"Lucy"

Had a lovely evening with Helena and Janis at the movies and then still had time for coffee afterwards.  It has been ages since we have been able to get together because of "life getting in the way", so it was a real treat.  Hope it won't be so long until the next time.

Lucy is a 25-year-old American woman living and studying in Taipai, Taiwan. She is tricked to work as a drug mule by her new boyfriend for his employer, a Korean gangster and drug lord named Mr. Jang. Lucy delivers a briefcase to Mr. Jang's hotel room that is handcuffed to her wrist containing a highly valuable synthetic superdrug called CPH4 that can increase the user's brain function capacity. Through a turn of events the packaged drug is forcefully sewn into Lucy's abdomen and that of others who will also transport the drug for sales in Europe. While in captivity, one of Lucy's captors tries to rape her and kicks her mercilessly in the stomach, causing the bag inside her to leak, releasing the brain-enhancing drug into her system. As a result, she begins acquiring increasingly powerful mental talents and enhanced physical capabilities, such as absorbing information instantaneously, telekinesis, mental time travel, and can choose not to feel pain or other discomforts, in addition to other abilities. She fends off her present captors and arranges herself with the newly gained abilities.

Lucy travels to a nearby hospital to remove the leaking container of drugs from her abdomen. The bag of drugs is successfully removed, and Lucy realizes that she requires the bags inside the other three drug mules in order to continue expanding her neural capacity and that the process of rapid cell growth the drug is stimulating will eventually kill her. Returning to Mr. Jang's hotel, Lucy assaults him and telepathically extracts the locations of all three drug mules from his mind.

At her shared apartment, in which she had resided with an actor friend, Lucy starts a research about her condition and connected scientific material in order to find experienced and trustworthy support. She contacts a well-known scientist and doctor, Professor Norman, whose research may be the key to saving her. After Lucy speaks with the professor and provides proof of her developed abilities, she flies to Paris and contacts a local policeman, Del Rio, to help her find the remaining three packets of the drug. Her powers continue to grow, leaving her able to mentally disable an entire police force followed by the men who made her a drug mule. Lucy recovers the drug and must hurry to meet the doctor, with whom she agrees to share everything she now knows, once each cell in her body is controlled. Mr. Jang and his henchmen also want the drug and a gunfight ensues with the French police.

While in the doctor's lab and in the midst of a time and space journey, Mr. Jang enters and points a gun at Lucy's head from behind, intending to kill her. He shoots, but in an instant before the bullet strikes, Lucy disappears within the space time continuum where everything is connected and existence is only proven through time. Only her clothes are left behind. The French policeman Del Rio enters and fatally shoots Mr. Jang. Del Rio asks where Lucy is. Norman takes a flash drive from the advanced supercomputer created by Lucy's body using the matter in the room and a text message from her answering the question appears on Del Rio's phone: "I AM EVERYWHERE." An overhead shot of Mr. Jang's body follows with Lucy's voice heard off-screen: "Life was given to us a billion years ago, and now you know what to do with it." - Courtesy of Wikipedia.

Here are a few projects I have been working on this past month.  You can't see the true colour of this table, but it is a light peach which of course has been dirtied up to look shabby.

This small pedestal table is also the same colour....

Changed this picture frame from this....

To this......

Here are a couple of shelves I had fun painting and shabbying up.  It's so strange how one can get such a kick out of turning something reasonably new into an item which looks like it has been left outside for years, LOL

This is an older mirror I picked up from a local shop - even the owner of the store said it was waiting for someone to come and take it home and re-paint it and she was right!!

My favourite piece of all is this bureau/desk which I have had in my Boutique for quite a few months and even though there were positive comments on this well-made Canadian item, no offers for purchase came my way.  I had been toying with the idea of painting it for months and finally decided to do it.  I love the new look and I am quite confident that this will sell very soon.

And here is the result.....

Well, that's it for any projects so I will leave you with a couple of photos of my darling grandkids, who incidentally I can't wait to visit again - just a few more weeks.

Well, that's it for now.  Please stay healthy and happy and I'll catch up with you again soon.

Hugs, 

Working hard, as usual!!

A couple of posts ago I showed you a photo of a small table I had found and said that I would show you how it turned out.  This is the old photo.....

and here are a few photos of what I did to it.  I had to fill in all the holes on the top and sand it and this was the best I could do....

I first painted it brown, then cream and lightly sanded it to allow the dark to come through to give it that aged/shabby chic look.  It's in my Boutique waiting for its new home.

Talking about my Boutique, I am so pleased to tell you that we are welcoming a newcomer - Kerry.  Kerry has been a friend of mine for quite a few years - we first met when we both would take part in the local Arts & Crafts Shows.  We had always been very admiring of each other's work and praised the different styles we both had and would always be so happy to see each other and support one another.  Here are a few photos of Kerry's Boutique.  It is called "Lovely Little Studio".  Kerry will be having her official Open House this coming Saturday, 3rd May and I'm hoping that my local readers will come out and support her.

I made a nice little coat rack, shabby chic of course.....

I also worked on this sweet Inspirational Sign....

And I picked up this adorable old plaster framed St. Anthony.  It only needed a little touch up with gold paint to give it new life.

Well, that's it for now.  I'll see if I can find a few new photos of the little rugrats (alias grandchildren)....

Until the next time, be safe, love one another and be healthy.

Hugs,