Come over to Facebook and send me a "friend request".....as my blog posts have been a little far and few between lately! That way you will be able to see what I have been up to...I look forward to seeing you on Facebook and I look forward to finishing my university/tech for the year in November so that I can be posting on here a lot more often.
This week we had an intensive with Jill Taylor (www.hellodollies.co.nz) learning to make hats. It was fun, and it required a bit of hand stitching which I am not that fond of. It was worth it though -as you can see here I made this little leopard skin number which is hand stitched right around the outside!
I have always loved to create dream boards, mine are full of pictures of things that inspire me and of course of the dreams that I have. Checkout the second one which is full of fabrics which I did way back in October when I had know idea I was going to be a textiles student?? lol!! Then there is my new one which I have just created which is full of fabrics, stitching's and flowers......lets see what comes to fruition?? My dream is to be a textile designer and make fabrics for people....
above is the dreamboard I have created for now.... This is my last dreamboard!
I really am enjoying the balance of my textiles studies along with doing my spiritual studies too! I am being given my second attunement in Kundalini Reiki and in two weeks when I have my 3rd attunement, I will be able to attune others. I am also doing the Plant essences course through Fist Light Flower essences. These essences are very subtle but make such a profound difference......I am looking forward to completing this so I can make up essences for everyone!
This kimono was cream coloured. I pleated the sleeves, and did shibori on the body which is a Japanese techniques where you tie the fabric with nails and then dye to give it these wonderful effects. The dye was made of brown onions skins.......and look at that beautiful golden colour!
This was the most amazing experience putting this together. It is dyed silk tissue felted with merino wool, pure silk and spaghetti wool. This is just a portion of it shown in the photo -to show the detail closely. I have it as a wall hanging on my wall now!
It has been a longtime between posts......
Well I have been making some changes in my life in the past few months. In December I was "guided" to give up working on 12Angel.com, I didn't really like this guidance and choose to take no notice- for a while. As usual I keep receiving the guidance and left it until 1 February to make changes and let it go. I was really reluctant as I like to have "all my ducks lined up" and know what is coming next??? Well as we know this is not how life works.......and it certainly wasn't going to be any different for me this time. So I finally gave it up-12Angel that is. No sooner had I done this and I found myself in front of the most amazing exhibition of textiles by local students. I was totally in awe, so much so that I went back the next day to see it again.....ended up in front of the tutor........put my portfolio together - interviewed 4 days later-got accepted and was in my visual arts -Textiles course a week later.
So my point in sharing this with you is of course to let you know where I have been all this time.....but mostly to let you know that if you are getting strong guidance that you are not listening too, ask your guides to keep giving you that guidance to reassure you that it is the steps to take. Ask them to show you the guidance in dreams, or signs during the day like putting you right in front of the exhibition and tutor. Like they did for me!