Life, don't talk to me about life...

[amberdreams]

Well that was a bad fan week - I lost my draft fic for spn_cinema somehow, no idea how, but I must have deleted it before I did my backups. DOH. So I missed the draft submission deadline for that one, while I also had to admit I'm not going to get my Dean Winchester Big Bang fic done either. So I've pulled out of two challenges in the same week. I hate doing that once, let alone twice.

On the up side, I'm happy to report that my hare raised £3400 for Break kids charity in Norwich, and even better, my giraffe went for £7000 (my personal record so far!) in the auction in Worcester. Wish me luck for the other two auctions this week - the bees are on Wednesday and the car bonnet on Saturday. I should tot up what my sculpture paintings have raised so far over the last couple of years and add it to my resume!

Last week I went to Norwich to sign autographs!! It was the farewell event for everyone to see the hares all together before the auction, and they invited artists to come along and sign stuff and talk to the public. So funny to be on the other side of the table for a change! I think I signed 4-5 Hare guide books and 9 postcards. Fame at last!
Someone left a love pebble on our table too which was rather sweet.

And here's Hareport with some of his compatriots.

And a wee video I took just before the first members of the public came in (hope it works!)


Then last weekend we went up to Manchester to see the bees for the last time, and fitted in an ice hockey match too - man, that was a small rink they have there in Altrincham, but it was a good match. Close and exciting.
It was good to see all the bees, and really nice that my dead cousin's son and her youngest grandkid, Asha, came along too.
Here's Asha. She's cute.


Very windswept me with my bee. It was ridiculously windy - storm Callum, I think. But Callum was from Africa so it was actually really warm. Weird weather for October in Manchester.


Winder who's going to buy Bee-sy Rider...

Comments

[siennavie.livejournal.com]

Wow! Those are indeed very impressive numbers and a resume-worthy achievement :)

Sorry that you lost your draft. I've been lucky so far with my fics but I did something similar with the only video I took off my sister's birthday celebration. Felt horrible when I realized what happened.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

oh no! That's much harder to deal with than me deleting a story that I was struggling with anyway. I hate it when something like that happens, that horrible swooping sinking feeling you get in your stomach, especially when it feels like you've let someone down. (((hugs)))

[caranfindel.livejournal.com]

Ack! I’ll probably be joining you in the dropping out of a challenge club, but only because I can’t write anything, not because I’ve lost what I’ve written. How frustrating!

And yes, you should absolutely take credit for the money your art has raised. I assume businesses buy them? That’s what they do around here.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

ha ha I'd already dropped out of the DWBB through inability to get any words to flow, so this was icing on the cake LOL. I'm struggling to write anything at the moment. I have lots of ideas but then the words dry up when I think about taking the idea any further. Never mind. It will return to us all one day, I'm sure.

I think it's mostly businesses that bid for the animals but I know some go to individuals - my pig from a couple of years ago was bought by a family who have him in their garden in Felixstowe!

[aerynsun5.livejournal.com]

Wow, I thought all the animals were for fame and fun, I didn't realize you were raising money. That is awesome. And a ton of money! Congratulations.

Sorry about your fics. I'm sure that's crazy annoying.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Yes the prime reason for the trails is fundraising for the charities - they have merchandise and collections while the trails are live, but the main amount of cash comes from the auctions. The Norwich hares raised over £400k in the auction, the giraffes over £200k (there were only 30 giraffes to the 60 hares).

[madebyme-x.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry to hear about your cinema fic! Unfortunately I no words of wisdom to offer you, but I know the feeling; I once deleted a fic thinking it was an old draft but it wasn't, and I just couldn't seem to retrieve it. Luckily I did have an old draft, so I didn't lose the whole thing, but damn, that's some bad luck. I hope you find though, I was looking forward to seeing what you'd come up with.

Wow, that's a lot of money - you should be very proud of that! Well done.

[hugemind.livejournal.com]

Go you for making awesome sculpture paintings that raise money for charities!! \o/

Sorry to hear about the lost draft. I would have a hard time dealing with that which is why I have some things on several USB sticks, though not always on purpose but because they get full and I just have files that I always want to have with me in case the mood/Muse strikes. Pulling out of challenges happens, sometimes because of the Muse or RL or something else, don't be too hard on yourself because of that. *hugs*

[julchen11.livejournal.com]

Wow... just wow! I'm speechless. Great works, sunshine, absolutely!!!

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

that's so cool that your sculptures have raised so much! it's definitely something to toot your own horn about. getting to actually sign autographs as an artist is pretty cool too. sucks about your fics, tho. sometimes it happens, but it always sucks when it does.