Author Archives: Reviva

Heady

Posted on September 19, 2015 by Reviva

I return from our trip my head filled with flowers. At night, in the darkness of our tent, against the darkness of the underside of my closed eyelids, movie-style, fields of shadow daisy-flowers bloom. Has the brightness of their daytime … Continue reading →

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Delirious

Posted on August 23, 2015 by Reviva

Variegated nasturtiums growing in our garden make me dizzy with delight. Inspiration for ink-swirl marbled endpapers for a book both green in content and style? It’s on this note that I wish to say farewell as we venture off on … Continue reading →

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I’ve got the whole wide world in my hands

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Reviva
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Green Roses at Monkey’s Wedding

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Reviva

  The Green Roses were invited to Monkey’s Wedding which I read to a spell-bound audience. After looking at the embroideries and the bag of threads that was the medium for the art work, the green roses addressed an envelope … Continue reading →

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Found and lost

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Reviva

Rubbish or what? A plastic packet headed for the dustbin. Inside are masses of fragile folded embroidery patterns annotated in Greek ( yes, Greek) some dated to the 1920’s. Inspiration for some impromptu painting/collage. The one on the left is … Continue reading →

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Simple joys

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Reviva

At the Green Rose Club we rolled silver balls of water on nasturtium leaves.  Sliding balls from one leaf to another turned into a game between friends. We ended off by eating our leaves!  Great to add a peppery zing … Continue reading →

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Leaf Rubbings

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Reviva

The Green Rose Club was busy today. There was magic when we made leaf rubbings using wax candles and green food colouring. ( Green is our favourite colour!) There were concepts to chew on: Wax- resist, botany, Carl Linneaus and … Continue reading →

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Reading club manifesto

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Reviva
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Green Rose words in a matchbox

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Reviva

At the Green Rose club we filled a matchbox with the new words we learned. To make a matchbox book, take a length of till slip and wind it around a ruler to score. Then fold it into a zigzag. … Continue reading →

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Dr Seuss picnic

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Reviva

The Green Rose Club is a reading club I run with about fifteen 8-year-olds at Rosmead Primary School. Today we discovered that the correct way to pronounce Seuss is so that it rhymes with ‘voice’. We also ate green eggs … Continue reading →

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