Grown from the page

I love Su Blackwell’s book-cut sculptures, they combine two of my favourite things – art and literature.  They have a very beautiful handmade aesthetic and there is a magical, entrancing quality to them.
(I first spotted Su Blackwell’s work on Oh Joy last year and I was reminded about her art when recently browsing Bibliostructures)

The name of the game

 I’m trying to get my blogging groove back, so here’s a meme I’ve just seen on Charlotte’s blog.
1. My rock star name (first pet and current car)
Sunny Nissan
2. My gangsta name (ice cream flavour plus cookie, or biscuit)
Vanilla Florentine
3. My fly girl name (first letter of first name, first three letters of last name)
V-Gri
4. My [...]

Not that kind of bride

I’m getting married next February so weddings and marriage have been on my mind lately. I’ve found that while I’m very happy to be celebrating and giving public acknowledgement to my relationship with my partner, I am very ambivalent about becoming ‘the bride’. 
Ariel Meadow Stallings, in her wedding memoir, Offbeat Bride, nicely sums up the feeling:
For me, the scariest [...]