I keep seeing this venn diagram popping up all over the place. It belongs to Bud Caddell, and accompanies an interesting post on how to be happy in business. I ventured up into the loft the other day, to dig out some coat hangers to take the skirts and dresses down to Tiger Lilly. This [...]
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Keeping up with you all…
Posted in culture on Aug 28th, 2009
I’ve just spent a large chunk of this afternoon transferring all my blog feeds out of my email account and into Google Reader. Now I have 82 blogs with 601 posts to catch up on, which could take a while! However, this much better than looking at my Inbox and seeing 2097 messages, and not [...]
Scents and Stones
Posted in writing on Jul 20th, 2009
So, the exciting new thing that I’ve been working on? It’s arrived! I’ve just started a second blog, which is (mostly) about aromatherapy. All that’s there at the moment is a great long introduction and the beginnings of a Frequently Asked Questions page, but I have plans… oh, such plans! The idea is that I [...]
Head in the clouds.
Posted in FAQ, inspiration, writing on Jun 26th, 2009
I started working for myself for two reasons. I went to an event with a lot of independent traders, and came home thinking “I could do better than that”. And I did. For a while. I became frustratingly and unpredictably ill. Working for myself gave me the flexibility I needed to work as much as [...]
Tom Hunter: A Journey Back.
Posted in culture, inspiration, writing on May 31st, 2009
Image © Tom Hunter I was reading the Big Issue yesterday, and suddenly did a double-take when I saw this picture. It’s from the “Travellers” series by Tom Hunter, who has several current exhibitions in London and around Europe. When I was at University I harboured a sort of a romantic notion that I would somehow land [...]
So, we’re in a global recession. A couple of months ago I had a surprising number of orders cancelled, all at once. Most of them were for party dresses that people simply couldn’t afford to pay for any more. Never mind that the dresses were going to be hand made from beautiful fabrics, one of [...]
This week I got myself into a terrible state trying to write up my CV for the Museum of English Rural Life. One of the difficulties with being self-employed is that it’s often necessary to take part time or seasonal work, to make sure you have some form of income during those quiet patches. Unfortunately, [...]
Small World.
Posted in culture, inspiration, shopping, writing on Mar 31st, 2009
This week I am in love with the seemingly random interconnectedness* of things. The other day I joined Twitter. Havi Brooks sent many people my way with her tweet (thank you!), one of whom was Randomling. She turned out to be the housemate of Miss Alice, who’d put me on to both Havi and Twitter [...]
Tweet tweet!
Posted in culture, inspiration, writing on Mar 26th, 2009
Yesterday I met a duck, and today I learned how to Tweet. The duck in question is not the fancy Mandarin pictured above. It’s Selma, able assistant to Havi Brooks. Miss Alice realised that I was in serious need of some help with “destuckification”, and sent me a link to Havi’s website, The Fluent Self. [...]
“There’s always a certain irresponsibility about hats…”
Posted in culture, inspiration on Jan 9th, 2009
I was browsing through the BBC iPlayer this afternoon, looking for something to watch in the background whilst doing a spot of hand sewing. I hadn’t realised what a lot I was missing! The title above is a quote from a wonderful 1950s programme about fashion history. The series is called Men, Women and [...]