Jean has had a busy week at school full of end of term activities and now it is the last day! It seems amazing that she is at school let alone finishing her first year!
We got her ready this morning with her thankyou cards for the teachers and some oreo cookies and jelly babies (they where going to have home made banoffe cupcakes but the power didn't come on until late yesterday so that was a no go!).
Then this afternoon was the end of year celebration assembly in the village hall - it was sweet watching the years sixes (about to leave and go to big school) go over the highlights of the year and it reminded me just what a lot of stuff they had packed in!
But then came the Prize Givings and the first person called for the Ray Tortenese Competition was Jean! So we now have a shiny trophy cup (for Class One) sitting on the bookshelf next to a citificate and she got lots of other goodies too like a gardening book with an inscription to her in and lots of run recyclables like purses made from old juice cartons!
Jean didn't realise what was supposed to happen though so had to be encouraged to go up on the stage! Then she is so small and the prizes relatively big to her that she looked a bit swamped until help came along in the form of one of the year sixes!
She didn't know what it was about until it was explained to her and she stood on stage looking all wide eyed and bewildered - however since it was explained she hasn't stopped talking about it and how she didn't know she was going to win!
So yes I'm being a gushy parent and probably too proud especially when I think she wont be five until the end of next month!
This week (19th-22nd of July 2010) my friend is appearing on GMTV's Chiefs at Sea competition making her stunning desert! I've written a post on it on Salaric Cooking.
You can vote for the dish you like best!
Omnomnomnom!!!!
June's challenges I managed suprisingly easily and now is another month and another set of challenges.
I am setting myself the task of working on a 100 000 word novel for the Terry Pratchett Prize. The plan is to try and write 5000 words a day or at least 2000 words. The second challenge is going to be spending another 30 hours on art - there are several projects that need to be finished off and some fimo stuff I want to start basically.
I also have my paintings going up in Cheltenham this coming week for Art in the Park - which I am excited about 🙂
Obviously due to health problems and the little Jeany I tend to not be able to go out to work as such, even before she was thought of properly and the back problems had flared up so badly I realised that working as a steward at the Student Union was a no go. I headed down to the job center in hunt of a job I could do; I was thinking of envelope stuffing which I was sure would be a job you could do from home.
I explained the issues with needing to do physiotherapy and not being able to sit down or stand up too long and they just told me to go on benefits, which I didn't want to do. And so I began making looking at things I could do at home myself - there was little information then and I went back to college instead.
Then when I got here I was on crutches, so again I went to the job centre when Alaric assured me I would get an interview and they would sort me something out - all I got was rudeness and informed I had to look through all the job options myself and work out what I should apply for - which I did. There was basically nothing. And so I turned to learning web-design stuff and writing my blogs which was a nice sideline to Al's company regardless of the subsequent issues we had with floods and clients not paying.
I feel like I have been stumbling in the dark with a lot of this trying to find jobs I could do from home. Then I found out my friend has as site that covers all the sorts of questions I was asking. Obviously a lot of things have changed in even the last five years but I wish there had been something like this so easily accessible then and even if you are considering setting up your own business with or without the home aspect I think it's a good read.
The site is called Jobs From Home for those who are interested.
June has already been a bizzy month but I feel it is not too late to set myself some challenges. One of the things I want to do this month is focus on art type stuff - so that is illustrations, fimo sculptures and the like along with updating the art and craft blog. I have already started with some of this 🙂
You can now buy prints and things with some of my seascapes at Point Defect. I'm also looking for outlets for wiggly pets and things which seems to be going ok.
So my aim is to spend 30 hours over this month on art - I have already done about 12 hours 🙂
But I always have a second challenge right? I think it is going to have to be blog posts! I will be attempting to write at least 30 posts this month - this shouldn't be too hard actually but we will see 🙂
I'm a bit sad that I didn't get my writing game rolling properlly last month but at the moment money is being the stalling point with that one :/
Animals, Art and Craft, Jean | sarah | 
Thu 22nd Jul 2010 4:38 pm | 
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