Dead People's Music is launched! April 2009
My novel is finished, it's been printed and now it's going to be sold! I am super-excited about having a novel out since I have been harbouring novelist fantasies for over a decade now. Find out more about it here. and please support NZ literature and buy a copy! Origami cards April 2009
I love the origami paper you can buy at Japanese supplies stores - the colours are so intense and the designs deceptively simple. It's everyone's favourite collage material, and I thought I would join the fun by making some cards, quickly despatched to friends so that I can pretend to be well-mannered. The humans are dead April 2009
Otto decided that we needed an art exhibition in our back yard after he went to a one-day sculpture installation at a beach. These are our tin can cha-cha robots, and you can see more of our combined efforts on flickr Shopping bag April 2009
I got sick of advertising Pams and Countdown whenever I went shopping, so I made my own sturdy denim unbranded version. I think it looks french tennis -- it's the handle that does it. Bird girl April 2009
I am expecting baby number three and I thought I would paint her a picture or two now since I probably won't have time after she is born. Besides, she'll be taking over my study/studio -- I will have to relocate to a nook in the sitting room. I haven't decided whether the girl is the bird, or whether the stripy birds will hatch out of the blue eggs. Book design April 2009
I have been doing more covers -- one for Owen Marshall, one for Mandy Hager, and the one above, for Sophie Gray. I am not the kind of person who can fix on one solution: I have to try out at least twenty different options before I find the right one. It's kind of like how I get dressed in the morning too. Manchester, so much to answer for April 2009
Why is linen called Manchester? I used Japanese cotton for Gus's new set. It reminds me of the afore-mentioned origami, and I got it really cheap -- only five dollars a metre. Had it fallen off a truck? I am meant to be sewing a matching set for the top bunk, but I tell ya, I don't have the patience for those long seams. It's why ultimately I remain a craft dilletante.
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Old-school blankets Violet's pinafore Fancy cans Bret McKenzie Vegetable garden Baby dolls Sarcophagus Babuschka dolls Oscar icon Cards Violet Vampire Dead People's Music Origami cards Robots Let's go shopping Bird girl Book covers 09 Origami duvet Macaroni Moon Food diary Derek+Joe Cinderella 60s lampshade Graphic novel Veggie garden Melissa's show Book covers Otto as bear March books New famous scientist Patron saint of cheekbones Book covers Moth lampshade Vampires + bats Lampshade Cushions The book arrives Demented dolls Coming up roses Gus the firefly Too many bags Suffragette Tui hoodie Hat box Peg doll boxes Peg debutantes Bumble bee suit Japanese Handbag Nick Cave Icon Archives
Magpie Hall by Rachael King
Great novel with ghosts and Victorian tattoos, and I got to design the cover! Relief by Anna Taylor Lovely stories, beautifully observed The Angel's Cut by Elizabeth Knox I love the warped worlds that Knox opens up for us. Chronic CIty by Jonathan Lethem Another twisted alternate reality world for me to lose myself in The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver This filled me with a sadness and yearning to go to Mexico. Beautiful but a slow read for me.
St Vincent
Freaky gothic Snow White. Reminds me a little of Goldfrapp. Rufus Wainwright I have been getting into the Wainwrights, only 10 years after everyone else The XX Dreamy, atmospheric
The New York Times
My home page. Melissa Laing My sister, the artist. This American Life Such a different take on the US Beattie's book blog This guy is prolific. Stripy Sock Studio A dear friend and partner-in-crime. New Yorker fiction I love listening to the stories and critique. Tiny Happy Wholesomeness incarnate! Rachael King It's great to have an insight into other writers' processes. |
