Hello everybody!
Finally a blogpost from me, Dennis! Sorry for the huge delay! (Especially sorry to Matt, whom I promised to write this ages ago!)
As you might have read, I'm working on a cruise ship at the moment. Since 2 and a half years this has been my job, ever since I left the musical Tarzan where Matt is still working. It's been a big adventure in many many ways!
The first amazing part about this job is of course the travelling! I've been so many places over the last years. I started my first contract in Asia and visited Thailand, India, Malaysia, Brunei, Sri Lanka and we made our way to Africa: Egypt, Morocco, Israel, Jordan. After that we went up north to Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
I've also been sailing around the Canary Islands, Madeira, Lisbon, Barcelona, Mallorca.
The contract I'm doing now has taken me to Iceland, Norway (even the highest point, North Cape) and Scotland.
Besides the traveling I also love my job on board!
I'm one of the 6 lead singers on the ship. Three girls and three guys. Besides that there are 8 dancers, 3 artists/acrobats and 2 actors. Together we're the show ensemble. There are 4 shows played every evening, of which I normally only play 1 and sometimes 2.
As a singer you have about 14 shows to learn, and this happens in Hamburg, where we have our rehearsals before going on board. In 6 weeks all the shows have to be in your head, which is quite crazy and intense!
I sing many different styles on this ship, from Meat Loaf to Phil Collins, from Bon Jovi to the Beatles etc... It's such a great challenge to perform something else every night!
Besides all these shows I also have a show all by myself. Each of the singers have to create their own solo show, in which you can perform the songs you like best. My solo show is very much Michael Buble, Frank Sinatra, and Josh Groban. I'm always very very nervous before performing my own show, but afterwards I feel great!
It's a great experience to work on a ship! I've made a lot of great friends and I'm always having a good time on the ship! The only hard part of course is when you have a special someone at home! I'm lucky with the length of my contracts though, because I never sail longer than 3 months in a row!
My next contract will start in September and will take me to the USA! I will be in New York and we'll also sail towards the Caribbean! Very exciting!
I've also been knitting on the ship but I don't have anything to show you guys yet! So I will just show you all a lot of pictures of some of the places I've been and some of the shows I've been doing!
There's obviously too much to post, so I've decided to only post pictures from the countries I've been to this contract! Enjoy!
Dennis xxx
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This post has moved!
You can read an updated and revised version on our new blog.
Finally a blogpost from me, Dennis! Sorry for the huge delay! (Especially sorry to Matt, whom I promised to write this ages ago!)
As you might have read, I'm working on a cruise ship at the moment. Since 2 and a half years this has been my job, ever since I left the musical Tarzan where Matt is still working. It's been a big adventure in many many ways!
The first amazing part about this job is of course the travelling! I've been so many places over the last years. I started my first contract in Asia and visited Thailand, India, Malaysia, Brunei, Sri Lanka and we made our way to Africa: Egypt, Morocco, Israel, Jordan. After that we went up north to Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
I've also been sailing around the Canary Islands, Madeira, Lisbon, Barcelona, Mallorca.
The contract I'm doing now has taken me to Iceland, Norway (even the highest point, North Cape) and Scotland.
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| Our ship from a distance in Akureyri - Iceland |
Besides the traveling I also love my job on board!
I'm one of the 6 lead singers on the ship. Three girls and three guys. Besides that there are 8 dancers, 3 artists/acrobats and 2 actors. Together we're the show ensemble. There are 4 shows played every evening, of which I normally only play 1 and sometimes 2.
As a singer you have about 14 shows to learn, and this happens in Hamburg, where we have our rehearsals before going on board. In 6 weeks all the shows have to be in your head, which is quite crazy and intense!
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| Bergen - Norway |
I sing many different styles on this ship, from Meat Loaf to Phil Collins, from Bon Jovi to the Beatles etc... It's such a great challenge to perform something else every night!
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| Me in my Solo Show |
Besides all these shows I also have a show all by myself. Each of the singers have to create their own solo show, in which you can perform the songs you like best. My solo show is very much Michael Buble, Frank Sinatra, and Josh Groban. I'm always very very nervous before performing my own show, but afterwards I feel great!
It's a great experience to work on a ship! I've made a lot of great friends and I'm always having a good time on the ship! The only hard part of course is when you have a special someone at home! I'm lucky with the length of my contracts though, because I never sail longer than 3 months in a row!
My next contract will start in September and will take me to the USA! I will be in New York and we'll also sail towards the Caribbean! Very exciting!
