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I also had an assignment to do an entire company brand (logo + letterhead, business card, and envelope design). I opted to redo the ANU logo – a daunting task! I wanted to courageously tackle the ideas of classicism and university shields while also propelling the forward thinking nature of a university. I think the toughest part about a university logo is the audience – the logo must appeal to Nobel laureates, academics, emeritus professors, and high school senior students looking for freshness in their potential university! Did I do a good job? You be the judge.
[I should state here that this was in no way commissioned by ANU, nor should it be used for any such official purpose: it was made purely for fun (unless(until?) ANU decides to buy it from me!)]
 
We were asked to make a corset cake for my calligraphy teacher’s son’s wedding – and wow, it turned out alright! We had so much fun joking about “which part do you want to work on Honey”, and of course we heard that there were similar jokes about eating it during the reception! (Yes, I made the black roses, one hour each; no, we did not make the figurines, although I did add the wings.)
 I calligraphed the menu (modeled after my friend Deirdre’s script from the workshop she led!) and cooked all the food from scratch. I really do love my hubby. Please visit Deirdre’s website if you want to see her work http://www.calligraphicworks.com/
Our most recent creative food pursuits: wedding cake for Oliver & Sazz (fresh not edible roses) and the birthday cake for Adam.
 
The Canberra Calligraphy Society celebrates 25 years this year. We had a little party at the AGM two weeks ago. Nick and I made the cake, fashioned after a William Mitchell Scroll Nib.
After much hard work (probably 10-15 hours in total of practicing), I finished the menu for our friend’s wedding that took place in our backyard. I was quite happy with the menu, despite the major typo – who knew that “pistacio” is actually spelled pistacHio?? Oh well. Makes for a good story I suppose.
 
Our friend Mondo and I were on the ‘decoration committee’ and did a pretty good job we think. We turned our back garden into an altar-of-sorts and lit nearly 70 candles I think. Lots of flowers too, that you can’t really see in the dark. But Mr Groom & Mrs Bride really liked it and were quite happy with how it looked. And of course we all loved the dinner that Nick cooked  Superb!
I’m doing lots of life drawing, tons of quick portrait sketches, and lots of calligraphy lately. Just not enough time to post on here! I’ll put up some of my portrait sketches maybe next weekend.
My husband loves cooking. Every few months, we host a degustation. We haven’t done one in quite a while, so had quite a bit of fun with this one. As always, he makes every single part of each meal, letting no one help (he gets such satisfaction from doing it all himself); but I get to make the menu (my favorite part) that we give to all the guests on A5 paper. I quite like this menu.
Ok, as promised, here are a few shots of the crafty stuff that I did for our wedding: the beading on my wedding dress, the embroidery on my shawl (my friend Ang made the shawl!) (I’ll get a better picture of this in a few days), all the invitations and thank you cards and etc, the sugar flowers (forget-me-nots and almond flowers) and overall decoration for the cake, and Nick made the cake & associated structural infrastructure
Next art adventure is that a friend has asked that I do a portrait of their daughter – my first commission!! Rock’n'roll!! Also, calligraphy is going well, and I’m the new Newsletter Lady – if something funky ends up coming out of it, which I certainly hope it will, I’ll post it up here.
i made this cake for our last woodworking class… we’re practicing for the wedding cake!!
  
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