Pretty in pink

Portrait by Russell YoungMarilyn Monroe 'Goddess'Acrylic paint, enamel and diamond dust on linen62 x 48 inches
Today I thought I'd give you another of my random picture collections.  I love the colour pink, when I was a kid I was obsessed with it and wanted absolutely everything to be pink.  Now I own barely any.  This post is dedicated to my dearest Helga and Faux Fuschia who are both fabulous

Friday quotes - Zsa Zsa Gabor

"How many husbands have I had?  You mean apart from my own?"
Zsa Zsa Gabor(b. 1917)
Zsa Zsa Gabor has some great one-liners.  Married ten times Zsa Zsa obviously has an appreciation for men.  She also loves diamonds, furs and it seems poodles, Yorkshire terriers and Persian cats.  She has that cartoon-like style of Hollywood glamour and a life of excess that never fails to amuse me. They don't

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part fifty

"Be a first rate version of yourselfinstead of a second rate version of somebody else"
Judy Garland(1922-1969)



"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary"
Cecil Beaton(1904-1980)



"To get back my youth I would do anything in the