There’s no self harming here in my home tonight… Pulled out my face/body paints for some practice instead. My technique is definitely improving. I’ve been up all night watching YouTube clips of designs and reading face painting forums. It’s inspiring 🙂 I’m planning to buy some UV sensitive paints next, to use on my next night out at the local goth nightclub. Also some better sponges, to make bases easier. I’m still trying to problem solve how to manage a pay per face event as madly busy as the balloon regatta the other day… I would like to make up more booklets of designs to use, that’s certain. In the meantime, there is practice and learning. It’s nice to have something else to think about.





Cool hey 🙂 and I took Zoe to the first dog park either of us have ever been to… It was nerve wracking but wonderful and she had a great time. I’m hoping to go back often. Rose helped me get out of the house and down to some markets this morning. It was good to get out into the sunshine, felt a little weird and surreal. I’m sort of ok and sort of wildly fragile at the moment. I cooked tea last night, a type of cabbage soup, for Rose who found herself working an 11 hour shift when things fell through at work. Then I made her life easier by becoming genuinely hysterical about being so sick at the moment. After pain relief, the distress settles. It’s a pattern we’re seeing a lot. So it was nice to plod about the markets instead. I bought a warm winter jumper with some face painting money, and a scoop of ice cream. All in all it hasn’t been a bad day.