21/02/2010 by Peter Sewell.

My little sister sent me this - I take no credit, or blame!

Chicken Surprise

A couple go for a meal at a Chinese restaurant and order the ‘Chicken Surprise’,
The waiter brings the meal, served in a lidded cast iron pot.

Just as the wife is about to serve herself, the lid of the pot rises slightly and she briefly sees two beady little eyes looking around before the lid slams back down.

‘Good grief, did you see that?’ she asks her husband. He hasn’t, so she asks him to look in the pot. He reaches for it and again the lid rises, and he sees two little eyes looking around before it slams down..

Rather perturbed, he calls the waiter over, explains what is happening, and demands an explanation.

(You’re going to love this………………..
You’re going to hate yourself for loving this!…………. )

‘Ah! sorry,’ says the waiter, ‘I brought you Peeking Duck!’

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15/02/2010 by Peter Sewell.

This is Artemis - the goddess associated with the Dryads of the forest. Made as an anniversary present for Nina, after 19 years she deserves a gift!

The cabochon is a 4cm x 3cm Kambaba Jasper, and the shiney bits are Swarovski jet navettes. All hung on a St Petersburg weave necklace using Miyuki delicas and Toho seed beads.

I will not be making anything spectacular for a while, I have a project ongoing which will take most of my time, but I was e mailed a  very interesting design from my sister……………………who’s a better artist than me! That’s going to be the next piece!

Artemis

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13/02/2010 by Peter Sewell.

I’m not going to say anything about last night’s ‘Pop Star to Opera Star’ vote. Except that to get rid of Marcella Detroit - one of the most emotion instilling coloratura sopranos ever to hit a recording studio - in favour of ‘Hit Me Baby One More Time’ Darius Dinesh/Campbell begs one question…………………do we have a new strain of flu that makes anyone voting by telephone tone deaf?

The ironic thing is that now Marcella’s been voted off I can watch the new series of The Mentalist next Friday at the same time as Bernie Nolan is wiping the floor with pretty boy.

See? I said I wasn’t going to mention it.

New design - Artemis - is nearing completion. I got talked into making it a ‘work in progress’ on my Facebook page, so it won’t be too much of a surprise when she’s finished!

New knee a week on Monday. It should be better than the left one was, there’s more to work with for a start!

Here’s some camels in Saudi Arabia…………………….

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