Today was a pleasurable day, but a little disappointing. I'd decided that today would be the day I would buy myself chocolates from Plaisir du Chocolat, a little chocolaterie on the Royal Mile that I'd been meaning to go to for ages, but I found out yesterday when I tried to look at their website that they had recently closed down. So I treated myself to the above goodies from the Harvey Nichols food hall instead.
The main part of the day, however, was spent at the
Edinburgh College of Art degree show. I felt a lot more inspired by this show than the Glasgow one, but perhaps I was too distracted by the Charles Rennie Mackintosh architecture of the Glasgow School of Art. One person whose work I made sure to check out was an old schoolfriend,
Fiona McGarva, who was exhibiting her blown glass "spaceships", which were really cool. Fiona was there, and it was great to catch up with what she and some of the other people we were at school with had been up to.
Some of the other work I found inspiring was
Celia Richards' sheet music with the notes cut out, which looked beautiful hanging in a window. I also loved a huge painting with buttons attached to the surface, which was by Japanese student Maki Hamada. I also enjoyed looking at all the work by those doing Illustration, in particular Laura Clark.
These are some of the things I bought at a recent antiques fair. A Japanese inro (a small container which would hang from the belt of a kimono), a marquetry box which has scenes of Japan on the top and sides, and a lacquered chocolate box with a Japanese scene on the top by a company called Birrells from Glasgow.
I was having a look back through my current Moleskine sketchbook, and came across this picture that I drew more than a year ago, and realised that I hadn't posted it here. I'm not sure why - perhaps it didn't turn out quite like I'd imagined, but looking at it now I quite like it.
For my brother's girlfriend's birthday I bought some chocolates and some Vert Bouquet tea. I made the pendant to match the colour of the chocolate box.
Last year I posted about how disappointed I was that the chocolate shop I had intended to visit in Edinburgh, Plaisir du Chocolat, had closed down. However I happened to be reading the Scotsman recently and discovered that they have opened a new shop on Thistle Street. 
Today was a pleasurable day, but a little disappointing. I'd decided that today would be the day I would buy myself chocolates from Plaisir du Chocolat, a little chocolaterie on the Royal Mile that I'd been meaning to go to for ages, but I found out yesterday when I tried to look at their website that they had recently closed down. So I treated myself to the above goodies from the Harvey Nichols food hall instead.
