GOOOOOOOGLE !!!!

I just typed ARTCELL into google and guess what? My website was at number one !! Im top of the pops !! Have now got paypal buttons on all the items I have for sale on my website and have revived the guest book so please feel free to leave comments there. KLA auction has been postponed once more.........will it ever take place? I have to say I have now lost interest in it. I will let you all know if it actually happens. Agnes is having more problems with words than I first thought so perhaps the stroke has done more damage than at first thought, but it could have been a whole lot worse. Just two more days to the wedding of son number one down in Basingstoke. This has caused so much stress, indirectly, so will be good when the happy event is all over and we can all get back to normal lives once more. Just heard that Ken, husband of cousin Val, is not having a great time with his health over in France. My thoughts are with him today. On a lighter note have been allocated my half pitch number for the Brixton Urban Art Fayre in July, but my own attempt to create something similar in Hinckley is falling on deaf ears for some reason, maybe the Universe doesnt want me to do it? Still intend to start a life drawing course in Hinckley and, if succesful, also do one in Leicester somewhere. Small steps. Of course, having been distracted with so many things lately I have done nothing towards making this a reality, but after the wedding there will be no more fences in my way, so watch this space. Well, thats about all for now folks. Keep smiling, lend a helping hand to those who need it, love all, and hurt none. Peace be upon us all.

WEBSITE NEWS 2

Updating of the newlook website ( www.art-cell.com ) continues , albeit slowly. Now you can purchase t-shirts via paypal from my website, plus some of my paintings are available via the same merchant account. This facility will eventually find its way onto my other art products thus enabling people to purchase direct from myself and cutting out the middle man and his extortionate commission fees. The countdown is well underway now for the wedding...........no, not that one......my eldest is getting married this saturday, the 30th April. We have not been involved in any way with organising etc., but just the travel arrangements, as some of us dont have transport and others "vant to be alone", have caused stress to Agnes who always wants to manage everything. Im sure it was a trigger in her stroke episode the other week and Im having to come the heavy hand to stop her getting stressed again. that was a scary time and i dont wish to repeat it. Anyway, hope to get into studio this week as Ive started on a new painting, recycling old painting (Mrs Jones). I dont like waste and Mrs Jones was a not so great painting from my degree show. Im sure that the new painting, which will incorporate a couple of parts of the original, will be so much better as it will be more in my language. It just remains for me to wish Amy Mulford a Happy Birthday for today, and to offer the usual advice to everyone; Love all, hurt none, and be careful what you wish for. xx

MORE WEBSITE NEWS

Website............... www.art-cell.com ........... has now had major surgery. Its not complete but its getting there and so if anyone would like to take a peek and offer constructive criticism, suggestions on improvements etc., I would be grateful. You can link directly to this blog from a page there called........... BLOG........what else? There will also be a page to take you directly to my YOUTUBE channel eventually, and another to take you to the KLA website. Meanwhile..................... Love all and hurt none, and remember that the notion of God resides in all matter. And it does all matter. Peace.

STROKE

Last weekend the other half of my sky looked really awful. 2.00 a.m. she woke in great pain, and numbness in her left arm, leg and face. I called 999 and the paramedic who lives next door attended her (how embarrasing). She was then taken off to hospital in the ambulance. After a lot of physical testing the doctor allowed her home. Her last words to my wife were, "Have you had a stroke before?". This puzzled us. The doctor, up to that point, had only discussed Agnes' history of fibromyalgia. Anyway, a few days later and she is almost right as rain, no pains at all, not even her usual aches. She looks quite spritely in fact. Then she bumps into our paramedic neighbour, chats, and he says, "But Agnes, you were having a stroke!". So why did nobody tell us that at the time? It would be so much better to not be left in limbo. Anyway, no extra medications prescribed over this, but just three days prior she was put on beta blockers due to extremely high blood pressure. I just wonder if it is all linked together. Well, its all fine now, thankfully so......................... remember to love all and hurt none, even when it gets really hard to do so. Life is a long game not a short one.

WEBSITE NEWS.

Hi everyone, no images or videos to display here at the moment, but I have been making changes to my website, www.art-cell.com , which I thought was worth letting you know about. Its a work in progress as you will see if you look at it, but Im changing it to reflect the road Im now walking. I have knocked the arts in education thing on the head as, what with funding cuts etc.,, ........... so Im concentrating on the important thing.........important to me anyway.........of making art. KLA news; it seems I am now the treasurer. We are supposed to be having an auction of the groups artworks on May 7, 2011, at the studio premises. You are all invited but if you do come please remember to bring some money ! Dad news; I have emailed a race circuit to scatter Dad's ashes, then I phoned them and was told they had already replied (not in my email account though!) and was told to email again (why, when I was already speaking to them on the phone? beats me!) so I have and now, almost a week later, still no reply. So, maybe Dad is telling us to do something else with his remains. We sold his car, which means the garage is now empty and feels strange. Mum is coming to terms with her loss. I see her almost every day and in fact, last saturday we had her at our home so she could laugh at my efforts to build a little greenhouse. It took a while, we all had a laugh, but it got built and it works! Well, please take a peek at the website, let me know what you think, and let love into your life. Love all, hurt none, its the only way to live in peace.