Twinkling Georgia....

I got a couple of emails during the week asking about the birthday Yoda

and whether Phantom Steve had made it for me yet

and I must report that poor Yoda has not made an appearance so far

and despite a conference with her friend, Lenny the origami guru

poor yoda is still eluding her

but she is totally forgiven for being remiss

because one present that her and Sinus Man got me was Twinkling Georgia here

a glorious plastic cow skull

complete with twinkling lights

she is glorious right

Some of you may be a touch perplexed as to my delight, and the name

but anyone of my vintage who went to any sort of art school will totally get it

we were all subjected to at least one teacher, who in their passion for Georgia O'Keeffe

hogtied us to many hours of tonal drawings of cow skulls

albeit without twinkly lights, and usually without a moustache

I spent many a Monday morning in my student days

sitting in the drawing studio grumbling about bloody skulls

though there were times I was uncannily grateful

as Sunday night used to be a bit of a night on the town

and facing life class was infinitely tougher when you are feeling a bit delicate

especially as we had one rather hairy, middle aged, very overweight man

who favoured poses mirroring the athletes from Greek pottery

let me tell you being late to class when he was the model was never good

as you ended up spending three hours being confronted by a very hairy butt

reliving its younger, more athletic days

almost enough to make you stop drinking

note to Phantom... this is all based on hearsay of course 

as I was the perfect student and never went out clubbing on a Sunday night

and I always sat primly ready for class with all my supplies lined up

but I saw others wandering in with two different shoes on and rogue glitter still in hair

shocking behaviour for university students and I know you will never stoop to such lows

So in a glorious nod to those days I now get to see Twinkling Georgia everyday

she sits above my computer and makes me smile

so Yoda can turn up when he gets here as I have her to talk to instead

she has kept me company all week

as I embarked back into the land of the Cuppa With Friends Project

which meant I jumped in and drew up this lovely lidded mug that I also got for my birthday

I painted it up as a bit of a practice for getting into mug and cup mode for the project

which has been so awesome to get back to I must say

If you haven't already done so

you need to go back to Tuesday's post as there is a giveaway for the relaunch

and if you don't enter then you can't win can you

In fact some mugs and cups are calling me now so I am going to get painting

happy painting all...xx