Being closer to nature

 

Being closer to nature 

I think that one thing that I love about home schooling is the ability to get closer to nature and to chose what items I use to teach my children and where I buy them from.

One thing that I have always done with my children is to teach them that second-hand is OK to buy despite Covid 19.

I was not brought up to use second-hand and was told to always buy new, but now that I am a parent I am happy to teach.

Reduce

Reuse

Recycle

Upcycle

is the new way to live life.

So one thing that I am looking at doing is to keep some of the things that I teach seasonal and to be more closer to nature and use what we have around use to learn who to live life to the full.

This year we were not really able to do any foraging like we have in the past, so I am going to use the items that I already have around the house and have not done any thing with yet.

What we will do is make then in to gifts for our family and friends and also to decorate the house with.

So please follow us during our gift making session over the next few day(s)

Pre Raphaelite influenced Art

 Pre Raphaelite influenced Art

https://www.facebook.com/groups/287284131334748

If you click on the above link or the image on my blog it will give you the opertunity to join a group that I am member of that is about Pre Raphaelite Influenced Art.

This is a part of art that i was really into, espically when I use to life model in my twenties.

This is also an time in art  when famous works of art were created like the following.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=famous+pre+raphaelite+paintings&form=ANNTH1&refig=0f65d82ef37f4f1cb1dcba585afce6d3&sp=2&qs=SC&pq=famouse+pre+&sk=PRES1SC1&sc=8-12&cvid=0f65d82ef37f4f1cb1dcba585afce6d3

1 John Everett Millais: Isabella (1848-49)

2 Arthur Hughes: The Long Engagement (1859)

3 Henry Wallis: Chatterton (1855-56)

4 Millais: Christ in the House of His Parents (The Carpenter's Shop) (1849-50)

5 Millais: Ophelia (1851-52)

6 Edward Burne-Jones: Laus Veneris (1873-75)

7 William Holman Hunt: The Light of the World (1851-53)

8 Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Blue Bower (1865)

9 Ford Madox Brown: The Last of England (1852-55)

10 Ford Madox Brown: An English Autumn Afternoon, Hampstead (1852-55)

One of the thinga that I love is to study art and find out more about the artisit life and the subject when every posible.

One of the things that people often of get is not the artist buth the subject.

This why I love it when film or documentries are made about the art world.

1. Frida
2. Girl with a Pearl Earring
3. Lust for Life
4. Big Eyes
5. My Left Foot

https://www.ranker.com/list/the-best-art-movies/ranker-film

https://www.theurbanlist.com/a-list/best-art-movies

One day maybe I will write my own story?

 Remembering with Memorials and Statues

With in this blog I have add a number of images that if you click on to them will transport you to another web site.

One of these is a facebook group called "Remembering with Memorials and Statues." on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/238099003668877

This group is the brainchild of Paul Els, who wants to start collecting not only pictures but history of war memorials as well as statues that have been erected both locally and overseas to honour South African people/animals or groups of South African people/animals for their contribution to the defence of Southern Africa. 

I have add this group manily due to my book that I am trying to finsih called "Pure Light" that is based in South Aftrica and also beacuse it is a place tht I would  love to vist.

So why not take a look at this socail media group and see if it is some thing that may intrest you.