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'The Artist's Way' by Julia Cameron is my 'go to' book when I am feeling in need of a creative push. I have had my battered old copy since 1995. It is described as: 'A Course in Discovering and Recovering your Creative Self.' It is a twelve-week programme which aims to rouse one's spiritual and creative self from its slumbers. It is all too easy to 'fall asleep' in your own life, to fall into the day-to day routine, to stop looking, really looking around you, to stop listening to your inner voice, to stop noticing the blossom on the trees, the fresh grass, the robin on the bird table. It's all too easy to stop laughing, dancing, and playing. 'The Artist's Way' doesn't offer a pain free, instant recovery (or discovery) of your creative self, but it is a workable plan that wakes you up to yourself and allows your inner artist to rejoin the party that is you. First things first and I have signed the contract committing myse

Got the all-clear from the doctor today. Am sending love to the universe.

"I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness, I can't do without them." "I have always adored beautiful young men. Just because I grow older, my taste doesn't change. So, if I can still have them, why not?" Asked what the best day of her life was, she replied "It was a night."

Oil on card by Celia Turner. My beloved grandma always wore red lipstick, she would not leave the house without a full face of make-up crowned by her lush red lips. It must be in my genes because for as long as I've been wearing lipstick (which is a long time) it's been red. Now it's Alarm by Rimmel to walk the dog around the park and Gabrielle by Chanel for special occasions. Chanel lipsticks are an extra special treat as they come in lovely little boxes tucked into lovely little Chanel bags. A beautiful present to yourself. Although this doesn't apply to me, red lips have been seen for centuries as a stamp of immorality. In more God- fearing medieval times, it was believed that creating a plump sexualised mouth would take you on a one-way ticket to the devil's doorway. Several hundred years later, Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick, considering it a sign of witchcraft. Good job I wasn't alive in those times, yet another reason to pop me on the