What a week, what a week!!

Well my lovelies where do I even start!! Firstly I must apologise on my absence and lack of updates regarding the exhibition. Also for not being able to catch up on your blogs.
So here is roughly how the week has gone.

Monday - work, work, work. Finshing up corset, artwork, framing pictures etc, etc etc. Go to bed at 5.30am on Tuesday!! (Feeling tired but also a wee bit ill)

Tuesday - Wake up at 7am - immediately so sick!! Mmmm all is not well. Try to get everything together to take exhibition and as well as feeling sick, back has also decided to give out and try as hard as I can - I cannot lift my mannequin!! Panic, what am I going to do!!! Okay I will lie down inbetween bathroom trips and cold sweats. Who can I call?? Mark is away working over night, everyone is working - there is nothing for it, I shall have to call exhibition. Tears of frustration. Dizziness. I am ill!! Tired? Yes, but also ill!!!

So I have to wait till Wednesday. Mark comes back, I cry again. Lots of hugs, things are not so bad, the world has not completely ended after all.

So after much sleeping we depart to take work to the exhibition. I am shaking like a leaf - have slept practically the entire day before. But nevermind we get there eventually. Exhibition is set up and I am so proud - and pleased with how it looks!!! The whole exhibition is more than I could have imagined!! Everything looks wonderful and the work is spectacular. (I wish I could take photographs but obviously I can't - although there may be exhibition photos on the exhibition website next week.

I am so pleased with how the corset came out!! Stiletto Heights has made it to the UK!! Jenn's artwork looks incredible I think you will agree. I really wanted to use lots of colour in this corset and I think the pink, purple and gold gives a very baroque almost carnival feel to the piece.

Jenn I am actually rather nervous about you seeing the finished thing!! I really hope you like it!!

So I have one other corset as well as a full costume in the exhibition and also 4 framed pieces of art. The Follies costume is from my art college degree. The corset I have hand painted and embroidered and the skirt is hand felted vintage lace. The unicorn headress is sculpted from wire with wool running through the framework and a hand made mask.

The other corset is again printed leather and is more of a victorian style.

There are 4 pieces of framed artwork

Two costume renderings (one of the follies costume) and 2 new pieces.

Please excuse the terrible photos!! I plan to get more of the art corset taken on the mannequin when the exhibition comes down as you can't truly appreciate it till it is on a figure. And this is how it looks all together!!



I am really please with how it all came out.
BUT I didn't make it to the preview!! It was all just too much and I slept solidly for 2 whole days practically. Yuck I was ickily ill. Not good. I haven't even tidied my workroom yet. Infact I shall have to photgraph it as a lesson to myself to NEVER let it get in that state again!!

So that is the exhibition!! I hope you like it and are not too sick of hearing about it!

In other news, my appointment at the spinal unit came around much quicker than I had anticipated and I got a cancellation appointment today. The news is that I am going to need surgery probably in a couple of years but in the meantime they are going to inject my spine in about 6 weeks time and I am having scans. The injections will be every 3 months to numb the area so I should be 'almost' pain free and will be able to work etc.

I only started my own business officially last october so it has been quite a worrying time that I have been earning practically zilch since the end of december as I have only been able to do the few workshops I teach and the occassional commission. Not a great start. But I am going to have a wee bit of an experiement next week and have an 'etsy' week whilst looking for theatre work. I really want to see how much I can make and list in a week and consequently how much I can sell (ha ha - now that is the HARD part!!). But the fact is I need to take a bit of a break until my injection and not push myself to do too much other work. I will still teach but I want to see how things go the next 6 weeks until my injection - then it will be full steam ahead (hopefully!!) and I will be able to start doing the occassional film again.

So that has been MY week!! How has yours been?! Okay I have to be off now to prepare for a workshop I teaching tomorrow - sorry this has been a bit of a random/or overly focussed on me post. I am thinking of you all and am looking forward to catching up on all your blogs over the weekend. Work tomorrow, cinema to see 300 on Sunday and the rest of the day drinking tea and blog browsing. Bliss.

Take care and have a great weekend!!