The Deadline

On Saturday 2nd June I will be finally taking my craft items into the big wide world. I am attempting to create some form of continuity within the items I have selected to exhibit. Creating a 'collection' is an idea I wish to investigate further for the future.

The Social Life

Once upon a time... I used to have a social life. But recently, a typical Saturday night for me is spent in my house drinking cups of tea, an episode of Poirot playing on my laptop, and surrounded by lots of fabric and tools. For now I am okay with this. I enjoy working hard making things, and get no greater satisfaction than knowing that in the space of 5 hours I can transform an ugly chair into something beautiful. I like watching paint dry and time is precious.

The Appreciation

My Aunt said to me recently "Don't despise the day of small beginnings". I would like to say a very big thank you to all the friends and family who have been supporting me on my craft journey to date. Kind words, critique, bags of scraps, magazines to flick through and cut up; nothing goes un appreciated and I am truly grateful. One day i'll get there. 

The Safety Glasses

I learnt the unfortunate way the importance of safety goggles even when doing simple 

tasks whilst using a staple gun. The metal chamber back fired and the spring loaded

mechanism launched itself strait into my eye.  Although I lost three days of my life

to sleeping, I did not loose my sight. LESSON LEARNT! So please make sure when 

using equipment that is potentially dangerous, read all labels, instructions, etc and follow them. 

The Seed Garden

 On bad days when I struggle to make anything remotely decent and all i seem to be doing is wasting good fabric; I have temporarily learnt to toss in the towel. Instead, I focus my attentions on doing other things that allow me thinking space until my inspiration returns. This way I still feel productive but avoid ripping out my hair. (painting furniture, drawing, collage, planning, reading, organising, taking photographs and indoor gardening) 

The Coin Purse

Once upon a time, when I first got my very own sewing machine, I went doo-lally

making little zipped pouches. Since then I have developed and refined the aesthetics 

and have gone crazy making small purses for coins or "my lipstick" or if it fits in a

purse I'll label it with the text idea. 

The Pie Chart

I was recently having a conversation with one of my close friends regarding the development

of my business plans. I explained the new concepts I learnt from my Business studies revision 

guide and my failings to get my head around mode, median and mean. When thinking back

to my time spent in education, I explained that in my maths lessons, my pie charts and bar 

graphs were beautifully coloured in with pretty patterns and lovely shading. It was just a 

shame that the information they were representing was most likely inaccurate. If I were to 

create a pie chart now to show the most items sold, the largest slice of pie would be my sewn wall 

hangings. This time round the pie chart would be pretty and accurate.