Rocking Your World Friday - week 6

You know every week with these posts, I have to fight the urge to embed the video to the most annoying song in the world…

But hey everybody, it’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday! :) 

Everybody lookin’ forward to the weekend??

OK, OK, I’ll stop :) 

So – what’s been happening over the last week that’s shout-out worthy?

On Saturday, we collected my youngest’s brand new phone, and he is over the moon with it!  It’s not only the fact he has a nice new gadget, but the extra freedom it brings him.  I’m now much happier letting him go a bit further afield to knock for a school friend in the afternoon or at the weekends, knowing that he can call me if he has a problem, or that I can call him if I want him to come home, or just want to know where he is.  So he’s happy playing with his pals, and I get a bit more time to myself without a bored child underfoot.  I’d call that a win win, and well worth the £7.50 monthly fee!

Later the same day I had my photographer’s hat back on as the roller derby team I take photos for – the Swindon Rail Road Rebels – had another closed bout.  This was their last “friendly” game before their first public bout next month.  And also the first at a new venue, so I wanted to get as many practice shots as possible to make sure that I can get some really good pics next time.

The really great thing about the new venue is the bright blue floor, which along with my team’s red kit and the visitors’ yellow kit, made for some very primary-colourful photos :)  I really enjoyed watching the action again, and can’t wait for the public bout so I can drag my family along too and show them how great it is!

I emerged from the roller derby to find that while I was indoors, the white stuff had fallen, yay! Not much snow, but enough to amuse the kiddies.  Sadly it was all gone by Monday so I couldn’t use it as an excuse not to go to work ;)   I forgot to take a photo to record our momentous ¼ of an inch snowfall, so here’s a pic somebody else took of my local Chinese restaurant on Saturday instead:

On Sunday Jay had to go home early (boo!) as Reece had a party to go to, and Connor was out playing with his school friends all afternoon, so I had some rather unexpected “me” time.  I was a bit lost at first, not used to it!  But in the end I whacked the Kerrang! Channel on loud on the TV, and sat down and worked on a circle journal entry – started and finished in one sitting which is almost unheard of!  And with that last CJ page done I am now completely up to date with my crafting commitments, and have NO pressing deadlines for the first time in forever.  Such a lovely feeling :) 

Accordingly, on Monday night I didn’t even go NEAR my making-stuff table.  Much as I do enjoy my creative pursuits, it was fab to have a guilt free night off, doing nothing but browsing the net looking at holiday cottages, and watching trashy TV (Ru Paul’s Drag Race, trust me, telly doesn’t come any trashier than that, but I love it :D)

Earlier on Monday, two rather cool things happened.  Firstly, I got an email from the Moleskine company to say that they wanted to use a photo of my 2011 art journal on their "Me and My Moleskine" page :

And not only did I get the bragging rights of being on the website, but also I got to choose a Moleskine journal as a prize - yay!

I went for the pocket-sized watercolour journal, which turned up the very next day:

And secondly - you may have seen me mention the Artistic Licence circle journal I'm currently a part of.  The way this circle works is that each participant has designed a book based upon a specified artist, and as the books travel round, we each do a page in each book in the style of the that artist.

Well, back in early December last year, I was working on Lou's book, and her artist was Nikki Monaghan.  This was my "Monaghan inspired" entry:

and I blogged about it here.

Well if you look at the bottom of that blog entry, you'll see a new comment, left by the actual artist lady herself :)

I was really chuffed that she took the time to comment (and relieved that she didn't hate what I had done lol)

After all that excitement, the rest of my week has been fairly quiet - work, home, play with paints and stuff, read, sleep, that kind of thing - but perfectly pleasant.

Oh and we woke up to the perfect amount of snow this morning - just enough to play snowballs and make everything look pretty, but not enough to disrupt the roads and shut the schools :)

I hope that the rest of the Rockettes have also had nice weeks - I'm off to chief Rockette Virginia's blog to find out!