tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43482624493911970402024-03-08T08:55:43.979+00:00Flaming NoraFlaming Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777449640443864333noreply@blogger.comBlogger457125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348262449391197040.post-87886556426111019042016-02-28T22:12:00.000+00:002016-02-28T22:12:53.288+00:00SPRING HAS SPRUNG<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yesterday morning it was cold down here on the coast.</div>
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Ninja One and T.N.T Ninja wrapped up warm (but not warm enough) and headed down the hill into Hastings Old Town.</div>
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For the past 6 months they had been crocheting quietly away, utilising evenings in front of the T.V and many many work related train journeys to dream of spring.</div>
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Some Ninja's even dyed their own yarn, apparently the shop bought stuff just didn't have the right depth and variation of colour. </div>
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Some Ninja's, apparently, are showing off.</div>
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They were ably abetted by Ninja Dusty Box, but she was too clever to get dressed and come with us on such a frosty morning.</div>
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By the time we had finished neither fingers nor toes could be felt and the temptation to bin the last 40 odd blooms and run to a cafe to warm up was almost overwhelming.</div>
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We stuck it out.</div>
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We made sure that Spring has most defiantly arrived in our little corner of the south east.</div>
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So sit back, enjoy the ride and bask in the fact that Spring has sprung.</div>
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Flaming Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777449640443864333noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348262449391197040.post-60969372113996470202016-02-21T12:07:00.001+00:002016-02-21T12:07:15.495+00:00ONE FOR THE BIRDSI have spent the winter months dreaming of Spring.<div><br><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ai96bgPHmWfAFuNTAxz8Zm0cVWubzxcGexC4TOFNgkRn2BBd6zTiyZkIWu18kLAzLjhZpfbb_2EeTqFpiniPtIqQooe7SCnKZESPxEDWCn1B5Uo2XbaxKT-kS_2UmYP8m7Hx0JrAgUM/s640/blogger-image-127143826.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ai96bgPHmWfAFuNTAxz8Zm0cVWubzxcGexC4TOFNgkRn2BBd6zTiyZkIWu18kLAzLjhZpfbb_2EeTqFpiniPtIqQooe7SCnKZESPxEDWCn1B5Uo2XbaxKT-kS_2UmYP8m7Hx0JrAgUM/s640/blogger-image-127143826.jpg"></a></div><br><div>Crocheting up my own little Spring.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZSJXFKfAZ6Oi_9c0INUD_zKG2cPf1bp2JtI6ZczWx6m9ElJcOlbCvhnNFjxznIbpVgYAI7wuqcDIqP6znfggCy8DGSUp3Y7HYkPgD0G6cwid8J4OWXU20m7SR3Ez4PAP2WCOLwLb_1ik/s640/blogger-image--1061825074.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZSJXFKfAZ6Oi_9c0INUD_zKG2cPf1bp2JtI6ZczWx6m9ElJcOlbCvhnNFjxznIbpVgYAI7wuqcDIqP6znfggCy8DGSUp3Y7HYkPgD0G6cwid8J4OWXU20m7SR3Ez4PAP2WCOLwLb_1ik/s640/blogger-image--1061825074.jpg"></a></div></div><br></div><div>The Ninjas are planning to spring Spring upon us soon.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVJWxKCYykBxWOuX8pGiCIkItykRjggNsKsNBlwvhUXsnQ2ao449hXa7lZ7PZ2uQShRon0nkU_9eVNNPWzngyBOAoMD-pPIxLdMPWT2fWpMme23Za_jf8iR8nDHyolCOkf4AhTtBYAhEc/s640/blogger-image-1218176237.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVJWxKCYykBxWOuX8pGiCIkItykRjggNsKsNBlwvhUXsnQ2ao449hXa7lZ7PZ2uQShRon0nkU_9eVNNPWzngyBOAoMD-pPIxLdMPWT2fWpMme23Za_jf8iR8nDHyolCOkf4AhTtBYAhEc/s640/blogger-image-1218176237.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>The ends of the yarn are all for the birds.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQElzXcx6L9f_n85St12nC3-5saCB-pbUK6xwgWL04FVQcsc2a_dWkOpDsvcFeFLZ3AXU6SOY1TrncIOupOGtWI1L_msI75zmlUR_mB_pIZHJFFYFuMqHzbKm8KOQPHKkDb2GG3vWwH4M/s640/blogger-image-1680577132.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQElzXcx6L9f_n85St12nC3-5saCB-pbUK6xwgWL04FVQcsc2a_dWkOpDsvcFeFLZ3AXU6SOY1TrncIOupOGtWI1L_msI75zmlUR_mB_pIZHJFFYFuMqHzbKm8KOQPHKkDb2GG3vWwH4M/s640/blogger-image-1680577132.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>We are spending the weekend in the ancestorial flat lands of the Hippy, safe in the centre of the extended family.</div><div>The youngest member of the tribe and I spent a happy time finding special places to leave the ends of the Spring yarn. Strategically placed for birdies to swoop down and use in the nest building.</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ4v2eirIT0v60hKbNhyphenhyphen8S3pyZNH9o0ErUXhtmQLN4URvEkwT65fi_dbtzyjesdL4kVq6FbGI-sYMLlEMb9VNCuEdakNbPWWv03a7AGt4hAQHWmPfX1OoUjPd2ZZuXUdcwciNtSOJYcsk/s640/blogger-image-1281957819.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ4v2eirIT0v60hKbNhyphenhyphen8S3pyZNH9o0ErUXhtmQLN4URvEkwT65fi_dbtzyjesdL4kVq6FbGI-sYMLlEMb9VNCuEdakNbPWWv03a7AGt4hAQHWmPfX1OoUjPd2ZZuXUdcwciNtSOJYcsk/s640/blogger-image-1281957819.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We are hoping that when the birds have built their nests there may be the odd disco themed one with a little bit of sparkle in it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsHfShu9aL-y86zX5HXXe223bVrepWSqYYLkRhnuu4zACP-rpLWomFBqbe0DWZXqylD2Yp27q-BFy0xDQcvt93QBB-qaIe9uPfnOasFFZyZR81eDPMp-OdCbB76-SRi7UhibUI42nQ8nE/s640/blogger-image-950653038.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsHfShu9aL-y86zX5HXXe223bVrepWSqYYLkRhnuu4zACP-rpLWomFBqbe0DWZXqylD2Yp27q-BFy0xDQcvt93QBB-qaIe9uPfnOasFFZyZR81eDPMp-OdCbB76-SRi7UhibUI42nQ8nE/s640/blogger-image-950653038.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">So many ends now scattered. But so many Spring blooms still waiting for leaves.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2XMbIMBt53DaJmAC5OD2yCSJbj84RK2vGGvqocjUFafduue-_q3rRGToHT3szj7S482gxjJxiHmo1SWLJNaoXVfI8TB5YExzsijY4WM3cPRX034Znv7Rk139qB2xRk4r1SCF2AkP0tHE/s640/blogger-image--1291795941.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2XMbIMBt53DaJmAC5OD2yCSJbj84RK2vGGvqocjUFafduue-_q3rRGToHT3szj7S482gxjJxiHmo1SWLJNaoXVfI8TB5YExzsijY4WM3cPRX034Znv7Rk139qB2xRk4r1SCF2AkP0tHE/s640/blogger-image--1291795941.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Not long to go now, watch this space Spring will be sprung soon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Love Nora xxxx</div><br></div><br></div><br></div>Flaming Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777449640443864333noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348262449391197040.post-34133947555382897262016-02-16T15:54:00.001+00:002016-02-16T15:54:22.904+00:00WE GO TO THE GALLERYSome days it feels like life is but a fiction.<div><br><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjydjBCoxPtxWzGLX1Cdw8nNwDpcnT1JmUaplQuQDbPXvurFJK361ZuAqQSkMesGfJIR9G5qUDISy9lESCxoTQPT5qKIjp7veuUi8V9RsnNF2BuCDmvAwuaCH2nIpmNylKdaLDuxogYSGU/s640/blogger-image--543975773.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjydjBCoxPtxWzGLX1Cdw8nNwDpcnT1JmUaplQuQDbPXvurFJK361ZuAqQSkMesGfJIR9G5qUDISy9lESCxoTQPT5qKIjp7veuUi8V9RsnNF2BuCDmvAwuaCH2nIpmNylKdaLDuxogYSGU/s640/blogger-image--543975773.jpg"></a></div></div><br></div></div><div>Today our lives were a scarily accurate representation of this charming little book.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHGrHvD8oYayJ7tSWr1041CZbxtrpPocoAJvoMdIWPXM_323Cb2OH4Af_l7hHd1AyfKYoVaNi67P_lONeSiYkpdQdO9OHGbZmJFOXLv7AOp_11VcKe4ldddxS9XYC-EU1EFz5xKzZ36-c/s640/blogger-image--1640061610.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHGrHvD8oYayJ7tSWr1041CZbxtrpPocoAJvoMdIWPXM_323Cb2OH4Af_l7hHd1AyfKYoVaNi67P_lONeSiYkpdQdO9OHGbZmJFOXLv7AOp_11VcKe4ldddxS9XYC-EU1EFz5xKzZ36-c/s640/blogger-image--1640061610.jpg"></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We went to the gallery.