After a pretty rubbish year personally and professionally it seems things have turned around! After applying left right and centre for jobs in retail, design, or anything I could find, and after a few set backs in my personal life I somehow landed the perfect job! I'm now a very proud art and textiles technician at an all girls private school in the leafy suburbs of London. It's about a 2 hour car journey away from Lincoln so of course I've moved down here too. I'm currently living in a little flat within the wonderful grounds and have also been given a studio to work in!!!
Much more to update on, including new work, flat, and more but will save it for another time!
On to the door stops! After making the inners out of a thick, sack material (and nearly forgetting to leave holes) we filled them with sand! We then made the covers using some material, mine was an old pillowcase from Ikea! After some fiddly sewing (I blame the cushioned handles) they were finally finished!! I was in jenny’s words ‘beside myself’ with my finished door stop and still am!! It even holds the fire door open! Not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing!
On to what has been a great day!! We visited the lincolnshire show for FREE! Loved the gorgeous weather, picnic and general shopping!! We purchased some cactus and succulents from this stall, we love the square pots! After walking an incredible 5 miles today we have had a brilliant day!!!
After the cactus purchasing we decided to repot some of them, and i gained a prickly pear!! This is my decking which is slowly being taken over by plants and the occasional bean bag! Im loving it more and more!
Finally I thought I should mention our recent obsession, UNO!!!!! We have played several versions but this is by far the best! Feel I should also mention the genius game of pictionary, you would never know we were art students by the state of those pictures!
Another wildlife spotting today, while Nathan was at the yard he came across a blackbird nest! These are some hungry babies!
I have made a couple more shrinkles today and a smaller cactus pin cushion but have mainly been drawing! The small grey patterned pieces will be used as patterns for rings, the large green piece is one of my succulents and I threw in a raspberry for the fun of it! 
Excuse the above photo, for some reason its uploading upside down! Here is my mini cactus pincushion, in possibly the best craft box I have ever seen!! I bought this yesterday from Boyes and I love it!!!! 
Here are a few of today’s drawings! Hope to create new patterns from these, and already have ideas of what to do with some of them! New pieces coming soon!!
I have had a brilliant couple of days for furniture buying! Managed to get a bargin table and chairs from ebay, it even extends to seat 10. Dinner parties and mega crafting sessions here we come!! The covers for the chairs were slightly dirty so we decided to dye them green! A bit of a strange choice but we love them! 
I also found this table in a charity shop for £3! It does need some work but its solid! My boyfriend has managed to make this look like the most retro table ever by potting my succulents in my green glasses! I think there’s a green theme happening!
On to the crafting!! Jenny has recently reintroduced me to the world of shrinkles!! I have defiantly become addicted to making various things using my pattern designs! Imp so pleased to have something to finally do with my drawings that I could possibly make money from. I have even managed to dome a couple of pieces! There are also a selection of rings at the bottom made using the same material and my pattern designs!
Finally I have made a cactus pin cushion!!! This was also inspired by jenny and some amazing pictures on flicker!!! I do need a bigger pot and hope to try a more complicated design soon!
