green one, as the dogs got into it!</div>
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Another with my wool.</div>
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We had a long weekend this weekend due to Singapore election day so I used my time wisely and moved my studio upstairs to Remi's old room/the man cave/Max our border who has just moved out's room. This room has lovely light and when the boys were up here they kept the curtains closed for gaming. I liked my little studio downstairs, but it was always so dark. Matt was still in London, so I dangled some money in front of Kit and Ella and got them to help me.</div>
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I love love LOVE this room.<br />
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I also hung my latest artwork and moved this lovely indian block print that used to be in my studio.<br />
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And it was a good weekend to be inside due to this: HAZE. It's been bad lately. And it's only because the wind is blowing it this way... in Indonesia it must be like this a lot.<br />
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And a gratuitous photo of 4 of my babies...<br />
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We have a no dogs on the couch rule...this is how the kids try to bend it!<br />
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I feel like I've had a very creative start to the year. With extra time in my schedule, I have time to think/read/research creativity and I feel like I've begun something. I'm still looking for a masters course to begin; something somewhere that allows me the freedom to explore the issues in education which I wish to explore. Mainly: creativity, innovation, mindfulness. While I'm looking, I spend my "downtime" at school (when I'm cutting paper, or making posters) listening to audiobooks which address such topics.</div>
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On top of all that, I've finished a painting that has been playing on my mind for the last 6 months: It's based on sketches of the rain tree which is everywhere in Singapore. I didn't just want it to be a painting...I wanted to explore some collage. I'm fascinated, living here, with the burning of the joss papers (especially this time of year) and how offerings are left around the base of certain trees.</div>
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So, my painting started off like this (I always take photos of where I start with a painting now as they never end up the same way). I bought a whole packet of various joss papers, incense, hell money etc at the supermarket and built it up with small torn up pieces.<br />
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I'm really happy with it. I love it when I can create layers within my work and this has small images you can identify, creates a larger unified image of the tree and has the layers of reflective light that I love. I used both the metallic of the joss papers and I bought some metallic leaf as well.<br />
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It's called "rebirth" as it's an exploration of the papers being burnt, of paper being used to make a tree. Another one designed for Matt's office.<br />
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I thought I'd also share a few sketched that I've been doing in my sketch book at school. With longer lessons this year, I've implemented 15 minutes of silent drawing at the beginning of every lesson. I have a drawing station by my desk with pictures of all kinds of things as well as real things so that the kids can never say "I don't know what to draw". I'm also using that time to sit amongst the kids (when possible, I have quite a few full to the brim classes this year) and draw with them. I am a big believer in modelling for kids and I do show them my artwork all the time and individual kids will ask me how I did certain techniques and I will sit and show them. <br />
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Personally, I am loving how creative it makes me feel being able to have 15 minutes of silent drawing every lesson. I've told the kids that we are practising focusing, attention and producing creative brain waves. I have a few kids who are struggling with getting settled during that time, but for the most part they LOVE it and are producing some fabulous work.<br />
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This year I have my own art room- as in ONE art room to myself. And I'm loving it. </div>
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I got to choose the room at the end of last year, and I chose to move out of one of my classrooms into this one because it is full of cupboards. The organiser in me loves it! It's a big room, but kind of a weird shape, so it's been interesting to get it to function.<br />
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These photos were taken a few weeks ago and I am slowly adding more.<br />
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Thankfully our timetable this year is brilliant and I have big blocks of free time, as well as 80 minute classes. The difference between this year and last is AMAZING.<br />
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I'm also teaching only all of 5th grade (9 classes) and five 4th grade classes. It means I can really focus on those grade levels and I'm really happy about that.<br />
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A favourite corner of my room in the mornings. I now have this "garden" all the way along my windows. I made it with my 1st and KG2s last year.<br />
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Big blocks of time also mean that I've got time to make posters; to think about what I want on my walls and m kids to focus on.<br />
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And my cupboards mean I have a surface I can actually stick things up on as we are not allowed to put anything on the walls (thank goodness for cupboard doors and windows!).<br />
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Here's some Art based PYP Transdisciplinary theme posters I made up.<br />
