Cat inspired mask

I am currently working on a lot of things contemporaneously.
Meaning.. I have a lot on the go and very little to show for it.

However yesterday evening I stayed up late watching episode 10 of the 1st series of 'ROME' - Julius Caesar's triumph episode to be exact, whilst putting the finishing touches on this maori/totem pole/cat inspired mask for musician and performer Yasmin aka YEWS .. <*click this link ere for more info: https://www.facebook.com/pages/YEWS/203907893035651>





I am going to quote Lara on this because she put everything I had in mind into words.. she's good with words you see: 'That is truly awesome! Like a hawk-bear hybrid 1980s Hanna-Barbera superhero meets Mexican Wrestler meets Bjork meets Venice carnival! :-D'

all I want to do is make more masks for YOUS! (ok sorry for the bad pun).. and perhaps a couple of matching capes.

Meanwhile (for the sake of continuity and a common theme) here are a few scenes from 'ROME' in which Caesar would have benefited from having this mask:

Thanking the almighty for professional photography...

I find myself clasping my frostbit-ten fingers together on this unusually icy eve in grateful prayer for all of those, lovely enough, commissioned or otherwise, who end up taking professional photos of things I make. I am afflicted with an unfortunate state of affairs where I am not permitted (for teh good of teh world) to pose in my own creations since the creatures I share a life with are either of the feline variety or of the 'out-to-ruin-travel-pictures-by-focusing-mainly-on-the-extremities-of-the-human-form-if-at-all' variety. I also happen to be an over enthusiastic, but alas, mediocre photo-taking-enthusiast.. so good photos of my work aimed for posterity are very impossible from this end.

Remember that lovely (if I may say so myself) wedding dress I had collaborated with Sarah Micallef of The Secret Rose to make for the even lovelier bride Maria Giuliana.. now I can actually see it as I had intended it to look.. thanks to Denise Scicluna I can now actually look at the dress.. not at my awkward photo of it. I am grateful. Mucho.


photo by Denise Scicluna


photo by Denise Scicluna


photo by Denise Scicluna

I must also thank Daniel Vella and his lovely Schembri sibling models who did such justice to the hats I made for Lara's own 'Hey Birdie-pie!'event/vintage sale KISS & MAKE UP next Saturday morning at Soap Cafe' in Sliema
.. all of the hard work that went into each photo vignette is truly appreciated .. <3



photo by Daniel Vella


photo by Daniel Vella


photo by Daniel Vella


photo by Daniel Vella

Just in case you happen to be on the rock this very weekend, I'm warning you it'll probably be very difficult to avoid having fun!!

.. off to psychologically prepare myself to set up stage for: https://www.facebook.com/events/254963141236546/ ... I'll be needing a full fat, death-row meal after this weekend. *looking forward (oink)