Thursday 27 November 2014

Fashion Show!

After weeks of practising, the Fashion Show in Celbridge Manor was on this Tuesday and Wednesday. It was so fun! I did modelling, Irish dancing and music in it. On Friday, we all practised our ‘model walk’.

Our Modelling group. Dearbhla, me, Aimee and Ella

















My group modelled for Born in Naas. On Monday we all went out to the shop to pick the clothes we would wear in the Fashion Show. The shop was so nice! There were loads of Christmassy clothes. We each got a casual outfit and a dressy outfit to wear in the show. Besides some stressful quick changes, the modelling went well and I enjoyed it!

I performed in a TY music group with Sadhbh, Hannah, Clara, Dearbhla, Eimear and Aoife. We did a Bastille medley with songs like Pompeii, Laura Palmer and Of the Night. I played my box drum and the other girls sang and played guitar. I also sang in a Christmas Carols choir with girls from 2nd year to 5th year. We got to wear Christmas jumpers from Dunne Stores which were cute. :)

Christmas carols
TY Music Group

For the Irish Dancing we danced to a song called ‘Cry of the Celts’. There were light dancers and Heavy dancers (Just means different shoes for non-dancers). Ms. H made us sparkly waistbands for our costumes. The dance went well both nights. It was extremely tiring though because it was very long! We nearly broke the stage apparently because we jumped so much, but I guess that’s a good thing? The dancing was probably one of my favourite parts of the night.

Irish Dancing practice


Our Mini Companies were allowed to set up stalls and sell. We were taking orders for Canvases both nights and we did quite well! For more information about our Mini Company look at my blog post http://evemcmahonty.blogspot.ie/2014/11/photobeau.html

Our Mini Company stall at the fashion show
In between my times on stage I did get to see the rest of the show. I really enjoyed the Ballerinas who danced to an Ed Sheeran song, and the Bridal section. The teachers appeared loads throughout the show and they were great. I loved seeing the Debs section because the dresses were gorgeous, although I only got to see it through a tiny opening in the door as I was waiting to go on stage! You can see other photos and information on the school website if you would like to see more: http://www.stwolstans.ie/



Now that the fashion show is over, I have so much free time as there aren't any after school rehearsals anymore. As much as it was fun, I can't wait to go home tonight and just watch a lot of TV and catch up on I'm a Celebrity…


-Eve xx

Wednesday 19 November 2014

Animoto

It was part of our October blog challenge (I know I'm late soz) to make an Animoto video so heres mine with my photos of Autumn:




-Eve xx

Art Trip

Yesterday afternoon, TYs went on a trip to Carton House to see the 'Vanishing Art' sculptor exhibition. We had to look around at the different sculptors and answer a worksheet on them. Here are some:






After hearing that the Irish Rugby team were training at Carton, everyone was so excited and went running trying to find them. They were in the gym and people were screaming in at them and taking pictures. It was kind of embarrassing to be honest ahah... But Johnny Sexton and Tommy Bowe came out and took pictures with everyone which was nice of them. I'm not a very big rugby fan so I didn't bother :))

We have Fashion show rehearsals on Saturday. Mockingjay comes out tomorrow and I'm excited to see it this weekend!

-Eve xx

Tuesday 18 November 2014

PhotoBeau

It's November, so that means it's nearly Christmas :))) well close enough! We have been very busy with loads of projects this month but our main focus has been on getting our Mini Company up and running.

Our Mini Company is called PhotoBeau meaning 'Beautiful Picture' in French (Cocky but confident;)) We're creating personalised canvases using our customers photographs, artwork and collages. We have normal A4 canvases for sale but also smaller square canvases to put instagram photographs on. We also are selling mini canvases to put letters or smaller images for eg. bedroom wall. We are making magnet versions of these mini canvases also!

Here are some examples of our canvases:


Instagram media by photobeaucanvas - Our first prototype🎀 Like this and follow us to be in with a chance of winning a photo canvas of your own photo. Competition ends next Friday, 21st November! 📷 #photography #minicompany #canvas #photo #competition
Eimear and I
Instagram media by photobeaucanvas - Newest prototype🎀 we will be taking orders for photo canvases during the week! #panorama #photography #newyork #canvas #photo

We will be selling these canvases for around €10 and will be taking orders during the week. For more information contact photobeauwolstans@gmail.com, or look at www.facebook.com/photobeaucanvas, www.twitter.com/photobeaucanvas or www.instagram.com/photobeaucanvas and don't forget to like and follow us!

- Eve xx