My wonderful Bro!

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!!!