I performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra!

I was so lucky! On Saturday I had the opportunity, with the Nottingham Trent University Choir, to sing with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and West End star Kerry Ellis! We performed at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham and we had completely sold all the seats. I can't believe how popular it was. To be honest, quite a few of them were Kerry Ellis fans... Kerry Ellis was so lovely and she moved the audience to tears with her rendition of I Dreamed A Dream from Les Misérables.

The LPO were amazing! They are some very talented musicians. It was incredible to sit and listen to them play, even if I do feel like they drowned us out at times :P

One of the girls from the choir was fortunate enough to win an audition to sing a duet with Kerry Ellis. Her voice was just amazing! Anyway, I couldn't exactly take any pictures while the concert was on, but here are some from the rehearsal and a review which was in the local paper.

I made the most of the rehearsal to catch up on my mood blanket!

I had such a busy week last week with rehearsals and other things, that I have been slacking with the blog! I promise to try and post more frequently this week :)

New Storage Space?

So my boyfriend and our housemate were starting to get annoyed with my yarn being everywhere, even if it was only in "Craft Corner", which was a small space between the arm of the sofa and the wall. I had no storage there, just an Asda bag with my yarn in!

So our housemate had a new cello delivered! It's very swanky and electric :) Anyway, it arrived in a massive box, that my boyfriend decided was good enough to play in:

If you follow me on Instagram (@TheCornerofCraft) then you would have already seen this photo.

We won't discuss the onesie... let's just leave it be. Yes. Anyway, after he was done with the box, and while I was at work on Saturday, he decided to fashion some shelves out of the box to store my yarn in! Ah we're such a creative couple. And lo, the makeshift shelving unit was born:

The top shelf is storing my current WIPs, like gloves, my crochet mood blanket. The middle and bottom shelves are for storing my yarn stash! It looks so small when it's crammed into shelves! I guess we're just too cheap to buy actual shelves... Or too thrifty!

Let me know if you have any makeshift storage ideas that you use!