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We saw inspiring art.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3H62gXI9UcPbtjNPygTqk9PMnM-jih97j_uklNiaL1B7p0_Iix0RVdeOOhpMlyBLfdJ4g6b4TJTohG-VEfxjDs2MZmbrTfZ3eFj_tXw2C7Ep7PJo-rkkQMUeltqcTyQ8KNZPKCsYnyl8/s640/blogger-image-243565327.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3H62gXI9UcPbtjNPygTqk9PMnM-jih97j_uklNiaL1B7p0_Iix0RVdeOOhpMlyBLfdJ4g6b4TJTohG-VEfxjDs2MZmbrTfZ3eFj_tXw2C7Ep7PJo-rkkQMUeltqcTyQ8KNZPKCsYnyl8/s640/blogger-image-243565327.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This one is by Shozo Shimamoto.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Luckily we didn't have to have this conversation... 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Thank you for the encouraging heart warming comments you have been leaving, thank you for believing what we are doing is the right thing, thank you for the offers of help and thank you for continuing to read these ramblings and visit. Especially when I am so rude as to not always pay a return call and rarely comment these days.<br />
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Oh that's right standing yet again on the crumbling edge of a cliff waiting for the story to limp towards its conclusion. To recap, The very short version of what has happened is...</div>
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Lots of refuges making perilous traumatic journeys from all over the world to try and get to the relative safety of Europe.</div>
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Compassion overload from many people.</div>
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Me feeling impotent in the face of such horror, teaming up with my new friend <a href="http://lalarookhworkshop.com/about/"><span style="color: black;">Anna</span></a> to try and sew the world back together.</div>
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Initial experiments would appear to be successful.</div>
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With me so far?</div>
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(If You want to read the full version you can do so <a href="http://flaming-nora.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-story-so-farpart-first.html"><span style="color: black;">here</span></a>, but you may want to settle down for the long haul with a cup of tea to do that.)</div>
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After the success of our bird making workshop people were constantly asking for more. Many people hadn't been able to make it, many people just had the bug and wanted to make more.</div>
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Then with only 3 weeks to go till Christmas some bright spark said, why don't you make them up into kits to sell? </div>
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Our good friend Fishy took away the jumble of images we had for the tutorial, deciphered my scribbles and created the most beautiful instruction booklet for us. </div>
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She designed labels and stickers and printed every thing out.</div>
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Then on a cold, wet and windy evening in early December 15 of us gathered in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lalarookhworkshop/?fref=ts"><span style="color: black;">Anna's sewing parlour.</span></a><br />
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By which point Anna and I were exhausted, and yet the interest had only just started.</div>
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The lovely <a href="http://thosewordsshewrote.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1"><span style="color: black;">Lexie</span></a> came on board and took over the social media stuff for us. She has been twittering away for weeks building interest and shoe horning what we are doing in to every possible situation.</div>
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She also set up our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/abirdinthehandproject/?fref=ts"><span style="color: black;">Facebook page</span></a> for us which has grown massively in the few weeks it has been up and running.</div>
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So what next?</div>
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Well more kits are being made up and an online store opened for people to buy them.</div>
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We are holding another workshop here in Hastings in the evening of 25th Feb from 7pm. A children's bird making workshop has been booked for 18th Feb at 11 O'clock sewing for the greater good the junior version followed by a film, slap in the middle of half term. Both at The Observer Building where Dublin and Holland have been a constant support to all our endeavours.</div>
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The money raised from the sale of the kits will in part go towards helping fund the work<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1653085608261243/?fref=ts"> <span style="color: black;">Hastings Supports Refugees</span></a> is doing.</div>
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But the other part, the part that I am finding most exciting will be developing the kits into an art therapy resource that can be used by volunteers working with refugees.</div>
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We are hoping to be working with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/The-School-Bus-Mobile-Education-for-Refugees-417597775098057/?fref=ts"><span style="color: black;">The School Bus Project</span></a> initially in this regard, but are now actively scouting for more leads and contacts.</div>
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Some of the birds people have made up in the kits have already flown back to us to be sent on to the Children we are all desperately trying to help.</div>
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So here is the rub, we need your help.</div>
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We need to spread the word, we need shops to stock our kits, we need people to buy the kits, we want people to host workshops for us in areas we can't get to and then send us lovely boxes of birds.</div>
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So what can you do?</div>
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Well the easiest thing to do is like and share out Facebook page.</div>
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Talk about us on Twitter and instargram using the #abirdinthehandproject and #sewingforthegreatergood</div>
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But if you would like to help in other ways especially in hosting a bird making evening, then please get in contact.<br />
birdinhandproject@gmail.com </div>
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We are all novices at this and feeling our way. It's exciting but also rather daunting.</div>
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And basically watch this space, the online shop will be up and running very soon for anyone who wants a kit of their own.</div>
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Well that's it folks, I appear to finally come to the end of this particular chapter, defiantly not the end of the story.</div>
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Love Nora xxx</div>
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Flaming Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777449640443864333noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348262449391197040.post-37313868604320594752016-01-22T21:48:00.003+00:002016-01-30T22:33:18.795+00:00THE STORY SO FAR....PART THE FIRST.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
