tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11564814725386964172024-03-13T20:22:39.054+00:00Katie and Nina's CloudKatiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735101695267188308noreply@blogger.comBlogger115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1156481472538696417.post-34346323853435078602013-04-03T22:07:00.000+01:002013-04-03T22:09:36.779+01:00Portwine Rose<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, it's been awhile...but I wanted to bring good tidings...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My book is on <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Portwine-Rose-ebook/dp/B00C2YVFUQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365018002&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon!!!</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A friend self-published with Amazon and has been successful thus far, so I thought I'd have a crack at it, and I've finally got it up and running. And who knows, many books coming in to the bookshop where I work have been published because they became a self-publishing sensation. It's fantastic that authors have this new avenue; although I'm a die-hard advocate of the printed page, and don't own an ereader myself, it allows more creative freedom for authors to make a buck out of their passion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>AND SELF-PUBLISHING DOESN'T IMPLY THE BOOK IS SHIT, BY ANY MEANS!!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It really doesn't - I've read self-published books that I've been blown-away by, and a kind editor's assistant gave me feedback on my work, telling me that the story was great and well-written, but unfortunately because it's no <i>Twilight</i> or <i>Hunger Games</i> or amalgamation of the two, it's not commercially viable in the YA market (though I want to stress that this is also an adult book). When genres collide it confuses the sales and marketing department, and they often refuse to take a chance unless it's going to <b>sell sell sell!!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've changed the title from the original <i>The Thicket Dwellers </i>to <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Portwine-Rose-ebook/dp/B00C2YVFUQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365018002&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><i>Portwine Rose</i></a>, and the story is no longer on Figment (though I hadn't even uploaded the whole story anyway); and it's charity shop book-cheap at £1.53 (random US dollar conversion) so please please please download and give it a read. <b>Give an indie author the support!</b> And...if you're feeling really nice, maybe a li'l review?? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I haven't blogged in months because I'm writing another story, an older children's fantasy this time, and it's taken a while to formulate a new idea that I'm happy with. I've spent months scrawling ideas down and collaging in my notebook to keep me inspired, but regret the other creative aspects of my life that I've put on hold, like embroidery and writing in my diary (though I'm currently sewing and embroidering a patchwork quilt, albeit slowly). Though I just don't have the time. Alas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And reading! I haven't been reading half as much as I would like, and I've got so much research to do...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*sneaky peeks in my notebooks*</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">^^The fountain pen my mum got me for my 10th birthday! It amazes me I've never lost it, and have never stopped writing with it. My most treasured possession^^</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>And I'm finally going to start reading <i>Harry Potter</i> for the very first time!!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know...<i>I can't believe it either! </i>But no aspiring children's fantasy writer in their right mind would even <i>attempt</i> to write a book as such without reading the greats like the above, plus <i>His Dark Materials </i>and <i>The Narnia Chronicles</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes. I'm guilty of reading none of the above. Shame. On. Me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I better get cracking...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's nice to be with you all again and thanks for reading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Portwine-Rose-ebook/dp/B00C2YVFUQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365018002&sr=8-1" target="_blank">READ THIS!!!</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love y'all,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">ps yes that's sister Katie on the cover of the book! :)</span></div>
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Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735101695267188308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1156481472538696417.post-54352469042964314162012-12-11T20:22:00.001+00:002012-12-11T20:22:32.138+00:00The Lilies scented the night<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Tonight I stirred the dust</i></div>
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<i> With tender breaths</i></div>
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<i>Upon the hollow tombstone.</i></div>
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<i>Each kiss of mine was touched to broken bone,</i></div>
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<i>And each of yours; a graze upon my skin,</i></div>
