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| March daffodils |
Along side preparations for the launch of our online web site and getting press releases out - oh yeh and battling with technology, what I would do for a young techie geek! I'm know I would do what I am doing right now in a fraction of the time if only the computer would do as I say...does that ring familiar to anyone out there? Growing a business with the necessary reliance on today's technology is a huge learning curve and very time consuming.
However, after what feels like a wasted morning trying to burn a screen printing tutorial onto a DVD and sending out group emails, neither of which my vintage desktop is liking, hopefully I'll successfully post this blog, get outdoors and clear my head of file sizes, attachments, et al.
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| Hello blue skies |
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For me March is always a bit hectic as we are in the middle of a run of birthday parties for the boys. Also, suddenly the garden needs digging and preparing for it's own spring/summer collection of fruits and vegetables. We planted 2 more plum trees in the orchard (just because I love plums!), more raspberries and 50 strawberry plants(plenty of strawberrry and ice cream eaters here). I'm not sure if the strawberries will fruit heavily this year but I am going to give them a bit of extra encouragement with some of Prince Charles's Highgrove organic potion which my mother was talking about. The snowdrops were stupendous at Ballard farm and we, at the Old Rectory have enjoyed hosts of golden daffodils fluttering and dancing under Wordsworth's lonely clouds.
Half of our chitted potatoes were planted. The rest are sitting in the garden shed - I can't decide as to whether to plant the rest in the old pig paddock or give over that space entirely to sweet corn as it is sunny and sheltered on 3 sides- what better place to try our hand at producing heaps of those succulent cobs.
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| Little helpers getting the potato patch ready |
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| Potatoes planted |
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At the studio we ran a workshop for Enable Ireland in March. The students were great and went home with printed t-shirts to show to their parents and friends. There was comaraderie and rivalry amongst the students as their true passions for premier league football teams and an infamous vampire became apparent in their screen print designs!
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| A visit from Transylvania |
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Emma Tamplin, a professional life couch and founder of www.attractinlove.com, took the studio space for a weekend and gave a much in demand workshop in the Law of Attraction and How To Find Love. This workshop helps men and women understand how to use their intuition alongside Life Coaching and N. L. P. in order to draw them to what they want and need in life and love. Emma, a great friend of mine, also lives in Brittas Bay and we hope to welcome her back to the studio in the near future.
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March workshop
Our 1 day workshops are a great way of sharing our skills as print designers with students who want to develop ideas and interpret them onto textiles. As well as tutoring and meeting new people we also get to show our new clothing collection to fresh eyes and beg for their honest opinion! So far, reactions have been really positive and encouraging which is a wonderful boost for Stephanie and I. On tho the next thing - our minds are buzzing with ideas for 3 new prints for Spring/Summer 2012. Just walking around the garden and country side is giving endless inspiration which, with time, discipline and an artistic hand will hopefully lead to our next collection. | | |
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| Student's work - a beautiful tote bag |
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| Pulling a print |
Over the next couple of months you should see some refreshing changes and updates to our studio web site. We want to make it a bit more lively so we are going to add a short movie clip showing a quick Step by Step guide to screen printing. Our little sister Louisa is Director of this project and I look forward to seeing what her choice of music is for the sound track!
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| Lifting off the screen |
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