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I can't wait to have some student work to share. I started me first units this week. Grade 5 are going to be looking at symbolism in art and to start them off I made a modified Pictionary game that we played (and they loved). Grade 4s are looking at colour and we began this week with an "art room challenge" where they had to make glasses/visors using pipe cleaners and cellophane. Next week they have to wear them while they draw to see what happens to their colour choices.<br />
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Geesh! It's been a WHOLE month (again!) since I've blogged, and that long since Cocoa came into our lives.</div>
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I had spent all of our 5 weeks away in the States feeling guilty that poor Meeka was missing us and had determined to get another dog when we got back. In Frankfurt airport I saw an update on Facebook of 8 rescued puppies whose mother had been killed by a cobra. We arrived back in Singapore on Friday morning, and I'd arranged to meet up with the rescuer on Saturday morning. <br />
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While the puppies weren't right for us, we fell in love with Cocoa, and she was quite taken with Meeka who we had taken with us.</div>
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By Sunday we had Cocoa in our home. And it feels like she has always been with us,<br />
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She's a very sweet, intelligent, well adjusted dog. She and Meeka are only about 3 months apart in age and they get on extremely well.<br />
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And while she's still learning (walks are a bit tuggy, shoes are in constant peril, as one of my carpets, and she bolts if the gates are open), we love her to pieces and she's definitely made Meeka a happier puppy.<br />
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We are back! My goodness, my poor old blog. I really miss the days of not working when I had time to invest in this space. As I return to work on Monday (tomorrow! EEK!) I thought I'd better do a catch up here with our summer, aka the last 5 weeks!<br />
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I finished work on the 22nd of June, and we flew out that night, after saying goodbyes to the animals.<br />
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I flew with Kit and Ella, Matt was already in NYC after a week and a bit in London for work, and Oscar and Remi arrived a day after us after flying out from Tassie the day after Remi finished his mid year exams.<br />
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NYC, was as always hot and dirty and just gorgeous.<br />
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We got a car straight up to CT where we stay with my lovely dear friend and her family across the road from where we used to live. It's always such a strange experience going back to the town we called home for 6 years; the kids really think of it as home, and yet... It is such a wonderfully seductive place in summer time. I went out for a big walk on our first morning there; it's so nice to catch up with the places I know.<br />
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We all regrouped on the Saturday and with our 2 little toyota yarises filled to the max with suitcases (did I mention that we always spend a few days shopping in CT; stocking up on clothes and what not for the year ahead) we headed up to VT.<br />
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On the way we stopped for some lunch at the house of one of Matt's old bosses; a lovely guy who has the house to die for. He and his wife lived in India and Thailand and have generally collected antiques for years. Their house is like a museum.<br />
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I drove with Oscar and Ella and Matt had Kit and Remi. It was so nice to spend that time with my eldest and catch up with him as we drove North.<br />
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Usually I hit the ground running when I get up to VT; working on the house in various ways. As Oscar and Remi were only with us for just over a week, they stipulated I wasn't allowed to do any work and I had to spend the time with them. We had a bunch of activities (outdoor) planned, but it literally rained the first week we were up there, apart from the day of Oscar's 21st birthday party. So we had to find other things to do.<br />
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We hit up antique stores, art galleries, thrift stores, etc. and had lots of fun. The boys made fun of my hat that I wear to keep the rain off my glasses.<br />
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I made some fun purchases like this little cabinet and this mexican woven runner (there's a FABULOUS shop in Manchester VT which sells all kinds of American indian, Mexican and Inuit art).<br />
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One of our other favourite towns to browse around in is Brattleboro, VT. There's a train that runs through there once a day which goes to Stamford, CT and NYC (although it takes about 5 hours from CT as it stops in lots of other places). It's a very handy service for the boys when they want to come up from or go back to CT, so we will often find ourselves in Brattleboro over the summer, but we went just to go. There's a fabulous art gallery in Brattleboro I've bought art from many times (although not this trip) and Matt loves all the record stores.</div>
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We had this landscaping done on the house after we left last summer, and while I saw it during the winter time, it was just such a fabulous asset to have this time of year. (these photos were before I'd done anything to tidy it up from winter; hence the Xmas tree). It really has increased our outdoor living space.<br />
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So, I had grand plans of walking every day while in Vermont this summer. I am totally ashamed to admit that it happened only once! I obviously need a dog to get me out the door as I've walked Meeka everyday since I've been back.</div>
