Cancelled the ATC swap and made my apologies to the group - how embarassing

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The pace has picked up now, just got both Marfella and Natalie’s self-assessments which means I now have 2 weeks to decipher what learning they are evidencing. Art-wise I have a tip-in, 3 matchboxes, and mini-boardbook to work on - all due during this period. In addition to these, in a moment of insanity I announced a new ATC swap last night. Stupid, very stupid, so stupid in fact that nobody has signed up for it yet but maybe thats a good thing, no sign-ups, no swap, right?

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Finished ‘the small canvas’ at last, I think I was holding onto it for fear of sending it out into the world looking forward to all the mini-books coming my way over the next few months, it brings me back to the question of whether to make small art or just a little bit of my big art…..? Need to bundle it up and send it off either tomorrow or Friday.
Have been asked to host a swap on another group which is pretty exciting, not just because it is a group whose art I admire but also because I haven’t worked on this type of project before so the organising and the creating will both be challenges for me…. tip-ins….. need to get my head around the how and the what of these.
Still got that Stamp It! to make and send off, then there’ll be another one and that is the end of it. Been an odd RR and felt dis-jointed with loads to do at once and then none for months. Hope managing the tip-ins won’t be quite as stressful. Now need to ‘think oriental’ and see what I come up with. busy busy busy…..

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You’re a little gold key, and you unlock other
people’s hearts. Your kindness and willingness
to be there for those you care about lets
people open up to you knowing they will be
accepted. People will rely on you, but be
careful not to give more than you have.

What sort of key are you and what do you unlock?
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Working on that itty bitty mini-book for the mini-book AB on ABEurope. Really exciting and is somewhat more of a challenge than I thought. Do I use small things or bits of big things? Just waiting for some paint to dry and need to decide on the covers but so far, I’m excited!

Been having a few thoughts about ‘art’ recently, prolly not new thoughts but still, thoughts that have been rolling around in that vacuous space upstairs. An interesting thought about ‘themes’ has arisen. Do themes confine or does the lack of one liberate? One might say that having a theme for an AB is another task to bear in mind while creating a spread, but doesn’t it also provide boundaries? Or are they limitations? Does the removal of a theme leave one flailing with no ’structure’ to cling to or does the lack of constraints liberate the Muse?
How about Art as a competitive sport, why? Why do people feel competitive about it? Why would anyone want to produce ’something’ that looked like someone else’s ’something’? To prove that one can make something ‘that good’ or to prove that one is ‘better’ than so-snd-so? Why aren’t people content with just being themselves and producing what they are inspired to produce? Something individual to them, that nobody else can re-create. Now there’s a question……

I’ll leave my other thoughts to confuddle you another day…….

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After spending yesterday in a really bad angry mood after an infuriating telephone conversation that made me feel like shouting “SHUT THE !@%* UP!!!” , I finally got over my ‘anger-reaction’, let my shoulders slump and released some of the tension that I had been carrying around all day. Today I had to have a difficult conversation with my homecare worker, it feels like we’ve bent over backwards trying to accomodate her, changing our days and the hours that she works here to fit in with her other jobs. Today she said she would be in later on Fridays from now on because she has another sleep-in job which doesn’t finish in time for her to be here on time. Will talk to Miles and have another conversation with her on Friday. Has made me feel really shitty and for no fault of mine

On the up-side I ended up spending some money that I don’t have, buying some art materials that I have run out of and a few small goodies to keep the retail-therapy monster at bay. Did I mention that I finished my fabric tags? They are wicked! if I say so myself - and I do (hehehe!) there is a denim art/work tag

a slightly ethereal tag using a transfer and some dragonflies

and a luscious sari-wearing torso tag.

A real challenge for me, but the experience has made me a little less afraid of workinng with fabrics! Just got to get cracking on that mini-book now.

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Do you think they should make a film in the same vein as ‘Look Who’s Talking’, but called ‘Look Who’s Prime Minister, again’? That way we would know exactly what politicians are thinking and meaning when they say anything. Yes, the elections are over and once again the nation has voted Tony BLiar into No. 10. It makes me uncomfortable to imagine what scheme he is going to hatch next with George, in his bid for world supremacy and how much more wool BLiar will attempt to pull over the eyes of the British public, in order to help him to pull it off.

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My set of 120 Prismacolor pencils arrived today in a beeeeaaautiful tin! Am I chuffed or what? I was just thinking about them yesterday (or was it this morning?) and trying to work out how much longer they could reasonably take before I accept they have vamooshed in the postal system. A thousand apologies for ever doubting the postal system - and although the envie it was in looked a little worse for wear the tin itself was just fine! Yayyyyy!! Now of course I need to get myself a good pencil charpener, cos although you get one in the tin, it is hardly up to the task! LOL!

A also finished my victorian puzzle piece for Puzzleart, and it is FAB if I say so myself. It’s gonna be tough sending it home to Cheryl I am so pleased with it.

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