And so it turns out I am not as good at being back here as I thought I was.<br />
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A week has gone by. </div>
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I left you all dangling mid air teased by the announcement of an announcement soon to be made.</div>
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I was amazed so many of you were still out there, still reading my rambling. </div>
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Still leaving heart warming comments.</div>
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Thank you all it mad me feel very loved.</div>
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Ya ya ya, what ever, cut to the quick you soppy old bag, people are waiting here you know.</div>
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I think the reasons I stopped blogging can be left for another day. I'm not totally sure I understand them my self.</div>
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But I was waiting for something to come along that was important enough for me to start writing again.</div>
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Although part of the reason I stopped blogging was because I became so involved in what I'm about to talk about.</div>
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Told you it was complicated didn't I?</div>
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It all started in August.</div>
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After becoming increasingly upset about the refugee situation in Calais I had a conversation with my Mum. The conclusion of which was, while it is a lot of money, I could easily afford to spend £50 on aid to Calais and it would not leave me destitute. It would may be mean a few less treats for the boys that month, or no new clothes for me, or missing out on a family trip to the cinema. But £50 could if spent well make a huge difference to people with nothing. </div>
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Next came a meal out with friends where the same conversation was had and more importantly a decision was reached. We would all put in what we thought we could afford and find a way to get aid out to Calais.</div>
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Things spiralled. </div>
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I met likeminded people on Facebook, we met an amazing woman who was going out to Calais as a volunteer to help in "the jungle".</div>
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I went shopping. Others collected blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food. </div>
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My Mum and her partner, Barry, donated £100 that we spent on tarpaulins.</div>
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All the while the crisis is becoming worse hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing war and persecution and making their way to the safety of Europe. </div>
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We realised we needed an easier way to communicate, we set up a Facebook group. <span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/hastingssupportsrefugees/?fref=ts"><span style="color: black;">Hastings supports refugees</span>,</a> with the idea that the few of us could communicate more easily. </div>
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4 months later we have well over 1000 members.</div>
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We have sent a huge shipment of children's clothing packs and shoes to the Greek Island of Leros.</div>
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We send clothing, firewood, blankets, sleeping bags regularly out to Calais.</div>
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We have helped to fund volunteers to go to Calais.</div>
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We have raised money for volunteers to spend on aid in Lesbos, Greece.</div>
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We have raised enough money for UNHCR accredited shelters to house refugees.</div>
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We have donated money to the Humming bird project for shelter building.</div>
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We are helping fund projects working directly with unaccompanied minors in Calais.</div>
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The list goes on and on.</div>
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The fund raising goes on and on.</div>
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We are a small team of admin who run our group and we are trying ever more inventive ways of raising the money to help.</div>
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We have to fall back on our strengths.</div>
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Mine is sewing.</div>
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But what to do. </div>
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I can hardly embroider the world back together.</div>
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The cracks are too big to be darned.</div>
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Or are they?</div>
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Together with Anna Winston of <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lalarookhworkshop/?fref=ts"><span style="color: black;">La La Rookh</span></a></span> I decided to do a bit of sewing for the greater good.</div>
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And so the "<span style="color: #a64d79;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/abirdinthehandproject/?fref=ts"><span style="color: #a64d79;">Bird in the Hand Project</span></a></span>" was born.</div>
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Making little hand sized birds for the hands of little refugees.</div>
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Birds are often seen as symbols of hope and peace. What could be more apt.</div>
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We started small (ish) with a making evening.</div>
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We were over whelmed by the response. 45 people came to make birds with us in late November to be sent with the children's clothing packs to Greece.</div>
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45 women and children and big beardy men, A group of Eritreans now living in Hastings came along to help via Links a local organisation working with asylum seekers in our area.</div>
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And every one was clamouring for more.</div>
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This was about to become sewing for the greater good on an enormous scale.</div>
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This tale is long and complicated, some of the major players in it haven't even been introduced yet.</div>
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Next time I shall tell you how our little birds have taken flight.</div>
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If you are still with me thank you. It has been a wordy old post with few pictures.</div>
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Love Nora xxx<br />
PS: The FB link to the refugee group will take you to our public page rather than the closed group. </div>
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Flaming Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777449640443864333noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348262449391197040.post-15980899286300876002016-01-14T21:56:00.001+00:002016-01-22T21:33:51.317+00:00A BIRD IN THE HAND<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello.<br />
