The Butt End Of The Week ...

A few weeks ago Snap Lane from Twisty Lane sent me this awesome postcard

it was right up my alley as it had tea, books and flowers... three of my favorite things

 and she kindly gave me permission to paint it up

 well here it is...hope that Snap, who happens to be having a birthday today!!!!

 likes it as I am quite pleased with the result

  especially as it was created under some trying circumstances

 the loveliness of this image has been doing a great job of offsetting the weirdly disgusting happenings this week

 I have no clue why these things happen to me

but the studio has been inundated with issues emanating from the posterior region

Top of the list is the fact that my neighbor has had bad wind for days now

and I have been painting away to his melodious sound of his bottom burps

which is impressive as we don't live on top of each other

so his volume is up there to carry such a distance

At first I was blaming the dog, and while I was puzzled at his sudden volume

as he has always been a bit of a silent killer, drop and run type mutt

plus the fact that there was no eye watering stench made me suspect he was innocent

 then, for a horrified moment I considered that I was the culprit

 but surely I would be aware of such emanations wouldn't I

following this thought I heard a cough and fart and realized it was my neighbor

who was working away on his car in the back yard

and now I am oddly impressed at his volume while at the same time being deathly afraid to venture out in to the back yard in case the stench matches the volume

Accompanying this bottom symphony is the sheer stupidness of Mushu the wonder mutt

who has sat on an ant's nest... twice

which has led to him coming crying into the studio and me having to pick the ants off his butt

They are horrible big bitey ants so he has quite the cry which is just awful

though I have to say that pulling ants off your dog's butt is no picnic either

but to make it worse I usually put ice on his ant bites

which is quite acceptable as they are usually on his paws

so he cried until I went and got ice

 and he proceeded to lie back on my desk in the studio, with his head resting on this painting and I had to rub ice on his butt... seriously

which led to that sort of watery patch up in the top corner... that is dog butt meltage

all while the neighbor is trumpeting like a champion

I tell you my life just gets weirder

But life was not all painting and weird butt related incidents this week

I also had a brain wave and am combining ICAD

with a project to paint peoples cups and mugs

which I am calling the Cuppa With Friends Project

and thanks to Aimee for donating this first mug for the project...

and I have already received this mighty pile of photos

I love that people are getting behind this

and I have had some serious cup and mug envy between the farts and the ant bites

I am so excited for it to get started tomorrow

But I would love more photos, the more the merrier I say

so go to either the link to the last post

or there is a page at the top of the post that has all the details

I need your mug shots people

though can we keep any mug and cups that are butt related to a minimum after this week

a break from all things posterior would be very welcome...

Happy Paint Party Friday all...xx

Here is the link to the last post...

Calling All Mugs ...