Oh bother

Grrrrrrrrr I just wrote my journal then lost it!!! It's somewhere in cyber world - if anyone finds it can they send it back to me!! Now I can't be bothered to write it all again!!!  I was telling you how I'm getting on at work and thought you might like to vist the site of where I work - it's not a very good site but at least you can see where I work. (www.crowhurstpark.co.uk) If you look at cabins and lodges you can see what I have to clean - see we keep them looking lovely!!! LOL My friend and I are nearly there with cleaning our 11 lodges - just three to go now but we also have to go back over the ones that have had new carpets - and clean all the dust away and hoover!! Oh happy days!!! LOL

I'm back to college tomorrow - firstly though Im going for a walk in Battle  Woods(famous 1066 country!!) so I can take some more pics then go back into college for the lecture.  Then on thursday we have our London trip at last - we are visiting 12 galleries - so I hope I'm feeling fit that day!

Anyway sorry I didnt have alot to say - i did write it all out once!!!!

Love Laine xxxx

Sunday Sunday

Awww the sky was so blue today - I posted three of the 73 pics I took today - these are my favourite out of all I took.  Mind you I was very pleased with all of them I took today.  We found a lovely little woods that we hadn't walked in before - it's at the top of Alexandra Park in Hastings - our local park. How lucky we are to find such beauty on our doorstep.

Had a lovely weekend - just sad it's all over so quickly.  We went to see John's brother on Friday night - his wife Debbie cooked us a lovely meal and they were very welcoming and we had a great time with them. John's brother seemed so different - more friendly than I have ever know him - really chilled out and very good company. So thats good.

Yesterday I bought myself some gorgeous boots in QS for just £10.00!!! They are lovely fluffy brown ones and Im so pleased with them!! LOL  We went out last night with Shelley and David to a gorgeous Chinese restaurant in Tenterden - the food was lovely and we had a nice time!

Today John and I had our lovely walk as I just mentioned and we also went to the Del a War Pavilion in Bexhill (its an art gallery) and had a lovely time sitting out on the balcony watching the sea, soaking up the sun and drinking wine!! Well cant believe it was snowing yesterday and then sitting out in the sun today - it was gorgeous.

Hope everyone had a great weekend.

Love Laine xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

Seminar success!!!

Hi guys, had a great great day - thank you so much for all your comments on my last entry!! Anyway all my hard work paid off today as everyone was really impressed with all my pics that I put on my walls in my studio.  Putting them all together like that brought the same feeling you have when you look up into the sky at the trees and get kind of disorientated.  My tutor was well pleased with me and he said that I have reached something that's working and I should carry on with it - an installation could come of it! Watch this space!!!

Those of you who asked what sculptures I had done - well I did one last year - I will post it in my Journal maybe on Sunday evening and tell you all about it. Let's just say its amazing what you can do with a cardboard box!!!

Right now this weekend we have no kids so I might not be turning my computer on again until sunday evening so apologies if I dont read all your journals til then. We are out tonight at John's brothers house for dinner - we dont see alot of them as we dont really have much in common but we get on - never know what to talk about with them though!! Anyway we are taking the DVD game Telly Addicts with us so it wont be such a strain on me and John to think of what to say LOL.  Then tomorrow night we are out with my mad mate Shelley and her hubby David - John and David used to work together about two years ago and we kept in touch.  We get on really well with them and Im really looking forward to it!! Anyway, we are also going to enjoy good quality time together with no kids. LOL Have a good weekend all. Love Laine xxxx

 

up late and tired

Hi guys,

Had another great day at college, rather productive actually. Sorry about the late entry - I've been printing stuff off for my seminar tomorrow  - I expect most of you are in bed by now! 

