18 Dec- new music

heard a beautiful song on the radio by a young artist  http://www.myspace.com/jamesblakeproduction. haunting piano echoes and smooth vocals, "there's a limit to your love". connections to maternal love from my  memories of the day before. is there a limit to motherly love. A book I read many years ago called "we need to talk about Kevin" by Lionel Shriver tells the tale of a mother whose love knows no bounds for her killer son.
Fragile love and also strong as a light house in a storm....

Birthdays -17 Dec

wonderful day of learning the art of receiving, among the beautiful jewelery and perfumes I was bestowed, a origami home made card and a stiched bag , being the prized possesions. Isat for a moment the night before looking at all the things I had collected for my children since they were babies and statreted to think about their relevance. Why did I keep those things, were they dear to me? it made me think of all babies and motherhood. Mimentos and what we define as our most prized possession. Mine are the 2 baby grows that my children were laid in after their birth.
they still hold a smell and an everlasting image in my mind, bringing back that strong feeling of maternal  love, at one glance. The memory is 3 dimensional..

Post Term and Renewal

I have been licking my wounds and cursing my Arrogance at thinking that I would pass the first unit of 1ST year with flying colours. Valuable lesson for me. I still feel that I do not really know where I went wrong and hope that I am able to ask and also to realise myself where I need to improve.

But on to the next project. Now that my studio is clean and my inspiration board is begging for more ideas. I read the course handbook on the requirements for next term's unit. Still not any closer to understanding.
What I am to understand is that we will be looking at lines, shiny things and antiques for our intro to weaving. I have thought about time lines, history lines and lines on our face.Train lines...journeys!

So I am in the library at uni looking at the WGSN website. Researching trends for the next year. I hit on Macrame, something I did at school and loved.It will be what we are all wearing this summer and I can see it is making tentative moves already in this season's knitware.

Timelines - journeys, stories and lines on old faces.... where have they been , what have their hands touched, much loved items and the stories of those items.. all come together and make our stories today to be passed on to our children. Recycle and re use. We have the time now. The recession has made us slow down and what an exciting time and opportunity for Design.

I am looking forward to going to London this weekend to visit some Museums and drink in some culture.
Plan is to look up some designers with regards to Weaving... Paul Smith( for the lines!!) and Missoni ... watch this space.

christmas and lesson learnt

 So the first term is over and all my work handed in.What have I learnt? I know that there must be shortcuts and I need to learn and discover them. As I was doing my preparations for my hand in I realised that ,as I do my sketches, I need to be collating ideas and samples ready to go . Not put them to the side, for later assembly.
I now have the confidence to put them all together and know that that is my representation.

I have changed immeasurably and I am proud of my journey so far. I never thought I could be so focused. There have been sacrifices and my kids have sacrifised alot for me to be here , so in honour of this I work to my full capabilities.

Snow, ice and Christmas is upon us and a new year.