Finding my inner goth
I think it may be a reaction to all the pastel flowers and romantic bridal pieces I have been focussing on recently but for a while I had...
Learning not to push myself
This is not easy as ever since childhood I have always felt the need to push myself to be/do the best I can and have, most of the time at...
New Year, New Pearls
Pearls? Just hang on it I will explain. I made it through to the end of term and then had a lovely run up to Christmas and Christmas Day...
Creativity and confidence
Initially I had been planning a blog about the value of creativity as a form of therapy that can help to relieve some of the difficulties...
Being honest
Well I was always told that honesty is the best policy and I have to admit in terms of blogging about Gilli's flowers it's true....
Where do you get your ideas from?
"Where do you get your ideas from?" , A friend asked me the other day after looking through some of my recent twitter posts. It set me...
Everythings coming up roses, and angels and stars...
Wow! Since my last blog post so much seems to have happened is hard to know quite where to begin. I had an amazing response to my "yes I...
"Yes I can". Not just for the Paralympics.
I will start by being honest and saying that personally I didn't like the song chosen for the Paralympics theme, it just wasn't my taste....
Fantastic fuchsias
I have always loved fuchsias, and so since starting Gilli's flowers I have wanted to find a way of folding a fuchsia flower so that I...
When things don't go to plan
Where to begin? First of all I was really gutted that I wasn't able to get to the Leytonstone and designers market last Sunday (14th...