New Blog, First Post...

Hi there :)

First of all thanks for reading my blog and congratulations on finding it out of all the thousands of millions of blogs that are out there on the marvel and the curse that is the internet.

My name is Emily and I'm 23. I'm currently unemployed and have been looking for a job for 7 months. I'm currently volunteering at my local church as a receptionist twice a week and help out at their coffee shop once a month on a Saturday.

I graduated from university in 2010 with a 2:1 in Film, Television and Radio Studies and would love to work in that area in some creative capacity. I went to uni really wanted to become a film editor and then left also wanting to be a scriptwriter!

I have always been creative since I was little. I love to paint, draw, colour, knit, cross-stitch, make things out of clay and paper mache, write, bake, dance like an idiot when no one is in the house and play dress up! I also like to bake, customise my shoes and make skirts out of old jeans.

I'm getting married in 3 months time and I'm currently making my own bouquet and knitting roses for it, knitting roses for the table centres and favours and creating bunting from old bed sheets.

Plus on top of that I've been introduced to peg weaving and got so into it that I started to have vivid dreams about it! I once had a dream that I saw a Traffic Warden weaving out a parking ticket on a peg loom. (I do have some crazy dreams.)

With being unemployed, there are days when I feel so useless and not worth much, so being creative and making things gives me a release and a reminder that I can do things and do have skills even though I'm not working at the moment.

A friend of mine once told me she could see me living in a smallholding in the future, making jam and cakes and knitting (I don't think at the same time) with chickens in the back garden, which does sound fun to me.

So why am I writing this blog? I wanted to write this blog to share the techniques I'm using in the projects I'm making currently and to give me something else creative to do while I am job hunting.

So I hope you enjoy reading the future posts of my blog and that they will inspire you to make your own creations :)

TTFN.