11 days to go

I'm leaving for Estonia on the 8th March. I'm very excited! I'm flying to Munich and spending 4 nights there as Schmuck will be on. I'll also try and check out the Academy.

I'll be staying in a tragic backpackers but I've booked a single room. I was speaking to Teresa Lane, who shares a studio in the room next to my studio, who also happens to have spent 6 months in Tallinn last year. I was describing the backackers in Munich to her and she said 'oh, that's the one with the nightclub downstairs'. I'll be packing my earplugs.

I've booked to stay at a cheap hostel in the old town of Tallinn for the first week and then I'll be moving into a beautiful but expensive apartment near the academy. After much deliberation and consultation with my friends (thankyou) I decided that I was too old for 'share accommodation' and that I will need a sanctuary while I'm there, with a bath, cable tv and wireless internet!

I'll try and post again before I leave.

Interior Decorating

We are now, officially, a studio of four.

It was agonising (how do you rearrange what's been in place for 12 years!), hard work (if you don't already know, jewellery benches are HEAVY) and bloody dirty (we were all blowing black boogers for a couple of days afterwards)!

But here's how it looks....




this is Lisa's spot...




Cass is squashed in here...




And this is my galley...




with my new ikea shelves...




this is Nicky's spot, she's skiing in Aspen...




the new lounge....




the library!...




and the view out of my new window...




of the backpackers...

Estonia Update

Oh My God!!!

I've just realised that the Eurovision Song Contest is on the 12th May in Helsinki!

Helsinki is a short ferry trip from Tallinn!!!

I am sooooo there.

flight's booked for the 8th March.

*UPDATE*

Eurovision is sold out and sold out in December! Doh!

*2ND UPDATE*

Just looked on ebay for eurovision tickets and a 'finals package' ticket just sold for GBP 999, that's two and a half THOUSAND dollars folks!! Looks like I might just be watching it on the telly. At least I'll get to vote.

Happy New Year!!

I've been tagged!!

I didn't even know there was such a thing but now I do. It's a good excuse to get started for the year seeing as I haven't done any real work since Christmas. Here's what I have to do...

1. someone tags you, (thanks Sue)
2. you post five things about yourself that you haven’t already mentioned on your blog,
3. you tag people you’d like to know more about.

5 Things.

1. I lived for 3 years in the late 80's in Newcastle, NSW studying for a science degree. I failed. But I met my best friend.

2. I went to Antarctica in 1996. We sailed south from New Zealand for 10 days straight. I can still recall the awe.

3. Sheila Florance was my godmother.

4. I spent my early teenage years in a fantasy romance with Iva Davies - before the mullet!

5. I think, sometimes, that I'm going to be found out for a fraud and that I should be working in a typing pool. (I can touch type around 50 wpm - at one time I was about 65!)

Ta-dah! Ok, the people I want to tag are... Mel Robson, Ulla-Maaria and Ma Roulotte. I have been lurkers on their sites for a while and have wanted an excuse for a virtual cheerio.

Anna

ozco sucks!

not really, but rejection is hard to deal with.

I applied for funding to undertake a residency in Estonia and I found out I didn't get it this morning. I've been so excited about it and (stupidly) a little bit too confident so I'm quite devastated. I've been offered a three month residency by The Estonian Academy and had been thinking all along that if I didn't get the funding I would try and self-fund so I still might go...