Shambala Voodoo Luck

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Shambala is soon and Duggan and I are going to be performing very strange voodoo rituals and giving away voodoo fortunes.Talking in tongues, wearing leather capes with glitter, multi-coloured, terrifying, silly, costumes.Today I made the fortunes. Inside each tiny jar is a tiny fortune, some glitter and powdered paint.Pour out the contents, blow a puff of colourful, glittery cloud, find out your fortune.It's going to be fun.Here are some of the fortunes:

• You are an able man.

• You are a beautiful woman.

• Do or do not. There is no try.

• You’ll never be any good at gardening.

• He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

• The fortune you seek is in a different fortune.

• Your days shall be long and your dreams fulfilled.

• The nightlife is for you.

Angie GIF

Angie

Here's the wonderful Angela Chick in GIF format. She's great and makes nice things. 

Exciting Christmas Gift Ideas

You'd like to give out exciting Christmas gifts, correct? I'd love to have the money and time to buy everyone something which will be special to them for Christmas. Something they'll use, or that will excite or inspire them, or simply make them laugh. It's tough at Christmas, gifts become thrown to the back of my mind and at the last minute I'm worrying. Or forgetting people. Or getting resentful that my family is so big.I usually make things, which I enjoy and keeps it cheap. BUT I know I'll be searching for those few special presents for those special people, so here's some  things I've come across recently which I think would make brilliant gifts, and maybe you will too.Banter Banner believe we should celebrate the everyday. "no longer only for holidays, but for the everyday. As art. As design. As inspiration"'Good Times' banner. Loads more sayings available: Joie De Vivre // Sweet Dreams // Celebrate The Everyday$10Buy it here at BanterBanner.com.'Wild At Heart' Rosette. Hot pink ribbon with gold text: 'Wild At Heart' A quote from Lula, in Lynch's 1990 Wild at Heart: "This whole world's wild at heart and weird on top."$16Buy it here at BanterBanner.com.Fake PooMakes for a brilliant present. Nearly everyone ever finds this funny "This pile of brown doggie doo looks so realistic you can almost smell it."Cheap from Amazon/Ebay/Jokeshops.'Coast' by Marco Suarez: "These photos capture the beauty of Northern Ireland. Framing this photo in a circle creates an awesome composition that is sure to be a highlight in any room. The circle has a diameter of 13" and is printed on Somerset Velvet watercolor paper with archival inks. This photo is part of a limited run of 50 and each print is individually signed and numbered."$60Buy this print and others at Marco's Etsy shop.Hand painted geometric pendant. Painted on wood with a silver chain. By Vickygonart$24Buy this and other jewellery at Vicky's Etsy shop.'Crap' Text Artwork. Shamelsss plug here! I made this. Each piece is completely unique, with the fine lines drawn freehand and each letter individually hand-cut.£23No Etsy shop at present, but email me if you want to buy this- hello@lucybarfoot.co.ukMountain Δ Triangle Necklace by Adrienne Wroath. (made-to-order with love and care.) Adrienne makes handcrafted precious metal Jewellery. Her inspiration for is drawn from simple lines and shapes found within her environment, often focusing on geometric forms.$42You can buy this and other pieces from Adrienne's Etsy shop. And here is her blog

Chat Roulette with props

Chat Roulette

+ friends + props = fun

Also, very interesting. Rosemary Kirton is exploring this in her final major project on her Fine Art Degree at the University College for the Creative Arts at Farnham. Her blog's really interesting, and these two entries describe a bit about her work:

Screenshots of conversations

Asking herself questions about what she's doing

Rosemary is interested in the work of artist Marina Abramovic, who has just broken a Performance Art record by sitting for 700 hours. The audience is invited to sit opposite to her at a table, Abramovic looking into their eyes. Some last days, some last minutes.

Here's an article by the Telegraph

about the work.

Here's  Rosemary's blog entry

about Abramovic

Snowmen

I have enjoying the abundance of snow here in Bristol. I have made six snowmen in total. Look at these skinny necks. These two are five days old today. And also pictures is a beautiful lady which Mia and I sculpted, complete with lipstick and mini-snowball hair.

Supertoys

I went to the Supertoys exhibition at Arnolfini for the second time this Friday with my family. There is a workshop where you can take apart old toys and make them into hybrid new ones. Amazing. Crab-Girl is mine and Dino-Scull is my nephew Ben's.

Stall success!

Lucy and I had our stall! It was hugely successful, not just in terms of making a little bit of money (Enough to cover the stall and buy balloons and mulled wine) but it was also SUCH a fun weekend, I haven't laughed so much in ages.Angela & Yannick came to visit, they did some Blind Drawing workshops with us.

Elena came too, I drew her and her wild hair a few times. Nicole came on the stall for Saturday. We were the ever expanding stall! We got a star for being the smiliest stall too.Lucy's bears were really successful, they have such character. We're going to make some more of them together for the next stall. (Start the Bus has free stalls on Sundays?) No one bought my Nice, Love, Yes of Cup of Tea, but it was not the right place to sell those i think - they were quite expensive too.