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<i>Our limbs entwine in deaths embrace,</i></div>
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<i>Our grave a cold and lonely place.</i></div>
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<i>My blood is yours,</i></div>
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<i>And you are mine</i></div>
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<i>For we are damned and dying.</i></div>
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<i>-</i>poem inspired by Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and a dream I once had</div>
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After listening incessantly to the new album by Bat For Lashes I have now quite an obsession with lilies, and I was inspired to do another photo-shoot with Chelsea, the red-haired model in the first photo, and included this lovely flower in it. We have done a few other shoots since then, but for now I'll just share this one.<br />
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Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735101695267188308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1156481472538696417.post-6219262997320622722012-11-14T22:24:00.000+00:002012-11-14T22:26:42.425+00:00I've been away...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">...to the Tilly Whim Caves indeed! But I've crept back out again, into the sunlight, guided by the lighthouse...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In truth I've been away due to a li'l 'crisis of creativity' as I'm calling it. After opening the Ectopic Heartbeats etsy shop I felt inexplicably despondent for a long time. I lost all passion for anything I created; felt like it was all a waste of time, and I hated it. I hadn't embroidered anything for a long time, and I didn't want to. I couldn't write - not stories anyway. So I did nothing but read books and write in my scrapbook/journal...and I wrote heaps. And for a while that was the only thing I took joy from. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And then I had a holiday, so Dan and I went to the Purbecks, and stayed in a gorgeous old Victorian hotel for a night in Swanage, and explored this place that we love. We love it so much we've decided this is where we want to build a nest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's far away enough to achieve the escapism I've desired for a long time, but close enough to Bournemouth to be near my family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We even went to view a flat above the estate agents we were peering at! The flat was perfect - two double bedrooms with views of Swanage bay and the steam train station on the other side through the cool li'l kitchen with retro appliances...I wanted it so bad!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Alas, there's no way we can afford it now. But I've decided to move back home temporarily to save a bundle, so that in a few years we can afford to buy a flat similar in the town, ideally above a shop with sea views. It means putting on hold the wedding plans for a bit longer, but the change in my destiny has given me so much hope that I am chirpier, more creative and less stressed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And Swanage has the best craft shop! Way smaller than Hobbycraft, but I love their fat quarters. And a cute little health food shop that oddly seems to fit all the foods I love plus fresh veg and organic eggs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Open country, small indie shops including a string of charity shops that could rival Boscombe, a few pubs with real ale, and the sea. All within a few miles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Maybe I breathe better now because I know where my home is...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Best of all I'm crafting again! But for now I'm doing things for myself and loved ones only. I'll leave the shop where it is, but I'm not concentrating on it. I've started making that quilt I've been wanting to do for an age, though I haven't got much further than cutting fabric and sewing a few squares together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's inspired by the Grimm Fairytales that I've been reading a lot lately. See, I've discovered a pattern to most of these stories...children or vulnerable girls are thrown out by wicked relatives or conspiring witches and are forced to seek shelter and nourishment from the forest! So I wrote this verse that I'm going to embroider onto the quilt as I sew it all together...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bat For Lashes is mesmerising to watch. She commands the stage and dances with charm and ritualistic fervour, and then her ambient songs bring tears to our eyes, which are so pure and tangible after her music that they turn to pearls on our cheeks, and we keep them in our pockets and remember how she pounded upon the drum machine during <i>Lilies</i> and the beat went straight through our hearts and near ruptured mine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had quite an experience taking Ectopic Heartbeats and Katie's Owl Sanctuary to Kinson Community Centre! Not quite our target audience, but it was fun :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have been sewing and sketching like crazy these last few months for an upcoming stall where me and Nina will be selling our crafty stuff, and soon we'll be able to relax and eat chocolate all day without having anything else to finish- phew!