Self Discovery
Interesting facts and news on self development
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year! Yes, this is a lot later than anticipated. I had hoped to bring the New Year in with a new blog post on the first of the month but circumstances evolved that delayed this process. So how was your Christmas? Mine, was a mixed bag, to be honest. Although I loved watching the children open their gifts on Christmas day, this year it was blurred with disappointment for me as I knew what I’d brought them wasn’t exactly what they had asked for most recently and was more of what they actually ‘needed’. Money is Tight Now I’m not in the habit of listing what everyone did…
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Starting Level 3 in Bridle Making…
A couple of weeks ago I attended my fourth week of training at The Saddlery Training Centre. Following my successful completion of Level 2 Bridle Making, I was now to go straight onto Level 3 (in Bridle Making). So for my first practical piece I was tasked with making a stallion in-hand bridle with a fixed nose band, fancy stitching and a clencher brow band. I chose a rich brown coloured leather called ‘Conker’ from the store and decided to use brass clenchers and buckles as well as stitch it in a yellow contrasting thread. I like working with a contrasting thread because if you go wrong it stands out…
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It’s Official…I Passed!
It's official, I passed my exam! I have successfully completed the Level 2 City & Guilds Diploma in Saddlery (Bridle)
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Hello December!!!
December is here! How did that happen? I seem to have blinked and we’ve gone from Spring to Winter in an instant. Being a November baby I have come to realise that as soon as I’ve seen my birthday in we are on count down to the big day! Fluffy PJ’s, mugs of hot chocolate and a roaring log fire is what I have come to love since moving into our cottage. We are not a big family anymore so get together’ are often small and intimate. My parents own a pub in the Warwickshire countryside and my husband’s parents live in Spain so unless we go to my parents…
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I Learnt A New Skill
What do you do at the weekend when you have been at the office all week and juggled meal times, after school clubs and homework? Well, whilst many of you are catching up on the housework or doing family packed activities, I am doing all those things as well as doing leather repairs, making accessories, designing new products, networking on social media and this weekend I learnt a new skill. On Saturday, I travelled to Northampton to attend a Leather Carving workshop at Tandy Leather. This is a skill whereby you cut a design into the leather and emboss it using specially designed stamps. You then finish the leather by…
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It’s My Birthday!!!
Hey! it’s my birthday today. ???? I don’t normally shout about it publicly, but then again I don’t normally blog, so this year is full of first time events. So, on this day of my 37th birthday I sit and reflect on where this year has gone…yeah, where did it go? Well to start off with we lost my nan in January 2016. She was a very special lady in our lives and I think I only really appreciated her more towards the end of her life when she was in and out of hospital. I realised she wouldn’t be around forever and so made the conscious effort to visit…
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My First Exam…
Firstly, I send my apologies for not doing a daily blog during my recent week in Salisbury. It sure was a tough week for me and I started suffering with anxiety from the beginning which just drained everything from me. When I woke early on the Monday morning I was overwhelmed by nausea. I really wanted to curl up and sleep the feeling off but I knew I had to get up and get on the road before the morning rush. I figured I had worked myself up over the weekend and that it was anxiety setting in and nothing sinister. Following two previous good training weeks I was advised…
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I Made A Martingale!!!
Friday’s are always a bit of a rush, or at least it seems like it and today was no exception, with most of the trainee’s (except for me and one other girl) doing their assessments. It’s only technically a half day till 1pm and most of us want to finish what we’re doing or at least be at a point where we can carry on at home with no issues. I did finished the martingale I was making in time but didn’t have time to do another one in the allocated 4½ hours for the practical aspect of the Level 2 exam, plus you have to sit two written papers,…
