February 26th, 2009

Why is it when you’ve got something mundane/difficult to do, something really lovely and exciting lands in your lap and you then have the dilemma of finishing the mundane/difficult task off before getting on with the lovely/exciting stuff and battling with the constant distraction that the lovely/exciting stuff causes.

I decided that today would be the day that I would devote to filling out my grant appliction for the 2008-2009 Craft Artists Awards, as the deadline is a week away and there’s a lot to sort out/write/photograph, but it just happens to be the same day that three fabulous packages arrive for me in the post, filled to the brim with gorgeous buttons that need organising and sorting.

So I’m really struggling with the application as my work desk is covered in lovely buttons and I can’t help but put them in colour piles or piles of like buttons.

These ones a gorgeous – they’re like enourmous yummy chocolate buttons:

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March 21st, 2008

I got a lovely letter today telling me that my application for the “Small Grant for Craft Makers in Fife” had been succcessful and I’ll be getting all the money that I applied for. I’m absolutely chuffed to bits as this now means that I can get my website up and running, get my online shop up and running, buy some proper tools and equipment and get milomade launched properly at last!

So a big thanks to everyone at at Fife Contemporary Art & Craft, Arts & Theatre Trust Fife and Creative Fife