screaming lulu

some other recent ipad frivolity

more ipad fun - this time with sketchclub

iPad obsession!

I treated myself to an iPad recently and I LOVE IT! Particularly the brushes and procreate apps .... Check out my work here:

This is a botox free area!

I am compiling a list of older women who make great role models - women who havent resorted to surgery or botox. Please feel free to make any recommendations (hello...?  anyone out there??!)

Julie Walters

Joan Bakewell

Vivienne Westwood

Judi Dench

Diana Rigg

Lauren Bacall

Honour Blackman

Anna Ford

Janet Street-Porter

Vanessa Redgrave

Meryl Streep

Harriet Water

Anna Massey

Mary Quant

Annie Nightingale

Jeanne Moreau 

Any more?

A new decade for me!

I have just turned 60 - I dont know if that's the same as when cheese turns mouldy but I don't feel mouldy, I feel good!  I had a great party and a lovely night out on the actual day with my boys and their girls.  I have also finished my dissertation - the conclusion can be read  here! and I am enjoying being an OAP (ghastly expression) and figuring out what to do next.

In the meantime I am doing an evening class in screen printing onto fabric which is fun and I am learning new skills and hopefully will get inspired to stitch again soon.  I have stitched this

and revived this blog as it is a good place to rant and celebrate, rather than my two, yes two, websites.  I did think I could combine it all together but I havent figured out a way to do this which suits me yet.

I have also been playing around with Illustrator and making some more images based on ghastly dating profiles. Have a look and if you like them, or dont, then let me know!

I don't know why these men think that having a fish in their photo is likely to attract women, but there are an awful lot that are accompanied by a large, grey, wet, dead animal.  And the fish aren't very attractive either...

I'll upload some screen prints soon and hope to update this blog more regularly.

If any woman over 45 would be willing to fill in this short questionnaire, I'd be most grateful please! thank you

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Tonight I will be stitching here http://www.residencepop-up.com/# while people eat drink and make merry. I will be making stitchures of some of the diners. Cripes, no pressure then!

check out http://www.ink-d.co.uk/whats-on/2010/03/group-show-renegade-potters-and-extreme-craft where I am exhibiting my dating profiles, swearing pieces and blow job images! Hurrah, they wont be banned either!
Private view this evening, exhibition is on for a month. Check it out!

Oooo so busy at uni, lots to do and all of it keeping me away from here and from my sewing machine :(

My 3 blow jobs images were exhibited briefly (and badly) at Shoreditch before being removed as they offended someone! I am amazed quite frankly but imagine if they were naked shots of women then that would have been acceptable (and so normal that no-one would have noticed really). Of course these images are uncomfortable and disturbing - that's the fucking point Shoreditch people! And I thought it was such a hip and cool area; clearly not!

More absence....  I am reading, writing and watching old films (in preparation for a 5000 word term paper about Katherine Hepburn and her reel life vs her real life); my sewing machines are quiet and lonely and gathering dust...  I must return to them pronto, maybe this weekend, yes, I will, I will sew something this weekend.  I'm tired, I'm sleeping badly, my new pc has gone away for its 2nd repair and I am preparing for 2 christmas shows - one here and one here    oh and I have had a new haircut :)

So yes, I am busy and hot and tired but mostly happy.

More soon....