Sketching the Heart of the Cat

Aaah, isn't the weather just lovely! I've heard it's going to change again. So I'll hold off buying a new straw hat and sunnies for now.

Been feeling really cheeky recently... think it's probably got something to do with Friday's Foul Food Fotos...

Probably looking a bit cheeky too, as I have sun burnt cheeks and am now sipping rosé wine in my sunroom.

Do you remember my sketches a few posts back?? Two in particular...

  Well my little sweet pea of a daughter, really liked them and wanted to have a go at her own...

By Talulah Lotus * Age 6

I think I'll hand over the pens and be done with sketching then... I really love her ones!!

And there's this one she did too...

Mummy's one

Talulah's one

And whilst we're on the subject of my beautiful daughter... here she is... with her first tooth finally out!

Tally-Lu-Who

And here's a funny little something... me... about the same age. And just a little something to prove to all my family that, yes, my daughter doesn't just look like her daddy, like they all pretty much insist (except her daddy)! Grrrrrrr... no I don't have issues about this! Promise!! (They don't read this anyway! Wouldn't mind being proved wrong though...).

 Back to the talk about teeth. Teeth. Those shiny little (or large) things that chop through and mush up all our food. Those teeth that we hopefully want to have all through our lives without any problems. Those teeth that get stained with coffee, wine, etc etc. Those teeth that get stained with penicillin. Yep, that's right. Only recently this little lassie below by the name of Boomeroo (ok, it's her nickname!) was a poorly little munchkin and needed two doses of the banana flavoured antibiotics to get her back to her old self. I was completely freaked out a couple of days afterwards (around the time we found above daughter's wobbly tooth - then took pics of both kid's teeth) to find her teeth were yellow on the top parts near her gums. I shamefully went to my friends, head almost in hands, believing we hadn't been good enough at brushing her teeth, only to find a couple of weeks later, back at the docs, I asked about it and yep, it's all down to that sickly sweet yellow banana-y flavour peni-ya-whats-it's-job!

So I'm pleased to announce... it's finally fading! 

Bitsy-Big-"Girl"-Boomeroo

And now she can smile again without me grimacing at the thought of people thinking we're rather rubbish at brushing her teeth!

Ooooof this is getting to be a long post. Blibber-blabber mouth here, has too much to say as usual!

So anyhoo... here's a little something I've made recently. Was intended for our mother's for mother's day. However, they still sit on my recycled cake stand, waiting to be posted off. It's ok, they're used to me and my ways, so they know they await a wonderful surprise one day! (Perhaps in December!).

They're little magnets! I'm making them in brooches too, if requested! Available for very little pennies at my little shops on folksy & etsy.

Oh! I had a fantastic little find t'other day! (yep... I'm on one tonight... think it must be this rosé)... I was ever so excited to find a basket full of thimbles!! And just look at them! Wow right!?! There were more...loads more... but Mr Phizmiz was keen to get a beer with his leftover squids in his pocket (mine were bare) so I had to just put up with 3. I wanted them all!

I might just have to superglue them all to my fingers & have the best finger tips on the planet.

Look at the lovely behind the thimbles...

An old botany etching

Bloody beautiful, isn't it.

Suppose, as he's sat next to the laptop right now, (moved out of the sunroom and into my new made dining room) the cat is looking proudly smug and awaiting his moment of stardom ... so here he is, so accurately put, where every cat should sleep.

In the laundry basket...

Plants in Bedpans, Mice in Bedrooms & Red Admirals

This week has been a very nice productive one. Which I am very pleased about. It's nice to blog it too, as I can keep up to date with what I'm doing and feel that I am actually using my time very wisely. Proud to announce this week I have mainly been doing these things...

A snippet of the project, 'Fulcanelli's Shoes' I am in the process of making with Ergo Phizmiz I'm very happy with how this film has turned out and pretty chuffed it has been reblogged a good many times.

And here's a very lovely photo taken by yours truly of the beautiful Vulnavia Vanity as Barbette.

Oh how beautiful you are Vulnavia/Barbette

 And this...

A little shop I have been planning to open for a good few months to sell a range of my wares, that I'm finally getting my head around to do, in amongst all the other crazy things my life throws at me. I'd hoped it would be done this week but work for Fulcanelli's Shoes is taking the front line as it is previewing in Dartington at Soundart Radio on February 5th and there's still plenty of the film left to do. And presently this afternoon, I will myself, be dressing up as Baron Munchausen for further work on the project.

It shall be done in the very near future though, with a range of porcelain dishes, wooden and pewter chopsticks & chopstick rests that I have previously made. I will be introducing sewn goods too at some point, as well as sketches and decorated gift boxes.

Last week the mister walked into our daughter's bedroom and was shocked to find the cat staring at a mouse, quite admiringly and apparently pretty much stroking it. Happy to announce we haven't seen it since, so wherever it had come in from, it has vanished back to, as there's been no sign of it. Quite pleasantly though we found this little lovely in the kid's room too, which the kids took to looking after. 

Red Admiral & Ginger Audrey.

Very sorry to say but little miss butterfly has gone off to the land of dead butterflies which broke my three year old's heart, telling us in a cracking voice, tears and all, that it had died. 


On a happy note though, they have been making spectacular drawings on their mega-sketchers.

Autumn's famous cat drawings

Talulah's amazing 'Ostriches or Sausages' drawing.

I was in need of repotting my plant in the bathroom to give it more room to grow and needed another pot to contain the water. On the fabulous market that takes place in our little town every week I found, what I think to be a bedpan. Appropriately placed in the bathroom of course too. Perfect colour and size. I think everyone is in need of bedpans for plant pots. 

Lovely bedpan, ain't it.

Getting a bit addicted to listing things on eBay at the moment, that I'm sure I'll be selling all the furniture once we've all got no clothes left... missymoopy

Well I had better continue now with my lazy Sunday... but not sure it will live up to it's name.