Music, music, music.

Welcome to our Music bloghop. We chose this date as it is Elvis's birthday. Little known facts about Elvis include:

• he was born at 4.35 am in 1935 and was a twin,
• he was a black belt in karate,
• he recorded over 600 songs and had 18 number 1 hits,
• he was blonde naturally,
• Elvis’s favourite toothpaste was Colgate. His favourite aftershave was Brut. And his favourite soft drink was Pepsi

Interesting facts I share with Elvis, I was also born blond and my toothpaste is currently Colgate, but probably cos it was on special offer. Anyway my blog today is all about music. I decided to tell you how important singing has been in my life. If I'd been Swedish I would have been the ''girl with the golden hair'' and saying thank you for the music, or as Barry M says ''one voice singing in the darkness''. I wanted to be an opera star but I would never have had the nerve plus I wasn't good enough in comparison to other singers I knew. Plus my godmother is rather well-known in the opera world, Dame Felicity Lott, so really what's the point??!!!




Now I began my musical career by learning the piano and flute. When I got to my teens, my piano teacher felt my fingers weren't right but in my sightreading and singing she thought I had an excellent soprano voice. So she persuaded my parents and I to get me singing lessons. I'd been singing in the school choir for years and also in school musicals. I had lessons with Lena Phillips whose website I found while looking up things for this blog.
Lessons was completely different. It taught me how to breath correctly, how to hold a note and pitch, how to have better posture and to appreciate different styles of singing. I regularly entered our local competitions and won a couple of cups. I have all my certificates and it was a fun thing to do. We went up to The Royal Festival Hall to give performances twice a year.
Then when I left home I got more into amateur operatics. The layout I have completed for this bloghop shows me in My Fair Lady which I loved. I am wearing my Ascot dress and my posh ballgown. We did a mixture of opera, musicals and operetta such as Gilbert and Sullivan, La Traviata, Fidler on the Roof, The Merry Widow.


This LO uses quite alot of different techniques, just cos I had the time. I have distressed my circle with a blade and inks, used collaging and music manuscript and my new toy Modgepodge which is cool.

I made the two lace flowers with brads in the middle. The flourish I had had in my stash for a while and I felt suited the outfits and vintage feel. The flowers are meant to link to Covent garden in My Fair Lady and the pins as a link to hat pins. Musical keyboard from Sassafrass Lass and the fringing for the details on Edwardian frocks I suppose and to add that vintage feel which was what I was aiming for.

Here is a list of all the bloggers taking part today if you get lost on the way.

rockchickhelen: Helen (host) http://www.furrylittlemonster.blogspot.com
LauraY: Laura http://www.brown-eyed-blog.blogspot.com/
AntheaG: Anthea http://creatingspace.typepad.com/creating_space/
GlitterGirl: Tracey http://thescrappygirlnextdoor.blogspot.com
Cerublue: Siobhan http://ceruleanblue.typepad.com/i-scrap-therefore-i-am/
JoJoSowerby: Jo http://curlyscrapbooker.blogspot.com
naddie: Naddie http://sweet-child.net/
DeanaB: Deana http://www.deanabirks.com/
MelissaG: Melissa www.sunlight-simplicity.blogspot.com
April290: April http://capturethememories.blogspot.com/


Now we are going over to meet Naddie and find out her musical affiliations. Now she's been poorly over Xmas and is way behind on lots of things but she manages to cook, care for her children and DH, she has a list of books to die for and she hasn't scrapped much lately so lets pop over her and see whether she's managed to get some time to herself..............happy dancing/singing...... But before you go, I said my godmother was abit of an opera star. Well here is little clip I found of her doing the Merry Widow as it should be done, enjoy...........