Little Inspirations

This morning greeted me with an early wakening and a beautiful winter morning. The first one we've had as the weather has been very mild for this time of year here. Blue skies, sunshine and frost covered roofs.

A couple of course mates and I went along to an artist talk to Ffotogallery last night. The talk was a walking tour given but the curator on their current exhibition believing is seeing it was really rather interesting and there was on particular image of a Korean monk that has got to be one of the most beautiful photographs I have ever had the pleasure of viewing. Plus there were also soooo many artists books on sale many of which had a massive discount, and on top of that I 'liked' the gallery on Facebook ages ago and was given a free book last night for that one simple gesture. LOVE! It's so good to be within that arty atmosphere I really should make more of a habit of it especially when I feel a little healthy! It definitely allows for a good, rich source of creative juices to flow.

This is a new addition to my room :) It's seems silly that simple things make such a huge difference... but they do and there's no bad in that! So, it's exactly what it looks like, a super handy pin board and dry wipe board. On it at the moment is a day to day time plan of what I need to try and achieve to keep on top of things to do with university work. a couple of prints that printed wrong but I still like them so put them up in a hope they conjure up some more ideas... My favourite bit though is the dry-wipe board on which I write everything I need to get done so I don't forget anything!! My life is ruled by lists and post-it notes because of poor memory so anything along these lines can help is always a massive help!

The image of a clock is something that grabbed my attention on a stand at the gallery last night. I like it a lot yet can't particularly say why. So its now on show, actually I quite like how it sits in-between everything I have to get done, It somehow makes me realise that I really don't have much time. Times ticking away and all that. That and it's an advert for an upcoming exhibition on memory that I really want to see. Have to wait until January for that though. 

I have three days now with nothing planned but to catch up on some uni work and in particular get some reading done in my many creative magazines and books :D 

Lets hope the brain power stays at a reasonable level and I actually manage to get some work done... fingers crossed!