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The illustration above is inspired by a character called Frida in one of Nina's story ideas that I love. The one below is a pen and watercolour illustration I've finished just recently, but started last year! Sometimes I'm lazy..</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's a poem that I embroidered on a doily, inspired by moths and listening to lots of Bat For Lashes (who me Nina and Clair our friend will be seeing soon, can't wait!)...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">...A butterfly embroidered on canvas and cut up bed sheets (bad habit of mine)...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">...And here's the first owl I've made with a doily belly! There will definitely be more as I have a whole collection of doilies that I've been picking up as I go along, and I didn't really have any use for them until now. This one I've named Rosie, because the material is floral, though you can't really see it in the photo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And here's another one with a love heart belly and bush-baby-button-eyes...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">...And a lil' embroidered love note on the wing :). But before you get the Whitney Houston song stuck in your head, the idea for it came from Lovesong by The Cure <3</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's another embroidery I did a while ago after a rummage in Hobby Craft where I bought this blue material. At first I was only going to embroider the writing, but while listening to Mazzy Star with Nina she told me I should appliqué on a Mazzy Star-like swan, and even though it was tricky, and took up a lot of my patience, it worked out in the end. Thanks Nina! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And lastly, a few framed prints of my photography with frames I found in charity shops hehe :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I nearly bought a nursery rhyme book with illustrations by Arthur Rackham but it was a bit pricey and I thought I better save the pennies. Boy, I wish I'd never listened to Jimminy Cricket on my shoulder there - now I regret not getting it. But we did find some lovely things in charity shops and I bought some lovely coloured embroidery thread and balls of wool for my ill-fated crocheting venture...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I went into a craft shop where the lady who runs it also teaches sewing classes in the evenings after the shop's closed. she took some of my business cards and has asked if I could take some of my stitched poems for her to display on her walls and sell for me. I'm so thrilled! I want to do this more around the local area, not to mention get involved with more craft fairs. I have one coming up on the 22nd at Kinson Community Hall, so as I'm on holiday next week I'm going to be working on a few smaller embroideries...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My business cards arrived yesterday from <a href="http://moo.com/">moo.com</a>! I'm so thrilled, they came out really nice. Choosing which images to use was such a fuss and a bother, but I'm pleased. And they're printed on 100% recycled paper, which means I deserve a sweetie for being good :0)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I bought the first issue of <i>The Art of Crochet </i>magazine, to have a crack at something new. Let's just say it hasn't come as naturally as embroidery. But I'll persevere. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Every first Saturday of the month The Royal Arcade in Boscombe, the town where we live, host a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/BoscombeVintageMarket" target="_blank">vintage market</a>, and for the last few months running Rachael and I have been trawling the stalls for goodies and inspiration. Last weekend we took our kid sisters, too ;) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Royal Arcade is a small, beautiful Victorian building that up until a few years ago was ignored and defunct but since the rise in vintage shops around the Boscombe/Pokesdown area it has been put to use again, no doubt due to its suitably nostalgic architecture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love this shop. It's not been open a year yet but I'm chuffed to pieces it's just down the road from me! They have soooooo many secondhand books as well as vintage and retro fabrics and furnishings, such as this typewriter which I have my eye on, and the wonky taxidermy butterflies above...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was thrilled to bits with the books I found in The Crooked Book. I'd been searching for <i>The Little Prince</i> for ages after someone asked for it at work. We didn't stock it, but I checked it out and it sounded lovely, and since then I've been hearing about it everywhere. I nearly relented and ordered from the online giants, as well as <i>The Wolves of Willoughby Chase </i>(which is another I've wanted to read for months). But patience pays off, and I found them here. The owner of the shop spoke lovingly of <i>The Little Prince</i>; he'd read it too, and described the symbolic relevance of the rose in the story...but that's all I'm saying. You'll have to read it for yourselves. Once I'm done with D.H Lawrence I'll pick it up...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And this spiffing stag bag handmade by <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carara-Designs/213056875397612" target="_blank">Carara Designs</a> made of scrap, recycled fabric and leather, with a William Morris print on the reverse! