I’ve got these dolls to make plus 2 ‘One Stamp’ swaps, can’t get hold of Emma and Linda tells me she’s managed to ‘mislay’ a tag book! I do wish these people would communicate what’s going on! I know art may not be the center of everyone’s life and I realise I’m pretty fortunate to be in the position I’m in (??!!), but, REALLY! How long does it take to reply to an email or scribble a note to say what the problem is? I’ve written 3 emails and she STILL hasn’t got back to me

I’ve got too much on my mind to think about art. My shoulders are hunched, I feel bunged up’ and my diet is poor…. who can think about art?! It’s no wonder my muse has moved away and not bothered to leave a forwarding address.

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He’s back! He’s back! Unfortnately Miles is still suffering from jet-lag so he’s not his usual self yet, but it’s good enough just to have him back home!

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The healthy eating has been more or less down the pan this week but I have managed to do my exercises every day. Need to eat more vegetables! Have given up on trying to weigh myself, just concentrate on feeling better.

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This week has been so horrid without Milesy. Darling has been great but really it’s not the same is it? I’ve wanted Milesy to have a good time but then I’ve felt a tinge of jealousy when I’ve known he’s been out having fun without me. I’ve spoken to him 3 times a day, every day and I’m half-dreading the telephone bill but talking to him so regularly is the only thing that has made me feel ‘normal’. I can’t wait until he comes home, not long now, this time tomorrow he’ll be making his way home from Heathrow.

I made an order with Betsy and it made the hotel OK, Milesy has already packed it in his bag, ready to come home.

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*sigh* Milesy has gone, just spoke to him at the airport and he sounds as down as I feel. I know he was about to cry when he was leaving home this morning and I could tell he didn’t want to get off the ‘phone when I called him just now. It will be lonely without him, I’m not going to miss him for all the things he does for me, but because of who he is. I didn’t really know what love was until I met him, and he shows me everyday, in everything he does.

I keep telling him what a great opportunity this is for him, and I think it will be a great learning experience. How often does someone working in the Voluntary sector get sent to the U.S. for a conference?

Needless to say, I am getting Betsy to send an order to his hotel for me, bypassing Customs and the postal system, which is pretty smart I’m ordering the rest of the AA inks and some Distress embossing powders and some other bits and pieces from her site. Should be good! Still, I wasn’t intending to spend nearly $200 in one sitting, especially when I am heavily overdrawn on all my bank accounts!

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Urgh! I’m feeling SO frustrated by our weighing scales! Have stepped on them 5 times in succession this morning and they have shown that I have lost anything between 0.3 kg to 12.5 kg, and even shown that I’ve put on 1.5kg in weight! I certainly hope I haven’t put on any weight but somehow doubt I have managed to lose over 1stone in a week, but now I feel I can’t trust the scales . Miles says it is just enough to know that I have lost weight, and that it’s not important how much, but I think it IS important for the scales to actually be consistant. If they were ‘out’ a few pounds, it wouldn’t matter beacuse they are the only scales I use, so my weight would always be ‘out’ by the same amount and at least my weight loss/gain would be consistant. Even Miles found that our scales gave different readings depending on which room he weighed himself in! Feeling all depressed now - Blurgh!

Have been a bit hit and miss with the supplements this week too but can’t imagine that would make a difference.

On the up-side (sort of) I managed to make a veggie broth-stew-type effort last night which Miles liked but I couldn’t be done with. Possibley because I was too hungry by then. I have this odd thing about not feeling hungry by the time I’ve slaved over something, Jenny was sayingshe is the same.

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2 doll-related topics today. The Challenge for March is to make 3 mixed-media art-dolls, I got some great ideas from The Monthly Muse for February, so thought ‘Why Not?’ it should be great fun and I’m really looking forward to it!

One of the ideas was for making dolls with playing card bodies, so I used Kittys ‘One Stamp’ image (bizarre and delightful as it is) for this one…..

I think she is SO cute!

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Yes, you read correctly! Mind you, I haven’t really had any chocolate, or anything sweet for that matter for over a month now but I’ve been eating better this last fortnight. I’ve cooked a couple of wicked curries this week, aubergine and courgette and chickpea, they’ve been lush.

Had a horrid experience with some red rice last night, ran out of brown rice and figured it was prolly better for me than white rice. So anyway, Jenny told me you can cook red rice in the rice-cooker, so I figured i can cook the whole 500g and save us some time during the week. When the cooker clicked from Cook to Heat, I tasted the rice and it was actually cooked BUT it looked like a gloopy bowl of chocolate flavoured rice pudding! Urghhhh! Miles ended up washing the gloopiness out by rinsing it all under the hot tap, and then it was fine, but it was a bit of a shock initially

Weighed in again yesterday and I’ve lost a further 1.5kg - yayyyy! Miles says he can see the loss around my face

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Finally finished Kitty’s IIAB today, it’s been rather a labour of love but then some of the best works I do, often are. There were a couple of spreads but this one is my favourite….. pull the two ribbons to the sides simultaneously, and Voila!

and here’s a picture of the full double page spread

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