It's hard! Martha has broken her arm and then caught a stomach bug this week, now I've caught it from her. I've got so many orders to complete by the 10th and an exhibition to prepare for and then more orders to do after that, but I've been out of action for 3 days and am going to have to cut down on sleeping to make my deadlines...
Once you've got a child you just can not rely on definately doing anything anymore - there's so many possible scenarios that will prevent you. Pre child If you were really ill you couldn't work. Post child, if I am ill, Martha is ill, my husband is ill, or a childminder or childminder's child is ill then my work probably has to stop. She's wonderful but oh my trying to be a working mum is hard.
These are 'puppet portraits' of two little scottish girls who are best friends, such a lovely subject.
This is a puppet portrait of my customer's boyfriend, Jorden. He's been lots of fun to make!
This is the most recent piece I've designed - 'Alison's House' at Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond. It's about a family of a great poet who died 18 years earlier breaking up the family home, and discovering secrets along the way. The characters are loosely based on Emily Dickinson's family. Orange Tree is a 'theatre in the round' - the audience sit all around the edges of the performance space, hence the lack of backdrops!
Edwin likes a good cup of tea, he's also partial to a chocolate biscuit, but he doesn't approve of dunking the latter into the former. you can buy him here.
She's all new, and made in a different way to my norm, because she's posable, with wire arms and legs instead of the usual string. Tell me what you think of her!
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