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Any one out there?</div>
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It's every so dusty round here.</div>
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Mice have got in the biscuit tin, there are no tea bags left and the milk has turned into a new and interesting life form.</div>
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6 months is a long time to be away.</div>
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I never meant to go away for so long.</div>
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But inspiration got up and left.</div>
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Life became a long hard slog.</div>
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Writing became an impossibility.</div>
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I have been waiting to see how long it would go on. </div>
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To see if I wanted to come back.</div>
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Turns out I do.</div>
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As I type I can feel the old spirit returning.</div>
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There are things happening here in Flaming Nora land.</div>
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Big things, exciting things.</div>
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Things I shall tell you about soon.</div>
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In the meantime here is a picture of some very special kissing birds.</div>
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They are what I am going to be telling you all about when I have finished cleaning up round here.</div>
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I would love it if you come back to say hello.</div>
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Much love to one and all</div>
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Nora xxx</div>
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Flaming Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777449640443864333noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348262449391197040.post-67785037023682588722015-07-13T21:12:00.001+01:002015-07-13T21:13:11.770+01:00TURMERIC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Recently I have found my interest in dyeing yarn has been revived.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I have been contemplating and cogitating on the idea of eco dyes.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A long time ago I bought a big tub of Turmeric with this in mind.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The other day I dusted it off and mixed some of it up into a paste in a big old dye pot along with a dose of Alum. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This lot are a selection of cotton yarns that I have gathered over the years from various charity shops and car boot sales.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After I had finished with the yarn I decided to have some fun with some old napkins and scraps of old embroidered table cloths.</span></span><br />
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<img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8NpCXTuUrHFMVQz_mOYDxMJ-MuUFXxTC6SW9qwC4nmLS-VZ_tDGNob9abhOhbd2b9ROWQxb3CQ5VdK1srF8QGeW906LBTPQ532teVN8b42CFEUvg4Ii9-k27AOan9BL0Q9T79otjQZeM/s640/P1130772.JPG" width="640" /><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Very happy all round with the results.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Love Nora xxx</span></span><br />
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Flaming Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777449640443864333noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348262449391197040.post-81534147209420844182015-07-09T19:06:00.005+01:002015-07-09T19:06:39.525+01:00EMPTY NEST<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hello.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I appear to have been away for rather a long time. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The reasons are boring and all revolve around work, so I shall mention it no more.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Today the Hippy has been cutting the <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://flaming-nora.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/gardens-are-not-made-by-singing-oh-how.html"><span style="color: black;">hedge</span></a></span>. It is a massive hedge. It takes a long time to cut.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Whilst cutting it he found this beautiful abandoned nest. The babies have hatched, fledged and flown the nest.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you look closely you can see some little flashes of colour from all the off cuts of yarn that I used to throw out into the garden when I had finished weaving my ends in.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As the saying goes one man's junk is another man or birds treasure.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Love Nora xxx</span></span></div>
Flaming Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777449640443864333noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348262449391197040.post-39579541719524726042015-06-13T20:48:00.000+01:002015-06-13T21:45:28.638+01:00PROUD<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Today was a rather special day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For the last year and a half our Little Man has been attending art classes at <a href="http://creativeartacademy.com/index.php"><span style="color: black;">The Creative Art Academy.</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Its a fab place run by Marcia Buckley who rather handily is one of our neighbours. Marcia and Emma hold really relaxed sessions for children aged 5 -15, our Little Man loves it and counts down the days each week till he can go again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">At first we sent him to keep him occupied and to do something fun one afternoon a week. But it turns out he is actually quite good at it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The paitent teaching involved at the academy has brought him on in leaps and bounds. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A <a href="http://www.geckobars.com/"><span style="color: black;">local bar/ bistro</span></a> was so impressed by the Academy's young students that they offered to hold an exhibition of their work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And here he is with his beach painting.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I love this one. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I love it may be a bit too much.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">He decided that my voice counted for nothing and he wanted to sell it. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The lure of the filthy lucre was just too much for his 7 yr old mind! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It was gaining a lot of interest and compliments.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Thankfully Marcia knew how much I love it and so only sold to The Hippy who bought it for me.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">£10 well spent I say. Both Mother and child went home happy!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The perspective in the middle picture really reminds me of a colourful Alfred Wallis.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You do have to apreciate a girl who so loves her boots she paints pictures of them! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Right that is it. Bragging over. Back to the normal life from now on in.