I am little bit of a stranger to my blog, but I have been so busy with many things that I have had no time to write about anything…
But on the other hand I have had so many ideas for posts and designs etc, maybe its better some times to focus on a couple of things instead of a million, specially if you are a scatter brain like me.
So first things first, I have a new studio space in the best of areas, it’s in ridley road Market, the international hub of Dalston, east London, and the day I moved in they had an open studio weekend, so I got to invite a couple of friends to have a booze up and see my work, and other peoples work in the building, Juliet Sugg my neighbour in the studio share was also there, and I got to see some of her illustration/art work…its so cool, and ILook forward to spending some freezing winters in are creative space together!
Oh and most importantly it was my b-day …had loads of champrs and got some loverly b-day cards!!

Look how happy I look, Sophie gave me"afternoon Tea" at Claridges for my b-day

Ridley road market and some crazy hair twisting

This Jem of a market is ten minutes from my house, just up the road,a short walk, and I arrive at Pandora’s Box of inspiration.

I love this market, and especially the little hair salons were if you have the right kind’a hair you can get a very funky hair do.

The women in the little hair salons were not to keen on me taking photos…so I have added some images here that I have found on the web of some of these amazing hair styles, I find this tradition of hair braiding fascinating, and some of the hair braids could defiantly be translated into some really intricate knits…only if I had the skill to knit more than the regular stocking stitch etc…

I will stick to admiring the images for the time being, since my hair is way to short, and way to difficult to manipulate into any sort of hair style.

some fancy hair twisting,in this image goddess

braiding

british style braiding