Hair today gone tomorrow

My friend Lette asked me to post this for her...


Lee Stafford, and Steve Turner, renowned celebrity hairdressers, are to host a masterclass in hairdressing at the Essential Hair Salon Supplies Academy at the Delta Retail Park on February 23rd

For this they are looking for 12 members of the public to participate in the class as models. The details are below.To be one of the 12 lucky people chosen by Lee and his team, email your name, address and telephone number to info@essentialsalon.ie before January 30th. You will then be supplied with an application form, which you will need to return with a current picture of yourself either by post or email.

Winners will be notified by February 13th. All models must be available to attend the workshop on February 23rd. This is voluntary and not paid work but your reward is a free haircut by two masters of the industry.

Dublin excursion

Well I'm off to belle Dublin tomorrow morning. My primary reason is to surprise a friend of mine for her birthday, knowing my luck she will decide to start reading this blog and the whole surprise will be ruined! I'm going up on the train with a bunch of friends of mine and we're heading to see Susannna and the Magic Orchestra, I don't really know her stuff but gigs are always fun. I'm also going to be delivering some clothes of mine to FashionFilosofy blog and the will be be doing a photoshoot with the above clothes( which I must say is pretty exciting). My other port of call will be Shebeen Chic, a restaurant that has a swap shop on Saturday afternoons. Anyone who saw the nationwide show I was on would have seen their feature too. I'm really looking forward to seeing their shop as it seems like my kind of thang. The only disappointing thing is that they seem to have a non-existant online presense, which is a bit behind the times for any new business of that sort.

Obama

I had an inexplicable building excitement as the days were drawing nearer to the inauguration of Obama, which is a little odd since A: I don't live in America and B: I'm hopeless when it comes to taking an interest in Irish politics. Part of me stared thinking that I was being dragged along with all the hype, and yes maybe I was a little. But more so he seems to be a real man who speaks all the things that I wanted to hear a polititan say. When I look at TDs here, I feel they are all lying and it makes no difference who is in power, to quote the ever wonderful Ani Difranco 'the republicrats and the demicrans'.I've always felt strong politcally, about social problems, monetary inequality, environmental issues, the wests monopoly in the decline of the third world. But when it came to voting in Ireland I felt, hopeless, powerless and underwhelmed by greedy charicatures of men called politicians. But along comes Obama, and from the other side of the Atlantic he stirs (to use the word again!) a hope. In his speach today he didn't pussy foot around the world of shit that we are all in at the moment, he didn't placate with easy answers, he says it will be bleak. It's good not to be lied to, not to be fed a reality that is so different from the one we live through every day. While I sat on my sofa, 15 mins late for work cos I couldn't drag myself away from his words I realised I was gripping Johns hand, in anticipation, in joy, in hope. Maybe the tides will turn, not towards some easy band aid, but to the harder choices, but the better ones.

Irish Blog Awards 2009

Well it turns out I'm on the long list, before the long list of nominations for the Irish blog awards 2009. It's still very nice though. They suggested that people take a shot at designing their own 'nominated' logo, here is my try...

Etsy Purchases

Button Contruction

WooLA

BigFish

BigFish
As much as I promised myself I would make no more purchases after my mp3 splurge I still couldn't resist the itchy finger of internet shopping. So click...click ..click and suddenly I've spent more hard earned cash on buttons and other lovely things. I have a couple of days of guilt, and then this week everything arrived, all is forgiven and I'm having a 'button love' moment. Of coarse all were bought from etsy, the home of all things beautiful and addicitve.

More Polyvore, in a green note

More from me playing with polyvore


be cool,be green by nicedaydesigns

Satisfy the inner currator with POLYVORE

I just found the site Polyvore,which I'm sure everybody discovered years ago, but I'm very excited by it. Baciscally its a great tool for doing fashion collages, with endless choices of designer stuff.So I gave it a try, and this is my first attempt. Go try it yourself, it's VERY satisfying.


Sweet Jackets by nicedaydesigns

Today FM, anyone listening?

Apparently I was mentioned on Today FM national radio this morning on the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show. Did anyone hear it, I'd love to know what he said??

Irish blog awards

The nominations for the Irish blog awards are open, but closing very soon, Nominations close at 6pm on January 14th, but click here to give your last minute choices. I nominated a few people, but I still consider myself pretty new to this so I don't have that much knowledge of the Irish blogging community. I think I'll go to the ceremony which is being held in Cork this year. I hear it's a great place to meet and greet, and I'm sure it will be a fun night.

Green Treasury

I just made my second treasury on Etsy. This one started with the idea of everything being recycled, so obviously the colour choice was green! Enjoy....click here.