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What ever that is.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Love Nora xxxx</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Yesterday I promised you yet more end of year treats from my students.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Today is the turn of our <a href="https://www.northbrook.ac.uk/courses/?s=&code=FHFCD1"><span style="color: black;">first years</span></a>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This year somehow we managed to bag the black box performance space at the <a href="https://www.northbrook.ac.uk/"><span style="color: black;">college</span></a> for them to show their work in a kind of exhibition fringe. Smaller unofficial events running alongside the official college graduates exhibitions.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">They have been working hard this term on an immersive theatre project, covering mask making, costume design and character exploration, 18th century costume construction, sound and set design as well as dying and painting into textiles.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Phew!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The project was based on Howl's Moving Castle, drawing on both the book by Diana Wynne Jones and the film by Studio Ghibli.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">They started with a series of mark making workshops with one of the art tutors, which involved them all crawling around on the floor drawing children's toys with neon chalks and a giant game of exquisite corpse.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> The batton was then taken up by the design tutor with whom they developed the most amazing collaged designs for the characters in the story and strange and bizzare settings, whilst at the same time exploring mask making techniques.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Millie's Blue Howl </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Detail of Millie's mask.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Then over to yours truly for the costume construction elements. We decided to base the project firmly in the late 18th C, and so used historically accurate patterns form <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Patterns-Fashion-1660-1860-Vol-1/dp/0333136063/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1434057331&sr=8-1&keywords=janet+arnold"><span style="color: black;">this book</span></a> by Janet Arnold and <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cut-Mens-Clothes-1600-1900/dp/1138870552/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1434057274&sr=8-1&keywords=cut+of+Men%27s+clothes"><span style="color: black;">this one</span></a> by Norah Waugh.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Early on in the design process a strong element of U.V emerged</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Wich meant it was over to our amazing technician for painting into the costumes and making them glow in the dark beautifully. The main lesson we learnt was what ever you think is enough U.V paint isn't!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sheridan's Howl. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Detail abstract smocking on Sheridan's Howl costume.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In between all this the guys in collaboration with Olli one of our set design students created an amazing setting, and recorded a some what surreal sound track that involved anongst other things kitchen implements and an old car horn.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Emma's costume for Old Sophie. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Details of Emma's U.V button print on the sleeves.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">They worked so very hard and every moment of it paid dividends 100%.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It was an stunning experience, one I wish I could do justice to here.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Though it is probably going to be recreated as part of The Costume Games in Brighton in September.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Love Nora xxx</span></span></div>
Flaming Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777449640443864333noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348262449391197040.post-90008748621883537112015-06-10T22:39:00.002+01:002015-06-10T22:39:45.856+01:00THE KIDS DONE GOOD<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Well hello there!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I decided a little explanation as to why I've been absent quite a bit recently.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Tomorrow is my last teaching day of this academic year.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And as much as I love my students, hurrah!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The last few weeks have, as they are every year, been quite full on.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Actually this year may well have been harder, as our first years have also put on an exhibition running along side of the one for the graduating students. But more of that tomorrow.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So here are some edited highlights of the <a href="https://www.northbrook.ac.uk/courses/?s=&code=FHFCD1"><span style="color: black;">Costume Design and Realisation course</span></a> exhibition for this year.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I am as ever immensely proud of my students they have all, even the ones who didn't make it on to here, worked so hard on their final major projects and pulled out all the stops.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Alexia, is from Iceland and she wanted her final piece to represent the landscape of her home country and its legends.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Starting with the lava, which turns into basalt columns and finishing in a glacial flow into the sea.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The hem of the dress is encrusted with salt crystals.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Naomi uses feathers in every project she does. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Here is a detail of her Grecian goddess.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Kirsty made a beautiful steam punk inspired tailored Mad Hatter's jacket, but I fell in love with her embroidery.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Karen"s pantomime dame was wonderfully over the top, full of sparkle and a real crowd puller.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />Hayley made a really technical transformation dress, it starts as an old hag in a rough hooded cloak but as she spins round it all falls away and transforms into a beautiful princess. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hannah and Sian designed the whole of Hairspray for a local youth theatre and made two of the costumes for it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">These final two are from the <a href="https://www.northbrook.ac.uk/courses/universitylevel/designproduction/theatrepmse"><span style="color: black;">props course</span></a>, but I just couldn't resist showing them off here.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Wall E.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">How fab is he? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But that is the nature of taking pictures in a crowded, dark exhibition I guess.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So tomorrow I shall delve deep into to the world of Anime, Children's books and U.V paint.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Do stop by to see what the rest of the gang has been up to you will not be disappointed.</span></span><br />
