I'm so so proud of my little brother today! (all 6ft 6 of him!) He is in second year in music college (just 19 years old!) and he has always been a high achiever!
I met him for pizza today and he told me that he has been accepted as a deputy on the European Youth Orchestra - considering that there is usually only one/two Irish members in the orchestra and it goes up to age 25 AND that he as a french horn player was competing for one of eight places this is a HUGE achievement! Most of the french horn players in the orchestra are finished their degrees and some even finished their masters! He also has been accepted as a deputy player for the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland - a fully professional orchestra!AND as a member of the world symphonic wind orchestra who will be playing in Ireland (Killarney) next summer!
Big toot toot for Conor!!!
Now comes my dilemma, Conor is playing in a very big bursary competition in Dublin next week the night before a crop that I am running, if he wins this will really set his career off and I would love to be there to hear him play, so do I cancel the crop and go or stay and run the crop??? At the moment I am leaning towards cancelling but is that unfair on the other crafters?? I could drive back early on Saturday morning but that would mean leaving Dublin at 6am and being really stressed out trying to make it back! (also if Conor does well there might be celebrations!)
Might see if I could change the crop to Sunday, will check out if the hall is free then tomorrow!
Still haven’t got to my mothers day card, but am working on a LO using the left over Junkitz papers from the canvas! Waiting on paint to dry so probably won’t get to post it until tomorrow! Must take a better photo of the canvas then too – it is far more 3d than it appears in the current photo!
Off to watch paint dry and clean up some of my mess!!!
Wednesday 14 March 2007
Canvas
Still haven't got to the mothers day card, got sidetracked by this canvas!!!
Lots of 3d paint going on in this!
Need to get a better pic of it later but wanted to see if i could manage to post a pic here!
Lots of 3d paint going on in this!
Need to get a better pic of it later but wanted to see if i could manage to post a pic here!
Tuesday 13 March 2007
First post!
Finally decided that I should go and get me a blog so now I have yet another addiction to eat into my crafting time! Have spent about the last 15 mins playing with the set up, just enough to realise that it will take me HOURS and I still won't be happy! lol!
Joined the design collective today and can't wait to get started on their classes, all that talent in the one spot, almost too good to be true. My aim is to try and do as many as possible while buying as little new stash as posible, we are trying to move house at the moment and the thought of moving all my stash is frightening so if I can reduce it somewhat over the next month or so it should make the move all the easier.
One of the essentials in the new house is going to be a craftroom, even Richard agrees - I suspect that the piles that gather all around the house get to him even more than he lets on at times, thankfully sailing gear can live on board the boat and in the shed otherwise we would be completely overrun! Abbie's craft piles are even starting to take over now, she has one in her bedroom next to her easel and another in the kitchen next to my desk - she really does take after me in that way, I even caught her the other day trying to "borrow" a 12x12 of some urban lily paper that I had given her a scrap of, she claimed that her offcut was too small!! LOL she really is starting young!
Off to try and make a mothers day card now for the pre class challenge on the design collective and might even get a start on some easter cards for the school fair too! I have a suspicion that I might get sidetracked though, I have had the idea for a canvas going round in my head for the last few days and might just get to try it out this evening,
Watch this space!!!
Joined the design collective today and can't wait to get started on their classes, all that talent in the one spot, almost too good to be true. My aim is to try and do as many as possible while buying as little new stash as posible, we are trying to move house at the moment and the thought of moving all my stash is frightening so if I can reduce it somewhat over the next month or so it should make the move all the easier.
One of the essentials in the new house is going to be a craftroom, even Richard agrees - I suspect that the piles that gather all around the house get to him even more than he lets on at times, thankfully sailing gear can live on board the boat and in the shed otherwise we would be completely overrun! Abbie's craft piles are even starting to take over now, she has one in her bedroom next to her easel and another in the kitchen next to my desk - she really does take after me in that way, I even caught her the other day trying to "borrow" a 12x12 of some urban lily paper that I had given her a scrap of, she claimed that her offcut was too small!! LOL she really is starting young!
Off to try and make a mothers day card now for the pre class challenge on the design collective and might even get a start on some easter cards for the school fair too! I have a suspicion that I might get sidetracked though, I have had the idea for a canvas going round in my head for the last few days and might just get to try it out this evening,
Watch this space!!!
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