Cats in the Kitchen, Flora in the Garden

Will someone please say to me 'Daisy you must have enough glitter, shiny paper, sequins, tinsel etc to decorate the world by now. Cease increasing the stock immediately!' I must now concentrate on the making not the buying. First though, I thought I would do this post, showing some of the challenges I am probably the last to do, I know I will probably be the last to play my Streams of Consciousness game. It, the cobbler's children and their shoes syndrome.

Up above, to the right, we have the Coffee Cup Challenge. This, technically, is my favourite coffee mug but alas I can't use it too much. It is developing fine hairline cracks, so I don't want to overuse it. I see it everytime I go into the dining room though as it hangs off a hook on my dresser. I was musing as I was colouring my mug, what fun if there was some way we could put all the cups and mugs together and look at them in a row or a square. Any one got any ideas if this is possible?

To the left, below, is my take on the Angelic Earth Challenge. Please don't look too closely at the landmasses on our planet, lets just say I used poetic or artistic license. My angel or fairy with a halo is holding the planet in her arms and weeping for the madness of human behaviour towards Mother Earth.



I don't know if anyone remembers but sometime ago I uploaded a photo of my dining room, as someone was asking about my Portmerion pottery collection. One or two people said any other rooms to show. I said, fine and tooks loads of photos of other rooms, well the ones I am 99 per cent pleased with. Well you know me, not exactly good at getting films developed they tend to hang around the house for weeks until one day, I think 'ah ha'. I have just had a film back and it has the room photos on it. I know, if we are truthful we are all nosey parkers, sticky beaks, or whatever the local word is for being 'curious' shall we say. I will be uploading one room at a time and giving you a 360 degree tour of it.

To make it more interesting than just a set of photographs, I am also between the photos going to do a meme that I first saw on Janet's site and stole off her, I think Sheila has done this too. I am not tagging any one to do it but it is quite an odd little meme. I have also got for another day an Alpha meme from Maryellen and a colour one I pinched from Blue the Spa Girl's site. Both will follow in due course.

So this is our main room, which you enter straight off the street. It is my favourite room in the cottage, excluding, of course, my artroom. We mostly use it in the evenings and don't turn the light on but use candles and incense. If one of us is reading we just use one ot the spot lamps trained down on the book. Can anyone spot our Green Man, my guardian?


Someone knocks your door at 2am, who do you want it to be?
Someone who has knocked at the wrong door, my husband and children, if they are out can let themselves in. In the normal way of things, nothing good can come of a knock at the door at that time.



Your boss tells you he/she will give you a $20 raise if you'll do your job naked. Do you stay and take the raise?
I am my own boss so I am hardly likely to be involved with this.

Put yourself in a nutshell?
It's a tight squeeze! Sorry [hee hee], fey, floaty jingley, mad, bad and dangerous to know [I will lead you astray from a tunnel visioned world]

Ever seen a ghost?
Yes, Apart from my ghost cats, I have told the tale about one of my ghosts on this site.



Happy with your body?

No, not really I love the wisdom of age but would love a young body again to wear really outrageous clothes and have some piercings and a tatoo.

A reason to move to Iceland?
Definitely, not for the cheap standard of living.

A place you've lived that you miss?

None really, each move has got me to nicer scenery, my ideal place would be at the sea, ideally in Cornwall.

A job you'd never do, no matter how much you were paid?
Mortician. When I was about eleven my best friend's father was one, the tales she used to tell to scare us, never been quite sure which were true and which weren't. Probably best not to know, when I remember some of them.

A band/group you thought was cool when you were 13?
Herman's Hermits [as if they could ever be cool]! Quickly followed by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

You have a nightmare, who's the first person you think to call?
My husband usually wakes me from them.

Wanna have kids before you're 30?
Had my son at 27 and my daughter when I was 32, so been there done that and worn out the tshirt.



A memory from high school?
The dreadful grey flannet gym skirts we wore, a sort of culotte idea. They were really rough and scratched your legs on cross country runs, until my friend and I realised if we stopped beside the war memorial in the park, as no teacher came with us, we could catch the runners on the way back and have a quick smoke. It ended in disaster as more and more naughty girls hung out at the war memorial and the good girls tittle-tattled on us! Also the fad, we were not allowed to wear stockings or tights, of wearing american tan tights under white socks, how on earth did we think they would not be spotted.

Ever had a crush on a friend's parent?
Good grief no, they were old fusspots.

Do you look like your Mom or Dad?
Depends who you talk to, I can see both in my face.



Something you've always wanted to learn to do?
Don't laugh, knit really well and really fast, able to makeup patterns and finish complicated items very quickly. Knitting apart from garter and stocking stitch totally defeats me.

How you'd like your life to be in 10 years?
With my husband, happy,healthy living in Cornwall by the sea with three cats, a dog for my husband to walk and some hens.


Something you learned this year?

The fun that blogging is when you make really good cyber friendships.

What do you want for your birthday?
I have just had my birthday and was more than satisfied with the beautiful presents I received.



Name 4 things you did yesterday?
Bought the rest of the Christmas baking ingredients, visited my mother,met someone I have not seen for 39 years, more about that another time and spent a leisurely evening reading.

Last item you bought for yourself?
A necklace that called my name.

What did you have for breakfast?
Apple juice, weetabix and coffee.

Name a celeb you have a crush on?
Wow Johnny Depp

Name the last 3 songs you heard?
Old Mountain Woman - Neil Young, Ain't Necessarily So -Jamie Cullen, I'm All right - Madeleine Peyroux.

How many hours of sleep do you get each night?
About six, on a Sunday eight.

What do you wish you were doing right now?
Having a meal and a drink in our favourite pub in Penzance, Cornwall, just the place to be on a rainy Friday evening.


Who's the first person in your phone book on your cell?
Local taxi firm as it begins with B.

Last time you witnessed a fight?
One night as I was being driven through the city about a year ago, two young men punching each other.

Name 3 places you'd like to travel to?
Really I would love to go on the Orient Express right through Europe. Oh forgot to mention I want to go back in time and do it. That would take me through more than three places.



Do you know how to ice skate?
Once I could just about stand up on ice.

Name something you like that's out of the ordinary?
It's not really out of the ordinary but most people don't like them, I like spiders.

What do you think of Brad Pitt?
Not my type.

What color are your toenails ?
The pink they arrived with.

Do you own anything with a skull on it?
Yes, a pirate's hat - don't ask.

Last movie you watched?
Lord of the Rings

Where were you when you had your first kiss?
In the playground under a tree.

Last board game you played?
Scattogories, a good few years ago. Not really into board games.

Leather or lace?
Lace and it would probably be vintage lace.

Ever had a black eye?
Never.

Have you ever worn fishnet stockings?
Yes when I was younger and there was a fad for them.

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Until the end of January.
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