Butter me up!
(Painted butter dishes: Glasgow, Scotland)
Last night, I played host to my friend Seonaid. Whilst I took care of dinner and puddings, she provided beverages and entertainment – that being a pair of butter dishes and some ceramic pens. Though we are in our mid twenties, I’m enamoured of the fast that we can while away a couple of hours happily scrawling across crockery. To explain (in part); she asked me back in March what I would like for my birthday and I replied, quite truthfully, that the practicalities of a butter dish had eluded me and I wished to have one of my very own. As you can see, she decided it was a capital idea and bought two plain ones so that we might decorate them and gift our designs to each other.
Creating a clean, even line with the pens required a degree of skill which neither of us possess. Luckily we had cotton buds and tissue on hand for any major ploppings of ink. All in all, we did a rather splendid job – we’ve never done a project like this before so it could have ended up being rather worse. Mine is the one on the left with the cross stitch design and Seo’s is the right hand one with the bovine landscape. In case it’s all a bit confusing, the upper pieces are the underneath of the butter dish trays. Mine had a dotted rectangle on the inside of the lid reading ‘PLACE BUTTER HERE’.
This is not the best image, but by the time we finished, it was very late indeed. The dishes will dry overnight and be baked in the oven tomorrow. I’m very excited to buy my next pat of butter and install it in my personalised dish. It’s all a girl could wish for.
– Today Rosie is creating digital drawings for a London client and perhaps seeing a film in Glasgow, Scotland –
