{Chimney Pots and Window Boxes. 

The crossed eyes face up to mine.}

{"As brothers we will stand and we'll hold your hand"}

- Timshel, Mumford.

{Wooden dome, a roundhouse. Containing music grand like the stars.}

{Read all about it.}

- The Big Mumford Issue

{Brief notes from today}

I have such a lovely room in London and in Wales, there both so similar because i have enough rubbish to make my mark in both of them. 

Today, i got to chill with my best friend and my boyfriend, who both happen to be living in London. We checked out a church, got drench  (suz took to walking bare foot through the streets of Clapham) and drank hot chocolate whilst the rain pounded the glass. It makes me feel safe and privileged to move to a place where i've brought a big part of home with me, although i don't doubt i'll make friends its reassuring to know im not in this alone. Not only do i have the support of my two closest non relatives, i can walk into two different buildings one a wear house one a chapel and be welcomed and considered amongst strangers. 

Church is a personal thing.

What i realised today was that i longed for what i knew, but i remember that when i had that, i longed for something different. 

Church is Community - but Church is Personal too, especially when your vulnerable amongst a group of unknown people for the first time. It was personal for me today, and by 'personal' i mean that i spent alot of the service analysing it, agreeing and disagreeing and scouring the room for potential friends and possibilities. It got to the point where i had to close my eyes, i close my eyes when i know im thinking to much about myself, my situation, or how im standing. 

Once my eyes are closed, it shuts off others which consequentially shuts off me. 

London Week One...

Tomorrow will conclude my first week in London. Its been a busy one, but yesterday i paused for 10 minuets sitting on Clapham Common and felt an overwhelming sense of freedom and happiness. 

I can see why people dislike the city, its dirty and busy and claustrophobic. But for me, the reality that the aeroplanes are so much louder and bigger, coming into land above me. And underneath me is a network of tubes carrying thousands of people around, i find fascinating. I love how i don't have to worry about catching the last bus home. I love how you have to search for beauty that little bit harder but when you find it its means that little bit more. 

{Tonights view from my window!}

London forces me to walk with my eyes open, if your lazy - you miss out. 

Todays inspiration:

Flora Metamorphicae
Artefacts Close to Nature

6 ceramists joined together to hand make these individual flowers, each no taller than 2 hands. For more check FrameWeb.

Ice Shifts Series

by Nicole Dextras - environmental artist, who in the past has made dresses out of plants and flowers. Now she turns to frozen clothes. What i like is how the light makes then so fragile and transparent.

For more check FrameWeb

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The colours are just amazing! x

The days are melting away as i pack and say goodbye to friends for a little while. I've been extremely relaxed about this uni venture, untill 3 weeks ago when it all became more real. Yesterday, as i sat at my laptop i just felt like a second skin of nervousness that took a while for me to shake off.

Home, has been so beautiful; the suns been out and my little siblings are back in school and for some reason i've forgotten about the 3 months off i've just experienced and this week has been real relaxing and enjoyable. I've switched between packing, knitting, reading and walking along with seeing some friends. Its peaceful.

In all reality its a good 3.5 weeks till i have to knuckle down and start my course, so i get to enjoy london, and then go to cardiff and install my work in an exhibition held my WJEC examining board, which im actually quite looking forward to. Then, go and see Mumford and Sons in the roundhouse, camden, which you have no idea is such a treat, as i tried to get tickets to see them in cardiff but they all sold out within seconds.

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This was the view from my bedroom window last night, it may not look like much but theres something about the white light of the moon piercing the dark night thats really quite stunning.