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STARTED A NEW PAINTING

I must state that I havent actually started 'painting' yet but i have penciled it all out on my canvas today and its looking cool so far. Theres something a bit 'crossed' about the eyes but thats no biggy as its easily solved.

Its my usual thing, a rather moody and unflattering looking self portrait but i think i might try something new with colour this time as my strange thing about using bright colours with my skin tones has worn off me a bit. Although who knows what will happen.

I wonder if it will be good enough to enter into a couple of competitions that are coming up.. humm
18.12.06 18:13


A love-ly day

Yesterday the 15th of December 2006 Mark and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary. It was particularly special this christmas time because it is the first anniversary and christmas that we are engaged. The title of being engaged seems to make a difference in our security with eachother and in our relationship.

We stayed up until midnight the night before our anniversary as we couldnt wait until the morning to give eachother our prezzies. I made Mark a photobook from here and it had pictures from when we started going out up until now, and quotes from our love letters and emails and nostaligic bits from our relationship. Mark seemed to like it which was good.

Mark bought me a book of love poetry which I adore and he even picked out a poem specially for me which made me cry when i read it. It felt so nice that he knew me so well to pick out a prezzie that he knew i would love. I thought I would put the poem here for you guys to read. Its a really funny poem and i cried and laughed all through it when i first read it. The great thing is that it is just the sort of thing Mark says when he compliments me and it sounds like the words are just coming out of his mouth.

Valentine
By John Fuller

The things about you I appreciate
May seem indelicate:
I'd like to find you in the shower
And chase the soap for half an hour.
I'd like to have you in my power
And see your eyes dilate.
I'd like to have your back to scour
And other parts to lubricate.
Sometimes I feel it is my fate
To chase you screaming up a tower
Or make you cower
By asking you to differentiate
Nietzsche from Schopenhauer.
I'd like successfully to guess your weight
And win you at a fete.
I'd like to offer you a flower.

I like the hair upon your shoulders,
Falling like water over boulders.
I like the shoulders, too: they are essential.
Your collar-bones have great potential
(I'd like all your particulars in folders
Marked Confidential).

I like your cheeks, I like your nose,
I like the way your lips disclose
The neat arrangement f your teeth
(Half above and half beneath)
In rows.
I like your eyes, I like their fringes.
The way they focus on me gives me twinges.
Your upper arms drive me berserk.
I like the way your elbows work,
On hinges.

I like your wrists, I like your glands,
I like the fingers on your hands.
I'd like to teach them how to count,
And certain things we might exchange,
Something familiar for something strange.
I'd like to give you just the right amount
And get some change.

I like it when you tilt your cheek up.
I like the way you nod and hold a teacup.
I like your legs when you unwind them.
Even in trousers I don't mind them.
I like each softly-moulded kneecap.
I like the little crease behind them.
I'd always know, without recap,
Where to find them.

I like the sculpture of your ears.
I like the way your profile disappears
Whenever you decide to turn and face me.
I'd like to cross two hemispheres
And have you chase me.
I'd like to smuggle you across frontiers
Or sail with you at night into Tangiers.
I'd like you to embrace me.

I'd like to see you ironing your skirt
And cancelling other dates.
I'd like to button up your shirt.
I like the way your chest inflates.
I'd like to soothe you when you're hurt
Or frightened senseless by invertebrates.

I'd like you even if you were malign
And had a yen for sudden homicide.
I'd let you put insecticide
Into my wine.
I'd even like you if you were the Bride of Frankenstein
Or something ghoulish out of Mamoulian's Jekyll and Hyde.
I'd even like you as my Julian
Of Norwich or Cathleen ni Houlihan.
How melodramatic
If you were something muttering in attics
Like Mrs Rochester or a student of Boolean mathematics.
You are the end of self-abuse.
You are the eternal feminine.
I'd like to find a good excuse
To call on you and find you in.
I'd like to put my hand beneath your chin.
And see you grin.
I'd like to taste your Charlotte Russe,
I'd like to feel my lips upon your skin,
I'd like to make you reproduce.
I'd like you in my confidence.
I'd like to be your second look.
I'd like to let you try the French Defence
And mate you with my rook.
I'd like to be your preference
And hence
I'd like to be around when you unhook.
I'd like to be your only audience,
The final name in your appointment book,
Your future tense.

 

We also went to Port Lympne Wild Animal Park for the day yesterday and we spent hours and hours there as its a huge huge park with loads of animals. We were both equipt with our Nikons and long lenses and had a great day walking around and taking photos.

We went for Dinner at Pizza Hut which sounds strange for an anniversary, but its really nostalgic as we used to go there all the time when we first started dating, after he had picked me up from my house in kent to drive me to his house in Brighton for the weekend.

I had a great day. 
16.12.06 14:47


A day in London Town

I went to London today to visit my good friend Alex who I went to school with. It was a nice day, we went to covent garden where I refrained from spending any money, well not much anyway.

It was nice catching up, we had sushi and stuff and the weather kept reasonably nice so it was good.

It was a bit nasty on the tube coz it was rush hour and i had a bit of a panic and then I was all *heart beating* *thoughts going round and round* on the way home on the train which was very unpleasent.

