Lydia Massiah

Sunny celandines 🌞 I do love them.

5. The Cabot Circus car park transformation is meant to be amazing turning an ugly concrete space into somewhere people were happy to congregate & play! I hope to visit this evening.
Last night is tonight, Saturday, 5pm-9.30.
And it's all FREE.
Bristol Light Festival

4. There are another 7 installations across the city in venues as various as Redcliffe Caves & Level 7 of Cabot Circus multi-storey car park!
I love the atmophere of the Light Festival, to see people of all ages & backgrounds coming together to enjoy art. It's hugely inclusive & joyful.

Cleverly lit small sculpture with two panels behind that captures two different shadows of a ballerina pose. This onecwith with young women beside also in vallerina costume & posing.

Close-up of a metal sculpture that looks like angular bits of metal, but behind it are the two shadows thrown onto two panels of two completely different ballerina poses - yet from the same piece of metal.

3. Our favourite of last night were the Midnight Ballerinas of the Royal Fort gardens. About 9 installations & lights of sculptures that when lit in two directions threw completely different shadows - but each of a ballerina in a graceful pose. Extremely clever - as well as beautiful.

Lit up small hot-air balloon-style art installations in attractive rainbow colours against the night sky & illuminated city cathedral tower

2. College Green located 'Hot Air Balloons' lit up in the darkness with the illuminated cathedral tower behind. This installation you could walk through & interact with, pulling a rope under each to give a burst of hot air sound effect, & make the balloon shine more brightly. V popular with families

Dried flowers in a bell jar & a hologram of a pirate fairy

Dried flowers like a shrub rose & a hologramof a fairy in a green dress with pink wings

Dried flowers in a bell jar plus feathers (one spotted black & white as if from a Great Spotted Woodpecker) & a fairy with orange colours & butterfly wings

1. A taster of the Bristol Light Festival. It's free event of art installations across the city, with 10 sites this year.
These fairies in bell jars are hugely charming & clever - at the RWE. The pirate fairy looks like my eldest son 😄. Pirate, Rose & Robin fairy examples here.

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Greens now have 5 MPs.

Reform has 8 - but four of those are Tory defections who were not elected on a REF ticket..

Bet Jenrick and Braverman are feeling a little sick this morning.

A blousy bowl of beautiful hyacinths. I love their excess, Rococo forms & powerful fragranc🩷💛

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Thank you 😊

Thank you, Chloe. They're a useful bad weather project 😄

Wine-purple tiny irises in a bowl of pink tinged echeverias.

A pretty combination but almost too early & cold to notice. I've lifted the bowl onto a table closer to the kitchen door but any Iris reticulatas for future planting will have to be virtually on the doorstep 😄

I was wondering who might pay his lawyers...

A Delft-blue balloon perhaps? From as far away as the 18th century?
(Spotted this week at Bristol museum, & it amused me. Didn't expect to see ballooning alongside windmills with the Delft-ware.)

I've brought Spring inside - some hyacinths I planted in a bowl, a few rain-flattened daffodils from the garden & a handful of bought sweet-scented narcissi.

Thank you 😊 A very satisfying project!

That's very kind 😊

Give it a go! I bought a multi-pack of paint colours first, before buying two single larger pots of blue shades. I copied lots of designs I liked or adapted them. And as you say, you can personalise them to your tastes/interests/life!

Thank you 😊 I've had a lot of fun!

Me too! But the room is being totally renovated & replastered atm - as is the whole house, so it'll be a wait. The first 2 pics are AI mock ups to show the builders, the 1st based on estate agent photos. The last pic is the reality 😄 It'll be a fake fireplace with an electric stove heater.

Thank you😊 I've really enjoyed the project - so much so, I'm about to start painting another set for a different room.

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Thank you - I've surprised myself. Can't wait to see how they'll look in the room, but the room is being replastered atm & has a way to go!

So I bought the tiles from Decorum tiles - they're handmade & about £1.40 each. I used Pebeo Porcelaine paint which you paint onto glazed tiles & let dry for 24hrs, then bake in the oven for 35 mins - I think it was at 150 degrees C. I used Lapis Blue.

I'm only copying other designs that I like, or adapting drawings but it's been very satisfying.

Thank you - it's been a lot of fun 😊

My Delft-tile project is complete! Or at least, the painting stage is done. I'm really pleased how they've turned out, & how my painting improved 💙

Next to put them up as a fireplace surround .

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Fortune cookie motto: Your days will be filled with sunshine & happiness.

I'd settle just for the sunshine atm 😬
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Just needs practice 😄