strips of silk tissue

...well january is passing by a bit too quickly than I care to require. A million and one tasks and projects to complete and the days are blurring together too comfortably.  

I have my head down at the moment working on a photo shoot next week - the task today is to produce some interesting ribbons to work with a wedding bouquet.  So I pottered for a while and started to plait and knot and tear lovely pieces of dupion silk - so pretty - like tissue paper. I'll let you know if they were used in the shoot in a few months.

I like my years to blend.....

I know, I know, I am a little late in wishing you all a Happy New Year, but I don't know about you but I feel as if I have been catapulted into the year backwards.  Is it just me, or does anyone else look at the series of number that spell out '2015' and think it looks rather futuristic...I still feel as if I should be in 2005.....

I'm not quite ready to embrace a new year.  I am not very good at this New Year thing at all if I am honest...I can find New Years Eve quite an emotional turn of events....I don't like the idea of placing a full stop to the end of one year and pretending everything is all new and squeeky clean, neither supposedly making amendments to the 'old' me on day one of month one of the next.  I like my years to blend....be seamless....Don't get me wrong I am always there at midnight with my glass of Sherry and Jools Holland embracing the sound of the chimes.....

I have no resolutions (as I never stick to them - ever).....no great diverse business changing plans or goals to accomplish this year.....everything is just swimming rather happily on a sea of floralness.....I am content with my little lot.  

I want to spend this year enjoying just where I am.  I want to spend the year simply planting seeds of the research kind that may indeed bloom the next year.....don't get me wrong, I do have plans and ambitions like the next person....but I have lots of ideas I want to let sail like a dandelion seed and see where they land....

The Linen Garden is blooming with lovely new visitors 

as well as its regular wonderful meanderers and floral appreciators...

and still to this day one of my favourite jobs is packing 

parcels of pretty orders from the shop...

layers of tissue, a floral sticker or two, a loosely tied raffia bow.....

the radio on and into my own little world I go....

I should write here more too - 

and have promised myself just that.  

I like this place of recording - I don't see it as a blog but a journal, 

a sketchbook, a representation of studio life.  

Whether I feel as if I am talking to myself or not...

it is a calm....and rather therapeutic place for me to waffle.

A lot of my time this year will be spent helping at least three, quite diverse from each other, businesses.  This is something that seems to be coming more and more my way as the months twirl by.  I will also be opening some of the diary time and my studio to holding mentoring sessions again to creative businesses - so I suppose I do have some kind of plans in the pipeline.....

.... AND....

I have some very exciting news which I shall be letting you know about here on Thursday...something that I have to pinch myself about....I have known since last May...and can now let you all know this week (it doesn't involve babies by the way - it is not that sort of news).....

So I hope you have had a lovely break over the last few weeks....do you have any plans...made any resolutions....????