thebreakfastblog

Posted on 28 August, 201828 August, 2018 by David Meredith

Last week, I secured www.thebreakfastblog.ie as a domain name. Today I've been working on the site, installing WordPress, defining the look and configuring the settings. Today also, I had my first bloggable breakfast, in Gerry's of Montague Street with Tim...Read More

Ogham

Posted on 26 August, 201827 August, 2018 by David Meredith

Christine, her sister Tracey, my niece Helen and I went to Birr Castle recently to have a nose around. To cut a long story short, near the end of a walk around the grounds, We came across this   It...Read More

I made Chilli Pickle

Posted on 26 August, 201828 August, 2018 by David Meredith

Back to culinary creativity for this post. Not massively creative in that I followed a recipe but a bit creative in that I've never made any Indian pickles before. Some background. Although I would have had various curries growing up,...Read More

I may have a problem …

Posted on 26 August, 201816 October, 2018 by David Meredith

These are my fountain pens. I have 17 of them. Starting with my lovely Lamy 2000 (the black one at the top) and moving clockwise through 8 more Lamys to the three Noodlers pens (purple, magenta and green), on to...Read More

Bee buzzy

Posted on 24 August, 201829 September, 2018 by David Meredith

Continued my experimentation with teabag art today.   The bee on this Turmeric Tea teabag suggested itself. Acrylic paint gave the body a bit of bulk and texture (click twice to get the full effect!):     I love old...Read More

Flowers and Hearts

Posted on 23 August, 201823 August, 2018 by David Meredith

Just some quick lino stamps done this evening. Well, the flower one wasn't that quick. I wanted to see whether I could manage fine lines in linocuts. It takes patience and concentration and I'm quite pleased with the result.  ...Read More

Teabagging

Posted on 23 August, 201823 August, 2018 by David Meredith

No. Not THAT teabagging. Painting on used teabags is what I mean. I came across this on Pinterest. Using used teabags as a canvas for art: painting, stamping, embroidery even. Some beautiful examples exist. I'm not going to post any...Read More

Another bear? Where?

Posted on 18 August, 201823 August, 2018 by David Meredith

There ... (Today's effort: a linocut bear stamp)    

Cine films from the 1960s (Part 2)

Posted on 17 August, 201817 August, 2018 by David Meredith

I gave a bit of background to these cine films from the 1960s in an earlier post. Quite a lot of my earlier life was documented on film and my parents made quite a few short films as well. Usually...Read More

Pickling Onions

Posted on 15 August, 201816 August, 2018 by David Meredith

My introduction to real pickled onions (and by real pickled onions I mean burn your mouth off, spicy pickled onions) came at the hands of my step-brother Tim. I can't remember the precise circumstances because it was over 40 years...Read More

Wood

Posted on 15 August, 201817 August, 2018 by David Meredith

I love the idea of transforming a lump of wood into some sort of recognisable shape. With a knife. It appeals to that bit of me that loves messing around with rope and boats and fire and the outdoors. It's...Read More

Cine films from the 1960s (Part 1)

Posted on 14 August, 201815 August, 2018 by David Meredith

Both my parents were creative and my life as an only child, from my birth in 1960 until my parents' separation in 1970, was a whirlwind of creative activity. My dad had an 8mm cine camera which was used not...Read More

Preserving lemons (and limes)

Posted on 14 August, 201815 August, 2018 by David Meredith

I'm taking the broadest possible view of creativity in my resolution to do something creative everyday. So, it includes some culinary items, as well as art, writing and so on. On the day I made my resolution (31 July 2018),...Read More

Exercising the creative muscle (Lino Cuts)

Posted on 14 August, 201815 August, 2018 by David Meredith

On 31 July this year, I resolved (again) to do something creative every day. There was a particular reason for this which I may explain in a subsequent post. We'll see how the resolution goes. So far I've managed to...Read More