Blood will Flow

Such a great message

My sad excuse for a coffee painting appears for a fraction of a second at 1:10 but nothing else from our team's efforts, sadly. Maybe later.

This week fell at a bad time for me, as I was going away from the Thursday, plus two members of our already reduced team of nine ended up not taking part, while a third was not feeling it... I somehow doubt our team will take part again (at least not together in the same format). One invisible person added herself to our team early on then never replied to any emails (which is the only contact route GISH gave) so we have no idea who she was!

However, looking back at what I did, it wasn't too bad. I had said this year I was only going to do challenges I really fancied, and that I was going to try and make them as good as I possibily could. I don't think I quite managed that, but it was a moderate amount of fun! And my active team mates did some fricking awesome stuff, so there is that.

Anyhow, here is a glimpse of my (part) week.

#121 SIDE-BY-SIDE. You know those garden gnomes that dotted your grandmother’s backyard? Well, it’s been a while and now they have fallen on hard times. They have turned to a life of crime and misanthropy. Their little gnome hearts are filled with despair, hatred, and regret. Show us the before and after.

When gnomes go bad...things get very dark, very quick.
( Image heavy post! )

My lovely friend Lois has made this beautiful animation for Remembrance Sunday, which is going to be projected onto Sherringham Hall in Norfolk. With her permission, I'm sharing a minute's silence here.

World War I ended on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918. People died on battlefields up to the last minute. Many died afterwards, from wounds. Millions died from the Spanish flu in the years that followed. These were sad and tragic times - and even though this war was so bloody and damaging, all war didn't end like it should have. People didn't learn.

So Remembrance Sunday is still relevant to us, and it doesn't matter that different countries have different days on which to do this - the more times we remember, the more we are drawn together in the hope that we can make the world a better place.

Just leaving this here because sometimes we need something life affirming and happy. A reminder that people can be kind and awesome.

Of course, I should be finishing my summergen, but Paul's got the footy on and I need some distraction from Ronaldo's sulking so...

'Road Trippin with Lucifer' || Supernatural Based Trailer from Vanessa Wais on Vimeo.

Now this has made me nostalgic for Seasons 4, 5 and 6. And a bit of 7 which I am nearly finishing re-watching.

Painting in the sunshine with occasional interruptions from the elderly neighbours whose garage I'm using, and real live bees that very much like the flowering bush by the garage door!

I finally uploaded to Youtube, and wanted to post here, as I see people are already making gifs from mine and other folks' vids (uncredited of course - geesh). Anyhow. I apologise for the unsteadi-cam. No tripods or camera supports were allowed this year because people are idiots, so hand holding for 30-45 minutes at a time messes up my shoulders and neck and means everything wobbles. (Ha ha what's new when you're 3 stone overweight?!)

Guess what. Saturday's J2 panel was crashed by Misha and where was the drama then?

One day I'll work out how to use iMovie to stitch these together but until then, here's part 2


JenMisha Panel with giant Jared bonus.

Part 2 including closing ceremony


You can find the rest on my playlists on Youtube, I just wanted to put some of the vids here.

This speech is fantastic. I feel like every man in the world should have to sit down and listen to this. The world needs more men like Justin, and my hubby. Men with intelligence, self awareness and sensitivity.
Happy international women's day!