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Flaming Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777449640443864333noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348262449391197040.post-63503375649246638932015-06-01T21:41:00.000+01:002015-06-01T21:41:48.627+01:00HERE HARE HERE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We recently spent a few days in The Hippy's homelands of Norfolk with the whole extended family.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">He walked into the kitchen at one point saying he had been out in the back field watching the Hares.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But I guess if you grow up with Hares living in the field behind your house its nothing unusual.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We have been waiting for this moment for quite some time.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The boys have been nearly bursting with frustration that it has taken so long.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But finally yesterday The Hippy managed to get back to his parents to pick up the run and by this morning every thing was assembled and all systems were go.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Every year at this time Hastings turns Green.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Tomorrow is the <span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://www.hastingsjack.co.uk/hist.html"><span style="color: #38761d;">Jack in The Green festival</span></a>.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Which is the culmination of a long weekend of celebrations of spring, with plenty plenty Morris Dancing on the side.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The old town turns green for the weekend. Pubs, restaurants, shops and homes are all decorated with ribbons and laurel leaves.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My personal favourite thing is the drum off.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Held on the Sunday afternoon at Butler's gap, an open space between the shops on George St.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Three local drum groups have a battle in this small enclosed space. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The noise is overwhelming.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Happy spring every one.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Love Nora xxx</span></span></div>
Flaming Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777449640443864333noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348262449391197040.post-73995231137346123522015-04-26T21:57:00.000+01:002015-04-26T21:57:02.106+01:00LOOKING BACK<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">She explained how she had to study pictures of times past to help in her research and the quest to design and make the perfect costume.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">How did they get left behind?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">One thing I do know they were all stunners, especially the mother.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But the picture that really caught my eye was this one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What a wonderful glimpse into the past life of an unknown family.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The pictures were mostly of this quality, which makes me think someone must have been a professional photographer. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I find it so hard to understand how they weren't claimed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But some solace is to be had in the fact that Naomi will love them and keep them safe.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As well as these pictures I also took a few photocopies of the real stand out pictures just so I too don't forget.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Love Nora xx</span></span></div>
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Flaming Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777449640443864333noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348262449391197040.post-2266749785139441102015-04-19T09:46:00.003+01:002015-04-19T09:46:52.151+01:00HANDMADE, HOME MADE WEDDING<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Last weekend a friend got married.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It was the kind of wedding I love all hand crafted by the happy couple, their family and friends.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My contribution, apart from bringing a car boot ful of booze back from France, was crochet.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> A couple of months ago I received a message along the lines of Jane how would you like to crochet some buttonholes for the wedding? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In for a penny in for a pound, of course I said yes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Though really tiny and precise crochet is not my forte, especially the precise bit. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I decided to conquor my fear and get on with it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I bought stupidly tiny hooks and hunted out the finest of yarns from both mine and the brides stashes. She wanted a really neutral palate, something else I struggled with. Colour just kept creaping in. Though I did manage to keep it relativly subdued.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It was all great fun and I must say hurrah for <a href="https://uk.pinterest.com/flamingnora/on-the-hook/"><span style="color: black;">pinterest</span></a> as it helped me to find some amazing patterns. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The one for the <a href="http://www.blijmetdraadjes.nl/viooltje-haken/"><span style="color: black;">pansys</span></a> particularly did my head in don't quite know how I managed to make 3!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I think <a href="http://badulakedeana.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/broche-de-flores-ganchillo.html"><span style="color: black;">this one</span></a> was my favourite (and of course the most colouful)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It was a lovely day, there were so many fantastic little details, including these stunning handmade shoes that one of the bride's friends made for her.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I love that Jordan managed to sneak one of the buttonholes onto her dress too</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I suspect the palate for the rest of the decorations was so neutral because nothing was allowed to detract from the magnificance that was the brides footwear!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Congratulations Jordan and Lewis and thank you for such a beautiful day.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Happy days.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Love Nora xxx</span></span></div>
