Long time no speak.

Hi you lot...if there is anyone left.

I have been working on a lot of things like a new website and new products!!!

I will be leaving this page to go onto my new one...the posts will still be here just I won't be.

To keep up to date with what I'm doing please follow me on instagram.com/siobhanlouiseee and on my Facebook page facebook.com/SiobhanLouiseTextiles.

LINK FOR NEW WEBSITE WILL BE COMING SOON!!!!!!!!!!! 😀

Money...Rent...The Future.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02nryrd/newsbeat-generation-rent-living-to-let

So this is only 13minutes but showcases the problem facing many of us, but especially me right now...for the last two years money has just been handed to landlords and I had no control over the actual amount or the right to check the meter reader...now that I have been in this house and been left in charge of looking at the bills just through understanding something on the paper and being here all the time, I have a better understanding about a new aspect to life that I'm going to need to know now. In this house right now there are three of us that makes its a bit easier on the bills but even then two of us don't need to worry about council tax yet and the internet is on its introductory amount, so come October that contract will be go unto double what we are paying for right now. And for someone who will predominantly rely on the internet for sales and contacting people it would end up being the first thing to go on the expenses list...it will feel like being a student again...being on a budget and having to sacrifice things only thing different would be the big loan that appears every three months.

Through this new understanding I have found the biggest thing for me to have my dreams would be to work myself to death and never be able to live my dreams or be in charge of my own destiny just down to a stupid (yet majorly important) thing called MONEY!! And then to still do the thing that I want to do would involve someone making an extra day...a day that involved no work but just play. 

The only reason this struck a cord with my brain is because I am currently constantly thinking of my future and the fact that I ideally want to stay in Wales, for the opportunities but also because I have flown the nest for three years now...I don't want to go back home if I could help it but seeing as renting is getting more expensive and buying outright is a silly thing right now it looks like its the only option...other than living in a cave.

Now I know that this could spark something but ultimately the point that Rosie makes in this short clip is important in the sense that this type of thing doesn't get spoken about at the points in life when people are being set free, there are only books and leaflets on this subject and even then to fully understand some things it feels like you would need another degree in that alone.

I don't want to have to work to just be able to pay to live or work to be able to pay for working (transport and stuff) and have my passions put on the back burner otherwise what was the point in doing an Art degree?! So my only options really to be able to be happy is to live in a cave, find a millionaire, sell parts of my body or to go to bed and hope that when I wake this is all a dream and that the world isn't controlled by money!

As the well known proverb says "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

Thanks for reading to the bottom if you did ha. x

Procrastination.

There are only three months left to get final designs drawn, products made and all dotting and crossing of i's and t's.
I'm sat here at 12:30am going through Pinterest (again) and old to do lists that never got finished mainly the repetitive house chores and the things I think I can leave till later. Later then being a month or so. But that is until I come across a pin with a quote about procrastination and doing work, blah, blah, blah. Its no secret that I like to procrastinate and often joke about having a degree in it over the one I am currently doing. So, with Pinterest still open I search for more procrastination quotes/pins, whilst procrastinating from cleaning my room. However, I find some inspirational quotes, like the four below. It makes me want to do my work too!
Three months isn't a lot of time to have a body of work done  products made, portfolio perfected, and for my three years here to come to an end. It's weird to think that the last three years all shows in the next three months and that as soon as I get settled I have to reassign myself to something new. The big wide world. As much as I feel ready, I don't want to leave.
This will be the first Christmas where I am not going to be in education of some sort. What am I going to do? As the symposium the other week helped me there are still a few things I have yet to decide upon. Mainly the issue of whether I go home and go back to the parents, or stay in Wales, or start somewhere completely new. Only time will tell really.
I know this has been a long and rambly post, but its only the beginning really. I always remember the people whom look at my blog and Facebook page and that I need to keep my profile unto date and so it begins now (again)(ha), The next few might not be as deep as this one though.

Finished day two of the three day symposium here at Carmarthen School of Art @ Coleg Sir Gar, and as the photo of the cat suggests its definitely a feeling like this going around. Its given us plenty of food for thought and a few decisions have been made and inspiration has been spread. A few things have been set in place for the future and also a lot of unanswered questions to battle through after the process is done. Other than that its been a productive time and its safe to say Happy Hump Day.