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Please check out my fledgling shop </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and here's Rachael's shop where she sells beautifully crafted button and charm bracelets <3</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Me and Nina spent the weekend at our other sister's flat, and we had great fun making the place messy while we did a photo shoot together. Nina took photo's of all the embroideries that she's selling in her shop, and I ripped some of my poems out of my notebook and took pictures of them around Louise's flat. Alas, we didn't have enough time do the whole shoot, so there will be more photo's being posted at a later date :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ectopic Heartbeats, my new Etsy shop, is now open! It's right down here on the right-hand side of this blog, if you fancy taking a peek. Full of whimsy oddities and embroidered ditties, it's still a yearling online store that I will gradually be adding more things onto. I have plans for patchwork canvases and mini quilts, wall hangings and even clothing and vintage accessories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also love the idea of creating an heirloom. A dusty old book of stitched poetry and photography that was created by a great great grandmother, found over a hundred years down the line in an old trunk in the attic, sounds really appealing to me! I'm so in love with nostalgia and old stuff, and the idea of leaving a relic of oneself behind after you're gone - an item that becomes a history of and a repository for the person you once were. A legacy; that sounds nice. Something that gives you permanence and immortality. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was apprehensive about doing a post about our travels to the abandoned village of Tyneham, mainly because of the profusion of pictures Katie and I had taken. But it had to be done; this place is such a vital source of inspiration for me at the moment, and I want to share one of my favourite places in the world with you, on this sweet li'l part of the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, near where we live.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm fascinated by this Violet Cake! In the book that I plan to write soon, set in Tyneham (the one about the twins Florence & Frida I've told you about <a href="http://katieandninascloud.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/frida-eats-flowers.html" target="_blank">in this previous post</a>) there's a character I've called Violet Lake after a misprint on the poster of the door of the schoolhouse. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I adore Oh Comely...the love affair began when I spied issue two in <a href="http://grovestudio.co.uk/" target="_blank">Grove Studio</a> in Southbourne (where, incidentally, I hope to one day have some of my embroidered ditties on display); but the current issue eleven has to be my very favourite. So I wanted to express my fondness!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've fallen hard for Leah Goren and everything she's about - her gossamer-thin scarves are beautiful, but her 'California Poems' one is my favourite. I can't help it. I love words, especially when used visually. Here is a better view of it from her Etsy store...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">...and <a href="http://www.leahgoren.com/" target="_blank">here</a> is where you can find out utterly everything internetty about her. If this here cloud is my home in cyber space, Leah Goren's website is the hotel room where my paramour waits for me, for now :0)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But my most cherished part of this issue has got to be the article 'A Fear of Garden Fences' by <a href="http://www.eatthedamncake.com/" target="_blank">Kate Fridkis</a>. In a nutshell she discusses the inner struggle between being an innate dreamer and feeling the need to be 'successful', or society's notion of success which involves having a proper job and making a lot of money, being boxed inside an office cubicle, getting married and having a lot of children before the rest of your friends do rah rah rah...but thankfully she recognises the need to nurture the dreamer in her. She is a writer, and needs to write. I feel I can relate. I have been stressing a helluva lot lately because I worry about the future. Should I get a proper job that pays better? Or work in a book store doing hours that offers me the time to nurture my own dreams and to write. What if my dreams never come true/pay off/amount to anything?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was enchanted by the story she'd read as a child, about a battle between humans and demons, and how the human princess falls in love with a 'young, furry, short demon man.' I wish she knew the name of this book. I would love to read it. I too want to write the perfect book for my younger self; my teenage self. The person I was in my head but couldn't be out loud, because I was ashamed and scared. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you, Kate Fridkis and Oh Comely...I think you've helped preserve my mental health! And to show my appreciation, here are some virtual lilies from the back garden...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've nearly finished the text for my 'Captive Butterfly' canvas. It is my second attempt; and sad as it is to say so, it's synonymous with pain and frustration for me right now. It's not a good time. But still I love it, and will see it through. I hope my next embroidery brings me a bit more joy. But what does make me happy is that Katie and I are planning to start a magazine, filled with our stories, poetry, stitching, photography, musings etc! