How is it March already? Spring is suddenly on the doorstep again and I’m feeling a bit like time is running away from me.
The last 12 months have, unsurprisingly, been a tad strange. On the one hand the year seems to have bumbled along like a feather in a breeze and at the same time it feels very much like I’ve lost my footing and fallen into a river; there’s a desperate grasping for a branch to hold on to but I am being swept along with the current. Either way it has continued on regardless!
I spent January berating myself for having ‘wasted’ last year’s lockdowns. I should have got so much done. All that spare time to sort those little things I keep meaning to do! Trying out new ideas in my sketchbook, start blogging, make more clothes, attack the pile of paperwork that teeters on the edge of avalanche in the corner of the studio, read some books, crochet that jumper I started 5 or 6 years ago, exercise…. none of it happened. Not one bit.
So what did I do? I suppose that I just pottered and thought about stuff and pottered some more. I also started to tidy up the workshop (which I’m still doing) and started sifting through every drawer, box and bag of stuff. I did a bit of leaf printing and not a lot of any other making. I finally had the time to stop, let my thoughts drift and work out exactly what I was missing doing and so what it is that I actually like to make. More about that next time!
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