Ahhhh that's better....

Further to my post below about entering my pieces into the Royal Queensland Show...

I am delighted to report that I have just got back from delivering my two pieces and the whole process was extremely professional, organised and very official.

  

Both of my pieces were labelled, entry numbers and my name were recorded and every i was dotted and every t crossed!  They even made a note that my pieces were delivered with two display busts so that they would be returned to me.

I could see lots of glass display cases and the lady told me that all of the entries are displayed in the glass cabinets which are locked so my much loved necklaces will be safe and sound, won't be touched by lots of icky sticky fingers and cannot be stolen!

Ohhh I cannot tell you how much better I feel now knowing my pieces will be looked after! 

Now all I have to do is win a pretty ribbon!

Feeling a little nervous...

Well I have just finished packing my two pieces I am entering into the Royal Queensland Show as they need to be delivered to the showground tomorrow... 

...and I have to admit that I am feeling a little nervous about the whole thing.

I am not nervous about whether my pieces will place and win themselves a pretty ribbon... I am nervous about how my pieces will be looked after. 

I was on an Australian beading forum and a fellow beader was saying she entered some of her work into her local show and she had to pin her work to the busts as people had been trying to steal some of the pieces.

WHAT THE?

Seriously I honestly think I would go into cardiac arrest if one of my pieces went missing. 

I hate to think how many hours went into Fingal Frolics ... 

Between making all of the glass fused cabochon and the actual bead embroidery itself ...

...well I can't even begin to imagine how many hours of beading went into that piece. 

The small starfish alone took a whole week each to bead.

I have to admit after Treasures of the North Sea winning a category in this year's Use the Muse competition...well I kind of have an emotional attachment to this piece now.

Anyway I guess I just have to trust the general public and be assured that my pieces will be ok and try not to worry too much between now and 16 August when I am able to go and collect my pieces...

Ohhhh it's going to be a very long 8 weeks.