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I'm sending another submission for <i>The Thicket Dwellers</i>. There is still hope in my marrow. Or maybe an understanding that there's nothing else for me but to write. That, and to stitch my writing. Perhaps to give it more permanence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm thinking and writing a lot about the twins, Florence and Frida. Their's is a sad story, about flight and falling, a life cut short in a village filled with birds, ghosts and bullet holes. We visited Tyneham with Dan and Joe last weekend. I will share the pictures with you soon. But I've come away with its atmosphere. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, we might've dried up for a spell; but what with the rain we're quite fertile again, and have blog-post material aplenty! Last week I finished my latest embroidered ditty I've called 'Hoar Frost' which I came up with whilst writing <i>The Thicket Dwellers</i> (which I'm thinking about changing the name of to <i>Portwine Rose</i> - please comment with your preference! I'm so indecisive). I embroidered the border with a climber and sewed on some pretty buttons, then stretched the material over and stapled it to an A4 size canvas, then embroidered the poem through the canvas. Then I took some photos of it in my Mum's garden, since her hydrangeas are pretty and thriving, as are all her plants, and propped up the canvas onto the window sill of Mum n' Dad's sweet li'l cottagy-looking garage, under the rose tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Practiced my photography a little more when I was round Nina's at the weekend, and she let me mess around with her Roe deer skull (which I'll make sure I inherit ;) ). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've had a bad day and I'm fed up, so when I got home I looked through my latest craft book-buy <i>All Sewn Up </i>by Chloe Owens to lift my spirits, and it worked like colourful fabric therapy! It is full of cute and quirky designs and projects like seratonin on a page, and leaves me feeling heaps better and inspired to the brim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's just simply gorgeous :) I'm surprised I hadn't shared it with you until now. I recommend you buy this when you're feeling blue! Especially with rain in July, (as I type this a sunbeam just came through the window...see? It <i>does </i>work!) if you appreciate vintage fabric, quirky design, kitsch and colour - YOU. WILL. LOVE. THIS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So that's my sunshine offering for today. I'm just finishing up my 'Hoar Frost' embroidered ditty so I'll be posting pics of that up in the next few days, plus I <i>know </i>Katie's finished the cutest owl, her biggest yet, as I've seen it, so I virtually implore her to post pics of this too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We sisters three have had a wonderful weekend together - fits of bargain hunting! Driving down the vintage strip in Pokesdown to meet Lubix I spied this trunk outside a junk shop that I had to go back to take a peek at. I knew I had to take it home; and home I took it, with a cheeky barter bringing it to £20! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It sits beneath my bedroom window, and will be a natural habitat for all my fabric, sewing and embroidery stuff that was previously strewn upon my floor so that I'd forgotten the colour of my carpet (not such a bad thing), so that now it's all tidied up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">...and these buttons, which have definitely got me all excited!! Lubix joked that I'd better keep them beside my bed whilst sleeping in case I woke up from bad dreams that they were lost, or strewn and scattered upon the floor - the horror! - only so that I could reach out for them and find that they were still there, all together, in their jars...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The jar on the left is my own collection mixed with my nana's, who kindly gave me a load of them yesterday (and the ones below); and the jar on the right was an Etsy steal that I ordered from Pat's shop <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/WhiskeysWhims?ref=seller_info" target="_blank">Whiskey's Whims</a> who was lovely enough to post them to me from America :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We also went to <a href="http://www.boscalicious.co.uk/a-crooked-book-shop-for-boscombe-i1306.html" target="_blank">The Crooked Book</a> in Boscombe where I picked up this gorgeous vintage Nursery Rhyme book (and enviously looked on as Katie picked up a stack of Anne Rice hardbacks with beautiful binding) and sat down to read some ditties whilst sipping some chai tea and pointing at things on display to show Lubix only to steal a bite of her cake ;) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But please watch this space in the near future, as they will resurface in the next few months in a shop on Etsy that I will be opening soon. I've been delayed so far as I keep thinking of more things to make for the opening, but the end is in sight. I will be posting details on here when it's ready. