* I'm excited.

* Japanese Pattern Drafting

* Give away - coming soon.

I woke up knowing that I need to make changes. 

If it's one thing you need in small business it's to be fluid, flexible and adaptable. 

And I'm all that.

I'm not interested in 'staying ahead of the game' for me what I do is very closely linked with who I am deep inside.

And I need to do what makes me feel worthwhile.

I'm changing, I'm excited. I hope you stay with me. 

Have a great day!! 

Get out into the sun for some Vitamin D.

It's so good for you.

Have a look at these gorgeous girls from this Japanese pattern drafting book.

I just want to colour them in!

And lastly

I'm getting together a little parcel for a 

blog give away so 

stay tuned.

Living the dream.

I can't believe the school year is in it's last leg. Doing this  Fashion Design course at TAFE was such a big decision for me, I was so unsure I should be so indulgent and take time away from business. But it's been the best thing, probably, I've ever done apart from have my baby girl. 

The other day I had what felt like a flashback to a dream while I was in class, call it déjà vu maybe but I know I'd been there before. The scene felt so comforting, like I had come home. It's what I've always dreamed of and it's changed my life in so many ways. 
I don't want it to end.

One of the very best things is that it's put me in contact with people who want to talk the same language - fashion, sewing, fabric and crafty stuff in general. I've made some friends there who I can see will be in my life for a long time. 

I've discovered things about myself that I always hoped but never knew for sure. And so I want to say that if you are at a place where you are dreaming of something you feel is so big and special and almost out of your reach, I highly recommend giving up your comfort zone and jumping!

Have you got a life plan!

I have a couple of really old books here, I'm not sure how rare they are and I don't care they are just here till I'm not. Speaking of which, I updated my Will this week, boy was that weird! Listening to the solicitor saying things like 'well when your daughter is 30, we won't be here but the business should be' and making provisions for if I ever had a 'falling out' with BossyGirl - what if I don't like her husband! ??HUH!!! (it's true I probably won't). The solicitor says 'we have to think of these things'. Man that is so weird to think of her as a woman married! It was good for me though, because I'm a person who lives pretty much in the present (and the past) and it's hard for me to look into the future and imagine what things would be like. But once in the early 80s I was told to write a life plan. Which I did. The other day I found and read it, it's a bit spooky because I didn't know I knew myself so well. I didn't have huge aspirations and still don't but I wanted 'firsty to make my parents proud and confident that I'd be ok, to be happy and to have enough money to be comfortable, to own my own home, to travel and to work for myself using my hands or creating mental pictures - writing, and to be in charge'. I wanted to use 'computers, my hands, my mind, researching, making', its clumsily written but it says it all. Although I've achieved all these things I have a new list of goals and I wonder what a review in 20 years will reveal.