If you’re interested in art, or even if you’re not, you’ve probably heard about Antony Gormley’s Fourth Plinth project ‘One & Other‘. If you haven’t heard about it the commission involves a different member of the public standing on the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days, to make a living monument. Each individual may use their hour on the plinth as they wish.

I’m really excited to be, in a very small way, part of of this amazing piece of art history by creating one patchwork square (of many) for a quilt which will be displayed on the plinth to celebrate women in the East Midlands. Continue Reading »

When I started this blog I decided that one of the things I’d write about is my charity shopping. I haven’t done that in much detail yet so I thought I’d start by sharing a few goodies I’ve bought recently and to dispell a few charity shopping myths.

I won’t list all of the things I’ve bought because some of them need alterations and will come up in later posts but here are a few particularly nice finds.

A trilby to keep the summer sun from burning… Continue Reading »