Just Call Me Patchy ...

Tea cup from Jana at Tangled Pen

It would appear that patchiness is the order of the day at the moment

because in yet another joy that comes with chemotherapy

 I have lost parts of my eyebrows, not all of them... just most of them

which is hilarious in some ways, and bloody awful in others

for a couple of weeks I had just lost half of one 

so I looked like I had been the victim of some mad practical joke

but then bit by bit most of the others went out in sympathy... 

Phantom keeps threatening to stick fake mustaches over my eyes while I sleep one day

so the first thing I do when ever I wake up now is madly clutch above my eyes

to check to see if she has done it

cheeky sod is doing my head in

tea cup from Pat at Artfully Ooglebloops

So while my eyebrows fell out bit by bit... and eyelashes people...

 did I mention that... those suckers fell out too

I am somehow getting some fuzz on my head... I have like a five o'clock shadow on my dome

now some weeks this shadow falls out after my weekly dose

and others it hangs around... no rhyme nor reason

and not all of it falls out... like the brows and lashes... I have crazy, stubborn patches

 while other patches seem to fling themselves out of my head with great abandon

one day I wake up and it looks like someone has been shaving on my pillow

and the next week it hangs in there... bizarre... but kind of exciting too

I never know what I am going to look like from week to week

Mug from Boo from Stamp, Laugh Play

Following on with the patchy theme is that I finally got back to my

Cuppa With Friends Project

I didn't abandon it intentionally or mean to take such a break

and while part of me would like to say that I was associating it with my breast cancer diagnosis

because I was in the midst of it all when it happening

I know that I am just not that deep ... nothing wrong with being a shallow pool

and distraction got the better of me over the last few months

but I got back to it and completed these three new ones over the last two weeks

hardly settling the project back on fire, but I have another two started 

and it feels good to be back at it

even though I am a bit rusty on the drawing of handles

the first two were conveniently chosen due to lack of handles to ease me back into it

If you haven't emailed me a mug or a cup yet then get to it

who knows when I will get distracted again

The desk is now beckoning me to move my patchy haired head away from the computer

and get stuck into the hydrangeas I have had drawn up for a week

not the cups I have started... did I mention I get distracted!!!

the blooms on the plant are looking a bit patchy and faded in the summer heat

 so I had better get to it before they go the way of the hairs on my head

and they drop their insanely pink blooms completely 

have a great painting week everyone... xx

PS  ... a totally non patchy happening this week was that I won a spot in Soul Food

courtesy of Kristin Powers ... which totally made the week a great one ... excited to get started ... check out the link over on Kristin's blog if you want some info ...