cliodhna’s wave

Hiya, its monday morning and I am awake after really strange dreams. In one I was in a zombie film where we (the survivors) were getting ready to leave the earth. The sun had also been damaged. I wasn’t sure I wanted to go. The earth still looked so beautiful and I didn’t really want to go into the great vastness and blackness and coldness of space.

I recieved the ‘You make my day award’ from Lori at The MorningGlory Vine, a nice surprise. She also tagged me to share seven odd random facts about myself and then I got tagged by pherenike also! so seven odd random facts here we come..

(1) I once had a sixties party to be able to wear this very cool long orange paisley dress I bought in a second hand clothes shop. It was one of the coolest parties I had. Everyone turned up in sixties dress, some beatnik some hippy.

(2) I believe everything is possible (by everything I do mean everything) its just I haven’t discovered how yet. When I find out the answers I’ll let ye all know

(3) Some of my favourite books are ‘Gormenghast’ by Mervyn Peake, the Moomin family stories by Tove Jannson, ‘Winne the Pooh’ for his wonderful outlook on life, ‘Momo’ and ‘The Neverending story’ by Micheal Ende. Good science fiction and anything by Neil Gaiman (he wrote the Sandman Comics). Oh, and ‘My Family and other Animals’ by Gerald Durrell. a comic classic of his familys time living in corsica just before the second world war.

(3) My favourite colour is prussian blue, preferably in just applied oil paint. I once painted a big canvas in prussian blue in preparation for more images and I just could not paint over it. I would sit and just stare at it!

this is hard! I am stuck… ok, think cliodhna think! ah ah!

(4) I hate the way I can never think of the perfect thing to say when I need it! either when I am angry or want to say something funny or like right now trying to think of seven odd things about me. Actually it works much better in spanish for some reason, don’t understand why.

(5) I have to have my feet outside the bedclothes at night. Have to, I get claustraphobic otherwise. I even cut the bottom out of one of those tubular sleeping bags once (i sewed it up and everything so it wouldn’t fall apart.)

(6)my biggest fan is my dog, a big slobbery rotweiller. Actually both me and Paul receive sheer mindless adoration (unless of course there is food around when we are completely ignored in favour of the possessor of snacks) . There is also the cat, she is part siamese and is beautiful and she follows me round the house during the day also, but she is more contained and comfort based in her affection.

(7)I had a previous life as a musician, playing fiddle with bands. Jazz, traditional folk, rock, who ever needed a fiddle player. I decided to concentrate on my pictures. I prefer the process of painting a picture. Plus its mine, whereas with music I was always contributing to someone elses art. It was good fun though. Check this link out, its from a band I played with about fifteen years ago. We were cool, I liked playing their music. The River Babies

Ok, so now to pass the award on. I have to pass it on to seven people and I reckon I will do what Lori did and tag the people I give the award to, so seven random facts folks!

To Susanne Ils at The Bone Singer. She has beautiful pictures and a wonderful connection to the mythological and magical side of ireland

To Sheena Ludlow for her cool blog where there always something round and yummy to look at (including a story about a hamster ball )

The Irish Sally Gardens, a blog about sustainable living in ireland. Always an interesting read. Makes me want to move to my own farm!

Into the Hermitage for her stories and wonderful strange images

To a blog called ‘Snozzberries??!? Who ever heard of a snozzberry’, cause of the name and she makes me laugh

Sepia Art Studio for her art, delicate and evocative

and to Florence at Windbag and Thunder for her toys and her blog Crackle Mountain full of asian folk tales

What else this monday morning? I finished my t-shirt design

I posted it on threadless and they will contact me in a few business days to tell me its in the running. its all very exciting! I will inform ye when its up and ye can all go vote for me :)!

Ok, time to go paint for a while, I have been working on the computer for the last few days and I itch to get a paintbrush in my hand again. Happy week! make a monday wish, write it on a piece of paper and hang it from a tree till next monday… xx