Month: March 2016

Creating a Design Vision for Your Home

Good morning dear readers, today I’m sharing my design vision for our home… Visual harmony, A mood of serenity, A sense of exoticism… My aim, as always, is a home that inspires and fires the imagination, a sensory feast. The last thing I want is a […]

Irish Magic Realism

Dear Readers, I haven’t written an update on my book for a while. I was on course to finish the current (8th) edit by the end of the creativity bootcamp I hosted in February, but other events threw me off course. Now I find myself […]

In Dublin’s Fair City

I just spent a few days in Dublin and my top shop award from the trip goes to ‘Om Diva’ on Stephen’s St. Upr. Top for service, value, style, aesthetics, and choice. They even made us coffee… My new earrings from ‘Om Diva’… lightweight, unique, […]

Hunger

‘Appetite; a universal wolf.’ - Shakespeare ‘Pray for peace and grace and spiritual food, For wisdom and guidance, for all these are good, But don’t forget the potatoes.’ - Prayer and Potatoes, J.T.Pettee ‘I’ll make her a pudding, and a pudding she’ll like, too… Many […]

Manifesto

My friend Caoilfhionn gave me this great present, a book called… 100 Artists’ Manifestos’ by Alex Danchev. It’s a treasure trove of revolutionary, incendiary and outrageous thought. I find it calming. Here’s an excerpt from Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto… ‘I dictated our foremost desires to all men […]

The Secret of Great Writing?

Hello dear readers and thank you for all your comments on fb for yesterdays post, you’re some crew! I appreciate you very much. (Comments and stats here were disabled, not on purpose!) Some of you thanked me for being honest and open, some called it brave, […]