THE GIANT PARTY ANIMALS!

Wow! I was pouring drinks at the aftershow party for the ROYAL DE LUXE Giant puppeteers lastnight! Really fun people-watching night. Those guys can seriously party! Made some friends, and tried Pernod for the first time... Bleurgh! The night ended with a VERY raucous dance-off which seemed to span every inch of the club, to Rage Against The Machine! Haha!

IT'S TIME TO PARTY!!!!!!!!!

TONIGHT, TONIIIIIIIGHT! - Tonight I FINALLY get to "get totally ROCKED" by one of my TOP TEN!!!! ANDREW W K!!!!! I am SO. VERY. EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-D

RDL GAINTESS!!!

The incredible ROYAL DE LUXE crew are already in Liverpool, testing routes and getting into our groove, I guess!?
THE GIANT GIRL IS COMING! I cannot wait!!! :-D xxx

APRIL FOOL!

Hahaha! Totally need dual-mice at The Hive!

HAPPY FOOLS DAY, my fellow idiots! ;-)

And here, incase you don't already love it too, is my favourite April 1st news hoax... The spaghetti harvest! In 1957, Richard Dimbleby narrated a short film report for BBC's Panorama, which claimed to document Swiss/Italian farmers, struggling to cope with a particularly successful year's "Spaghetti Tree" crop! The report is thought to have been watched by 8 million astonished and bemused viewers, among them the then-director of the BBC, Ian Jacobs, who admitted having to look up “spaghetti” in his encyclopedia. CNN has since dubbed this public gag “The biggest hoax any reputable news establishment ever pulled,” I LOVE it! x

TELL MEEEEE WHEN....!?

...Will I see you agaiiiiiinnnn?! (Nah-nah, nah-nah, nah-nah, nah!) x

WICKER WARBLES!

Seriously re-addicted to the Wicker Man soundtrack. It's been flowing like honey, all around the studio for days! Look out for Willow inspired folk outsider jewellery from BUG POP this summer...

BUG IN THE HOOD!

Doc called me into the living room today, to show me the youngest tagger I've seen yet! This kid was about six years old, and had some fat chalk! After writing her statement (seemingly a protest or warning about some guys jarg taste, or lack of eye for a bargain) she ran away, then came back and went over it again in a different colour! By which time I had stopped laughing enough to grab my camera!
I love my neighbourhood!

WHAT'S COOKIN'?!

Today I made Gnocchi! It was a cheats recipe. Like this:

* 50g (2 oz) instant mashed potato
* 225ml (8 fl oz) boiling water
* 1 egg, beaten
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
* 200g (7 oz) plain flour


1. Place potato flakes in a medium bowl. Pour in boiling water; stir until blended. Let cool.
2. Stir in egg, salt and pepper. Blend in enough flour to make a fairly stiff dough. Turn dough out on a well floured work surface. Knead lightly.
3. Divide dough in half. Shape each half into a long thin roll, the thickness of a breadstick. With a knife dipped in flour, cut into bite-size pieces.
4. Place a few gnocchi in boiling water. As the gnocchi rise to the top of the pot, remove them with a slotted spoon. Repeat until all are cooked.

BUG-POP-BABY-DAY!

I agreed to have my niece for the day today, so lastnight I spent ages baby-proofing, as she's just walking, and putting everything in her mouth! As I work from home, there were jewellery parts, beads, charms, fastenings, links, and pins hidden EVERYWHERE around the room and ingrained into the rug! The day was hectic, to say the least! SO exhausted now!!! Here's a picture of her morning nap-time. The calm before the storm! Haha!

TOO MUCH TO DREAM!

I got asked to curate a DJ SET for Upitup Records. Here it is available for free download and streaming!

HOME MADE TAPAS FOR ONE!

Stopped to make this little feast! Ate it at the computer... Self-Accounting sucks! :-/

BUG POP TV! - Ep 1

BUG POP TV! Is a channel direct from The BUG POP Hive! Each episode has a theme based on the inspiration behind one of our own BUG POP creations! Today's show celebrates one of our favourite subjects, The Robot, and our "MR ROBOTO NECKLACE" available in Limited Edition at the website - www.bugpop.co.uk - We have watched through hours of cartoons, clips, documentary footage and films, and boiled down the best nuts and bolts into Three And A Half Hours of Robot-lovers gold!!! A perfect evening's viewing, and not a Car Insurance advert in sight! Sit back, and enjoy BUG POP TV's... DAY OF THE ROBOTS!!!.....

POOR-TUNE!

"DON'T LET YOUR MIND WANDER. IT'S TOO LITTLE TO BE LET OUT ALONE!" Gee Thanks Mister Blue Dragon! So glad I spent 30p to have you tell me I have a tiny mind! Haha! What a start to the day! Although, I guess in truth, the advice is pretty fitting and hence well-suited. Off with the internet and on with the design Thinking-Cap! ;-)

BLISS IS THE LIFE!

Holiday is located in heaven! I have turned into the Eliza Doolittle of the party, merely for the fact that literally EVERYTHING around us, and the beauty and luxury we have been living in, excites and enthuses me, and brands me with a permanent silly grin, and a hundred thankyou's! The rest of the family have enjoyed it all, but it has been taken very much more in their stride! Soppy-Enthusiastic-Overexcitable English Girl, anyone?! ;-)

VACANZA A FILICUDI!!!

Mr G's Dad has brought the family on holiday to the Eolian Islands- a small row of rugged, arrid islands off of Sicily, with pebble beaches and the clearest sea water I have ever seen. So much Sun, and Realx, and gooood food! Apart from being stung by a Jellyfish yesterday within 3 minutes of entering the sea, I am in heaven! Infact, I even quite enjoyed that experience as part of the adventure!

BRAMBLING ROMAN STYLE

I did so much Blackberry picking when I was a kid. Free stuff, doomed to dry out and fall off it's tree-perch, unless you, the hero picks and eats it! And weren't they ALWAYS growing in abundance in some walled off wasteland, or bit of somewhere that you couldn't quite get to?! We went picking in a big wasteground by the American School today, and in Roma they get to pick wild figs too!!! Really! We got a ton, and they were the best fresh figs I have ever tasted! YUM!

BUG POP BUTCHER-MAN!

Had the wierdest dream lastnight, about a fat mustaschio man in a white apron, spattered with blood. THE BUG POP BUTCHER! Haha! He was horrible! He didn't really do anything, I mean it was one of those dreams where nothing happens... but things just...are. Glad to be awake! Have sent this pic to the Dream Police! ;-)

ETSY TREASURY: WOLFMAN

Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?! Not me! I LOVE him! This Etsy Treasury's dedicated to my real-wolf-loving bezzie Jewelly (Mepresents)! <3 CLICK HERE TO SEE IT!

ETSY TREASURY: CIRCUS!

Yesterday I / JetGirlVintage, (yes another pseudonym/off-shoot project!) made an Etsy Treasury. The theme... CIRCUS!!!
CHECK IT OUT UNDER THIS LINK!

FOUL MADAMS!

YUM!!!!!!!!! Made Foul Mudammas for lunch today, with all the trimmings, for my lovely Rebecca and Jewelly! <3