Wheeee, it's time for Italy! Poland was gorgeous, I'll write about it properly one day (I have insanely detailed notes in my diary, managed to keep it up for the four days we were there, so I'll see how I get on on this trip!)
Today I have driven down the M25, forgotten quite a lot of stuff, re-packed, dragged Hannah round town to do all the stuff I hadn't done before due to being disgustingly ill on Friday & Saturday, got a Santander person to explain confusing charges to me, reluctantly paid said charges, panicked about my engine management light, realised there's no need to panic until & unless it actually comes on, got very excited on Naomi's behalf because she got the job, faffed and chatted a lot, eaten chocolate and am now curled up on the sofa very much debating bed!
Only I can't go to bed till Hannah's finished packing, lol! Hopefully tomorrow will pass without incident, but I'm waiting to see what British Airways say about their strikes etc... is all rather infuriating when there are so many people out there without a job at all. Sigh.
Craft-wise, I'm inspired but not actually able to make very much at the moment, my jewellery and card-making materials & tools have all been packed away into two enormous boxes at the end of my bed. In theory I can get them out whenever, but in practice I think I'll be lucky to have them out at all except to finish the musical notes commission, and then I think it'll all have to wait until I've moved in with Jules.
Thinking of doing an existing jewellery post with the stories behind some of the jewellery I wear on a daily basis over on Ducking Fabulous, and maybe interviewing one or two of my friends about their favourite pieces too. It's always nice to see and hear about people's influences and likes and dislikes, and often special pieces of jewellery have stories behind them, where they came from, what they mean, what their sentimental value is to the wearer.
Latest obsession is crochet, the lovely Naomi taught me on Friday lunchtime and I love it so much that I'm taking a ball of cotton, a crochet needle and a book (called the Happy Hooker - brilliant!!) to Italy with me, for any quiet moments. It's the first time ever that I haven't taken a fiction book away with me, this time only the Happy Hooker and two rather lovely photography books are coming. (I haven't abandoned jewellery making, it's just these two are rather more practical in my current situation!)
Right, enough waffle for one day, I shall blog on my return from (hopefully sunny) Italy!
C x
Monday, 22 March 2010
Friday, 5 March 2010
spring madness and creative admin
It's been absolutely silly in my life over the last couple of weeks, I'm not entirely sure why, but since I turned 24 I haven't had five minutes to do anything!
I popped down to Wokingham to celebrate my birthday, and 20 people came out to celebrate with me, some of whom I hadn't seen for years, so that was suitably gorgeous! :) Then stayed with my dear friend Lou of Contrariety Rose for a few days, which was wonderful - we did a day trip to Brighton for market research, inspiration and a daft amount of yummy food, and spent a day sorting out our websites & Facebook fan pages (for our shops, not for ourselves, lol) and also got to drive around in Poppy with the top down, and take some completely gratuitous photos of her at California Country Park, heehee!
It's always lovely to be around Lou, but especially so this time as we're both at similar stages with the trying to convert a hobby we love into something that makes money - I'm nowhere near an actual business yet and neither is she, as even when I sell it barely covers my materials, but it's so indescribably nice to sit and do essentially boring admin stuff like website editing and Facebook setup next to someone doing the same, so you can bounce ideas off each other, instead of having to make a special phone call when you think of something big that you need to discuss. But was lovely to do creative admin instead of boring admin, and saved me trekking my entire jewellery kit down south in my very lacking-in-storage-space car!
I also think, while my parents have been incredibly supportive, that it's rather lovely to have someone my own age around who has dreams & ambitions which are just as wild and big, rather than ones that have been numbed by the realities of life.
Oh dear, I'm in waffle mode, aren't I? I'm not sure I dare to update the Almost-Librarian, because I've been in such a stonkingly bad mood for the last day or so that I might just hurl abuse at customers through it! (Mind you, that's better than hurling abuse at them in person, I suppose).
More craft-related, I have joined a knitting group! It's called Kitsch, and it meets in a pub in the evenings, which can't be bad! Was a bit nervous about going, but turned out Wednesday was the inaugural meeting, and it's very informal, just sit and knit and chat :) and the girls that came were all different ages, but all absolutely lovely. So hopefully I'll be able to carry that on even after I move to Colchester - I could always bring the car to work twice a month, couldn't I?
And now I must go and type up my notes from yesterday's training, and see if I can make it short enough so I don't bore the other EOs to death...
I popped down to Wokingham to celebrate my birthday, and 20 people came out to celebrate with me, some of whom I hadn't seen for years, so that was suitably gorgeous! :) Then stayed with my dear friend Lou of Contrariety Rose for a few days, which was wonderful - we did a day trip to Brighton for market research, inspiration and a daft amount of yummy food, and spent a day sorting out our websites & Facebook fan pages (for our shops, not for ourselves, lol) and also got to drive around in Poppy with the top down, and take some completely gratuitous photos of her at California Country Park, heehee!
It's always lovely to be around Lou, but especially so this time as we're both at similar stages with the trying to convert a hobby we love into something that makes money - I'm nowhere near an actual business yet and neither is she, as even when I sell it barely covers my materials, but it's so indescribably nice to sit and do essentially boring admin stuff like website editing and Facebook setup next to someone doing the same, so you can bounce ideas off each other, instead of having to make a special phone call when you think of something big that you need to discuss. But was lovely to do creative admin instead of boring admin, and saved me trekking my entire jewellery kit down south in my very lacking-in-storage-space car!
I also think, while my parents have been incredibly supportive, that it's rather lovely to have someone my own age around who has dreams & ambitions which are just as wild and big, rather than ones that have been numbed by the realities of life.
Oh dear, I'm in waffle mode, aren't I? I'm not sure I dare to update the Almost-Librarian, because I've been in such a stonkingly bad mood for the last day or so that I might just hurl abuse at customers through it! (Mind you, that's better than hurling abuse at them in person, I suppose).
More craft-related, I have joined a knitting group! It's called Kitsch, and it meets in a pub in the evenings, which can't be bad! Was a bit nervous about going, but turned out Wednesday was the inaugural meeting, and it's very informal, just sit and knit and chat :) and the girls that came were all different ages, but all absolutely lovely. So hopefully I'll be able to carry that on even after I move to Colchester - I could always bring the car to work twice a month, couldn't I?
And now I must go and type up my notes from yesterday's training, and see if I can make it short enough so I don't bore the other EOs to death...
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