City and Guilds ~ Catch Up !

WOW ... this week has flown by. Well the good news is I PASSED !!! The External verifier came in on Thursday , after a chat about my Rose hanging and my corset lamp she signed off my book =)

YES !! YES !! YES !!

The rest of the week has been rolling along. The stewarding sessions have been hard on the feet and have meant a couple of late nights. Had quite a few visitors I knew... Vicki from the Yahoo group, Lesley and Sheila from another C&G group, a lady from my local Embroiderers Guild branch (whose name escape me ... ooppss), DH , Dave from work and today my two sisters =)

Special gift from Lesley of a small portfolio case with each pocket holding a piece of fabric, thread or other interesting item... Its yummy . although Lesley organised them to go towards my next planned project - an altered book on my green house. Images below =)

Had some really nice comments about my Rose hanging (One lady sorted me out in the gallery to tell me just how much she enjoyed the hanging) and VERY mixed reactions to the wedding dolls. Generally the dolls are called Scary - although Rachel (who used to work for OPUS) said they were a good scary !?!?!

Noted visitors : Gavin Fry ... He is an OPUS tutor on the degree programme. He was interested in the Kantha work by the two Canadian ladies.

I have posted a few pictures of my work, see the slide show above. Although I had permission to take pictures of the other students/artists work I did not get their OK to share on the web so sorry! I did busy myself in getting my photos printed during the week and put together a small memory book of the setting up and the exhibition. I left a space for each of the other C&G artists and asked them to write a message into the book .. which I am please they have all done. Its quite a special book now. Wish I had thought about that for my Part one exhibition.

I have sold a few cards of my work, but its not clear which designs have gone as the sales table only keeps a tally of numbers sold. Have not sold many so I guess everyone will be getting cards showing my art works for the next year. The handmade cards seem to sell well although my bard button card does not seem to be moving.

Saturday is take down - but not until 5pm. Although it could be an interesting day as the Tour De France are in town and will have the prolog race in the capital on Saturday too ... The flying finish is The Mall. Which could be good as we might have a few extra visitors but notthat much fun to get back to the station with heavy bags.