Planetmithi News

Whoa! Almost a month since I last posted ... nope, I haven't abandonned Planetmithi ... just been on a well deserved break - am still kind of on break, but trying to gear myself up for the rest of the year. Doesn't mean I haven't been busy though ...

... busy building sofa forts ...

(with my fort-building-partner-in-crime Sunshine)

... hanging out at music festivals ...

here at SGP with the smashing Mizz Rosalind and her clubs ...

... riding round on our new TANDEM! Whoopee!!

She still needs a name ... any ideas? Thank you mum for the photos :)

... getting back into dancing ...

here with the lovely Mr Tom Kerwin aka Jungle Kid; old mate, old dancing/teaching partner, smashing dancer and all round good egg - photo by the gorgeously lovely fellow dancer Miss Anika East.

... hanging out with my mum who has been visiting; and sanding our Ercol dining chairs (erm, don't ask) ...

Hello mum! wave wave!

Haven't done ANY art since the degree show, but am involved in an upcoming exhibition at Howie's Bristol shop in conjunction with friends Sophie (fellow dancer and illustrator) and the Peskimos (and a few more as yet unconfirmed artists) for the Bristol Cycle Festival. So watch this space for some tandem themed art work coming soon to a planetmithi near you ;)

Sneak tweet peak

Sneaky peak at super secret project that has nothing to do with college ... This is about version 10 - I think I'm finally happy. Need to get this out of the way soon ... Also need to get my 2500 word essay and several college projects done ... yikes!

Make my Valentine's day!

This is what Sunshine woke up to today - I caught him a rainbow :) ! This has been one of my little projects that I've done to keep me sane from all the college projects. More pictures and details here.

Another lovely thing to have happened this week is that I've been awarded a "You Make My Day Awards" from Suzanne over at an open [sketch]book (you have to go see, this lady is just so lovely and inspiring!). So in honour of that, and of Valentines, I'm passing on the award ..

Here's the rules:
1. Write a post with links to 5 blogs that make your day.
2. Acknowledge the post of the award giver.
3. Tell the award winners that they've won by commenting on their blogs.

I'm nominating people who mean something to me and really do make my day ...

1. Camilla at Madebymilla : I came across Milla before I moved to Bristol - she's a Bristol (kindo of) based artist and I've seen her exhibit, and have recently got to know her better (and found out she went to school with Sunshine and his sister ... how spooky is that!). Gorgeous person and blog, and well worth a visit.

2. Lucy at "hello my little friend": Lucy's new to the blogging game and deserves some blog traffic ... Highly talented designer maker... and did I mention, my sister-in-law to be? ;)

3 & 4. Skully at "The art of never growing up": Skully is one of Sunhsine's friends and I didn't even realise she was such a craftser until she left a comment on my blog and I followed in back to her. As Sunshine puts it, "She's a good'n that one". She also runs "Autonomous Artisans", a blog giving advise to people setting up mini businesses for the first time via things like Etsy.

5. Last but not least, Sunshine at "The Ministry of Manipulation" : they really don't need any blog traffic as they get loads, but I have to mention it as Sunshine set this up and he and a bunch of his friends run the blog and I'm always going there to see fresh new exciting videos they have trunched up. Usually juggling or circus skills based, but you'll often get dance, magic, and all sorts of other skills based things ... oh alright then, here he is (and this is just a hobby mind you - he has a normal job being a university lecturer too!)...

Enjoy your trip into Mithi's little world ...

And HAPPY VALENTINES everyone!!!

Time for art

I've spent an awful large part of my life wanting my own home to decorate in my own way. We don't own our Bristol place, but it is ours - just Sunshine and I, no others. Anyways, included in that home decorating desire is to fill it with beautiful, functional objects; ideally handmade. And what better way to start than to do something myself!

We had a clock to go in our kitchen, but the background was faded and the colours just didn't go with what I was envisioning for my kitchen. So I had a poke at it and realised that I could easily remove the cover and take out the background. Looked around for some inspiration, and some drawing and guaching later - ta da! New clock! Minor design issue in that the background is light and so the hands and numbers don't show up very well - so some painting of those will probably happen very soon.

Here's the "before":


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In other news, I have officially started as an illustration student :)

There's about 45 of us, and I'm NOT the oldest, Hurray! (I'm just the second oldest...). I've already met some lovely compatriots and I think I'm going to enjoy myself quite a lot :) We haven't done any art this week as its been basically enrolling, finding about about all the support services, students union, library etc, and about the structure of the course. We've been given our 15-week project briefs for this semester - there's 2; the first being to make work based on the words 'support', 'enclose', 'balance' and 'disperse'; and the second to make a pastiche of an artists work (plus obviously all the research and background stuff that goes with it).

Our first proper day will be on Monday the 1st - with a "Drawing Olympics" - nope, I don't know what its all about either, but watch this space for an update next week!