I got an email from Eunice in New Zealand the other day telling me her granddaughter Rachel had done really well in her ballet competitions and had come top of the 6-year-olds, to win a Silver Cup! When I was staying with Eunice in April, Rachel and her brothers came to visit and she performed a Scottish Highland Fling for me! It was so sweet! She's really into her dancing! Then she succeeded in securing a part for herself in the musical CATS, as a kitten, and had her photo taken in costume. When I heard that she was to be taking part in the ballet competition I was sure she would do well. Eunice picked my brains for the French for The Naughty Kitten, so I gave her my best shot - la petite chatte mauvaise - and Rachel's dance was duly given its name!
Proud grandma revealed the results the other day, as I said, and as I wanted to do a scrapbook layout for Rachel, using her CATS photo, I created this! Isn't she cute? I have given her a silver cat trophy instead of a silver cup! Having got out of the way of doing scrapbook layouts since my Oz and NZ trip, I am trying to get back into it again! With not much happening in this run up to winter, I may get some more layouts - LOs - done..... if I get time to do them with all this painting practice I am going to put in! That was somewhat tongue in cheek, but I really must make an effort to practise. I went to the hairdresser today, a walk along the Green, and over the footbridge then a longer walk to Kim's house, along the back road out of Peebles and past the park. The sun was shining and there was blue sky with puffy clouds, and did I study those autumn trees along the way! Well, I could have kicked myself for leaving my camera at home! Maybe tomorrow I'll get out and take a few shots! I can see where Joe is coming from with his technique!
Oh yes, the hairdresser! Well, Kim has always been a wacky dresser and her hair can be any colour! For a while you could see all Kim's customers sporting purple streaks, and I was no exception! Well, why should the youngsters have all the fun?! Anyway, the colour had faded a lot and had begun to grow out a bit so today I decided that along with covering up my dark roots with the blonde, I would go for some more colour! I'm not too sure about both sides being bright pink, but I do love the back when I put my hair up as I usually do these days. It's purple! Not the same purple as before - that was more a plum purple. This is really dark purple!
Anyway, when I got to work tonight a couple of folk thought I had done the colour for sponsoring a charity, so I thought Why not?! Pink is normally associated with Cancer, and as we had a Cancer Research collecting box in the office, I got Keith our manager to put his signature to my request to "sponsor Evelyn's new hair colour by donating to Cancer Research" and put them on the counter in a prominent position! I got a very good response from our customers, along with various comments from "It's cool!" to "I knew you had to be doing it for charity and not as a fashion statement." Thanks a bunch, Malcolm! Some people gave very generously and the collecting box was quite heavy by the end of my shift! Wonder if I could do it again tomorrow! Why not, eh? Kim says the pink will fade to a baby pink quite quickly, but I may ask her to put in a couple of dark purple lowlights to break up the bright pink in the meantime! I know what my sister will say when she sees it! She thinks I am off my head, old enough to know better..... eh, Jean?
Well, even pink night owls have to sleep sometime, so I am off to bed now! Night night!
Talk again soon!
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