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Jaipur Journey - 8th - 18th January 2019 with Colouricious Holidays.

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  One of the wooden printing blocks we will use for  the metallic printing workshop. This time next year I will be at Heathrow airport ready to fly to Jaipur.  Whhooo hoo!! it is VERY exciting! I am going back to Jaipur, India, to be inspired by the remarkable textures, patterns and colours.  While I was wandering around this amazing city in on the Colouricious Textile Holidays in September 2016 and again in January 2017, I kept thinking to myself this would be the most incredible place to teach my journey design exercise. Everywhere you go there is something beautiful, interesting or just plain incredible. The palaces, the gardens even the roadside has inspiration at every turn. So - I approached Jamie Malden, owner of Colouricious Textile Holidays with my idea and she Yes! - immediately. Just like that. Isn't a good feeling when people have faith in you? I am leading The Jaipur Journey textile holiday January 8th - 18th 2019  Fancy coming with me? Here is

New beginnings - Welcome to 2018 - Yeehaa!!!

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My view this morning - my first big frost.  We don't get a lot of frost or snow here.   Happy New Year!!!  I hope you are all well and have managed to get to this point unscathed by the dreaded flu bug that has been doing the rounds. You have my sympathy if you did succumb to it's miserable advances. After all the high winds of recent days, things are calm for a while - it is a glorious day, a good day to start getting sorted for the rest of the year. As usual my year is basically planned already. A bit of teaching, a few shows and visits from friends are all in the diary. It is good to know that you have lots of different activities coming up throughout the year. It helps give structure to your life. The strangest thing in my diary is having book out days for my business partner Jayne to come over to Ireland and film the videos for the online teaching. Seeing 'Jayne/filming' on a page always makes me smile - who would have thought. After all these year