Right EXAMS first...
My daughter Billie ~~ my very clever daughter!!!! 80* xoxoxoxox
She got her Science retakes results
(well couple of weeks ago actually but haven't got round to telling you all - Sorry about that, so here we go then!)
Yes I am very proud to say they were all A's ~~ that means that all six of them are A's now (she retook the B results)
Physics P123 & P456
Chemistry C123 & C456
Biology B123 & B456
She loves Physics so much so she is taking it as one of her A levels
along with Maths, Art and now Biology (which she changed from psychology)
I am so happy, she is working so hard.
Next is her Art exam ~ which is over the next 2 days and she has just handed in her Product Design Coursework too.
Then she will have to complete her other art projects/coursework by 1st May.
And then its into all her other exams in May/June.
Its very stressful for her and its been quite stressful for me too as I have been helping her as best I can, with ideas for her Art work, finding materials she can use (usually from my Aladdins Cave of a workshop ~ its amazing what I can conjure up from my cupboards) and just generally being there for her!!
She definitely needs the Easter break to have a bit of relaxation time!!
I expect we will need to go shopping as she will want to start sorting out her outfit for the next Comic Con in May. This is a comic/cosplay convention held in the Excel in London. She loves to dress up and has recently dressed up as a Manga character Sakura Haruno (Naruto) for the recent Comic Relief 2013.
She went around the school with her trusty bucket collecting for the charity but had some competition this time from the sixth formers doing the same thing. She collected £28 as opposed to the last 2 events when she collected over £70 for Children in Need each time. She was a little disappointed but I told her that it was still good for one person to achieve.
She has decided to start blogging about her fundraising and her cosplay costumes and the events she attends. When I get the link I will let you know (I cant remember what shes called her new blog!!!)
Next time will have new beads to show
Toodleoo
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I have closed down my website ~~ ChatElaine Jewellery .com but my Etsy stores still remain open.
It has been a soul searching decision but felt it was for the best. I fired up my domain name 3 years ago but found that I havent been very successful with sales from my website all my sales have been through craft fairs, home jewellery parties and for my beads from my Etsy stores.
Craft fairs have seen a decline, especially in my area and so I don't sell this way anymore! It is heartbreaking spending so much time making jewellery, travelling and setting up and then no sales, packing it all away again and not even covering the cost of the table, very demoralising!!! Home jewellery parties are quite hard to come by and so I decided I needed to concentrate on my beadmaking from now on. Jewellery will take a back seat, making mainly for myself or friends and family, also coming up with projects for the magazine.
The way I would like to go is Bead Fairs for my lampwork beads, I am not at a place where this can happen yet but hope to be there in the future!!
The family has taken a bit of a back seat for the last few years but that needs to change, my daughter is in her final year at school and her first Mock exam is this thursday. So I am concentrating on helping her when she needs me as this first mock is Art and Design. She is working towards making a sculpture, she has made some preliminary models and so can you guess what it could be????
DRAAA-GONS!
Ain't plasticine great!!! Ha ha!!
Its just like being a kid again, of yes she still is really!!! Silly me!!
We are having a little trouble on how she can do the wings as she really wants them flapping up, but I really think it might need an armature wire but worried it wouldnt survive in the kiln!!
Its a 10 hour exam which is all day thursday (5 hours) then 5 lessons of an hour each!! So over the next 2-3 weeks she will have to finish it. Her other mocks are next week, her science re-sits are in January and then her proper exams start in May.
Phewwww!! Cant believe it, seems only yesterday she was starting school, now we have to start working out what she wants to do for her future career!! Very hard decisions to make ahead!! Mind boggling!!
Catch up soon.
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