Charmingly naïve
A couple of hotties
I made these the other night while watching one of my favourite films, The Royal Tenenbaums (because, just like the cobbler with holey shoes, I didn’t have one when the temperature dropped, having given all mine away).
But back to the film – it’s one I love so much, it warms my heart every time I see it. And I thought the same thing last time I watched it: I must dedicate a wall to family pictures, just like Etheline did (the Tenenbaum matriarch, played by Angelica Huston). Naive prints in texta, pencil and paint, in different-sized frames.
I’ll start with a painting of Olive, on a postcard-sized canvas, and maybe one of our home with its shiny red front door, open in welcome. No need to be precious – they’ll be simple, just whatever I can manage. And we’ll add to our collection over the years with all her artwork and ours. Yep, that’s what I’m going to do.
The Tenenbaums' picture gallery
Margot's room
An Education
Carey Mulligan & Peter Sarsgaard in An Education
Sometimes one is simply crafted out; brain too shot to read or write anything decent or think of a single clever way to pass the day productively. And daytime TV only sinks me further into this sort of stupor.
I played hooky today and went to see a wonderful film. Oh, it spoke to me… based on a novel by Lynn Barber I shall seek out immediately, it tells the story of a canny English girl who risks her chance at an Oxford education on a charming older man… It often fascinates me; the myriad possibilities of life and how choices big & small affect their directions ever after.
Mulligan & Sarsgaard are superb as the central characters, but the supporting cast is equally compelling. Plus the Sixties garb is really quite lovely… hooray for feeling inspired again.
