The lovely Dawn Roberts of Circadian Fitness Dance Studio, Swansea, has invited me to teach a 2 hour beginner/intermediate workshop Saturday 9th February 2013 12-2pm. The tickets are limited to 12 and are selling fast, so if you fancy an afternoon of wiggletastic fun and learning you need to book your ticket very soon.
Level: Beginners/intermediate Price: £15 per person Teacher: Lynne Davies Date: 9th Feb 2013 Time: 12-2pm Venue:Circadian Fitness Dance Studio, Mond Buildings, Union Street, Swansea. SA1 3DN
This 2 hour workshop is perfect for complete beginners through to people wanting to advance their hoop skills past the basics. We will be covering core body and off the body moves, arm and leg hooping and generally having fun. Individuals will be shown moves to suit their abilities. If you have your own hoop please bring it along, if not I will have workshop hoops of various sizes for you to borrow. Book now as there are only 12 places.
Come and have an afternoon of wiggletastic fun!
So Christmas is fast approaching and Jon and I have been trying to work out what to get each other and asking each other what we would like, so I thought I'd blog a list of the fabulous goodies I'd like to receive, that are made by independent artisans. Now I know money is very tight this year so I'm not really expecting to get all or any on this list, but it's fun to wish and dream.
Most of all I'm hankering for a beautiful Psi LED hula hoop. A fabulous gentleman called Patrick in the USA makes them and they truly are the most sparkly gorgeous hoops I ever have seen. I think I'd want a mix of 50%/50% the Eflin and Dragonfly lights and as many lights as Patrick could squeeze into a 95cm diameter hoop. I've borrowed this video from You Tube to show you just how pretty they are!
I'd also love to be the proud owner of Wound Around Jewelry's beautiful silver creation. Made up of silver curls and links this necklace would look fabulous when you are all dressed up with somewhere to go or over a plain T-shirt and Jeans when you were off to the market. I just love it!
I'm a huge lover of vintage and all that vintage represents. I love the idea of beautiful items from the past being given new life to be used again and these cups from uknowuneedanother just appeal to me soooooo much. The colour and the bumpiness of the glass just make me smile. Imagine serving up individual trifles or ice cream sundaes in these... hmmm starting to dribble now... Dribble's not good for my laptop :)
As a lover of all things Pirate, my next choice just had to be from Damselinthisdress. Not only does she make the most beautiful bodices but she makes these gorgeous coats with detachable sleeves. I so wish I could have one made up in with a purple outer and a burn orange lining. Santa are you listening? Hmm... what's that you say? I'm on the naughty list.... Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I've blogged about these next people before and I unashamedly am going mention them again. They make THE most sensational pieces ever! Muju are a British couple from Brighton that pay great attention to detail. To choose just one of their items is very hard but because I had to I went for one of their fabulous Plushies, although to call it a plush some how seems to be wrong. It's a miniature sculpture in felt. A perfect work of art.
For a very long time I have admired the work of Maisy Brown. She makes exquisite reproductions of clothing from days gone by. She has a knack of picking all the right styles that make me go wow! The dress that I have seen of hers that I like most is the Tuxedo ruffled matador in black and white. It has such beautiful clean lines and is such a flattering shape.
Whilst I was trying to work out what to blog about today one of my cats, Weapon X, came and sat on my lap with his head and front legs sprawled across my wacom tablet , making it very hard to reach the keyboard or surf the net. He only agreed to move if I blogged about cats. So here is mine and Weapon X's blog on kitty cats.
As X is a bit of a naughty little cat that is always showing off, I thought I'd put this beautiful Jester kitty from Candicewestberg first in the blog. I could imagine Weapon X in the jester costume, leaping about and shouting "Look at me! Look at ME!" although I think X would look better in a green and orange costume. Paisley is not really his thing.
This painting looks a bit like X. I did ask him if he had sat for PopArtCafe when she painted this, but he said "Pffft No! I would have eaten the bird and Wendy would have had to paint it with no bird in sight and a feather sticking out of my mouth." Who's he kidding? He is too bouncy to ever catch the bird. It would see him coming from a mile off!
Exnihilo made this unusual Voodoo cat doll. I love it's smiley face and long gangly legs. He looks like he is just waiting for someone to give him a huge hug. X likes the Voodoo Cat's curly whiskers. He has a few himself but I wouldn't be surprised if I catch him in the bathroom with little curlers or mini curling tongs trying to replicate Voodoo cats whisker style.
X chose these magnets from TheSmallCatClub because the second from the left bottom row looks like him and the one top left looks like his girlfriend Rosy, from two houses down the road. The top middle kitty looks like X's arch nemesis Joey, the cat from next door. X hates him as much as Maggie from The Simpsons hates the Mono-brow baby!
I asked X if I would make a good Catwoman and showed him this mask from AlyssaRavenwood. He just did a sniggering laugh... I think that means no then, although he did like the lady in the picture dressed in the gorgeous leather mask. He purred lots for her.
X says I'd look more like this in a Catwoman mask... which is just fine with me because I think AbbyChristine's little finger puppet of Ghost WorldEnid is gorgeous!
X has now gone back to watching Jackdaws out the window, so I can get on with putting up new pictures for our new collapsible hoops on Hyperloop Hoop. I'm so excited, because now we can send hoops worldwide. The fixed hoops were way too big to ship but these will be shippable, so we can spread the love of the wiggle even further!
I've been searching the net for some lighting for our market stall. We will be travelling around most of the summer festivals selling Hoops and Hats. and I want to try and light the stall at night with solar powered lights. Now the problem I'm having is finding a lighting system that will work even on dull overcast days. I've found countless people selling the little garden lanterns, but I don't think they throw out much light and most of the reviews I've found of them say they do not work at all on over cast days.
Hopefully the summer will be bright and sunny, but in the UK you can't guarantee that it will. I don't really need these lights to be like flood lights as we hope to have a more soft ambient glow in the night than look like a night match on a football field, but I do need them to work all the time, whether the day has been 12 hours of bright sunshine or dull and over cast all day.
I saw these LED solar lights and though they would look great along the front edge of the stall, but again the reviews were nothing less than bad, saying they were not very bright and that they only lit up after a very sunny days worth of charging.
I really don't want to have to get a generator to run lights, as they are noisy, polluting and costly to run... any ideas all you lovely Blog readers? Have you go a set of solar powered lights you can recommend? If we can't find anything we will have to resort to tea light candles in jars, where the festival organisers will allow us, although that can be a fire hazard when slightly drunk festival goers try to hoop for the first time, late at night next to a candle lit stall.
