under the weather...

My boy child is home today eeeeeel. This is such a rare occasion - Sass is in his third year at school and only been absent 2 days since starting school.... and even then he wasn't totally, yucky eeeeeeel.... Boots, the big cat, decided he needed a bit of feline support and has tucked himself up under my Sassie boy's chin (well I like to think that Boots offering feline support - rather than imagine that the fat cat is trying to smother my child!)

ahhhh poor boyo - hopefully a day in bed (under the care of the cat) will do the trick...


In and around kiddie care I'm still fiddling with booky things (mostly reading and attempting to do some more writing at this stage) - and still playing with circular coptic-bound beasties.... here is the latest......

created from pages of 'the green kingdom' volume of the Childcraft set....


Completing the tiny coptic circle in the centre was AGGHHHH!!!! (much swearing required to get this one to come together - the inner diameter is only about 15mm).... I've mostly been using the making of these as a form of meditation - I've often said that I do most of my thinking with my fingers...... (I'm very much a process-oriented arteeest) and making these has been a nice antidote to all the high-falluting reading and writing I'm currently in the thick of.....


Time to get a drink of water for the eeeeel child - and make sure that he hasn't been smothered by his nurse-cat (sick kiddies certainly put art and study and life into sharp perspective!)