Marguerite
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Wanna see my darling boy's photo? Read on...
husband & I just got back from the official launch of Cystic Fibrosis Australia's 2007 charity drive. Their theme is "Sixty Five Roses" (from the story of a little boy who misunderstood what his mother was saying when she talked about CF - it's what he thought she was saying instead).
CFA (Cystic Fibrosis Australia) asked 65 artists to each do a piece of art in their own distinctive style, on the theme of a rose. The artworks were donated and are being auctioned, all proceeds going towards research into cystic fibrosis. Because our village is full of artists they asked a handful from our area. One they asked is a friend and neighbour of ours.
This event was held almost under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, a few doors down from the wedding we went to a couple of months ago. Definitely a posh affair, although not too much snobbery, thank goodness.
We found out tonight that there is actually a website for the auction house, so if you want to see my neighbour's artwork which includes a lovely photo of difficult child 3, here it is:
http://www.lawsonsonline.com/Auctions/ItemDisplay.aspx?id=4270
The rosebud is from easy child 2/difficult child 2's rose bushes; the sea scene is about half an hour along the south road from our village; he took the photo at sunrise and then photoshopped in the rosebud and difficult child 3. He's promised us a copy.
It was funny tonight - there were about five of our local artists there (not all were able to attend) so husband & I kept bumping into old friends whose work was also on display. We're not really arty people, we just sounded like it. Our photographer mate is a nonconformist - while everyone else was neat, tidy and in a lot of cases, formal - he wore a T-shirt, jeans and a striped unbuttoned shirt over the lot. Sunglasses pushed up on unbrushed, unkempt hair. He looked like I-don't-know-what, but he's one of Sydney's best artistic photographers. And a total ratbag.
difficult child 3 was unable to come along because he is under 18, the legal age for someone to attend a function where alcohol is being served. I think he would have been bored, anyway. He would have known some of the people - two of the other artists have children at the local school, one is the mother of a former classmate.
It was fun to be at such an upmarket social event and feel like we've got cachet because we know a number of the artists there. But there is no glamour for us - hard to have that, when we're used to seeing each other sleepy-eyed in the mornings, wearing trakky-daks (tracksuit pants) as we drop kids off at school or dropping in to the shop for an emergency carton of milk.
So if you want to have a peek at what our beautiful boy looks like, check out the link above. I think it expires on Friday.
Let me know what you think.
Marg
husband & I just got back from the official launch of Cystic Fibrosis Australia's 2007 charity drive. Their theme is "Sixty Five Roses" (from the story of a little boy who misunderstood what his mother was saying when she talked about CF - it's what he thought she was saying instead).
CFA (Cystic Fibrosis Australia) asked 65 artists to each do a piece of art in their own distinctive style, on the theme of a rose. The artworks were donated and are being auctioned, all proceeds going towards research into cystic fibrosis. Because our village is full of artists they asked a handful from our area. One they asked is a friend and neighbour of ours.
This event was held almost under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, a few doors down from the wedding we went to a couple of months ago. Definitely a posh affair, although not too much snobbery, thank goodness.
We found out tonight that there is actually a website for the auction house, so if you want to see my neighbour's artwork which includes a lovely photo of difficult child 3, here it is:
http://www.lawsonsonline.com/Auctions/ItemDisplay.aspx?id=4270
The rosebud is from easy child 2/difficult child 2's rose bushes; the sea scene is about half an hour along the south road from our village; he took the photo at sunrise and then photoshopped in the rosebud and difficult child 3. He's promised us a copy.
It was funny tonight - there were about five of our local artists there (not all were able to attend) so husband & I kept bumping into old friends whose work was also on display. We're not really arty people, we just sounded like it. Our photographer mate is a nonconformist - while everyone else was neat, tidy and in a lot of cases, formal - he wore a T-shirt, jeans and a striped unbuttoned shirt over the lot. Sunglasses pushed up on unbrushed, unkempt hair. He looked like I-don't-know-what, but he's one of Sydney's best artistic photographers. And a total ratbag.
difficult child 3 was unable to come along because he is under 18, the legal age for someone to attend a function where alcohol is being served. I think he would have been bored, anyway. He would have known some of the people - two of the other artists have children at the local school, one is the mother of a former classmate.
It was fun to be at such an upmarket social event and feel like we've got cachet because we know a number of the artists there. But there is no glamour for us - hard to have that, when we're used to seeing each other sleepy-eyed in the mornings, wearing trakky-daks (tracksuit pants) as we drop kids off at school or dropping in to the shop for an emergency carton of milk.
So if you want to have a peek at what our beautiful boy looks like, check out the link above. I think it expires on Friday.
Let me know what you think.
Marg