I've also been knitting on the ship but I don't have anything to show you guys yet! So I will just show you all a lot of pictures of some of the places I've been and some of the shows I've been doing!
There's obviously too much to post, so I've decided to only post pictures from the countries I've been to this contract! Enjoy!
Dennis xxx
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| Beatles Show |
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| Elton John Show |
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| Me and some of my colleagues |
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| On a Quad to the North Cape - Norway |
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| My roots: Amsterdam! |
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| In Bergen - Norway |
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| Gulfoss - Iceland |
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| Gulfoss - Iceland |
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| A crazy jump in Iceland! |
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| The heat coming from the earth in Iceland! |
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| Geysir - Iceland |
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| Meeting an ex colleague in Oslo! |
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| Canterbury Cathedral |
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Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Summery Seaside RainBOW jars!!!
Hello GORGEOUS people!
I do hope you're having the most spendid week?
My weeks of to a good start, as I managed to fit a lovely couple of crafty and creative hours into my Monday afternoon. I had such a lovely time with my music playing, singing along to my favourite songs.
Not only was my creativness flowing, the wine was also!! Nothing better than a glass of RED when your playing happy hooking! :-)
I've been working on a mini project. Using some scraps of 'Creative Cotton', I've been making lots of tiny but bright crocheted rectangles.
Any ideas what these rectangle swatches are going to be???
BOWS!!!!
A few weeks ago a friend asked if I could make her a crocheted bow for her hair. I've been having a little play around with the idea and came up with this very simple design.
I made two different sizes of bow. Small and large, to match the different sized hair clips I bought from the supermarket.
I glued the bows to the hairclips and (of course) added cheery buttons to finish them off.
I think they're cute! They remind me of pasta bows :-)
They are also fun to decorate other little projects with, I think I'll be making a few more of these in the future!
Once I had finished my friends bows, I continued to play around with the 'Bow Theme'
I had some left over jam jars, so I though I'd give them a makeover.
It turns out I made little jam jars full of Summer Holidays!! These little jars of joy remind me of vacations at the seaside! Probably something to do with the sand I used to prop the sticks up.
I think these jam jars are going to be with me for a long while! I'm totally in love with them! I love the thought of changing the theme of the sticks or simply using the jars for my crochet hooks or even just for flowers! So simple, but totally satisfying!!!
I hope you're all having a very crafty and creative week!!!
Matt xxx
I do hope you're having the most spendid week?
My weeks of to a good start, as I managed to fit a lovely couple of crafty and creative hours into my Monday afternoon. I had such a lovely time with my music playing, singing along to my favourite songs.
Not only was my creativness flowing, the wine was also!! Nothing better than a glass of RED when your playing happy hooking! :-)
I've been working on a mini project. Using some scraps of 'Creative Cotton', I've been making lots of tiny but bright crocheted rectangles.
Any ideas what these rectangle swatches are going to be??? BOWS!!!!
A few weeks ago a friend asked if I could make her a crocheted bow for her hair. I've been having a little play around with the idea and came up with this very simple design.
I made two different sizes of bow. Small and large, to match the different sized hair clips I bought from the supermarket.
I glued the bows to the hairclips and (of course) added cheery buttons to finish them off.
I think they're cute! They remind me of pasta bows :-)
They are also fun to decorate other little projects with, I think I'll be making a few more of these in the future!
Once I had finished my friends bows, I continued to play around with the 'Bow Theme'
I had some left over jam jars, so I though I'd give them a makeover.
I wrapped some old string around the jars and secured it with a little blob of glue. A very simple look! I added some cute flowers and rustic wooden buttons. OH MY!!!!!! What a transformation!!
I'm so very very happy with how they turned out!!!
Very simple, quick to make and totally inexpensive!
I wanted to add some 'Bow' decorations to the jars. Something similar to the felted hearts or crocheted pegs I had made before.
I had some cute little fan things (not sure what these are called?) that I wanted to incorporate.
It turns out I made little jam jars full of Summer Holidays!! These little jars of joy remind me of vacations at the seaside! Probably something to do with the sand I used to prop the sticks up.
I think these jam jars are going to be with me for a long while! I'm totally in love with them! I love the thought of changing the theme of the sticks or simply using the jars for my crochet hooks or even just for flowers! So simple, but totally satisfying!!!
Matt xxx
You can read an updated and revised version on our new blog.
Click here to read this post in full at it's new home!
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