Friday, 10 April 2009
I suppose you could say I'm relatively new to this whole crafting thing (and blogging, so many virginial confessions, oh my!)
I have only been doing this for a few years, five or six at the most I think, with a few big gaps in between. I studied art through GCSE, A-Level and into College for a year where I knuckled-down to specialise in textiles. Though I technically ended up with my own little category as I was straddling both fashion and textiles but fit into neither one exactly.
Now originally (and to sopme extent still) I intend to sing for a career, I've been classically trained for I think around about nine/ten years now and I LOVE to sing. I sing anywhere and everywhere, however my issue with starting it up professionally is I tend to be alittle 'different' as everyone tells me. I have no interest in a pop music career at all, quite frankly my voice doesn't suit it in the slightest and I don't like singing that style. I do however adore classical and rock, by default I also enjoy gothic symphonic which seems to combine to two (think Within Temptation here!) However despite having done some professional singing work I have no unfortunately been diagnosed with ME/CFS (which explains the multitude of chronic sore throats and inability to get out of bed or move and all those weird aches and pains after I do two minutes worth of energetic movement.) So, this has gone on hold as I simply don't have the stamina to do this, so singing is now on the backburner until I'm better. I will get better. Positivity is the key...even if I sometimes don't feel like there is much hope. Meanwhile, in all my hours of sleeping and being generally unable to move or do much else my crafting instinct started to kick in.
I'd always been interested in movies, namely costumes in movies and so I studied costume design a little at college, until my illness really caught up with me and I was unable to move on from college to Uni. (Insert sad face here!) So instead I figured why not put my creativity to good use, so what if my qualifications don't go higher than College level, that's pretty darn good anyway! So I have decided to start my own little company, and to sell my masquerade masks, and other odd creations I create along the way. So this is me now. You are relatively up to date, the short way around and missing all the depressing bits in between, each day I'll try to remember to update with some of my older stuff up to the new stuff I'm making nowadays. There'll be sketches and finished designs and lots of luffly images, because everybody loves oogling photos.
So this is me, taking control of my life, at least as much as I can, battling off some invisible demon and attempting to do something I want to do and not get entirely taken over by this thing. So this is going to be a chronicle of myself, my insanity, my inspiration and a few bits of fabric, thread and needles on our occasionally epic misadventures across the small local universe as we battle the invisible forces of CFS/ME and come out the otherside...hopefully.
I wonder if Universal would be interested in the film rights...hehehe.
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