Necklace

Posted on February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Design, Escape, freedom, Glass, Jewellery, Life, Memories, Prevarication, Thinking, Wireweaving8 Comments

I thought I would post an old picture of one of my necklaces from my Facebook memories. I made the glass cabochon at a glass workshop with someone called Angela Ashton. She has moved away and I would like to find somewhere else to do this. The wire weaving is by my friend, I need to chase her to try and get some pieces back off her, but I’ve been preoccupied and keep forgetting to contact her. I don’t think it’s anything to do with my age, but when you are busy with other responsibilities it’s hard to keep on track.

Sometimes I just wish for freedom to be myself, and sometimes I feel I’m using it as an excuse not to do things.

Maybe I can pull things back together soon. I need to escape my cocoon and be a butterfly.

Light

Posted on February 4, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Happy, Life, Light, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Reality, Sad, Thinking, Ups and downs4 Comments

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You light up my life,

Like a street lamp showing the way

That’s a bit glitchy

So sometimes you flicker…

Like a candle,

That gutters and flutters,

Like a bonfire,

Who’s sparks can cause explosions

Like the Sun

Which can be hidden by clouds.

But you give more light than dark,

For which I’m grateful.

Button bowl

Posted on February 4, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bowl, Buttons, Colours, Craft, Fun, Life, making, PVA adhesiveLeave a comment

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I got this last year. Its a bowl constructed of buttons stuck together with PVA adhesive. It was made by a friend who used a bowl as a form to make its shape. The only thing is that it has deformed slightly because it was pushed into by another object.

I like her choice of colours and the way you can see the gaps between the buttons. I don’t think it will last forever. Perhaps it will turn into a forlorn heap of buttons, but it’s OK for now.

Lost cats

Posted on February 4, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Friends, Happy, Hiding, Kittens, Life, Nervous, PhotoLeave a comment

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Two years ago this is what I wrote on Facebook :

“Missing two black and white cats, in our house, somewhere under or behind the furniture….hopefully they will emerge when they get hungry. Hubby has been looking for them half the night. I keep telling him that will just scare them more…. I don’t know whether to get one of those plug in things that gives off a calming scent for cats?”

The photo is of the female who I hadn’t got to know as they had only been here for two days. At the time I didn’t know she was pregnant with four kittens (who we successfully rehomed). She is now very happy living here with her brother. They don’t hide, they like us now. I did get some of that stuff that calms cats down and it worked.

Discoball

Posted on February 2, 2020February 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Disco, Disco all, History, Life, Music, Poem, Poetry, Time4 Comments

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Music plays loud

Cool for cats, by Squeeze,

Atomic by Blondie

Hot Chocolate,

The Bee Gees

These are my era

Not house music

Or trance.

Stuck in the seventies,

Disco inferno,

Time goes by.

But my mind does nor rave,

Or throb to a heavy beat.

It dances and sparkles

Shimmers and grates.

Disco is in me.

More rehearsals

Posted on February 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acting, Dancing, Drama, Fun, Life, Pantomime, Penkhull, Penkhull panto, Penkhull Village Hall, Rehearsing, SoonLeave a comment

More rehearsals today for the panto, we ran through the whole thing today, adult and children’s cast acting together. We also got to use the stage which was good. It gives you an idea of where you will be. What side of the stage to come on. Whether you will knock into another cast member as you dance across the stage.

Just hang on, yes I did say “dance”. We have had a choreographer involved this year. People are being carried on shoulders and doing knee spins and…. We’ll it’s exhausting to look at. I’m glad I’m right at the back, I’m not nimble on my feet anymore.

Three weeks to go… Help!

Thinking about Art

Posted on February 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Drawing, Inspiration, January, Life, Not satisfied, Painting2 Comments

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I just posted this as a comment on a friends page… “I always feel I could do better when I’ve finished a painting, I look at the mistakes not the good bits….”

That made me think, is that why I paint, draw, and create?

Tomorrow I’m going to another friends, she is running an art lunch once a month. I’m hoping I can draw some inspiration to work out what I’m doing next. I have let things slide in January, now I need to try and make more of an effort….

Brexit.. Done

Posted on February 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Brexit, Britain, Damp squib, European Union, Gone, Life, lost opportunities, Sad, Stupid idea, Why?2 Comments

At 11.00pm (23.00hrs), Britain left the European Union. After a day that had been grey and drizzly, and a day I felt infinitely sad.

I did not vote for leaving the EU. But about 70% of the people in this area did, do I guess I expected rock and roll bands and masses of fireworks?

Instead we got about ten minutes loud music from the local pub, followed by a minutes fireworks at 10.58pm, then silence… A nice damp squib.

Other friends have posted statuses which sound similar. Perhaps people have become inured to it. Maybe they realise they are cutting off their noses to spite their faces….. As my hubby Sat’s, this world will go on…..

Spock drawing

Posted on January 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Digital art, Digital drawings, Drawing websites, Fun, Life, Sketchfu, Spock, Startrek2 Comments

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A few years ago I was on a website called Sketchfu which eventually closed

It had very simple tools to draw with but I enjoyed drawing all sorts of portraits, including Lord of the Rings characters. I put a lot of them on here a year ago. But my favourite is Spock from the original Star Trek series. He was not easy to draw but I think I got a good representation. The little pink face in the background was the icon for Sketchfu. I do miss it. It was a great site but it was difficult to communicate with the site owners even though I was a Moderator on there. I can’t believe how long it is since it closed.

Why use ‘woke’ as an insult?

Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Caring, Ideas, Life, Negativity, Sad, Social media, Thinking, Woke, Work together8 Comments

” In its modern-day, politicised context, ‘woke‘ is defined by the OED as ‘originally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice’.”

I’m guilty of being ‘woke’ I guess. I try and care about things, I’ve always questioned why people can’t get on. When I was a child in the 1960’s I remember I asked why people were nasty to brown people and not pink ones?

But recently ‘woke’ seems to be being used as an insult. Like you can be too ‘woke’ to be interested in helping others? Too caring? Why? Why is it OK to tell someone off because they are too politically correct, or disagree with populist ideas? The world seems to get more selfish by the day.

I don’t think everyone should agree with me, I can agree to disagree. But what do you do when someone constantly disagrees with you? Or dismisses what you say. Even when I’d agreed to disagree a person who I’m not naming kept digging. Recently they started to call me a snowflake and woke. I said I was pleased to be a snowflake as we can gather together and turn into a blizzard! I don’t want to stop being in touch with this person as it means I’m not totally in my own bubble. But I do wonder if I should unfollow them. The world seems to lack altruism, everyone is in it for themselves, hopefully the tide will turn.

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