Anyway I hope you like the xmas decorations ive put up around here... we are half way there now!! yay! 
12.12.06 22:10


Winter Wonderland

 
This Sunday Mark and I went to our first wedding fair at Stanmer House. We both loved the venue, and I REALLY loved the venue. It is quite expensive for a venue that offers nothing except the actual building and gardens but then we get to choose everything ourselves which i like the idea of.
We talked to lot of cool photographers and saw some very pretty things.
I saw some amazing flowers which I was extreemly impressed by
 
 
This guy which you can find here  does not have a florist shop, just a studio so his flowers really are art and you can see that from just looking at them.
 
We got some good ideas, Its obvious that all this stuff is rediculously expensive, but it really is gorgeous. But anyway it was really lovely to just look around and be a bride to be and have people talk to me and talk to people about being a bride. Eating cake was good too.. ;-) 
 
4.12.06 19:41


A Mathematical Joke

 

Now.. I have been stumbling upon this from all sides recently, a joke that I never understood.

Its that joke.. that Binary joke

In case anyone hasnt heard it.. here it is

There are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that dont.

I dont.

Therefore I decided that this mystery should be unravelled, because even if i am not 'in' in the deep world of computer programming or mathematics, I do have a brain.

Therefore I have researched this joke..

I wish i hadnt for two reasons,

1. I discovered there are other Maths Jokes

2. I felt a lot cooler when i didnt understand the Binary Joke!!

1.12.06 21:14


Pans Fantastic Labyrinth

I have been mardy and ill the last few days, and am still wrapped up in my duvet on the sofa today. However last night I rather foolishly wrapped up and left the house to visit the local Odeon to see Pans Labyrinth.

It was of course fantastic. I know i would have been more excited by it if i wasn't feeling so ill but i did manage to perk up enough to enjoy every second of it.

I was somewhat disappointed in the British Public, in that the guy behind the counter apologised to us when we bought the ticket, that it was a spanish film with English subtitles. Apparently they have had complaints and thought it best to warn everyone before they went in there. I happened to already know this about the film but even if i didnt, it couldnt have put me off. I thought that as its a spanish film from a film festival, people might have realised that it was an art film, and also wouldnt have been dubbed. Infact the spanish voices in the film did add to its ambiance and it wouldnt have been the same if it had been 'americanised' and dubbed. Anyway, you dont notice the subtitles at all, its odd, but its almost as if you can hear the film in your own language without having to read it.

Im not going to say much else about it because i dont want to ruin the surprise.. but i just want to say, that the story is convincing, the imagery and cinematography is second to none, the ending is interesting and puzzling, and it really says a lot. It is a fairy tale for adults, and definitely not suitable for children, its extremely violent and disturbing in parts. But it is magical, without being corny or obvious.

I advise you all to see it if you can, you may never get a chance to see a film like it ever again, it is truly unique.  
1.12.06 13:45


I donts

As the wedding plans in my house have not left the ‘im just thinking about it’ stage I am constantly looking around me for inspiration and ideas as to what I actually want from the day.

I am not one of those girls who have dreamt of my wedding day from the age of 0 and I am also not one of those girls that enjoy planning, or partying. I hate to be part of the crowd and I hate to be centre of attention, I hate it when people get drunk, I hate it when things are corny or predictable.

So if nothing else, I have come to the conclusion that I don’t want my day to be like a ‘wedding’ in the traditional sense. There are aspects of traditionalism that I enjoy and like about weddings and therefore I will include them when I feel it necessary, however I want my individuality and artiness to shine through, I want an unusual dress, unusual flowers, I want the place to be dripping with class, with elegance, with understated beauty.

 

I have been to a few weddings lately and hmm.. have noted some things I wouldn’t do that way.. So I have started to compile a list of DONTS that I know will never happen at a wedding that I am bride at. These things are things that have happened at weddings I have attended and that will never happen at mine.. (and I’ve restricted it to the top 20 as I could go on!)

 

  1. The groom/mother of the bride or groom /father of the bride or groom will not get drunk and fall over.
  2. There will be NO Grease medley played
    1. Infact there will be no bad party tunes played
  3. The first dance by the bride and groom will be the first dance of the evening
  4. There will be NO karaoke!!
  5. The buffet food will NOT consist of pork pies and scotch eggs
  6. I will not be seen dead in a dress that I am half hanging out of
  7. The bride and groom will not leave the party before 10pm
  8. I will not have a cake that is too small to share with anyone
  9. I will have candles on every table
  10. I will somehow make the atmosphere suitable for everyone so that its not just about a disco, that a lot of people feel uncomfortable with (and anyway I hate discos)
  11. I will not have flashing coloured lights
  12. I will not have a traditional ‘disco’ vibe
  13. I will not put the table plan together so that no one knows each other.
  14. I will NOT have plastic ‘school’ chairs with metal frames that rip my newly bought hold ups grr
  15. I will NOT have a bubble machine!
  16. I want a classy venue that looks stunning inside and out
  17. I DO NOT want anyone in hired suits and ‘weddingy’ waistcoats to come anywhere near me!
  18. There will be champagne
  19. The Groom will NOT grab my arse during the first dance
  20.  Robbie Williams WILL be hired to sing all night! ;-)

 

So I’m not particularly sure what I want – but I know that I don’t… oh yes! Heehee!
26.11.06 14:27


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