THIS SUNDAY 1-5PM OSMOTHERLEY VILLAGE HALL NEAR NORTHALLERTON....

CHRISTMAS EXTRAVAGANZA!!

i'll be there along with Kim tillyer, heidi turner and jane thornley-walker, there wil also be lewis & cooper and roots farm shop....

Well, minor project of third year hand in tomorrow, everyone's work looked great in the studios today when people were beginning to display it all....couldn't really do a whole lot with my own display, but never mind! fingers crossed now for a good mark after all the hours i've put in! these images are from concept book to final designs....

Well, i told you it would be a productive day....i finished a sixth collection....hooray!

I also painted a canvas, the concept behind it is the pure abandon that comes from been the looser in a relationship....i have tried to express how it feels to give everything you have to someone, only for them to smash your world and leave you, thinking of what could've been and the awful emptiness they've left behind them....i've written very small feelings within the painting too, how they change from the beginning to the end of a relatioship....i'm sure you've all felt like this at some point??

well, it's monday again and that means another fully productive day at Kim Tillyer's house....
i'll be finishing my final collection of journals today with any luck, number 6!-and i said i would only do 4, how wrong was i??!

This is how i felt when i was leaving Africa this year....ironically this is also how i felt when i was going there....

the writting on the right is only some irrelevant notes in Swahili, but the sentence at the bottom is true....

i've started planning Christmas card designs this week.... alongside the college work of the travel journals....

i started with this festive one, he has a stitched nose! there are also a range of fairies, baubles, stars and hearts....

Well, i'm trying hard to do some work, but after packaging about 2 billion cards (or so it seemed) for Knitting and Stitching show Harrogate yesterday it would now appear i'll have to make more, as i'm going to be at Northallerton Town Hall this Saturday afternoon with a stall of bags and jewellery. . . .

The friday after, i'll be at Worsall Village Hall from 7:30pm onwards with a full range of my work....it's a ladies night, so hopefully they'll want lots of lovely gifts i can supply them with in time for Christmas!! there is Thorntons chocolate company going, a nail bar, lingerie stand and a whole host of other stalls....tickets are £3-50 on the door....

These images are of current college work which are the travel journal designs, they include a front cover and three examples of the inside pages....i think they're coming along quite well....

the final collections will be individual within each design but they should all fit together as a complete set when all 4 are viewed together, i hope!

they will be named as follows....

• Propser's Diary
• Paradise Notebook
• Where will my Journey Lead Me?
• Bright Africa