I’ve seen my friend Alice drumming in the church, but that was quite different from seeing her drumming in a pub with her band the Blu Tone.
We are human – we can only understand the world in stories. If we see an umbrella on a bench, we immediately, involuntarily make up a story in our minds…
At first, I was terrified. It was like a school exam where I had to put my work out and teachers came to look, and decide what grade I would get. I feared that people were judging my work whether it was good enough to pass some kind of exam. Thank God, I had all my family with me to give moral support, and my friends came to encourage me.
St Ives is a wonderful little town, worth visiting any day, but today was special. The Civic Society of St Ives had buildings open that are normally closed for the public.
I say goodbye to Layla, the rabbit girl and Tommy, the gnome. I used them for a year in CATS sessions but I was never quite happy about them, being half-human and half-who-knows-what.
My father says my website is not quite adequate for selling the service I want to sell, i.e. CATS sessions. He says I should listen to my sister who is a marketing expert and follow her advice.
I painted these pictures many years ago, but I still feel the same way about Prague. It is a city of wonder, a city of tales and legends, a city for adventures.
When I am depressed, I KNOW that…
I hardly ever decide beforehand what kind of creature I am going to make. I just start knitting, and the creature creates itself, making it clearer with each step how they wish to look. These were the only two colours of yarn left: light grey and canary yellow. I wasn’t convinced that they would work together but I tried it anyway. I knitted the body with the head, and the four limbs separately.
