The weather really is going all noice and springy, yesturday Squelchy and I sat on the less tourist half of the quay down by Chain Locker and basked in the sun whilst eating pasties & Guinness cake. Then later we were joined by Mr O'Shea and we all skipped off to Gyll, where we bumped into Kristian & companion. The 3 of us all resorted to removing socks & such and jumping about in the shallow cooold water (and falling over in it) and it was la-la-laaaaavly! What makes things better is that I have a jar with daffodils in it (from the daffodil man near Tescos - £1 for 10). I've put some blue food dye in the water, so the flowers which are open have little blue flecks in their petals. Eeee.
What to write. Ummm. Yes! We had a gig at 5 Degrees West last Saturday which went well, it was a mini beer/ale fest thing so lots of pubby local sorts and also a group of our good friendios were there, I think it went well. VERY hot though in our little singing corner. But free Betty Stoggs alllll night, and we carried on singing well after our gig with a couple of chaps (Nigel & Mark!) from another shanty band called The Falmouth Shout.
Next gig pleeeease!
I finished my essay, well... yes, it's finished. And my Paris project is DONE, though I still need to print & mount it all (may leave that until the end of the year, just to keep everything neat until then). Here, have a look at it:
Not sure why there are STILL black / grey lines at the sides of a couple of the images, but I'll trim them off when I print.My current project is a poster project, 3 posters for either Glastonbury fest 2010 (40th anniversary! I'll be there!) or this years Falmouth Sea Shanty festival. I'm yet to choose one, and also to actually START the project... since I've done nothing since Monday. Oops.
We're holding a 1950's party on Saturday, Vera is dressing me up and such. I'll certainly look different to usual.
And then my birthday next weekend, mum & Elk will be down to visit since Elk will be from a Plymouth open day, so I shall make sure to get dragged out for a meal! Nom nom nom.
NEWS! It is now 4 minutes past midnight on FRIDAY 12th March. I am a smidge drunk. Shanty practise and then some of us sang at open mic night at The 'front (again). Zef, if you are reading this, TURN UP TO DAMNED PRACTISE! Mermaid, please. Accidently, I coughed on my hand before nearly high 5ing Mr Drinkwater, apologies to him for ALMOST spreading non-germy germs since I don't have a cold or nout. Mmmm, this Sunday we're off to Dan & Lisa's new forge for a "forge warming party" which should be very good. I hope that crazy Dave is there, and that he brings his twanging box. Anyhoo, I have nothing more of a constructive nature to write, so I shall LOB images at ye!
Adam Hancher. Gloomy colours with lovely shapes & hints of ZING.
Sara Barnes. Collagey. Nom.
Catherine Ryan, what friendly looking bears.
This looks lovely.
I miss doing this. Funny walks up the beach with Rarr at the start of last summer (was it late April?). Gwithian beach. I think. Laaavly.LINKS.
http://www.nigella.com/recipe/recipe_detail.aspx?rid=20552
Like from Annie's kitchen.... nom nom nom. I'll make it some day.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/whimsyandspice
Oh.... sploooodge!
We went to an antiques market... it was very interesting in part, but we had to go through a highly ganster area to get there. Not held on to my bag quite so tightly in a looong while...
Old glass slides (antiques area still). I liked the look of the mountain against the structure of the ceiling.
My (lovely) travelling companions. Silje & Vera. TOURIST TIIIIME. 
The sun was catching through the stained glass in Notre Dame. Not many people / no one else seemed to notice this. 
Catkins over ran it. GO CATKINS, GO!
Finally managed to visit the Catacombs. The walk through the passages before the actual mass skeleton orgy was the freakiest bit, getting to the actual dead stuff was fine.
More dead stuff. Street side shop, there was a lovely 
Dead Oscar Wilde. The amount of lipstick kisses on his grave was, eh, certainly impressive! I wonder who ran off with the statues cock... (1 track mind? Well, it WAS missing... and he certainly was a loved man).
Flan. The god of France.
Found an illustrator / graphic novel maker called "Toppi" (Sergio Toppi). Pen & ink. Delicious. 
Near the Louvre. A rainbow! Most excellent..jpg)
Simple pimple, but the bit I thought woz all good like, was that the pattern was contained in a shape. Andy J. Miller.
Amy Talluto. A bit too Autumn for my current Spring grinnery, and reminds me a bit of "paint by numbers" (I think it's the stump) but it's a yes. The orange to yellow tree strip at the back of the lake is tasty.
Åshild Kanstad Johnsen... the use of shapes is a nod in the right direction. Shapes & organic pattern.
Acorn buttons by boosterseat on Etsy (she sells the material for these, too... think she makes it herself? The pattern, that is). 
Fiona Ackerman with a collagey style. The red inked fish scale bit was the bit which attracted me.
Didn't notice that I saved all 3 images in 1, but that doesn't worry me in the slightest since Lizzy Stewart's work is raaather yummy! 
Lance Letscher (lets - cher.... haha). Cut out bits of paper on top of random papery stuff. I like.
With the structure of my life I plan (trains.....). With my work, I wing it. I think thats a vaguely acceptable way to live. All I could find was "Hello Jenuine".
Are they mountains? Romia Pelagetti. Would like to see them a LITTLE bit bolder, but with this I shan't complain.
Clare Owen makes me see that not all "scribble colouring in" is bad. Short and snappy.
Finishing with some fluffy fluff fluff cats also by Clare Own. FLUFF FLUFF FLUFF!