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hi there! It's been a while, I'm terribly sorry. I've been stitching like a bitch ;) A few weeks ago I started an embroidery called 'Captive Butterfly' but I fudged it up, so I've put the idea to one side and created something a bit basic but special nonetheless. And so 'Branza' burst forth. A character from one of my most beloved stories, <i>Tender Morsels</i>, I will tell you briefly about Branza. Taken rudely from her mother's fantasy world by her younger sister Urdda, she is forced to live in the real world without her wolf whom she adored. Unable to understand the cruel ways in which people can treat each other in this reality, she is cornered by a crowd of nasty youths and taunted until she snaps. Below is a passage detailing this incident, describing the love and violence felt by Branza that inspired my embroidery...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was my birthday yesterday, and on Saturday Daniel, Katie and my friend Clair came with me to Hobbycraft to get some supplies. With a gift voucher from Clair I bought the ever-useful 'How To Sell Your Crafts Online', and Dan bought me a rotary cuttery and self-healing mat for some patchwork projects I want to tackle soon. With birthday spending money I also bought some beautiful shades of embroidery thread, black lace, buttons and scrap-booking paper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We then went for a pint to The White Hart pub nearby where there was a charity book sale, and I found a copy of 'Through a Glass, Darkly' by Jostein Gaarder, which I can't wait to read.</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These are a few images of an embroidered canvas I'm working on at the moment. It's causing me a lot of stress as the ghost-writing is tricky (as I like to call it) but I think the worst is over, and the rest should be fun and buttons! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lo and behold: another embroidered ditty I've finished, all fabric upcycled and a doillie I've picked up at Boscombe Vintage Market. Plus the dress I'm wearing is a vintage number I picked up from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/bobosemporium" target="_blank">Bobo's Emporium</a> on Etsy, that arrived swiftly over the weekend. I had to show it off :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is prolly my most precious embroidery to date. </span><span style="font-size: large;">The text is a sample of the poem 'Porcelain' that I started way back in 2005, and finished in 2009. Below is the poem in its entirety...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>My frame is that of fine china.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I am made of porcelain.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I want to finish with a song, a precious li'l number from the Red Hot Chili Peppers that I adore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Porcelain...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">ps Katie wants me to apologise on her behalf for not posting often on the blog and communicating much of her ideas at the mo, because she's doing her GCSEs next year and is sitting exams for the next few weeks, so is busy with her books, the clever lass. But she has some stunning drawings that I might have to stealthily snap from her sketch book to show y'all! ;)</span></div>
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<br /></div>Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735101695267188308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1156481472538696417.post-11250790587509607022012-06-05T22:22:00.000+01:002012-06-05T22:22:20.970+01:00The Thicket Dwellers...<br />
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...<span style="font-size: large;">is available to read <a href="http://figment.com/books/350073-The-Thicket-Dwellers" target="_blank">here on figment!</a> I've uploaded four chapters so far, but will be adding more frequently, until the entire novel is up. I really hope you have a browse, maybe read the lot! I'd appreciate it heaps if you pressed 'follow' and/or 'heart' and maybe even left a brief comment or review. The more activity on my profile, the more likely the website will advertise it on the home page, therefore reaching more readers. I hope you like it. It's intended for the YA market, but definitely suitable for the adult reader too. It's a darkly told coming-of-age psycho-drama; I've included a comprehensive description on my figment profile, so you get a better understanding of the plot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Above is the finished image I've uploaded for the book cover, and below are some images from the photo shoot me n' Katie did on King's Park common near where we live, which was the inspiration for the common ground in the novel. The first image is the final picture I chose, then treated on Photoshop to create the final image. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some images from the surrounding woodlands, including the ivy-ridden forest where Rose Harkness encounters Ena during her transformation near the end of the story, and the thicket bush which Rose crawled inside whilst fleeing, and where she met the woman of the woods for the first time... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And we became this strange procession - Myself, Katie and Beau, walking through the common and up the hill onto the cemetery, where we took our offering of roses that we'd used for the photo shoot and placed them on our grandfather's grave. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Katie sat among the daisies for a while, whilst Beau bounded through the unkempt grasses, disturbing the dead, but when the mozzies came and bit my knees I ushered them both home, and we jumped the fence seeing as we'd been locked in by the grounds-keeper. Then we had dinner and went to zzzzz...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nina x</span></div>
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