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(Me and my girls at work. Sorry about the awful photograph, had I have known Phil was going to take my picture I would have dressed up)!!!!
About Me!
I am currently on maternity leave from my part time job as a special needs teacher. I have loved bellydance since visiting Egypt in 2000. In 2004 I went to see the BDSS at the Bloomsbury in London and was totally blown away by the whole show but particularly the tribal girls. And that was it, I wanted to learn more and more about tribal and have attended workshops and events by some of the best tribal dancers in the world. You know who they are! I even dragged my husband and toddler to San Francisco so I could attend afew classes there. What a brilliant city. I am a member of Khalgani and perform when I can. I particularly like performing to rock tracks in my studded bra and denim fringes!!!
My other passions are ~
~Creating artwork using a variety of mediums, usually acrylics, oils and hard pastels. I am inspired by many artists and am a self taught artist, although I have recently had a tutorial by Vic Bearcroft who helped me explore techniques using hard pastels and velour paper. I used to design the artwork for a band called Cum to Bedlam, which was cartoon based, a style I love to use.
~Heavy rock/metal/glam - old stuff mainly like ACDC, Motorhead, Hanoi Rocks, Janes Addiction up to newer bands like Wolfmother, Muse etc. "Once the metal's in your veins, it never comes out"........You get the general idea!
~Animal and environmental care. I cannot bare to see animals suffer, especially when it is for our greed or stupidity. The photographer Steve Bloom has created some amazing work. This quote is from his book - 'Spirit of the Wild'.
'If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected.'
Chief Seattle of the Suwamish Tribe
Says it all doesn't it? So, my love of bellydance, music and animals inspires me to create art work to raise money for different charities. Thank you for looking!
Details of money raised so far
2006 - £50 to help stop the bears in India being tortured into performing, £30 - Paighton Zoo conservation, and donated cards to New LIfe House (an orphanage in Asia) to the value of £18 and Don't Let My People Die Charity (check out their site) with the value of £40+ and £145 'Make A Wish' children's charity from the sale of Christmas cards.
Feb 2007 - £40 Save the Elephant. £60 Comic Relief. Cards donated to sell for a cat charity in New Zealand - £14.80. April - donated/sold cards for Compton Hospice - £23.20. £130 - 2 elephant charities (+ elephants adopted). £115 - 'Promise Dreams Children's Charity' (Christmas cards), £238 - World Land Trust (Calendars).
Feb 2008 - £100 to the Dogs Trust.
September 2008 - £100 to Brooke Horses
Therefore total so far is £1, 108 raised!!!!!! Please email me for details of my cards and every penny goes to charity, (10% from originals and prints).
Legal bit - The pictures and the right to print belong to me. No reproduction may be made of any image on this site without my prior permission.
Some of these cards can be purchased from Tribe Zuza who regularly attend tribal events and have helped tremendously with my sales. If any of the card designs here say 'sold out', you could try them, they may have some left!
Thank you to all who have supported me so far by buying these cards.