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Next door , up the hill, is this place which must have been stunning in it's prime. An old guy still lives in this house (although I suspect that only one or two rooms are liveable). He's a bit of a hoarder and there used to be all sorts of crap collected and piled up in his yard, although it looks like someone has been cleaning that up for him.<br />
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Just a bit further up the hill is the wonderful <a href="http://solofarmandtable.com/">SOLO farm and table restaurant</a>. We are so lucky to have this in walking distance from our house. We always try to have at least one dinner up there. Outstanding food all locally sourced (if not grown on the premises). We love it.<br />
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And just a bit further another place that is looking worse for wear. This place had a fire in the last year or so and it's just been left as it is.<br />
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Once you get up to the top of the hill (when the pickups aren't zooming past) you get a beautiful view like this in-between the farms.<br />
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Our biggest focus while the boys were in VT was Oscar's 21st. Not many of his friends came (2 from high school-one flew over from London) but lots of family friends came, so it was as much a celebration for us in our house as anything.</div>
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I was lucky enough to have my Norwegian friend and her family come up to stay. Hilde moved to NYC the same day we moved to Singapore. And while I've seen her a few times here, I'd never met her family. Her 3 kids are roughly the same ages as my older ones, and we had such a blast with them. Next year we plan on visiting them in Norway as they are moving back.<br />
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There was masses of meat, cakes and embarrassing photos.<br />
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It was a good party.<br />
The next night (July 4) Oscar went down to CT with his friends and then Ella went off to camp for a week on the 5th.<br />
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I drove Ella over to her <a href="http://www.kroka.org/page/index.shtml">camp</a> in New Hampshire, which should only have been an hour away, but I got hopelessly lost and it took us 2 1/2 hours. We had lunch there, and then I drove back to our house in VT checked with Matt who was picking up Oscar and then drove 45 minutes to Brattleboro to pick up Oscar off the train. <br />
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Then it was time to say goodbye to my boys. I miss having these two around so much, but I'm so glad that they are really happy in their new house in Tassie. </div>
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And before we knew it it was time to pick up Ella from camp. She was doing a camp called caves, cliffs and waterfalls which was mostly caving (actually not far from us in VT). Here's some pictures from her week away.</div>
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She had a fabulous time, met lots of new friends and just loved the caving. Tiny dark spaces are her thing. She now wants to do the Vermont semester that they offer where they spend part of the winter x country skiing up to the Canadian border and then spend the spring, canoeing, cycling and walking back down. 5 months long. I'd love to find a way to make it work for her.<br />
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Oh, and the discovery of this summer: our new swimming hole in the river. Literally right across the road.<br />
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That's our house in the distance there. There used to be a house right by the river next to the blue one. It was pretty basic; two rental flats. But it got absolutely trashed in the Hurricane Irene floods a few years ago. The town (with money from the govt) bought up the property and this year they demolished the house and have turned it into a small park area. Which means we have direct access down to the river. Nothing like being able to sit in cold river with a cold beverage washing away the dirt and sweat from a day's gardening.</div>
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The day after Ella returned from camp, the 4 of us drove down to Hartford, CT for a <a href="http://vanswarpedtour.com/">music festival </a>that the kids really wanted to go to. It was a hot day, and we didn't see much of the kids, but I have to say it was a fabulous event that was really well organised. Kit and Ella had a blast and discovered lots of new music and bands. Matt and I found a nice undercover area to sit and watch the rotating bands do their 20 minute sets, and I enjoyed the day.<br />
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This is what Ella looked like at the end of the day after being caught up in a few of the more serious moshing.<br />
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Matt had to work in NYC on Monday, so while he went off to his fancy hotel, we stayed with our friends in CT again and Ella and I (Kit didn't want to come) had a couple of hard core days in NYC. It takes about an hour to catch the train into Grand Central station.<br />
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On Monday we spent the morning at MOMA:<br />
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And then serendipitously caught up with Rebecca who was the first friend I made in Singapore this time round, who moved back to the states 18 months ago and just happened to be in NYC at the same time. We had a lovely lunch in SOHO and then spent some time in Purl SOHO together. <br />
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On Tuesday we headed back in to do the high line with Logan, one of the daughters of our friends in CT.<br />
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But because of the rain, we discovered Chelsea Piers which was fun.<br />
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The high line, even in the rain is amazing.<br />
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After 2 days of schlepping around lower Manhattan, Ella has decided that she wants to move there and live in a building with a fire escape.<br />
