Homegrown Beauties Part 2

This is the Green Goose Gallery. 

(It had me at Green Goose) 

Magaret's work is ethereal and delicate, with splashes of intense colour. 

She adds slight textures to her work to give the print an extra dimension. 

 Venice Print

Seagrass Print

 Howth Harbour, Dublin Print

For €25, wouldn't they make a lovely gift for someone away from home? 

Homegrown Beauties

So, our most Irish of Irish Days is approaching. 

This week on the run up to St Patrick's Day, I thought I'd have a little look through Etsy Ireland
so we could all ooh and ahh over the creative bunch that live on this beautiful tiny Island. 

I absolutely LOVE my oilcloth lunch bag from Sweetman Designs. 

I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. I truly use it everyday I'm in the studio. 

And they are only €12.50! 

We really can't have too many cute bags, can we?

Catherine Sweetman is an extremely talented seamstress 

who makes everyday practical items so pretty. 

How cute is this Ipad 2 Cover?

Moustaches and... eyebrows

A very good friend of ours

and extremely talented artist Fergus Ryan retired recently.

We had a huge party for him!

We set up photobooths to capture all his friends and famly.

And, as Fergus has sported moustaches for most of his adult life,

I made lots of different taches to be used in the photos.

It was lots of fun - and people really got into the spirit it!

Bouquet of Moustaches

If you want to do your own Moustache Photobooth -

Right click on the below image and save onto your desktop and then, print them out!

After a few days recovery, I met a writer friend

at IMMA to see the spectacular Kahlo and Rivera Exhibition.

If you love art, you'll probably love this!

Kahlo's art is piercingly honest and exquisitely beautiful...

Rivera's... i didn't love as much (sorry Diego, wherever you are!).

I couldn't help but wonder whether he meant the world to see some of his paintings..

The exhibition is on until 26th June 2011 and it's free on fridays :)