A Big thank you to Pip and Shane for a wicked party, the games were fab, but Pip you are unnaturally bendy and you must have been practising for ages with that cornflake box! I’ll let you off as you do make a scrummy pumpkin cake though, I polished the last of it off, thank you very much!

I’m needing to show off my attempt at a Halloween cake, I had much fun making it, even though my hands were still bloody from gouging out five gigantic pumpkins.

More paintings to be added to Mazoo soon folks!

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Very sorry Tracey, but what a great photo (feel free to slap Nathan), it really did need to be shared with the world, its the look of joy on your face and that big yellow pee mark, just lovely. Let this serve as a warning to all who enter my dysfunctional home! A bad Bunny lives here LOL.

He is being very cute and is enjoying binkying up and down the house this morning, his coordination is about as good as mine though so he tends to be doing 70mph around the lounge, not remembering there is a wall in his way and binkys straight in to it! Then looks at me like ‘i meant to do that’. 

I really want to get him a new hutch, but i think Hubby might just hand me the divorce papers if i get him the one i want, its got a hefty price tag of £360, but they are designed to last for a minimum of 10 years (and its pink)!

I just wish the little fur ball would stop trying to chew my laptop wire, typing and playing bunny tug of war isn’t terribly easy. He’s going to have a wonderful time later, Ive got some textured paintings to do, which means sand everywhere. Rabbit stew anyone?

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There will be no returns on these paintings, but I’m certain that once you get your chosen piece that you will not want to part with it, all paintings have the nice modern chunky gallery edge style.

The paintings in the Clearance section may have some flaws in them, but it is usually only a bit of dust as they have been on display ( i do give them a clean up before dispatch!) on the whole they are in good order and if there is any noticeable flaws it will be added to the paintings description to keep you informed.

Some lovely new additions to the clearance section:

Rebellion 24″ x 36″ ( 3 parts, each part measuring 12″ x 24″) Usual price £262.50 Clearance price £131.25

Choc Dream 24″ x 36″ Usual price £232.50 Clearance price £116.25

Chocolate Heaven 24″ x 36″ Usual price £232.50 Clearance price £116.25

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‘Dragonfly glow‘ is inspired by the long distant relatives of the dragonfly’s we see today, it was painted at 12″ x 24″ per canvas with the entire piece without spaces measuring 24″ x 36″. Dragonfly Glow can now be purchased through Mazoo in the size above for £262.50, larger sizes also available at extra cost.

If totally abstract isn’t your cup of tea, i can be commissioned to paint whatever takes your fancy or perhaps ‘Dragonfly and the Lily’ is more to your taste? Prices starting from £127.50 for a 12″ x 24″ gallery edge style canvas, again, larger sizes also available at extra cost.

Dragonflys are prehistoric, they were fluttering around about 300 million years ago and they were once much much larger than the cute little fellows we see now, their wing spans were about two and a half feet.

I often see people wearing silver jewelery in the shape of dragonfly’s, so i know I’m not alone in this, but i would love a broach which looks totally like a dragonfly, so much so that it could fool people into thinking that one just landed on me (if anyone knows where i can get one please do tell).

When i was a tiny tot living in Birmingham i used to go for walks with my family in the Dingles, which as i remember it, was a small woodland with a pretty stream running through it, along the banks of the stream we used to see the beautiful flash of kingfishers darting by, but by far my favorite was of course the dragonflys, i remember it as a magical place beautiful and natural. I think they built houses there, hopefully some of the magical place i remember remains for the children who live in those houses. 

All of those years ago I went to Billesley primary school and we did a performance dressed up as mini beasts, i can remember kids wearing sleeping bags being cocoons, i was so proud to be a Dragonfly, i remember reciting a poem about them, i just wish that i could remember the poem. Flutter flutter.

Here’s a photo of me at primary school, for a bit of fun you can guess which one is me, i blame my Mom for that nasty fringe! LOL

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I hadn’t planned on getting him, he just went all fuzzy and doe eyed at me, spellbound, i couldnt help myself, i had only gone into the pet shop to get some Hammy supplies and sent Hubby off to the garage to do the bloke jobs, by the times Hubby got back i was choosing a hutch for my new found love, Flopsy!

Long suffering Hubby was not impressed, I guess they knew he was only joking in the shop when he told them of his plans for rabbit stew (a very expensive meal was their reply LOL),  but Flopsy is gorgeous and it doesn’t matter how many of the household wires he has chewed through, or how embarrassing it is when you have a guest over and he pees all over them, you just cant help but love the little fur-ball.

The eldest has now become an expert at using electrical tape ‘quick before Dad sees it!’ The youngest enjoys flicking the rabbit poo around and we all enjoy torchering Dad with oops bunny pooped in the lounge again!

I didn’t realise just how cute and responsive rabbits are, he is very cheeky, loves a mini game of tug of war, binkying across the house and snuggling up next to me, although i think he has a bit of a foot fetish, if your not wearing socks he will pester and lick your feet, yick.

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This one will be added to the store in the Abstract Art category soon, although, as Ive been playing with texture quite a lot recently, I’m considering starting a new category in the Mazoo store purely for Textured artwork, I mainly use sand, because i enjoy the way it soaks up the paint creating heavy texture, but i have previously dabbled in texturizing ( Did I make up a word ? ) my paintings with marble and semi precious stones like amethyst, using glue and resins so as to keep the original colours of the stones. In the mean time if you are interested in having me create a textured painting for you, using whichever medium you choose, contact me and i’d be happy to do so.

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Happy Fathers Day Grampy!

Fishing was lots of fun, buy you some more floats i promise!!!   :0) xxx

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To my cutie Hubby,

Have a fab day, may you eat tooo much KFC and NOT get food poisoning from my cake! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Its not quite as grand as the one her Grandma made for her (two cakes, spoilt rotten or what!?) but, If you could just pretend to be super impressed with my effort because I’m not best known for my cooking talents, i tried! Check out the pics, the room is somewhat dazzling on the eye, but your only 10 once i suppose. I shall be adding the cow canvas to mazoo for sale soon-ish, she hasn’t named it yet, its pretty weird looking, like most of my animal paintings so funny name suggestions welcome?

We went off to paignton zoo, where it peed it down for the entire day,  it was still much fun and its a nice big, well kept zoo, so i didn’t leave feeling too depressed about animals in locked up in cages, apart from their new crocodile swamp, that did seem a touch on the cramped side, if I’m being honest i didn’t really want to go in there, they scare me, i may be vegetarian, but Ive never been very good at it, i like crocodile skin handbags a bit too much. Just call me Cruella, no, perhaps not, i like Dalmatians far too much for that.

I was looking forward to seeing the bats, so very cute, Rodriguez fruit bats i believe, but i couldn’t get any good photos of them as I’m not too great with my new camera yet and i didn’t want to use my flash, don’t think they would appreciate that. The sleeping Leopard was adorable, she looked so cuddly, I’m sure she thought we looked like tasty treats!

Just to add to the animal mix, here’s a pic of a painting i did a while ago which i will also add to mazoo for sale soon, I’ve got tons of new art which i keep meaning to add, again its one of my weird animals, ‘Zed’ his ears remind me of speakers!

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