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There's so much construction going on around the high line...<br />
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including this fabulous community art project with which we had to have a go. Lego city!<br />
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The only negative thing I'd say about the high line is that it dumps you out (at the top end) in a really difficult place. The girls were exhausted, but we still had to walk another 6 or so blocks until we could find a place to get a cab (we tried and tried). I got them back to Grand Central and put them onto a train back to CT and then went and sat in a Starbucks 42nd and 3rd Ave (or there about) to wait for Matt to finish work. I sat and had a coffee and did some stitching whilst listening to fabulous conversations around me. <br />
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We went out and had a fabulous dinner with our friend, Shorty, and then took his pup out for a stroll along the promenade. (his wife was at a fund raiser).<br />
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We stayed overnight at their place which is a fabulous old apartment that they did up last year (it took a long time to do up, but it's the first time I've seen the reno), and woke up to this fabulous view of NYC from their window seat.<br />
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Then it was an early start back to CT with Shorty who actually works in CT. We picked up the kids and drove back up to VT.<br />
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I had grand plans this summer, but somehow we didn't quite get around to doing as much as we usually do. I really wanted to work on creating a garden around our new outdoor area before Oscar's birthday party, but I had to wait until after they'd left to get stuck in. </div>
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I'd head off to the nursery and come home with the back of the yaris filled with perennials.<br />
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Just for fun, here's some before photos of the house outside:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">all that wood came from all the trees we had to have cut down from around the house .</td></tr>
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We LOVE the new patio area.<br />
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My other big project (apart from the garden) was fixing up the gang planks (as we call it) above the barn.<br />
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The top of the barn used to look like this photo with a very young Kit: it was my storage space for wood, paint and all sorts of other things. Although the previous owners had put flooring down up here, none of it was finished to the edges, there was a door going out the back that wasn't air tight and mice were getting in EVERYWHERE during the winter. </div>
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I used some left over wainscotting to cover up the door (we aren't using it right now). I used all kinds of bits of trim to cover up holes (I could see daylight through the wall at some points)<br />
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As the space started to develop, I decided that it was a great space and that I wanted to move all the storage stuff out to our big shed (apart from the paint).<br />
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On the smaller side, I got rid of the massive big shelves that I temporarily put up and built a little "book case" to store paint and tools on for now.<br />
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Then Kit made me a desk and ta da! I have my own little studio space in our house now.<br />
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I absolutely love it. Even though it's a small space, because of the void next to it, it doesn't feel claustrophobic or anything. We just need to work out where we can put a ladder down into the barn...next year.<br />
And as for the barn; we inherited a couch from our neighbours which meant a bit of reshuffling for that room.<br />
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And my gratuitous end of summer photos of my house. My lovely house which I miss terribly.<br />
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I did manage some crafty endeavours this summer. I worked on this cardigan (which may take me years, but it's enjoyable)</div>
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Inspired by this fabulous book,</div>
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I explored some 3D textile design (and really want to do more of this).<br />
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I picked up a little <a href="http://www.purlsoho.com/purl/products/item/8455-Cynthia-Treen-Felt-Animal-Kits">felt fox kit </a>when at Purl SOHO and had a lovely time working away at her while watching movies in the evenings. I added her boots and embellished the pattern a bit...<br />
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Then I made her a hat, and a coat and a fiancee ....<br />
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And decided that these two special foxes needed to be given as gifts to these two special people whose wedding we are UNfortunately not able to attend in 6 days.</div>
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The foxes were a hit along with their other gifts: an Indian bedspread....<br />
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And one of these machine stitched rope baskets that I went to town on with my sewing machine and made so many of. They all found places in my house (apart from 2 I gave away). I also made a little hand stitched jute one.<br />
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After the gifts we had some singing by the fire; something I love and miss so much.<br />
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I love these two girls: the daughters of our neighbours, and it breaks my heart that we will miss Hayley's wedding.</div>
