My goodness! 'Start a blog,' she
thought. 'That'll be easy,' she thought... Not so initially, after wading
through the navigational options, making two blogs instead of just the one
required, throwing together a quick header and trying to fathom out what boxes
to check and what not...gotta be careful I don't come out of this a total
pillock...Alison Day Designs the blog is born. Of course the grey background
isn't quite what I wanted, but I haven't found where to change the colour yet;
never fear, I will eventually.
So, why a blog I hear you ask? Well,
having written articles on a variety of subjects for a number of years now for
a expatriate magazine Connections (of which, I am also
editor), I find that I actually enjoy writing. Also, I wanted to put all
my previously written articles in one place, maybe write a few more, and well,
see where it leads to.
One thing I would like to make quite
clear from the onset, is that I am terrible at spelling and don't expect a cure
any day soon, so please bear with me. Yes Mum, I know they used to drum it into
kids at school in your day, but obviously I missed that bus! As far as I'm
concerned ,as long as you get the gist, that's all that matters, and why else
was the spell check invented?
Also, I wanted a place to ramble on to
my heart’s content on whatever I felt like. This includes stuff about my
artistic creations too. My website and work, if you're interested can be found here.
My big news of the moment, on the art
front, is that next week (26 March) I fly to England for a week, to deliver an
artistic creation (on 30/31 March) that I made especially to submit to the
Royal Academy's annual Summer Exhibition! It did, finally make
it to my sister's house (Caroline) in London, notwithstanding
UPS and their 24 hour vigil of "let’s just circulate this one, one more
time for the lads, round the depo carousel."
From previous years it seems that
entrants for the RA number 13,000 and, looking at last year's programme (kindly
sent to me by my friend Kate, who lives in Crete, Greece, only about 1300
pieces of work get chosen to exhibit. Anyone can enter, using any medium. Mine
is my signature style art, which I refer to as papiermaché-mosaics, and
her name is Lola. (I can't show her publicly yet, so here's Bead Lady
instead). I'm nervous and excited and it would be amazing to be able to hang on
the RA's walls during their world renown exhibition, but I almost don't dare
think it. I should hear early June if I have been successful...so watch this
spot...for potential champagne corks/sobs!
Well, the sun has yet to pass the yard
arm, but what the heck it's Friday and there is no sun to be spotted here in
the Northern Netherlands, so I think a snifter or two is in
order. To clarify, in my family the sun has to have passed the yard arm before
the drinks cupboard can be opened, but I think that was a vain attempt by my
father to protect his alcohol stocks from three reprobate drunken teenagers of
yore.
© Alison Day