Flaming Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777449640443864333noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348262449391197040.post-80983973206410460952015-04-13T22:57:00.002+01:002015-04-13T22:57:15.289+01:00BUSY DOING NOTHING, STITCHING THE WHOLE DAY THROUGH.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A few Saturdays ago I had a fantastic day.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The best kind of day, a day of fiddling about with bits of fabric, of sitting about stitching and chatting, of meeting new people and making new friends and becoming properly acquainted with people I have known on line for years.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I also discovered the most fantastic workshop venue.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://sewnotstrawberryjam.co.uk/"><span style="color: black;">Sew Not Strawberry Jam</span></a>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Not only is it beautiful, Sam the owner is welcoming and generous, especially with her cakes which lets face it always helps. But most importantly it is local. Just a few miles up the road near Tenterden, just north of Rye.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I was so excited when I read that Viv of <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://hensteethart.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: black;">Hen's Teeth</span></a></span> was to be hosting a workshop so nearby.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I've known Viv for a long time, we couldn't work out how long but it was lots of years, via her blog.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I have a few of her beautiful pieces. She is the main inspiration behind me becoming obsessed with little tins and creating odd little scenes in them.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But as it so often is with blog relationships we have never actually met.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But we have now!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Viv was very patient with all my indecisive faffing about, which at time I thought may be all I was going to achieve. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I think we were supposed to me making needle cases, but I got a little sidetracked and decided to make a stitched book.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">More pages will follow.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Though I have to finish the cover first, the day just wasn't long enough and what with the intervention of deadlines and holidays stitching for pleasure has more or less ground to a halt at the moment.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Soon my friends soon I will actually finish something I start.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In the meantime I am booked on to another workshop in June over at Sew Not Strawberry Jam this June. Sam is booking some really <a href="http://sewnotstrawberryjam.co.uk/workshops/"><span style="color: black;">interesting tutors</span></a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It was great seeing what every one else had made at the end of the day, so much variety I loved them all and there may have been one or two I wished I could sneak home with me, especially the cuffs. I love the cuffs. If I hadn't blown all available spare cash booking my self in to workshops I may have treated my self to one of Viv's own cuffs. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But I had. So I didn't. The end!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Love Nora xxxx</span></span></div>
Flaming Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777449640443864333noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348262449391197040.post-18836148656136828032015-04-12T23:00:00.000+01:002015-04-13T20:32:09.784+01:00Hello!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Well I really didn't expect to be away from here for quite this long.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Things happen, things occour, things conspire against managing to grab any time here.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In the past three weeks I have had stressful deadlines, fun deadlines, school holidays, an amazing workshop and meeting virtual friends, 3 birthdays and a wedding as well as a well deserved and very much needed family holiday in France.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I have much to show you and much to tell.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But for today I just thought a few gentle pictures of Easter in Brittany.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We go more or less every year, usually at Easter, to spend time with my Dad and his family.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We walk dogs, feed ducks and chickens, ride horses, eat, drink and relax.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">By the time the holiday arrives the Hippy and I are usually very much in need of some rest and recuperation. This year was no exception the constant pressure of big work deadlines has been very trying recently.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So a week of doing more or less nothing was just what the doctor ordered.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It is very magical, high up and remote. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It is the most wonderful place and even though there is nothing quite like getting home after a holiday I do miss the Family rather a lot. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Love Nora xxxx </span></span></div>
Flaming Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777449640443864333noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348262449391197040.post-22465049293124343162015-03-25T23:02:00.000+00:002015-03-25T23:02:48.048+00:00NORMAL SERVICE HAS BEEN RESUMED.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Oh blimey its been a while hasn't it. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So long I began to feel I may never be able to muster the energy to come back.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Its not as if I have been slacking off.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Just sometimes if you don't do something for too long its hard to get back in the saddle.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So I sat down, necked a couple of beers and got on with it! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The last few weeks have been very demanding.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I thought I would show you some pretty pictures of what I have been up to.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Lots of costumes for "The Broken Heart" at the Globe.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There were many more of them than these.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">7 to be precise, but by the time I staggered through to the delivery the ability and the will to take photos had mainly left me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">They were great fun to make, but the deadline was fairly scant and then there was half term thrown in to the mix bang in the middle of it all.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But hey ho, we all lived to meet another deadline.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And by We I mean myself and the glamorous assistants. Mainly my lovely friend Clare, but also a couple of my fabby students too, they all kept me sane and gave the right kinds of encouragement when I got overwhelmed, overstressed, overwrought, overemotional. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Clare and I have known each other since almost the beginning of time and I guess she is just used to me and my funny old ways now!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Love Nora xxx</span></span></div>