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Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11192606782016476312noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32856151.post-44313764271365389922015-05-29T23:11:00.001+08:002015-05-29T23:11:39.702+08:00Art week<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Our annual art show was last week. It's always a big thing. I personally hung over 1000 pieces of work (there are 6 art teachers). Lots of weekends (thanks to Matt for spending a Saturday at school with me when I was sick), and late nights. Some photos. I should have taken more.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11192606782016476312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32856151.post-48367713724368762352015-05-29T22:46:00.001+08:002015-05-29T22:46:07.589+08:00A view from the 6th floor.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I've had a stupid ear infection for the last 3+weeks. It started in my ear, and somehow got into the sub dermal layer of my outer ear which meant it looked like I had cauliflower ear. I'm on my 4th round of antibiotics. BLAH. I hate this kind of stuff.<br />
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BUT, I love going to see the doctor because I get to look out over my neighborhood from the corridor outside his office. I love the different sights of Singapore. How things change so much when you go UP.<br />
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The photos in the rain didn't turn out so well, but I like them anyway.<br />
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Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11192606782016476312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32856151.post-8470121647486410182015-05-28T21:49:00.002+08:002015-05-28T21:49:24.710+08:00Mona Lisa out and about<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A bit of a throw away lesson that I thought up one morning as I was bogged down in the middle of preparing for our art show...if I'm honest. BUT... I FREAKING LOVE this, and would do it again in a heart beat. A good pre assessment to see how kids cope with proportion...but I just love the concept of the Mona Lisa getting out and doing stuff. </div>
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Grade 1s have been doing a unit on famous artists. We talked about Da Vinci and the Mona Lisa. I had the head from a coloring in page which I cut out and photocopied onto an A3 piece of paper. I told them that they had to show me the Mona Lisa DOING something. </div>
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Georgiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11192606782016476312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32856151.post-63687140061121417602015-05-28T21:39:00.002+08:002015-05-28T21:39:14.088+08:00Oliver!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
For the last few months, our lives and Saturdays have been taken over by rehearsals for Oliver! Kit had a part (Dr. Grimwig) as well as filling in as barman, and townsperson, and Ella was stage crew. Our Saturday's for the last few months have been: dropping the kids at rehearsals from 8:45-4:30 and us taking the dog for a walk. <br />
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We went to see the final night of performances (3 nights) on Saturday and it was FABULOUS. We have a wonderful drama department at our school (and I'm not just saying that because they're my friends)<br />
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Here's some photos from the night: none of Ella but she's a bit camera shy these days.<br />
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As part of the international baccalaureate, 5th grade students complete an "exhibition" with an area of study chosen by them. The theme chosen this year was "who we are" and I went to their exhibition opening night on Wednesday and I was blown away with what they had researched and how they had taken action on their own topics. From persuasive emails to the superintendent about a charity music concert, web pages set up with more information about mental illness, a new school uniform designed and made (so students could feel better about themselves), fishing clubs set up, and OH SO MUCH MORE, the students showed how taking ownership of their learning and embracing their interests and passions could really make an impact. There may have been tears when I was watching the kids during their opening ceremony. Oh how I love teaching 5th grade!<br />
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As the integration for art with this unit, we made masks. We focused on the them of "who we are" and that knowing and embracing our passions can lead to life long learning. <br />
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I simply ADORE my grade 5 classes. I only have 3 out of the 8 and I was determined that my kids were going to make AMAZING masks. I created a planning packet and focused on the planning and reflection rather than the finished product.<br />
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I showed them some techniques: we had boxes of plaster bandages in the store room; much quicker than papier mache and so many possibilities.<br />
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Here's just a few of my favorites. I can happily post these as faces are covered!<br />
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Woah! It's been a while since I've posted. It's that CRAZY time of year again when you look up and realize there's only a month of school left and SO. MUCH. TO. DO.<br />
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This week I'm writing report cards and taking down all our fabulous art that we had in our school wide art show. <br />
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This afternoon, I've been taking down my 4th graders' work, and I really want to share it. I've never taught abstract art before. And while I like making it and love looking at it, it was quite a scary prospect.<br />
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The first lesson we had, not one student in either of my 2 classes was familiar with the word "abstract". We looked at various abstract art, discussed it, discussed what they wanted to find out about it and began. <br />
