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Colour & Pattern
I love colour. I love pattern. As a digital designer, I get to play with pattern and colour daily. And so when I saw that Beth of “Do What You Love”, had teamed up with Rachael Taylor, one of the UK’s leading surface pattern designres, to create an amazing course, The Art & Business of Surface Pattern Design, I knew I had to sign up. Perfect timing. Gentle whispers and a feeling of wanting to do more with my work lately, made me realise that it was a great area to explore further. Surface pattern design. Moving forward. New dreams. New goals. I’ve just about completed Module 1 and I’m blown away by how it has opened my...
Read MoreLive * Laugh * Love 2012
Happy New Year, friends! 2012 here already! Wow! Every New Year, I say the same thing… I love the hope and promise of the New Year. Yes, I have goals. Personal goals. Business goals. I don’t do resolutions. I have an ongoing goals list. Somehow, it just feels fresh and new at the beginning of a New Year. Many are achieved and new ones made. Yes, very much ongoing. This year however, I decided to have a “theme” for 2012. I’ve still got my goals. Always working on my goals but something happened at Christmas that really made me think about the upcoming New Year. First of all, I’d bought one of my friends a...
Read MoreDear 2011
As I sit here and reflect on the past year, my immediate thoughts are “yet another rotten year”. More grief. More loss. More sadness. You hit me hard. I thought I was done in 2010. Yes, my instinct is to think of you as a horrible year. As if it wasn’t bad enough losing my Dad in 2010, I had to lose my Mum in 2011? Really? Too cruel. I had so much hope in you – 2011. And yet, once again, as much as I look back and remember all the heartache, challenges and all out grief, I can’t help but also think about the good things you brought me. January 2011 started with new goals, aspirations and celebrating my 47th birthday. ...
Read MoreWinter Break
I want to wish all my customers & blog followers a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year. After an exhausting 18mths, losing both my parents, I’ve decided to take a well earned holdiay/break for the next 5 weeks. Thank you for your continued support and well wishes. It’s so very much appreciated. I look forward to being back in early January 2012!
Read MoreAutumn Whispers
It’s almost exactly 3 weeks since my Mum died. I’m still numb. I don’t feel anything. Apparently, it’s the shock stage of grief. I don’t know. All I know is that I feel nothing. Empty. It’s actually a very strange feeling. I think about her every day and I want to cry but no tears come. It is what it is and I’ve decided to just go with it. I’ve been able to lose myself in my work. It’s a good thing. Being creative. Doing what I love. And I think of Mum more during those times. She was a creative soul herself. I remember all the little things she loved making for us when we were kids. ...
Read MoreCycle of Life
As most of you who read my blog on a regular basis know, I lost my beloved Dad to cancer last year. I can scarcely believe I’m saying this but a few days ago I also lost my Mum to the same horrid disease. I’m heartbroken. I’m exhausted. It was just nine short days from diagnosis to death. We realise that perhaps Mum had not been well for a some time but had either hidden it well, or honestly didn’t know. She died of end stage pancreatic cancer. As a family, we’re grateful her suffering was short. As a family, we are in shock. When I’m not with my brother and sister sorting out funeral arrangements, or at home here...
Read MoreAbout Me
I'm a UK based digital & surface pattern designer. Living life to the full in the Garden of England.
