I have just deleted a half written post which I typed up late last night...Wow it was negative. I must promise myself never to update our blog after watching a double RTE news session (kids insisted on getting the weather update at 6pm and 9pm to see if schools would open today - this meant my sitting through all the depressing headlines TWICE, the melancholy of it all was actually nearly soothing), followed by Primetime and the odd flick over to Gift Grub wallowing in incompetent Irish politicians going down, followed by Newsnight and then a bit Vincent Brown to top things off - What was I thinking off! It must have been the warmth from the fire that wouldn't let me escape the awful inertia; not even to make a cup of tea or two. The whole meaning of 'wallowing' hit a new stratosphere with me last night. My blog started off something like this 'The winds of change are thrashing and banging off walls of doubt that won't come crumbling down.., I can't even go on. Spare myself the morto!
Thankfully today is a new day. The sky is laden with snow - light, fluffy big and small dots are falling, falling and the schools are not role calling, calling.....
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| Studio in the snow |
Last weekend's workshop had to be canceled due to the snowy conditions. Let's see what the weather has in store for us tomorrow and then we will make a decision about this weekend's workshop. Such a pity to have to cancel the Christmas Card and Gift Screenprinting workshop - so many ideas and plans and last year these Christmas courses really exuded festive cheer and warmth.
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| Specs and lab dips for OLD RECTORY collection. |
However, studio life is busy. As you may have gathered from our homepage we are launching a range of children's clothing, simply call OLD RECTORY. Our ambitious launch date of November 15th has been and gone but we are getting there one step at a time, There are 6 strong print designs on their way to 'strike off' as I write. The screens are opened and hundreds of metres of natural organic cotton are soon to be transformed into the USP of our product (excuse the Enterprise speak - that means our Unique Selling Point) - our Print. It's a competative market, the kids clothing business, but we are so excited to have got this far in the production process and with due diligence, hard work, patience and lashings of luck we will present our range at Bubble - http://www.bubblelondon.com/ this coming January 30/31.
It's been great fun so far creating our prints, Without wishing away time, I can't wait to have the finished collection in our hands ready to present to the public. Of course, the list of to do jobs is longer than all the arms and legs in this house, but each step of achievement is a far cry from the head lock paralysis of back to back current affairs programmes on RTE.
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| Sample' Garden' print |
