For 9 months I worked at the well known craft chain that is Hobbycraft. I ran a little Craft Room, teaching people new tricks, running sewing machine lessons and childrens art clubs. I tried lots of things that I don't think I ever would have done otherwise - I now know how to make soap, and chocolate, and how to applique, and do tapestry, and quilting, and quilling, and encaustic art, etc etc...
Hama beads are underrated, I'm obsessed with cross stitch, and I am a professional plaster of paris-er. ha ha
I made some amazing friends. If I say 'How's the Jake Gyllenhaal cross stitch coming?' or 'Never trust a man in salmon trousers', or 'Yum, sun dried tomatoes', or 'You've never tried Pimms?!', they know who they are...
So talking of tapestry:
But soon the time came for me to decide one or the other; full time at Hobbycraft, or full time self-employed travelcard cushion maker. The rush of orders that I thought was just for Christmas, wasn't just for Christmas. ha ha I've got a nice collection of paparazzi-esque photos from when friends have seen the adverts on the tube or been in the London Transport Museum. he he Thumbs up!
So now I rent a container as my mini workshop, and boy do I love it! It's quite homely, with a gothic chair and artwork, and a biscuit tin (thank you Kyle) and everything! Well when I say 'artwork' I mean Chuck Bass's face...
My desk is from my old college, from the Biology lab (so it's strong and higher than your average table - great for printing), and it's got students' scribbles in it. When I was painting the drawers, I painted round the bit that says 'This lesson is b******s.' ha ha (Garnet, Chris, you are the best!)
It's just good, doing what I love, every day.
So now I'm 24. ("I am 25, I'm 23"). Thorpe Park was my chosen birthday adventure - too good! Stealth was amazing, I can't wait for Kingda Ka!
I had 5 birthday cakes, high five! One of my best birthdays yet. :) It's so funny to think we kinda judge our age by how many more years we can still buy a Young Persons Railcard, yet we're still doing Jagerbombs at 6pm on a Wednesday (Kyle), ha ha.
Talking of Jagermeister, Kyle and I did our trip to Berlin, and I LOVED IT! The Christmas markets, the amazing glass blown Christmas ornaments (yes, I bought a cocktail glass one, very Christmassy) the giant carousels, the trams, the graffiti, the gluvein, ALL THAT SNOW (with the rum and raisin), art, culture, history, politics and Jagermeister.
One of my favourite photographs I've ever taken:
And talking of wonderful foreign places, I've just come back from Turkey. Listening to the call to prayer, in 45 degree heat, looking over Kalkan bay, from a hammock. Lushhh.
I dance again. What type of dance do you least expect me to do? That's right, I do pole dancing. I spend half the classes laughing, and half dancing. Which is good, I enjoy it lots.
"I feel like men are more romantic than women. When we get married we marry, like, one girl, 'cause we're resistant the whole way until we meet one girl and we think I'd be an idiot if I didn't marry this girl she's so great. But it seems like girls get to a place where they just kinda pick the best option... 'Oh he's got a good job.' I mean they spend their whole life looking for Prince Charming and then they marry the guy who's got a good job and is gonna stick around." (Blue Valentine).
"You give me premature ventricular contractions."
"I'm assuming that's a good thing."
"You make my heart skip a beat."
Oh and...
"Wow...it looks like it's coming right at me"...(No Strings Attached)
Music of the moment? The Used - Empty with you, Youmeatsix - Stay with me, and the whole of City+Colour Little Hell. Over and over.
And I am obsessed with Skittles Crazy Cores. How does the whole packet disappear?
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