Surely Seurat....

I had a few days work on a show for the Fringe, and got to do lots of nice painty things!!!These panels are reversable so my work will be on both sides...
(a wee bit of Rachel's jelly fish in the background)

One of the girls had already started working on this bigger painting when I got there but as we were running out of time, I jumped in to finish it.

Before...

After...

I still felt there was more work I could have done to it but as time was running out I had to pick certain areas to focus on and get them to the best I could....

House Climbing and Ankle Hanging....

My circus group had a wee BBQ at our friend Marta's house over the weekend.
Her and her husband are acutally in the process of designing/building their own house at the moment and even the Grand Designs team have been out following it. They've got as far as the foundations and have built the beam structure of the house.
So of course we trapeze ladies couldn't resist having a wee climb!

And a wee bit of that internet phenomenon planking (even though its not a real plank!).... Two of the girls Lauren and Claire did a little bit of fire poi for us. I've tried normal poi and found it hard enough to keep them under control, never mind adding fie into the equation!

As if that wasn't enough fun for one weekend, we did a special doubles trapeze class on the Saturday! Doing various postions and hanging by my ankles- alot of fun!! In most partner work there are two roles- the base (usually the one holding the weight), and the flyer ( the one that hangs). As I'm small, its easier for me to do the flying, but I like to try and base when I can. Some base action..... (Squeeze those abs!!)

Tall ships and circus sailors...

It was the Tall Sips races in Greenock this weekend. I remeber going to see them years ago and I went on a couple of them and had a walk about. They're really cool looking ships!

However one of my main reasons for going was that my circus buddies were perfoming! I was actually suppose to be in this show but as I was going up north I couldn't make the rehearsals, I still went along for support though!

And of course, I couldn't resist having a go too....

A wee Highland fling....

I went up north to Lochinver for a wee weeks holiday to visit some family friends. Its a little seaside village and takes about 6 hours to drive from Glasgow. Very remote but lovely scenery. I'm afraid this post is a bit of a picture bomb.

The dugs not too sure where they were going.....
THE BEACH!!!!

We went a walk upto to Stoer Lighthouse, and on route got caught in traffic (sheep traffic that is....)

WATCH OUT FOR TOADS (apparently...)

So my dad is really big on hillwalking and he likes to go up north as thats where all the mountains are. As there not much else to do around there, I decided to join him on a climb. So heres my first mountain experience....

The view from far away...

Thats our intended destination...

The view from the bottom (which we had to walk about an hour and a half to get to!)

On the ridge...

The view from the top!!!!!

I MADE IT!

Unfortunately it was sooooo windy at the tops that as soon as we got there, we had to come back down again, grasping onto any rock we saw as we descended!

We went out for dinner, and my mum had langustines (?). Although I'm vegetarian, I couldn't help but play with them!

A good week and a nice wee bit of relaxing time off. But now, back to the job hunt.....

Van Gogh Shrubbery....

I was in London recenlty and of course I took a wee visit to the National Gallery. At the moment there is an amazing representation on Van Gogh's Wheatfield with Cypresses outside, made from plants. I didn't realise what it was at first because I was so close but once I stood back I could see it. Its interesting becuase I imagine its going to change as the plants grow or die, creating a different image each time you go by. What a great idea!

Happy International Handstand Day!!!

Across the world today it is International Handstand Day and of course I just had to get in on the action!!! Heres my wee handstand....
This picture took soooo much work! Basically I took it myself so I had my camera carefully balanced on a stack of dvds, then I had to put it on self timer, run into shot and attempt to hold a handstand. Some of my attempts were far from perfect, here are some of my FAILS (but as they say, practice makes perfect).......

I started here but since this happened I changed location- FAIL..........

Almost there but still a FAIL.......

Falling backwards into the bathroom- EPIC FAIL....

Even though trying to get the perfect picture was a workout in itself, I still felt the need to go to training and rope in some other handstandees. This time we went for a mexican wave.....

(who doesn't love a high school musical school jump in way of celebaration?)

Mela...

This weekend was Glasgow's annual Mela festival in Kelvingrove park and my aerial group were on show again.

On the Saturday we took all our equipment to the park and set up for class there. It was kinda weird doing class in front of passers by but its good promotion for the company and give people a chance to see what we do.

On Sunday we did two perfomances, despite the torrential rain. Our theme this year was zombie pirates! The girls put some amazing make up and costumes together, and to be hinest I was a little jealous I didnt get to be a zombie!
I wasn't acutally perfoming on the aerial equipment this time, so I done a little bit of acrobalance with some of the kids that do our youth classes. As this was their first time performing Rodolfo wanted to have someone who could kinda help them and keep them in place, so I was drafted in as an honourary kid! This did invole me being taken captive by our pirates though!

Our queen of the splits-Lauren. (One day mine will be this good, one day......)
Doubles cloudswing... Zombie pirates trying to navigate the treasure... Mags on the spanish web, I was at the bottom beating the rope so it would spin... I'm not entirely sure what Rodolfo was suppose to be but it involed a scary looking mask...
Aaaah the end, completely drenched, feet covered in mud, but alot of fun.....