Flaming Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777449640443864333noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348262449391197040.post-15080291799212021022015-03-01T22:35:00.000+00:002015-03-01T22:35:03.797+00:00MAKING A TIT OF YOUR SELF<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This last has week it has been all about boobs, breasts, jugs, tits, what ever you want to call them.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Inspired by reading t<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/16/woolly-boobs-laughable-sobering-surprisingly-useful"><span style="color: black;">his article</span></a><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/16/woolly-boobs-laughable-sobering-surprisingly-useful"><span style="color: black;"></span></a> about a group of women in the Outer Hebrides knitting boobs like they are going out of fashion, I did some further reading as to why they are partaking in this strange activity.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The woolly boobs are used by midwives as a teaching aide for new mothers learning about breast feeding. Now I have a wonderful friend who decided that three kids, a lack of money and a husband that works away in Switzerland a lot was not going to stop here from pursuing her dream of becoming a midwife. I'm really not actually sure how she does it, the idea of returning to college now fills me with terror. Never mind studying something that means you don't necessarily get the school holidays off and have to work night shifts.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I asked her if she fancied a knitted tit and funnily enough she said yes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So there it is a knitted tit.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Doing this has also rekindled my love of knitting which is a bonus.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I used this <a href="http://www.lcgb.org/shop_knittedbreastpattern.html"><span style="color: black;">pattern</span></a> if anyone else out there knows a midwife in need and fancies making one.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Love Nora xxx</span></span></div>
Flaming Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777449640443864333noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348262449391197040.post-37747082054599508532015-02-26T21:41:00.001+00:002015-02-26T21:41:44.539+00:00SKELETAL REMAINS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Out the back, by the crumbling portacabins on a drizzly day we found the skeletal remains of summer.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We tried very hard to persuade the students to make a costume from them.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">They pretended not to hear us... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Love Nora xxxx</span></span></div>
Flaming Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777449640443864333noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348262449391197040.post-84126230807472795902015-02-23T21:11:00.003+00:002015-02-23T21:11:59.079+00:00MOSAIC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For a long time I have wanted to learn how to make a mosaic.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Last summer I met Emma, of <a href="http://www.ehmosaics.co.uk/newgallery.html"><span style="color: black;">EHMosaics</span></a> at a rather anarchic gig in a friends back garden, the next day she was having an open studio and invited me round.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Me and my hangover crawled round there the next day and there it was, walls hung with exactly the type of mosaic I would love to own. Full of dominoes, keys, ephemera and collaged words under layers of coloured glass.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Then I found out she runs workshops.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hurrah.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I went to one before Christmas where I made a mosaic plate.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So much fun cutting, breaking and smashing up old crockery, with I may add a shocking amount of precision. Well sort of...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> I used an old bowl that had been with me for years, but was dropped and broken a while ago.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Thankfully I hadn't thrown it away and a little tin. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Unfortunately in between cementing it all in place and bringing it home to grout (you have to wait 24 hrs) it had a accident and ended up in three pieces.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This weekend my friend Clare and I went to another of Emma's classes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> At the same time the ever talented Emma super glued my first plate back together and reattached the bits that had pinged off.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This week I am going to grout them and then I can share the finished items.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Enjoying learning this new process so much especially as I have realised its the perfect excuse to keep on buying interesting bits of old crockery.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Love Nora xxx</span></span></div>
Flaming Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777449640443864333noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348262449391197040.post-38404177922175366012015-02-16T21:57:00.000+00:002015-02-16T21:57:34.392+00:00TAKING PART IN A HEART TRANSPLANT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Our first ever Heart Transplant.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Over 200 crochet hearts to make people feel loved on Valentine's Day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We pulled out the big guns with a celebraty endorsement from Kojak himself.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As ever the Ninjas went forth to Yarn Bomb is disguises so cunningly crafted they blended seamlessly in to the winter crowds thronging along the seafront.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">No neither could anyone else.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We disguised the children as children and Hairy acordian playing punks as, well I don't know what but he blended in to the background and didn't attract any attention. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After the deed was done we took over the top floor of the Pelican, our local diner (there were rather a lot of us, what with children, brothers, nieces, nephews, friends, boyfriends, dogs) and sat in the window to watch the events unfold.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Great excitement whenever some one was spotted checking out the hearts. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Even more ecitement when someone took one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">By Sunday lunchtime there were none left, the railings were bare.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Who Love Ya Baby?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Love Ninja One xxx</span></span> </div>
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Flaming Norahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777449640443864333noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348262449391197040.post-77421163775639048342015-02-13T20:56:00.000+00:002015-02-13T20:56:25.119+00:00GETTING READY FOR A HEART TRANSPLANT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Excitement is mounting.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Tomorrow morning the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ninja-Knitters/204990169551035"><span style="color: black;">Ninjas</span></a> ride again.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">They will be heavily disguised, so cunningly and cleverly you will never even notice they are amongst you.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Over two hundred crochet hearts asking "Who Loves You Baby?" </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ready and waiting for transplantation on to the seafront in time for a Happy Valentines Day.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Love Ninja One xxx</span></span></div>
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