Badges 2 uroo

Today we went into town to collect money for Holly Days. We sold holly badges for €2 in aid of the ISPCC. We put ourselves into pairs and were stationed all around Grafton Street and St. Stephen's Green. We were given boxes to collect money in and to hold the badges, yellow bibs and Santa hats. Ellen and I were stationed outside the Gaiety Theatre. As it wasn't a very busy street we didn't sell many badges. I was tempted to sing Christmas songs to see if it would help but decided against that idea. People would've been annoyed... Although we didn't collect much money, some pairs collected up to €80 euro which was great.

Me and Ellen outside St. Stephen's Green Christmas Market

As there was a protest today against the Water Charges, we only sold badges for an hour and a half. By the time we left the ISPCC hall, the protest was in full swing. There were thousands of people marching from Leinster house and through town. There were groups from every county with signs to say so. As there were so many people it was difficult to get to our two buses and to get 86 TY's out of town. We ended up walking through, and sometimes with the protest to Trinity and then to the Quays to try find the bus. Loads of the protesters wanted us to join them and half of our year joined them in chanting "No way, We won't pay!". Eventually after a while we got to the buses and made our way home. It was an eventful day to say the least!

We got a half day after town so a few of us went to do some Christmas shopping. It was a good day! Tomorrow we are going to Punchestown to a road safety talk and on Friday we have a Christmas dress up day.

-Eve xx

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

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:

Eimear and I

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