Potato Love - Cupid Curry 2!!

It’s the school half term holiday here and we have been away with the kids for a couple of days visiting our friends Nige & Lou.  Carrying on with the theme of Cupid Curry, Louise made the most beautiful curry (yes, it really was lovely!) and in it was some real lurve – this amazing potato she picked up on Valentine’s day!!  Ah, sweet!!  I wanted her to have the photo of it for her new blog, but she wouldn’t ‘cos she’s not ready yet, so we pay homage to her here by linking to it.  Check out www.luluandblu.com over the next few weeks for further developments of Louise’s interesting journeys with her fantastic sock-puppet friend Blu.It’s so nice that the Love theme continues in my life, even though Valentine’s day is now just a memory.  I stayed home today and had a nice lie-in after all the travelling yesterday.  Even though my honey was gone to work he had thought of me and left me this sweet reminder of him, hung over the kitchen chair!!  It made me laugh, so I thought I’d share it!

Baggy Jamie

So, as mentioned.  It is the school holidays, and I have the kids with me, so not much happening on the work-front this week!  Just at home today, doing nothing very exciting: paying bills, ironing, corresponence, etc.  Oh I hate those mundane bits – wish I had a PA!!!  Hah haa!!!!   And a house-keeper!  One day!!

Here is the piece I mentioned before.  The one I started months ago.  It’s on Birch Plywood and I’ve burned the design into the wood using a pyrography too.  It’s weird how you can leave something for so long and then come back to it with new eyes.  I made such a mess of this that as a last ditch attempt to save it I painted black over the whole thing and literally re-worked the entire piece again.  I’m glad I did!  I really got in to it and then seemed to get results quite quickly, which I enjoyed.  I’m happy with the dramatic effect.  The quote (and inspiration for the painting) is taken from Khalil Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’.  I love this book!  I love how it can be dipped in and out of at any point in the book and always provides an insight which somehow seems relevant.  The book was given by a good friend to Jamie and I as a gift when we had our Commitment Ceremony in 2005.On a different note, we’ve had snow here today in Yorkshire.  Very pretty!!  Most of the local schools were closed, ours included so we went down to the reservoir to sledge.  What fun!!! We found most of the kids from school to be there!   There’s even more snow forecast for tonight.  Yay!!  I don’t think my kids have ever seen so much of it in their lives!  It’s lovely!

Snow-Board-Princess