I haven’t posted in a while because I’ve been feeling
ill; tired and fuzzy headed and I still feel a bit like that now, but this has
cheered me up:
I’ll explain in a moment.
Over the last few weeks I feel like I’ve lost my
artistic mojo a bit. Because I’ve been feeling ill I haven’t achieved as much
as I’d hoped to in the art side of things and there’s also the fact that it’s
been freezing cold, the days have been gloomy and things keep going wrong. Have
you ever had a run of things going wrong? Things not working, breaking or
situations you hadn’t expected? You know what I mean.
It means that my ideas have been set back, but they’ve
been started, so that’s a positive!
As you may know by now, I love snow: it brightens up
the grey winter days, but at the moment, I’m ready for spring to come bursting
into life. Winter is, for me, like being wrapped up in a cosy cocoon; the
warmth inside and wearing layers of clothes. Then when spring arrives it’s like
cracking open the cocoon and stepping out to new life.
I love opening the windows for the first time of the
year and letting the air flow through, like the spring breezes are blowing away
the stuffiness and lethargy of the winter months.
Have you heard the song Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up) by Florence & the Machine? In it is
the line:
“And
in the spring, I shed my skin
And
it blows away with the changing wind”
That’s how I think of spring and how I hope to feel in
the coming month or so. I’ve actually, for once, had enough of winter and I’m
hoping the spring will blow away the fuzziness in my head, because although
I’ve been set back in my textile art, I have made progress with research on
something I want to do, a goal of mine for this year. I hope my head will be
clear enough to see it through. I’m not going to tell you about it yet, but you
may find out in a while.
The signs of spring are already around as you can see
in my photos. Primroses are flowering, deciduous trees are starting to come
into leaf and I found something wonderful the other day:
I found it under a tree at the bottom of the garden; a
tree which I know woodpigeons nest in because I see them flying in and out of
it all the time, so it’s a woodpigeon eggshell. I also know because I found the
top a shell of the same type and size a year or two ago and tweeted a photo of
it to Chris Packham asking what it was. He actually replied (I nearly fainted)
saying it was a woodpigeon shell. This time it’s the whole shell so it’s like
finding a little treasure and is the best kind of Easter egg to have.
I hope this means there’s a new little life up there
in the nest and the little chick survived the recent cold weather tucked up
under his/her mother’s feathers. As I write I can hear a woodpigeon cooing
outside. He and his partner and all the little birds – robin, blackbird,
sparrows, etc. – are being very vocal now.
I haven’t been completely out of my creative mojo the
last couple of weeks. I’ve done a few things for Easter; some decorations to
brighten things up. Here are my Easter eggs filled with fluffy chicks.
I painted the eggs, then stuck on the flowers and the
shiny bunny.
I’ve also made pom-pom bunnies.
There may be more before the weekend is over…
So, with the hope that I’ll be back next week with
more to show you, have a Happy Easter, don’t eat too much chocolate (I may
ignore my own advice there) and enjoy the holiday.
