abfab?

Well if anyone knows me they know that I am trying to get fit. Well it sounds rather lovely on paper until you actually attempt such a feat. My friend Ginette and I have done the walking thing and even the fast walking thing, but today, we had super KIM. who not only has just had a baby but apparently is an expert runner with gumption and stamina to put anyone to shame. I even thought at one point I was going to get the fit of the giggles. After a block, my lungs felt as though they were going to burst through my chest. But first I have to back up.. well I really need to know why running or work out stuff is so unfashionable? DO I really have to chav up to run? As I got ready, bearing in mind i had been wearing a dress today with linen trousers and flat shoes, i thought why the hell change? I can look fashionable and be comfortable at the same time. As I caught sight of myself exiting the door with shades on and a glass of wine in my hand, I thought I may have glammed up my run a bit too much. So I left the shades on the side and downed the wine. hehe. So who the hell made this 'uniform' to run in? I just cant see the lure of the chavvy jogging bottoms. Anyway, after i got in i collapsed in the settee. Legs shaking and really hot and sweaty. But more importantly I was still alive! No heart attack and my lungs survived. So to celebrate I had another glass of wine! Then I chuckled to myself as I pictured Abfab running down the road and realised that actually that is pretty much me.

On another note I have finally finished the teapot I have been working on.. now it needs to be fired and hopefully will survive the process.

Also I have been getting things organised for the gardens and arts.. so much to do and so little time, as usual.

k

teapots

Well I am working on a teapot to go to charity, Willow foundation.. I am not painting a teapot rather than painting on a teapot. Which i might add is a wee bit tricky as it dries matte and it is so hard to see what it will be like after it is all fired. The paints sink into the pottery as well. I hope it all works out ok..

I am still painting my skulls as well. And of course I have been hanging out on the beach loads! Why you ask? because I can..

I have also spotted a couple of grey hairs! On my head I might add! Some might say I am becoming wise, my ass! Hair dye here I come! Not sure how I feel about this whole thing really.. Might be a mid life crisis looming. hmmmmmmmm I DO need a new shiny car.

I am also brushing up on my french so if you see me please talk to me in french.. or is you feel compelled to write, write to me in french please. I need to be fluent by the end of the month or near enough hehe..

kx

voices

Well today I will be off in a moment to lock myself in the studio.;. My mind seems awash with thoughts.. I suppose if one was to ask what do i get out of painting? My answer would have to be, it silents the voices.. Not in in insane kind of way, i would like to think. But does one really truly know that they are indeed insane? hmmmmmmmmmm But in a therapeutic, relaxing kind of way..

I have some very exciting projects coming up but dont want to reveal just yet. suspense is grande..
Besides there are certain forces out there..........that is all I am saying.

There seems to be all this panic about the swine flu. I just dont know how to react to it all. Is it like the boy who cried wolfe? I am not going to let it bother me at the moment as it is a distance from us at the moment. Now I hear you can still catch it with the face mask if your skin is wet.

agh

not thinking about it..

Right I am now off.. kx

skull duggary

Well today has been one of those days where I went into the studio at 915 this morning and only glanced up at the clock as my tummy was growling. It is now 230.

this is what I have been working on.. so much detail and fiddly bits but fun all the same.. my eyes actually hurt now and I am slightly heady from now opening the door fully. hehe.. ahhhhhhhhhhhh..

I have found some lovely frames to compliment my work in Brighton yesterday, so now I shall put my order in for heaps..

I also went down to the Impure art gallery in the lanes to drop off some more work.. I met with the lovely nic and jamie and had a bit of a catch up as well.. Always a pleasure..
Now I know lots of you want to see Madonna in the nude, and they have managed to score the very pics that are making headlines worldwide!! So get yourself down there starting from May 1st! Ship street gardens.. Pruning the garden bush has a whole new meaning!

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Well hello!

I just cant get over all the vivid dreams I seem to be having lately.. I would tell you my latest but it was all over the place and barely makes sense to me.. But I can tell you there is a steering wheel, bath, walking through a forest and baby fox crying involved! WHo knows what goes on in my head.. I really think I am a good candidate for one of those dream study things where they get to stick the electrodes on your head. Well really I want to just wear the lovely gown with the open back! hmm

ANyway I painted today and it was lovely.. On another note apparently I missed the village flasher in action!¬ By mear minutes! How gutted am I? ANd he is young to boot. Wouldnt you know it, all the village excitiment and I miss it.

The photo here is for a friend( Stefan Tunedal), compiling a protest against Vanity Galleries! Of which I am totally on board with. yes I am wearing pj bottoms!

will post the final poster when he is finished..


http://mirca-art.com/

I think this site is definately the bees knees, and makes me remember why I love to paint for a purpose!

8 shots fired

I am driving along a highway,, mountains in the skykine.. the rain is lashing down and over the radio comes a story of a missing family and eight shots were heard in the area but the family cannot be found.. i keep driving, in the distance I can see a man with a shot gun at the edge of the woods. he has long wet hair and we catch each others eyes.. i keep driving..

a bit later, the sun is shining. I am running up a hill to see a friend of mine who has her daughter with her.. They want to use a butterfly net to catch some wildlife. Apparently this is a not allowed.. by who I have no idea.. There is a couple beside me who have two dogs and everytime they put the leads on them they freeze like statues. stiff as a board.. I tell them to let them free but they say they cant as it is forbidden. then i see another couple at the bottom of the hill with turtles, little ones and they too are frozen, almost dead like.. I stand up and realease the dogs and they go off running and jumping full of life. then i go down the hill to the turtles and release them.. The run, yes run!! I know they are turtles but this is my dream and they are running.. in one of their haste, one is thrown from the shell and lost, dead but the other one runs up towards my friend and her net.. it leaps through and feeds on what she had captured in there.. I run back up and step on the remainder of what if left of the fallen turtle.

next thing I know i am sitting next to her and this amazon woman is next to me and trying punch me so i put my hands up and begin kicking her.. she is telling me I cant release anything and it is against the law to have a butterfly net.

then we are in the car taking my friend to her new job at the university hospital facility.

'family missing, 8 shots fired'


she is expecting a new mentor to teach her about the basics of physics and the effects on habilitaion. she is tending a patient, who happens to be morgan fairchild, when this woman walks in, its the same woman that was pummelling me, she shoots this device towards her and out shoots hundreds of tiny newpapers that land on her starting from the bottom and layering their way up, sealing her and freezing her.

I stand there dumbfounded,

then i wake up

Think i need a coffee now hehe..
Just another nights dreams
kx

night times

'long days i may forsake,
so at night I may stay awake.

minds awash with dancing thought,
for what i have and what i cannot.

Must capture them and lock them with a key,

So i can share with thee for eternity. '

just a little tidbit that popped into my head about the creative ideas that pop into my mind at night.. if that makes sense. because reading it back confuses even me.. haha

Today for me is a jammie and chill out day.. The skies are grey and the rain pours.
I think it is time to bake some brownies..
;)