sHEADSPACE

What a shock, the contents of my beautiful shed turned to a pile of charred, melted, scorched and coated with fire extinguisher powder unrecognisable objects!!!

So, now you know why I haven't been on my website for a while.  

It all happened so quickly. At...

Not sure about you but I'm getting cabin fever.  The signs are compulsive tidying (very unusual!), ironing (very rare!!) and the most worrying of all housework!!!!  I must get out.

So I decided to use this time while I am waiting for the leaves to re-appear to orga...

It's been promising snow all day so with Winter well and truly upon us there's no foliage for printing and I'm turning the items I dyed and printed earlier in the year into unique bespoke items of clothing.  I try to re-invent where ever possible and this is an up-cycl...

News from my sHEAD.... I have a day cleared, so that's time taken care of. I have tidied my shed, so that's space taken care of. The big one is how do I clear my head?

I find every job I shouldn't be doing, unfinished projects, writing emails and even housework, yes eve...

Here's hoping 2017 will be the start of something new!

After my Arts Council application was turned down last year I have re-applied.  It was so close and yet so far!! I have taken notice of their feedback, readjusted time scales, given additional information and got so...

Just finished ready  Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland. I love the conclusion which is 'in the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will n...

Where does the time go......answers on a post card!   How do other creatives find time to keep their blog post up to date? If I'm blogging I'm not creating, if I'm up dating my website/Pinterest/Instagram I'm not creating, if I'm posting my new stock in my on-line shop...

Eco-printed and naturally dyed, re-invented t.shirts for sale in my shop on-line or at Sew Much More 41 Broad Street, Bromyard, HR7 4BT 

We're well into Autumn now, the clocks have gone back an hour and the nights are dark at 4.30pm.

So, what's to like about Autumn?  For me, it has to be the leaves

Walking through the woods, ankle deep in the leaves on a sunlit morning.

Over the Summer I have been ent...

Funny thing happened the other day, I was in my garden eco-printing my latest batch of scarves when the phone rang. Dashing to answer it the person on the other end asked if he had interrupted me as I sounded out of breath. 'Oh sorry', I replied 'I'm busy dyeing' the s...