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I asked Natalie Smith to bring out a load of babies. One bag of mixed colurful ones and one of pastel/beige/brown babies. I used them in varoius projects – particularly on shoes and candles. But I had this pregnant Barbie who did star in an album as Kwashiorkor Barbie (she really did look malnourished with stick thin legs) but then she just went back to being pregnant. There are many mix ups with the transfer of correct embryo and usually most couples are pleased that the baby is the same colour of them. This was the inspiration behind IVF Barbie and her worries and concerns. Twins are now much rarer in IVF but still common.

The IVF Barbie

Not everyone is happy with this but for sure it is trying to be a playful take on a genuine error and concern of couples undergoing IVF/ICSI. I suspect with the new DNA testing kits there will be more errors detected

I cannot remember now who bought me the white Barbie but Simon bought me the black one in Cyprus! I decided to make them a lesbian couple and they could go on some adventures. I was invited by a new friend Sigal Kersh to go on a trip up north.We visited the control and warehouse for Brothers and Sisters of Israel who manage the volunteer programmes so that the right people get the right stuff (soldiers/Druze villagers etc) and they have a whole cadre of volunteers. This was in Alonai Abba. Then we went up to the Lebanon border, saw some tunnels built by Hezbollah which were deactivated and collapsed and had a kurdish lunch in a small village. Finally, there was a photoshoot in Container House 3 in the Jaffa Port and many of the participants posed with Barbeh and Barbah. On the way home they posed in some acrylic paint on the pavement. And finally with my three pets!

Maria and Christian are leaving Israel soon to return to Germany. Stephanie was staying for a few weeks in Mevo Beitar so we decided to get an AirBnB and join her. What a wonderful weekend. Full of fun, dogs, walks and eating with laughter.

Flora 1

Flora 2

Flora 3

Art around the place!

Carly, Stephanie, Maria and Christian.

Rui, Taiyo and Talulah

I am not sure how many of these came about. But some I do!

That’s all folks!

Debby asked me to go with her to the annual Fresh Paint event. It is to showcase affordable art. There was lots of cool stuff

I went to stay for a few nights with my wonderful friend Sandra. We went to Eyemouth and were blown away with this statue to commemorate a sea disaster in 1881. So many boats and men were lost.

The flowers in Eyemouth were so vibrant. Really beautiful.

I went away for an overnight in Belgravia with my daughter Betsy. We visited the free exhibitions in the Saatchi Gallery before going on a shopping spree.

In the shop

Just outside the gallery on a fine Sunday morning

Toby and I went with Talulah on a 2 day holiday in the Jezreel Valley. We went to the Geva where there was a very weird museum – Shturman – with displays of stuffed 2 headed and 6 legged mammals. Then I saw an exhibition of felted pieces at the Mishkan Museum of Art.

Collective womb exhibition

From the main exhibits

From the rest of our trip

I had always had a fascination for the story about Noah, the flood, the pairs of animals going into the ark to be saved as the world would be flooded. I tried to find Noah’s wife’s name but it is not listed in the original text. Sometimes she is thought to be Naamah and at other times Emzara, but also Norea or Barthenos. But I used Mrs Barbie Pez Noah as a substitute name alongside her husband, Mr Ken Pez Noah. I bought the Pez people and sweets when I was at a cafe in Park HaYarkon with my daughter in law Gemma and my granddaughter Luna several months ago. I used tile sweets from Japan and pipe cleaners for the edges. I bought 4 sets of 10 animals. 2 were wild animals (rhinos, giraffes, lions, tigers, camels, kangaroos, elephants, deer, anteaters, wolves and monkeys) and 2 were labelled as farmyard animals (rats, rabbits, cats, chickens, ducks, geese, swans, cows, horses, donkeys, goats and sheep) but also 2 spare rhinos. They wouldn’t make the cut onto the boat as there were only a pair allowed so they are bringing up the rear every hopeful. I used some piping I found on the street that comes from the extractor fan for a tumble dryer. I attached it to the canvas I had found on the street and had spray painted white with glue and tacs onto the wood and sewed on with heavy duty thread onto the canvas with cardboard backing. I was given 5 stripey blue and white paper straws which I bent into a W to represent the waves. I stuck all four pairs of birds into clouds made from cotton pads dyes partially blue. I managed to be clumsy and made a hole hear the top hand corner so popped in a yellow flock bauble to represent the sun!

In the making

The animals

The nearly finished piece

The final piece!