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For the first project I had them trace around circles, rule some lines through them and color the resulting pattern. For this unit I really focused on the elements of art and principles of design (contrast, pattern, rhythm and movement in particular) to ground all of our discussions about abstract. So this first exercise was a focus on line, color and shape introducing the idea that abstract art was scaffolded on known and predictable elements.<br />
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Then I took a leap! Our next project we started with a big piece of card paper; as big as I could fit on the tables and have them all work together. Knowing that these pieces of paper would take a battering, I watered down some gesso a little and had them gesso theirs. At this point, I also showed them how they could add some tissue paper for texture in places on their paper and then gesso over it. Only a few chose to do this step.<br />
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When that was dry, I broke out my tools. I collect all kinds of "texturisers" for students to use. Things like silicone oven mitts, those stretching things that you get around your wine bottles, palette knives, ice-cream lids cut to make scrapey things, window squeegees etc, etc. <br />
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I wanted them NOT to use paint brushes with this project. I also had them all stand. The first lesson was a bit crazy. I put out paint in warm and cool color groupings. So if you were at the warm color table, that's how your painting started. I did this to minimize brown. Students were free to just experiment with the paint. They slopped it and flicked it and smooshed it. I drew the line at finger painting because I was trying to encourage non literal art. THEY LOVED IT. Layers and layers of paint made it hard to transport them to the drying rack, but a few days later there was a fabulous dry base to work on. At the end of the lesson I had them walk around and see what others had been working on.<br />
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The next lesson I put out analogous color groupings and they could choose where they sat for that lesson. I showed some videos of people creating abstract art and focused on the thoughtfulness of their work. They also had access to charcoal and chalk at this point (and pencils on the table). We talked about the elements of art again, and I encouraged them to have a partner hold up their work so they could really look at it. "Do more of what you like, and less of what you don't like" I told them. They had another go at this in a second lesson and I also added chalk pastels.<br />
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The next lesson, I had them work in groups and talk about each other's work. They could talk about what they thought was working and offer suggestions for what wasn't. I gave them a handout which explained the elements of art and principles of design and encouraged them to use that language when talking about each other's work. They had to write down a few ideas to plan how they were going to finish their work. We talked about "tipping point"; where the work is nearly finished, but that we have to work carefully so we can see when to stop.<br />
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For their final lesson they had a choice of what they wanted to use: paint, chalk pastels, pencils, oil pastels.<br />
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I am so proud of the work they produced. It's all so individual and I think they did a fabulous job. Here are some highlights from the two grade 4 classes I teach. <br />
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So, we really liked the first place we put in an offer, but after most of our week in Tassie they came back and wanted more than the original asking price. We said, no thanks, and kept looking. </div>
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We'd driven past this place a few times and when I emailed the agent (I did a few others) and he replied, I actually couldn't remember which house it was.</div>
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I love this location. It's actually 5 minutes walking distance from the crappy rental we are paying for our boys to live in right now (above a bar with barely a kitchen).</div>
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It's around 1880s, a big brick terrace; following photos off the listing page.<br />
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A shared back yard with some fabulous views.<br />
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There's too much carpet, and it's all a bit beige at the moment, but it's a good solid house, with some lovely period features really close to the centre of Hobart. Not only will it suit our kids living here, but it is a place I would happily move into if ever our lives turn that way...</div>
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So, we had a week of Spring break and we went for our annual trip to Tassie. This time it was a bit special as we were spending some time with both the big boys and house hunting (more on that in the next post). </div>
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Our flight to Tassie from Melbourne was a bit exciting as there was a film crew and Dev Patel (slum dog millionaire) flying down to <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3741834/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1">film a movie that Nicole Kidman</a> is in (she wasn't on our plane).</div>
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The flight into Hobart is always spectacular as the plane gets nice and low and the view is amazing.</div>
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We went straight from the airport to pick up the boys and went to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamanca_Market">Salamanca market</a> for a wander. It was so lovely to see all my kids together again. Even if an attempt at a photo created the usual shenanigans.<br />
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We got there in the end...<br />
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Ella got herself a unicorn hat. An awesome hat.<br />
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Remi really seemed to miss us. His first time away from home, and it was so good to see him settling into uni really well.<br />
