Sometimes in life an image strikes me so hard, that I must immortalize it. Such is the case with the new pic above. Of course many of you internet junkies will know the lovely ladies – June & Honey Boo Boo Child from the scary reality show – Toddlers and Tiaras. My friend Jamie begged me to put him in as well, so voila! Enjoy! ha ha! oxo gd
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I made an Aries plate a few months back, part of my Zodiac Dinner Ware Series, and well it didn’t turn out the way I wanted. When you’re working with fire and kilns and ceramics, it’s anyones guess what the end result will be, and I wasn’t happy with it. Plus the Ram looked a little demonic & like it was staring at a double barreled shotgun, so I thought I would go for a different look. Happy Rams! With cloud flowers!! Fingers crossed it works!! more soon! oxo gd
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Well last week I picked up some patterns for my first shoe design collaboration with the amazing Terry de Havilland!! So excited I can hardly contain myself!! This is every girls fantasy!! Totally top secret for now, but all will be revealed soon!! Yay! Thank you universe!! more soon! oxo gd
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Totally cool gay/ arts mag Out There, Features Adam & Steve, and Madam & Eve Plates! Click the pic to read! Awesome! oxo gd
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A friend on facebook posted this pic & I had MAJOR FLASHBACKS! My dad had this poster on the wall in our music room. The music room was probably the most important room in our house growing up. Music was the LAW in our family. Every night after my father came home from the bar, we gathered in there to sing songs, air guitar, & my dad would give me cha cha lessons. My father was a 1970′s Hi Fi dealer and we had the full on kit. Marantz Stereo with blinking light speaker cabinets, gorilla lamps, which were these clear, colored swirly plastic cylinders that spun and created oil lamp like patterns on the walls, black lights, a blue glass hookha pipe, 2 globes of the ancient world; one which opened up into a mini bar, and the other opened up into a turntable (which I used in 3rd grade science fair to test centrifugal force on plant growth by growing bean sprouts for 30 days on the spinning turntable). My mom went through a sponge painting phase where she covered the house with sponge painted patterns. The walls in the music room were done out in bright orange & blue. And this poster (along with a Woodstock & Kung fu poster) hung on the wacky walls. I stared at it endlessly through out my growing up years. Wondering what on earth was going on. Scared and excited by it. The colors drew me in and wrapped themselves around my young mind. I did a lil search and they are very rare to find. Done by Godawful Graphics in 1970, it’s titled “Ain’t Gonna Work On Dizzy’s Farm No More”, obv referencing Bob Dylan’s song – “Maggie’s Farm”. I wish I had this on my wall now. So cool. oxo gd
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Dear Friends! I am very excited for my debut art show coming up very soon at Ketchum Pleon. The show runs from March 5th to April 27th, with a private view reception on March 8th. All the info is listed below, so if you’d like to come, click the pic and join us on face book! It is a small event, so best to RSVP if you can! Photos of my new work coming soon! oxo gd 
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Last night my husband & I went to Pam Hogg’s birthday party at the legendary Scotch of St James in Mayfair. It was the place to be in the swinging 60′s and Jimi Hendrix played his first ever gig there! It was a very fun night out. Unfortch I had waaaaay too much to drink and it’s all a bit of a blur. But luckily we left before things got too messy. The theme was Burns night, I didn’t have a decent tartan look, but I did finally get to wear my vintage Paganne dress! I met some nice people and I learned that I can take the 38 bus from Dalston all the way to the Ritz! oxo gd
Photo by Kim Jakobsen To
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Today I met up with my dear friends Terry & Liz de Havilland to discuss our upcoming collaboration!!! If you arent familiar with Terry’s genius, he is an AMAZING couture shoe designer and also goes by “The Rock & Roll Cobbler”. Terry is a London legend who has been in the shoe business since childhood, taking over the reigns from his father who was the main 1950′s winkle picker man! His shoes have been worn & adored by many famous names from Bianca Jagger, to Dita Von Teese, Kate Moss, and many more. I am very lucky, as Terry and Liz have spoiled me over the years and I have quite the collection! The thing about his shoes is that they transform your body. They elongate your legs, and shift your butt up. You instantly transform into a vamp, it’s magic! It’s body architecture! And it makes you feel wonderful! Terry also likes to go wild with patterns and fabrics and colors. His shoes are fun works of art for your feet! And I am completely over the moon to be collaborating with him for a summer 2013 collection!!! Working on designs now!!! Watch this space!! Yay! Click the pic to see more of his amazing, beautiful shoes!! oxo gd
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Being an artist nowadays is hard. I’m not complaining, I am very lucky, I get to do what I want, on my terms, and I have a lot of fun. Money is scarce, but I’m not motivated by financial gain, I took a vow of poverty when I signed up for this. Being poor isn’t hard, you can certainly make that into an art too! The hard thing for me now is social networking! It really is bogging me down and cutting into my productivity level. I signed up for a music scheme thru the BBC, called BBC Introducing, it sounded promising. But now after reading the fine print, it seems like a scheme hooked up through a music database site called – Music Brains, which my brain cannot decipher! It might as well be E=MC squared! Can’t figure it out. Also I need a bio on Wikipedia, doesn’t sound too diff, but meh… Discogs, the other music database site is impossible for me to figure out, other people get to be the librarians of my musical career, yet I have no control and most of my releases are not listed. I have 4 Facebooks (one personal and 3 artist pages), god knows how many Myspaces (thank god that’s nearly dead), at least 5 You Tube channels, a Vimeo channel, Aniboom, Satchi Gallery, Etsy, Flickr, Photo Bucket, 2 Sound Clouds, a Band Page, Project Rodney page, plus my own site, and the list goes on & on… I dont know how many pages and sites I’m signed up to any more, I can’t keep up. I just want to create and not have to bother with it. I think I’m a pretty good net wanker too, but there’s no way I can be an artist and net wank full time. This is when I miss the olden days – B.I. – before the internet… ugh… oxo gd
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