Welcome - this is the site of Caroline Homfray, a British craftsperson and artist. I specialise in embroidery and working with fabrics, so you can view the embroidered jewellery which I've been developing for the last ten years.You can also see what I'm working on now, read the odd how-to tip and also the results of my ponderings on matters relating to art and creativity and how to live with them. There's the odd daft thing here and there too.
The clock ticks towards nine o'clock, and as I am gardening in the big garden tomorrow, I will have to go to bed soon. Most of the day has been spent trying to get my head round Drupal - an open-cource web programme thingy. It's not a progamme, I'm told, it's a Content Management System. It has pages, blocks, galleries, children and parents, tags and taxonomy - and none of these things resemble the like-named things in the real world. It's an interesting exercise in letting go of preconceptions, if nothing else. Read more »
I ha d a project to go for a walk. Naively I thought that there would be public footpaths and marked routes to follow. But of course, in a country too hot to walk around in for most of the year, there aren't. I am having to give up my desire for map accuracy and predictability. Read more »
Friday - the hubbub voices of Kourtney's private view party in the background while I take five minutes away for a quick write. The brazier (oil drum) is burning, the peanuts and marshmallows disappearing, and the wine bottles emptying. The leader of the archeology school from next door came along with a Phd student Liz, to look at the work- an attempt to foster interdiscplinary relations. Ilearnt of a ruined turkish village down the road from Pafos - somehwere off the beaten tourist track to see. Read more »
It's late in Lemba, and a bit chilly. After doing some all-important hunter gathering in Pap's supermarket, and eating some of the spoils,I endeavoured to get into the creative mood by cutting up my jumper. (I didn't want a jumper, a cardigan is more adaptable). Read more »
The beta version of carolinehomfray.co.uk got off the lauch pad today, and was ready by the time touch down happened (well nearly!)
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