Watch this space....

So it's been a little while since I posted anything (sorry!) but between illness, SNOW and visiting friends, I've fallen behind not only on my blog, but also on generally being creative. Although I have occasional feelings of guilt about ignoring this space.. I've been having so much fun I quickly feel OK about it all! Once the snow fell I spent the weekend walking the dogs, drinking hot chocolate, feeding the birds and catching up on vital TV! All in all, perfection.

This weekend just gone I further managed to avoid all forms of creativity as I spent the weekend in London for a  friend's birthday  It was such a wonderful weekend of beautiful food (Haggis for burns night) wine, lazy breakfasts and burritos! The birthday girl in question is a school friend who I hadn't seen for over a year, and as always it was like no time had passed. It was also really lovely to just hang out with good friends, with no pressure to get anything done, other than prepare ourselves for further wine consumption...

Having spent an indulgently guilt-free weekend simply enjoying myself, I headed back home on the train Sunday afternoon with some interesting thoughts running through my head about work, happiness, money and the future. I'm thoroughly enjoying my job at the moment, it is great work experience and I work with some lovely people, as well as some wonderful young people too, but as is often the case I don't make much money. A fact I was reminded of after spending a weekend with people much the same age as me who earn significantly more, and it really made me think, should I be getting out into the world trying to earn more money, so I have the option to do all the things I want to in the future? Or should I accept my fortunes of the moment and focus on all the beautiful things I do already have in my life? I then read this post on a new favourite blog of mine, which just echoed all of my current thoughts, reassuring me that a) I'm not alone in all these thoughts and that b) if I'm not alone in them, then I really mustn't let them trouble me so much.

I might not make much money at the moment, but the bonus is short working hours, which leaves me with plenty of free time to do all the things that ultimately make me happy. So for now, whilst I work on boosting my CV and slowly (very slowly) saving money, I get to play around with beautiful fabrics, culinary delights and all things crafty. So for the next week I shall be monopolising my free time with plans to make a brand new day dress, and a skirt for work! So keep checking in on this blog to see how my sewing goes and whether I can finish this dress by the end of the week (I've been badly making a practice run over the last two weeks so hopefully I'll be ready to make the real thing now!).

Blue flowery fabric: vintage flea market bargain for the dress.
Cream flowery fabric: local fabric shop find for the skirt.