some guys tattoo

Saw this on a tattoo website and totally fell in love with the poem. Not posting his tattoo because it was horrendous but this i lovely!

“odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.”
-catullus

it means, “i hate” and “i love” in latin. from the most beautiful latin poem ever.

“i hate and i love. why do i do this, you might ask?
i know not, but i feel that it happens and i am tortured for it.”

Invershneckie (it's the fuckeen business)

I wish I was the genius who came up wth this. This is for every one from Inverness and all my pals who aren't and who don't understand why i hate the accent!

Invershneckie (it's the fuckeen business) by thestevekelly

YOU WILL NOW!

wear sun screen

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’99
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be
it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by
scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable
than my own meandering
experience…I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not
understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.
But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and
recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before
you and how fabulous you really looked….You’re not as fat as you
imagine. Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as
effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing
bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that
never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm
on some idle Tuesday. Do one thing everyday that scares you Sing Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with
people who are reckless with yours. Floss Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes
you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with
yourself. Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you
succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements. Stretch Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your
life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they
wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year
olds I know still don’t. Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone. Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children,maybe
you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky
chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t
congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your
choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s. Enjoy your body,
use it every way you can…don’t be afraid of it, or what other people
think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever
own.. Dance…even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room. Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them. Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly. Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for
good. Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the
people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you
should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and
lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you
knew when you were young. Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live
in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel. Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will
philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize
that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were
noble and children respected their elders. Respect your elders. Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund,
maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one
might run out. Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will
look 85. Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who
supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of
fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the
ugly parts and recycling it for more than
it’s worth. But trust me on the sunscreen…

Holiday

Away on holiday to Cyprus for the next 3 weeks. Cannot wait to get there and start my painting again!!!

Will be back the begining of August.

If you want to get in touch with me please e-mail on tiffany.bottomley@yahoo.com as i will be checking this whilest on holiday.

yum!

i just found this picture on this blog and it has made me crave those oily hand made donuts our baker at home sells. I don't realy like sweet things but they are GOOD!

spring time

Glasgow has bloomed. Its beautiful. went for a walk in Kelvin grove park and the blossom was so stunning.

cup cakes

i have found a new love for baking. I think it has some thing to do with the love heart shaped cake tin my friend got for her birthday. Its so cute!

BLEEEEEEHHH!!!

It's April 1st and i haven't been putting things up on here as much as i wanted. Been procrastinating an awful lot but also busy with university stuff. I will sort out some photos of work soon.

I'm on my Easter holidays right now and want to sort things out on my computer and i'll post my finds on here. My photos are in a mess! it'll be a big job but i really should do it. ah!

addiction!

I know this has nothing to do with any thing but I"M ADDICTED! THIS GAME is so adictive ts scary. I told my friends to go play it and they sat on it for three hours! its evil but fun. go try it out. 

Ignoring you...

I haven't done anything on this in a while mainly due to the fact i haven't done any work i like that much recently and I've be ill so i just thought I'd let any one who comes on here know. I will put some new work up soon and some more old stuff. I like to compare work from different years so I'm doing it for all to see. 

Hope you still like the blog :)

my first piece of real art.

It was my 21st birthday this year and my brother and sister gave me some money to get what ever i wanted. I was shopping with my mummy at home and went to my favourite little gallery and found the most beautiful and perfect Birthday present. 

The piece is by a South African artist named John Bauer and is called ' I have never stopped hoping' The inscription is a short prose about the loss of his mother and grand mother in a hit and run accident and how he thinks about them phoning him to tell him they are actually alive and coming home. Having lost my father last year this piece touched me like none of his other pieces and i had to own it. 

I was told by Denise the owner of The Castle Gallery that this piece was one of Bauer's favourites and it meant a lot to him which makes it even more meaningful. 

I love this piece and will cherish it for the rest of my life. 

First 3rd year feed back.

So... it kinds feels like 1st term has come to an end already. Why? might you ask... well i got my first feed back of the year so i feel like we're done. SCARY STUFF! well not really! I had such an amazing first crit that i kinda new what was coming. My grade for the term was a C1!! Woo Hoo! This might sound rubbish but the highest grade out of our year was a B2 so I'm well chuffed! (massive grin) BUT this has just made me so determined to get a B next term its unreal. i will scan in my feed back sheet and let you see soon. :)

heart shaped 1

i never know what to write on things like this....

i want this to be a site that i can put my work on  to get some feed back.

it'l probably end up being some where i rant.