Oh, I'm having a Good day :-)

[bugshaw]

Thursday was good too, with a documentary about early female astronauts with beautiful photography of clouds, tea and home-made cake with hilaritas, dinner and talking to friends at Geek Pub, then back to the cinema for a time travel film that was actually quite satisfying. They usually annoy me.

Today I had a nice hour's walk in the sunshine to the hairdresser; thinking about tomorrow's pancake party I realised I could make a duck and hoisin sauce filling. A Sharpie-decorated room posted by marypcb clicked in my mind with my ideas for the downstairs bathroom, and I think I'm now in a position to actually do something with it! I might need help from someone to climb around the bathroom with string and pencils at some point. And I'm going to need a lot of Sharpies.

Skirting Tesco and Sainsbury's, I bought a lot of staples for pancake-making from the Co-op, and now I'm going to enjoy walking along Mill Road and buying things from Bacchanalia, Northrop's, Arjuna and Al-Amin.

Comments

[1ngi.livejournal.com]

That room is amazing!

Think the strength is the design and that it is all line work rather than solid blocks of colour - I can imaging stuff like this working really well too!

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/illustrations-vectors/4652986-floral-design.php?id=4652986

As line drawings - not with the background.

Hmmm - I've got a studio to decorate at some point...

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, that is good.

I'm thinking more along the lines of Escher's Symmetry drawings, start with a grid and a few tesselating creatures, stretch out the grid so its blocks are more irregular, maybe leave a few pens in the bathroom and see what happens :-)

[1ngi.livejournal.com]

Ooo - I like that idea :) Be careful of visitors disappearing for hours...

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Luckily we have another three bathrooms...

My blue sky goal could be to enter the room in Cambridge Open Studios next year :-)

[mkillingworth.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun. Should we bring anything tomorrow?

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

No, it's fine. Maybe a little beverage or crisps if you have such to hand? I'll get some beer from Bacchanalia but not huge amounts as I can't use leftovers.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is your downstairs bathroom now and you can do what you like with it! :-)

I seem to recall that Rymans were selling Sharpies at a discount the last time I was in there.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

> Yes, it is your downstairs bathroom now and you can do what you like with it! :-)

Mwa ha ha!

> I seem to recall that Rymans were selling Sharpies at a discount the last time I was in there.

Mwa ha ha ha!!

[del-c.livejournal.com]

That moving image is a great accompaniment to the article too. It's slow enough not to distract you from reading the text, unlike the obnoxious adverts that try to drill though your carefully-cultivated ad-blindness. But, eventually, you see everything: a lot more pixels than you normally get outside the medium of a glossy magazine.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Yes, I liked it a lot.

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

will see you tomorrow -am bringing self, booze but not Roger

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Yay :-)

[intelligentrix.livejournal.com]

When I read, my brain often supplies helpful words which are not exactly the ones on the page (this happens more often when reading on-line, for some reason). So instead of "bathrooms" I saw "ballrooms". Huh, I thought, Bug has not just one ballroom, but multiple ones? Just how big *is* this house of hers?

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

She'd need a lot more than $10 worth of Sharpies, too.

[lupie-stardust.livejournal.com]

The Sharpie room is the best thing I have ever seen.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

That's a cool room! If only I could draw...

And it's good to see we have the same favourite shops, though fruit, veg, cheese and bread from the market are also high on my list. And Limoncello.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Do come round for pancakes on Saturday if you like :-)

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I'm working until 4pm at least, and then I really must spend some time with my children before they forget what I look like.

Thanks for the invitation - hopefully another time...

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

DUCK!

And eeee to Sharpie-decorated bathroom!

And to having a good day!

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

The Works near the Grafton Centre was selling off a whole load of Sharpies last time I went in.

[fatdog.livejournal.com]

Hope you have/had (or are having) a good party!

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I'm still at the stage of being slightly fretful about the lawn-mowing that needs to be done, and the beverages to be purchased. And if I'm making pancakes, a frying pan might be useful :-)