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We went straight to a house viewing after that, and liked the place so much that we made an offer on it the following day. It was in Sandy Bay, and we loved the idea of having a house near all this.<br />
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We stayed with Matt's brother and family and I love their family motto.<br />
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They live a fair way out of Hobart, but it's a pretty nice drive.<br />
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On Sunday, after a visit to the real-estate agent (that house wasn't to be as they didn't accept our offer) we met up with my Mum, brother and niece and had lunch then drove up to the top of Mount Wellington. Ella still calls it "Windy mountain" after a trip there when she was little and this trip it lived up to her name.<br />
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There's some fantastic things going on in Tassie with refurbishing old buildings for new purposes in really sympathetic ways.<br />
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We met Oscar for lunch and walked from the docks to Salamanca.<br />
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We spent a morning up at new Norfolk and discovered the fantastic <a href="http://www.thedrillhall.com.au/">Drill Hall</a> where I could have spent SO MUCH MONEY, but only bought a Turkish rug that I will share at some point.</div>
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We also investigated some other quirky places<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cake-Lady-New-Norfolk-Tasmania/150868734923825"> Quirky cafe with AMAZING cakes</a><br />
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We had lots of dinners with our boys- as many as we could manage.<br />
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Love these two so much and miss having them around.<br />
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Oscar and Ella wanted a photo together to show how their legs are the same length even though their heights are totally different. That's my long legged girl.<br />
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On Friday we said goodbye to Matt's brother's family; and my gorgeous lovely, so lucky to have her, sis in law who is also one of my best friends.<br />
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We spent time with my wonderful Grandmother (my last surviving grandparent)<br />
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I love and adore and respect this woman so much.<br />
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I will never tire of looking at the backdrop of Maria Island.<br />
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And while I love the East coast....<br />
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....The Sunset driving back west was pretty phenomenal.<br />
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Back to Hobart in time for a last dinner with our lovelies.<br />
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It feels like forever since I've posted anything that my kids are doing at school. We are fast approaching the end of the year. Once I get back from Tassie it will be full on frantic until June. But here's a few things that we've been working on lately:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am so totally in love with my garden in my lower elementary classroom. We have been using sharpies and liquid watercolours to create easter eggs and I gave them the option of flowers too. And now I want to keep this garden. Forever. They have taken their eggs, but the flowers are all MINE!!!!! It makes me so happy to look at this every day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have a city of grade 1 air dry clay buildings in my classroom waiting for the big art show at the end of the year....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">here are our pysanky inspired easter eggs (KG2 and grade 1). I absolutely adore liquid watercolours over sharpies. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">KG1 easter eggs were a little simpler, although we still focused on line, shape and colour to make our patterns.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The gorgeousness of international fiesta last week (over 3 days!!!). I ADORE working in an international school. Never thought my Norwegian would be used so much (I led out the Lower Elementary Norwegian kids- all 11 of them for our parade of countries; they thought it was awesome that I could speak to them in Norwegian. I was secretly beside myself that they were speaking to me in Norwegian).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">KG1 self portraits. I just love these. Each child has really represented who they are (oil pastels and liquid watercolors). Here is a typical spread of ability in one class. When I do this with them, we talk about all the different things we can see on faces and they look closely at each other's and their own. Pupils, nostrils, eyelashes, eyebrows and hair that comes down to their ears. It's kind of science meets art. LOVE doing this lesson with the littles.</td></tr>
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Some pre painted air dry clay buildings. I loved these white, but I knew they would want to paint them....never mind the HOURS I spent using slip to stick them all back together.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So happy with the work produced during this unit (although not happy with unfinished work that I came back to after my week in Thailand.)</td></tr>
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My first kiln firing (so exciting!). All those years of clay and I never fired anything. This was a momentous thing for me.<br />
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That's it. All new units coming up as we head into our last stretch of the year. It's been a FULL ON year, and I was ready to call it quits at Christmas. I'm so happy I didn't and that I've pulled through the worst of it. I love my job, I love my kids and I feel so lucky to be doing what I love to do. All those notes telling me that I'm the best teacher ever certainly don't hurt either.</div>
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