come join me and juicy lucy in the bedroom

so this evening i was supposed to do a hilal bellydance workshop, but am blowing it out for my friend lucy's birthday for a couple reasons...
1. there is nothing sexy at all about hilal bellydance!
2. i need to focus on my tribal drills for shows in december.
3. it's juicy lucy's birthday!!! and i gotta take care of her as she is going to be my personal bitch at THIS

yes, i shall be teaching granny square crochet and selling my buntings and scarves at the underground farmer's market over bonfire weekend.  if you have never been to an underground supper club even then you must come along and experience the food rave that is the house of ms marmite lover.  she is truly a visionary of the new DIY age.  she's turned her uber-top secret beautiful house location into the funnest restaurant experience i have been to in a long time - and what she is doing with her indoor house market is amazing and inspiring!

in fact, i just had to fill out a survey on some women in biz website and when it came to role models - the only person that came into my head was ms marmite lover kerstin herself!  if you know me in real life you know that this isn't something i would say lightly - as no one is as old or as experienced as moi in most things, lol!

please do come along.
hang out with me and juicy lucy in the underground bedroom market and enjoy!!!

december raqs!

the last few weeks have been busy - busy bristol bellydancing, busy with xmas nights out, and busy being bitten by the flu bug. ugh!

so went to a fucking amazing tribal weekend in bristol, and didn't actually crochet a stitch, although i did yarnbomb every pub that i was in! ( no photos sorry )

the first night we were there, and one of the main three reasons for the trip was the tribal vitalogy weekend put on by viktoria pearl boheme at what used to be the junction on stokes croft. the venue wasn't very large and within the first hour was sooo packed out it was impossible to move, but i still made a few visits to the souk where i scored some a nice little dread fall in colours the same as my hair and already adorned with beads and rings - for less than it would have been me making myself despite having boxes of synth hair just sitting there on the shelves staring at me...

i also scored some lovely waist belts all beaded and jangly, which i've already worn as headpieces - and some lovely jewellry bits n bobs. so happpy - and all for less than the one piece i scored at raqs brittania - so bargain! and gave me something to wear at cat's birthday bash...all i needed was added facepaint with drum n bass dj and danced my ass off all night - and this all after a couple hours workshopping with the amazing samantha emmanuel drilling upper body AND the evenin in the pub while my bondeboy flashed his sparkly g-string at absolutely everyone!

gotta love him.

then home.
a couple xmas dinners.
and flu.

been stuck on the sofa and barely managed to make anything at all the last day or so - just some nice sparkly ornaments for my bright pink tree!

world aids day 2009

i took the time tonight, after working late and while waiting for my tesco man to bring 12bottles of my favourite dry cava (it was on special - 3 for £10) for xmas.nye...anyway, i took the time tonight to crochet a red ribbon. i sat there and really thought about it and wished i'd done more to support world aids day this year. i'd like to start planning a project now to culminate next december 1st, but not sure exactly what just yet. i'm thinking that maybe i could get my stitch and bitch groups to all come together for the night - each do a square, then auction off a blanket?

but would anyone want a blanket of red ribbons squares...
maybe a better idea would be to all make afghans and only use one red ribbon square per project and auction them all off. or just take on the project meself and create something all on my own.
hmmm...

i've been moved and i don't want to lose this desire to do something and create something, and earn some £££ for a good cause.

any ideas?