Trip to London zoo

During half term, my boyfriend Adam managed to get time off work and we had a wonderful week!

As neither of us had been before we decided to visit London zoo (on a typically rainy British day) and we loved it!

It was much bigger than expected, with a good aquarium too. Favourites of the day were the penguins, especially the rock hoppers! Also spotted were some surprisingly noisy and hungry otters and a very cute pair of sleepy anteaters.

As we were getting the tube from across the other side of regents park we decided to have a play on a pair of 'boris bikes' in the rain. They are great fun, and very good value. The sun even came out in the end.

We had a brilliant time which was topped off by a set of very amusing photos of us superimposed in backgrounds from around the zoo.

Rummaging, sorting and concocting!!

Being given a studio to make my own and work in again has been brilliant! A combination of this and a huge abundance of mushrooms around has inspired me to get working!

After a lot of rummaging and poking around in woods and exploring the huugggeee school grounds, (photos coming soon) I have managed to collect, photograph and draw a large amount of brilliant, interesting and possibly very poisonous mushrooms!

From these I have been exploring various printing techniques and other materials. Im so excited to be crafting again and although I've sorted my office in the studio i still have a huge space to sort.

Talking of sorting, my little flat will soon need to accommodate another when my other half moves in! He's been so amazingly supportive right from the interview to moving down here and even doing silly things like mushroom hunting and exploring the area! Ive been spoilt absolutely rotten! He currently still lives in Lincoln but is planning on heading south so we've been concocting plans for the flat!

When the studio and the flat are sorted I will put some pictures up, just have to find the time first! Luckily I'm going to have a lot of school holidays to look forward to!

I only have a few photos of recent work, will get some more taken and put up on here asap!

New everything!!!

This is my first post after quite some time and a lot has changed! Including the way I'm posting. I'm using the blogger app, so here goes!!

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!