One Year Old

I've been blogging for one whole year!! Time to take stock...

This was never about having lots of followers but I am very grateful for the 3 I have so far, thank you.  I am one of trillions but I have found many very interesting blogs that inspired me to do this. It took a while to get used to the idea of blogging, it felt exposing and a bit vain to start with... However it has turned out to be a very enjoyable and amazingly helpful experience.  

The aim was to gather together the things that interest and inspire me, become braver about sharing my paintings, poetry and ideas about creativity, and connect all the different threads of what make up me into something I can wear with surety.

Now I do feel that I have achieved this and begun to weave together the elements into something very positive.  I have even done things especially for it, which would not have been done otherwise.  Yet another avenue for creativity to wander down...

So here’s to the next year, filled with poetry, painting and promise J

Gathering Threads

Welcome to The Tanglewood, where I attempt to gather many of the threads of my life, untangle some knots, follow some paths and perhaps see both the wood and the trees... 

Tanglewood was the name of a family home where we lived when I was 1-4 years old. It was built on an old cherry orchard in Mersham, Kent, and several of the trees were left in gardens. I always loved the name and recently found it in a story as being a faery wood.  Although it was a modern house at the time, I remember it very clearly as the magical place of youngest childhood.

Last night it kept coming up in my dreams, so it seemed right to give my blog the title - The Tanglewood.