Happenings

B O N . V O Y A G E

Littlest sister Becky departed the North East with her two pet Bunnies a few weeks ago to live with our Mam and her partner down in Gloucester. Stroud is a beautiful place and I know she'll grow down there and be encouraged properly, even though I'll sorely miss our Lambrini/Pizza/DVD nights. She won't enjoy howking me out of the wardrobe when I come to stay in her bedroom because I was sleep walking at Christmas ;)

S U K I W E A R 

I've been making Wrestling Gear for three years (I think?) with my friend Sue and I wanted to pop a few of our latest pieces up for show-offs :) We're having a lot of panel work coming in lately, which means a lot more sewing, constructing and printing but there's no competition between Printed Vs Sewn/Printed combinations! It's lovely to have more difficult projects coming in :) If you like you can check out our 

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F E E D . M E . K I M B L E S

My Venus Flytrap as now reached limbs of ridiculousness - with five new flowering stems beginning to grow. My Flat faces South, so I have a straight left-to-right Sunrise - Sunset and they seem to be reaching up to where the Sun is in it's highest spot ^.^

G I F T I N G . T H E . S Q U I P P Y

"Squippy" is a bit of a family joke from when Littlest sister Becky was first learning to talk and marveled at our vast collection of pet rabbits and guinea pigs. Skippy was a brown female netherland dwarf rabbit I had at the time, and thus all rabbits became "Squippies", and guinea pigs became "Ooh-Ooh's".

I've bought Twylla an outdoor run for the warmer weather, and carried it back from Sue's place on the bus - God knows what the people around here think of me - a rolled up massive rug to the Charity shop one week, a cabinet the next, a rabbit run after that...haha!

She's so massive now - it's hard to believe I got her at 6 weeks - just a little quivering ball of fluff. She's well spoiled now ^.^

With me having a 3rd-floor penthouse Flat, I thought it wasn't fair that she should have to miss out, especially when there's a vast patch of green round the backs of the Flats that's usually Child & Dog-free. I do go out and grab her a big bag of dandelions for her when they grow but it'd be lovely to sit out with her in the sun with my Guitar or Scrapbook or a paperback and a few cans of an afternoon :)

Unboxing Ceremonies

The Girl's have been having a fight for space with my avidly-growing book collection for a while now, and choosing between the two wasn't even worth considering, so the time came for them to upgrade to their own black-shelf corner space in the Living Room.
Poor Lagoona has been in her box since before Christmas, but I wanted to get the Living Room properly finished and ready before I introduced her to the rest of the Girls ;)
I tidied away the Wallpapering table, cleaned out Twylla, gave the room a thorough clean and bought a bottle of wine for the occassion:

"I guess you're my new sister!"

She doesn't come with a stand, so popping her next to lonely eBay-liberated Rochelle was quite lovely. Poor Rochelle! She was sitting there all on her own still waiting for her Deuce! Hopefully Lagoona will give her a cuddle, share her hot chocolate and tell her that what will be, will be, Love!

I adore her, right down to the tentacley beverage and her slippers! She's kicking her legs in an elegantly careless and casual fashion and it just makes me go *squee* everytime I glance over at the corner.

The pink locker behind everyone was a present from my own Sister, and holds everyone's hairbrushes and Diaries.

Does anyone else have Unboxing Rituals - detailed or casual - when they bring a new Girl home or am I just weird?
Haha ;)

Sunrise - Post Nightshift

Dawn rises like heat, and warms with Hope those of us so predisposed to the Night.