Pondering the future

I've been thinking a lot about the future, what I can do with my crafty and design passions, can i support myself, or at least boost my income now, or when we have children. Is there a market for whatever I can produce, make or even assist with etc and I'm still no further really!

I had a smallish wobble at work after having to update the staff profiles for our department on our website, we now have a graphic designer with 10+ years experience and no older than I am. Why did I choose a non-employable degree, was it simply to paint pretty pictures and have that piece of paper in the end or was I completely not thinking it through for 3 years, probably the latter, that and the fact that most career advisors I saw said that Fine Art was the most transferable of the art degrees, which obviously isn't true in the slightest! But you live and learn, and hindsight is a wonderful thing! So onward!

What can I do then?

Back for now

So it's been a bit of a while since I finished the runner in my last post, where did those months go?!
What's happened then?
The birthday girl loved her runner and accompanying cushion & suited her newly decorated spare room.

I started and finished mums Christmas lap quilt, pieced, backed before we left. I hand quilted it using an enlarged version of this great pantograph (link to follow) - hearts, flowers and trailing leaves, what more could you want?!

Glad for a few days before the big day, i was still hand-stitching the front of the binding and quilting until 2am christmas morning! But it was done!

She loved it, cried almost instantly and was snoozing underneath it within a few hours :)