Beauty Queens...

Ali found this badge in an old jewelery box at our charity shop today.
Tonight's group was based around it, we talked about beauty and what it meant to us, about the pressures faced by women to look a certain way and about what REALLY makes people beautiful...

Ladies I can make you beautiful,
hide your imperfections with our brown glowing blusher!
highlight your facial features with hour summer shimmery poncho pink lip stick!
Feel good by using spring red sparkly eye shadow.

Ladies you are beautiful embrace your imperfections!
Your fat tummy!
Your gray hair!
Your sore legs!
highlight your talents,
You might be a good singer,
good at poetry,
a good writer.
Feel good by helping a friend,
cheer some one up when they are sad
and by being a good listener.

Beauty Queens...

Ladies I can make you beautiful
Hide your imperfections with our lipstick, luscious red devil and glossy!
Highlight your round cheeks with our silky soft sensuous blusher!
Feel good by using sultry powder blue Mediterranean eye shadow!



Ladies you are beautiful embrace your imperfections!
Your thick double chin,
bulging stomachs
and spotty faces
Highlight your talents!
Being kind and gentle,
Have a listening ear,
Being generous and compassionate.
Feel good by remembering that
You have a good family,
You have great friends,
Your phone rings,
You have a lovely Home.

What's in Ali's bag?!?!

1. Silver curling ribbon

2. balloon wights

3. sports table confetti x 2

4. mini tubes moisturiser

5. dog treats

6. deep heat pain rub

7. holiday photos on cd

8. Aqualung cd

9. Tesco voucher

10. blue tack

11. glue spreader

12. tampons

13. mints

14. make up sponge

15. exhibition invite

16. photo of my Gran

17. 3 sketchbooks (one lined, one work, one personal!)

18. painkillers

19. name for a baby blanket I'm making

20. papers for meeting

21. feedback forms designs

22. tin of tuna

23. fabric swatch

24. empty Graze box

25. paint charts for kitchen

26. spare t-shirt

27. bottle of water

28. xmas bonus voucher for M&S

29. orange fabric scissors

30. note from a colleague

31. balloons

32. i pod, speakers and adaptor

WHAT'S IN YOURS?!?!

PLEASE SHARE WITH US!

(oh the shame!! Again thanks to The Governess for this idea! And even bigger thanks to Fadwa who's idea it was to start with!)

This is my bag!

1 purse
2 house keys
3 painkillers
4 mobile phone
5 colour chart
6 dile a bus pass
7 perfume
8 library card
9 bank card
10 top up card
11 leisure card
12 bingo cards
13 bus pass

WHAT'S IN YOURS?!

1. To Do list

2. Purse

3. About a fiver

4. Prescription

5. Diary

6. Big envelope

7. My phone

8. Work phone

9. Gloves

10. Train timetable

11. RBS business card

12. Perfume

13. Glasses

14. Morrison'd receipt

15. 5 used bus tickets

16. 6 pens

17. 1 pencil

18. House keys

19. Empty paracetamol packet

20. Fleet Foxes cd

21. Disney Princess tissues

22. Juicy tube

23. Vaseline

24. Medication

25. Office key + ID badge

What's in my bag?

We saw this idea on Mistress Debrina's Diary and thought we'd do it too!

Here's what's in my bag

1. mobile phone

2. tissues

3. hand cream

4. towels

5. purse

6. 3.60

7. bus pass

8. pain killers

9. pen

10. biscuits

WHAT'S IN YOURS?!

Rainbow Boy Song

R: Rainbow boy is very fast.

A: and he skates and runs through crowds of people.

I: indoors and outdoors he saves peoples lives. In Xscape he is good.

N: Never does he a call on his medal.

B: Before he goes on an adventure he eats and sleeps.

O: On top of bridges he saves lives quickly and looks after Buster. He can do it, he is SUPER!.

W: Wish, wish, wish he could finish and go back to Mum at Cafe 16.

B: Be there whenever you need him. Just shout out loud.

O: Okay he is always having fun when he sees Bran and Buster run.

Y: You have no need to fear, RAINBOW BOY is always near!

Rainbow Boy was created as part of the Superhero work - you can see a photo of some of this work at http://we-are-artists.blogspot.com/

This poem is actually the lyrics for a song, it was written by a member of our Wednesday Club, working hand over hand with one of our fabulous staff. It was just too good not to share it with you all!

Cyber poems

Hooray! Finally our new computers are online!
To celebrate we worked on these poems using lists of words that relate to computers!

Click, wires, windows,

Blog, my space,

Surfing,

skype, mouse, email,

Hotmail, skype, virus,

Crash, electric, file,

Twitter.

E-mail, surfing, J.peg,

Screen, crash, digital,

Keyboard, virus, bit map.

Under water

Fish, scales,

fins, hiding, skimming, dashing,

shells,

colourfu,l seaweed satin,

metallic looping,

tiny,

dipping, swimming.

Transparent beady eyes,

dipping,

shimmering, slippy mirrored, opaque,

colourful, rushing, sequined,

sliding, dancing,

tropical.