I had a great tutorial today with Sonia, one of my tutors, she was really excited about my work - she said it gave her an excited feeling in her stomach.  She also said that she cant see any reason why I shouldn't get on to the B.A. Hons course next year.  She said I definately have potential - bless her!! Anyway, I now have to convince my tutor tomorrow that I'm not painting at the mo.  Sonia said she could definately feel  an installation coming out of me or a sculpture - so Im looking towards more 3D maybe.  Anyway got seminar tomorrow - so I'm going to read all your journals then go to bed. It's really late!!!

night night

Love Laine xxxx

 

Feeling better

Hi guys,  Thanks for all your lovely comments - what a lovely lot you are - Im so glad I joined this community - thank you all for making me feel so welcome. 

Well I went out walking in my lovely woods again today - feeling very tired but I made the effort! Took some lovely pics some of which I share with you today - also showing you how Im displaying them at college at the mo.  I'm putting them all on the wall so I can look at them and decide what is the next stage.  Also what pics I want to keep and what ones need altering or discarding.  I'm feeling better -getting into my work again now.  I really feel that the photography side is the strongest so I'm concentrating on that - spoke to a tutor today and she like my idea of perhaps doing a 3d sculpture thing - but that will come with time LOL!! I hope!!! Got my seminar on Friday morning - so thats good Ive got tomorrow to get ready for it! A seminar is when a group of us walk round and look at each others work and see how we are all getting on and get feedback. It's really good. So looking forward to that - I'm first on the list so I will get mine over with first LOL.

Had a really busy day - toing and froing - feeling like a taxi again!! As always - school runs! getting myself to college! after school clubs!! nightmare!! Sometimes I just get so fed up with driving about and the traffic was terrible today!! And some drivers!!! Just don't know how some people passed their test!!! LOL well that's my moan for the day LOL. Anyway, just thank god for my car - just don't know what I'd do without it!!!

See you all soon Love Laine xxxxx

Feeling a bit low

Hi Guys, First of all can I apologise that I take so long to comment on all your journals - Im just so busy then I realise there are so many alerts in my in box and I go crazy LOL. But I dont want to miss any of your entries so Im going to sit and read them all in a bit.  I'm a bit low today and I dont really know why.  I spoke to my brother on the phone tonight - he has been really ill with anxiety attacks just lately so I was relieved that he was much better.  He lives in Norwich which is a good 150 miles away - so dont seem him much - miss him like mad.  Anyway, I came off the phone and I sobbed like a baby!! John was so good and cuddled me and said you just say the word and we will go and see him.  So we are going to go up there as soon as I have finished working on a saturday which will be in about 3 weeks time.  I miss my brother so much and especially now they have a little boy who is not even a year old yet. 

Also been trying to sort my life out - got to think realistically about what is going to happen at the end of this academic year - I might not get on the the degree top up so I have to sort out what Im going to do as back-up.  I think I will do a course next year in teaching which lets me teach people over the age of 18.  I really want to do something with teaching.  Quite frightening to think that this could be my last year as a student! But part of me want to get out and do something - I'm good with people and I love being involved with the education side of things.  I am a governor at my little boys school and I did some training for that today - I loved it!  So I know that it's education I want to be in somehow!!! Basically Ive got to sort my life out.  But I do have to concentrate on doing well on this course too!!  I've got a seminar on Thursday and Friday and have not got anything really ready for that yet!!! EEEEEEEEk best get my skates on.  Crikey sorry I waffled alot tonight!!!!

Love Laine xxxx

Sunday

Hi guys, well now the weekend is nearly over!! Wonder where all the time is flying too - anyone got it? Had a great day at my Mum and Dad's - nice drive over to Brighton with my two boys.  John stayed at home with his eldest boy James and they cleaned the driveway - took them all day!! Bless I didnt go on too much to John about what a lovely dinner I had had at my Mum's.  Well now not really got much to say - I'm gonna go and sit down with my pernod, black and lemonade!!!  Work tomorrow!  Monday again and soon it will be Friday again!!! LOL

Laine xxxx

P.S. where does everyone get all those cute pics from - especially Barney the Polar Bear LOL