Kirsty Stonell Walker

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• Tuesday 15th December - Too Posh for Pockets

  

  When I was searching for muff images for these posts I found there were some muffs that deserved a post of their own. These weren't paintings but photographs... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2015 CULTURE

• Monday 14th December - Girl in Red

  

  With only ten more days until Christmas Eve, I think we can say we're on the downward slope in Muffvent. I have my father visiting today and I have to assemble ... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2015 CULTURE

• Sunday 13th December - The Warrior's Daughter

  

  Isn't Sunday meant to be the day of rest? Well, our tree is now up, our very cute Dick Bruna nativity is up and I am making mince pies. I think we still have... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2015 CULTURE

• Saturday 12th December - Couple Walking in the Snow

  

  Well, we are half way to Christmas Eve and I'm delighted to find it is Saturday. It does give one the chance to snooze and not take off one's dressing gown all... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2015 CULTURE

• Friday 11th December - Girl with Muff

  

  Here we are at the end of another week! Goodness, how the muffs are flying as we gallop through Muffvent! Here's today's fluffy offering... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2015 CULTURE

• Thursday 10th December - Study in Purple

  

  I have a particularly splendid muff for you today...Study in Purple (1912) Theodore WoresIsn't she wonderful? Subtitled 'Portrait of Gertrude McFarland',... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2015 CULTURE

• Wednesday 9th December - My First Sermon

  

  After yesterday's filth-fest I thought I ought to clean it up a bit for the sake of your moral wellbeing. Today's image is one of cutesy innocence at its best... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2015 CULTURE

• Tuesday 8th December - Naughty Muffs

  So far in Muffvent there have been plenty of sniggers and chuckles at the muff-tastic pictures and all the saucy euphemisms. Heaven knows that's what I have... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2015 CULTURE

• Monday 7th December - A Winter's Dream

  

  Monday again and we are a week into Mufvent already! Goodness me, doesn't time fly when you are larking about with Victorian art? Anyway, on with the... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2015 CULTURE

• Sunday 6th December - Winter

  

  I'm going to have to make this quick (as the actress said to the bishop) because I have a million and one things to do today. Lily-Rose, my daughter, is a decad... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2015 CULTURE

• Saturday 5th December - Black and White

  

  Today's muff comes from slightly later than we are used to, but I couldn't resist as it is such a striking picture...Black and White (1930s) Dod ProcterBorn in... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2015 CULTURE

• Friday 4th December - Lady Cynthia Asquith

  

  Today's muff is very classy indeed and corresponds to people we've talked about before. Here we have Lady Cynthia Asquith by Edmund Dulac... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2015 CULTURE

• Thursday 3rd December - Portrait of an Unknown Woman

  

  I'm feeling a bit Russian today, in the mood to sit in a sleigh and fall in love with some random bloke on a horse, then hurl myself under a train. Hang on, tha... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2015 CULTURE

• Wednesday 2nd December - Miss Donald the Housekeeper at Cliffe Castle

  

  Well, it is proving to be a bit of an eventful Muffvent so far. Yesterday our boiler stopped working and my daughter threw up and so today will be spent with a... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2015 CULTURE

• Tuesday 1st December: Welcome to Muffvent!

  

  Well, here we are again! I can't believe this is the fourth blogvent I have done here at The Kissed Mouth and I have to admit I love every minute of it even... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2015 CULTURE

• Exhibition Review: Enchanted Dreams

  

  For my final review of the week, here's one that is very overdue indeed. I visited Enchanted Dreams: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of E R. Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2015 CULTURE

• Review: Julia Margaret Cameron at the Science Museum

  

  Second review of the week comes from the other exhibition in London celebrating the bicentenary of Julia Margaret Cameron. After I had finished at the press... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2015 CULTURE

• Review: Julia Margaret Cameron at the V&A

  

  As you might have noticed, 2015 marks the bicentenary of the birth of Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), but it also marks 150 years since Cameron's first and... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2015 CULTURE

• We Are Villains All: Five Bits of Stuff

  

  Hello Chaps, and welcome to my new novel, We Are Villains All, published this week! I very much hope you will buy it and enjoy it and so I wanted to tell you... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2015 CULTURE

• Review: Beasts Or Best Friends

  

  How on earth do you follow Mucha? The Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum in Bournemouth managed to pull off possibly the best exhibition I've seen in ages thi... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2015 CULTURE