by StaceyHB | Feb 6, 2011 | Life, Nature, Psychology, Weaving
Hurrah! Spring is on the way!! Truly!! I promise!! Especially to our friends currently immersed in piles of snow in the mid-west of America! You may only see white out of your windows – if you can see out of your windows at all!! – but I can assure you...
by StaceyHB | Jan 30, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Philosophy, Weaving
Birmingham’s Museum & Art Gallery is thriving! Each time I visit, I am amazed at the sheer amount and diversity of people who are strolling through its galleries, stopping at this painting, or that piece of glass, reading the info boards and generally...
by StaceyHB | Jan 16, 2011 | Life, Psychology, Publications, Weaving
A while ago, I wrote a post saying about how my brain lags about 3 weeks behind everyone else when I’m doing a course or a workshop or something similar, and that I’m usually in a total fuddle and have to let my brain just filter it through in its own...
by StaceyHB | Jan 9, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Philosophy, Teaching, Weaving
Wow! I nearly fell off my chair when I picked up the latest edition of Crafts magazine from the Crafts Council. There was a 4 page excerpt from the coalition government’s minister of state for further education, skills and lifelong learning, John Hayes,...
by StaceyHB | Jan 2, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Nature, Philosophy, Psychology, Travel, Weaving
I’m very excited about 2011. Not about the financial and political situation we find ourselves in – we don’t have much control over the bigger picture there – but about things that we do have control over – our choices and how we choose...
by StaceyHB | Dec 26, 2010 | Education, Life, Nature, Philosophy, Psychology, Teaching, Weaving
OK. So how many of us woke up this morning wondering why we ate so much yesterday and promising ourselves that we will get back to our pre-Christmas weight in January? And how many of us woke up wishing we hadn’t drunk quite so much Christmas tipple, promising...
