22/01/2026

Detours may not always be best ...


Life gets in the way sometimes - it can become somewhat impossible to continue a journey as planned or hoped for. An essential hip replacement (in 2023) and an online textile degree course (begun in late 2021) has side-tracked me for the past few years ... possible " detours " being what I called them in 2010 when beginning this creative journey.

I had hoped the course would be beneficial by acquiring the degree I had wanted at 18. However, this gradually turned out not to be the case and after almost halfway through (mid 2025), decided to discontinue with it. The impetus was attending a short course held by the globally acclaimed and inspirational artist, Michael Brennand-Wood (online image above).

Since then, various textile based artworks have been completed, new ones begun with both now being digitally recorded and referenced - in due course, to be on display.

16/06/2021

June 2021 after 2 Covid lockdowns!!

With the subsequent lockdowns, I have been intermittently preparing items ready for uploading images to my blogs & websites. Some of this includes a range of fashion dolls (a Sindy above), machine embroidery samples as well as some new ideas for recycling?upcycling. I've tried to keep it all to a minimum as it takes such a long time with the result that only a few initial shots are used - if I used everything, I would be spending all day blogging & just not get the practical side going!!

28/10/2016

Special Occasions ...


Another Google site has been added for specifically 'Special Occasions' (click the image to see more

10/11/2015

A Creative Journey

Another 2 blogs are created to enable specific 'mixed media projects' to be covered & to link other ones together (click images to visit them).

The first one (above) details the making of the projects & the second one (below) narrates my creative journey.