.Being.Festive.

Being creative can be difficult sometimes, especially when you try to be creative everyday so today I took a break and made some fragrant tree ornaments for Christmas. They smell gorgeous and are simple to make so try it yourself!

What you will need.

- 1 orange/tangerine/clementine (the smaller the better)

- whole cloves

- cinnamon sticks

What to do.

If the oranges have no stalks, use a needle to thread some cotton/string through parts of the skin to make the hanger, but before you tie the end off also thread it through a small bit of cinnamon stick, tie it off now.

Next stick the whole cloves in to the orange by pushing them through the skin they should stay there by themselves.

Then hang on the tree!

The should last about a week sometimes just over depending on how fresh the oranges are.

They smell gorgeous and add a festive touch to your x-mas tree.

To.Stick.Or.Not.To.Stick

I think I finaly have my frames on the wall, after many falls and re-attaching parts I ended up using industrial strength double sided foam roll and no more nails tape. They all seem to be in order now, still on the wall as far as I know, but the sun and the heat of the room seemed to be melting the adhesive on some walls so it's just a matter of chance that they all stay on the wall. I'm going to arm myself with a heap of double sided tape when the exhibition is going on. :)

Still on the topic of my exhibition space, I had my chat with the external examiner today and I think it went really well, I had a clear mind the whole time, managed to talk about and show a lot more then I did with just the tutors.

.Attempt.Two.

Attempt.Two

After discovering some of the frames stuck out further then the others there was a suggested option of scraping the nails and going with industrial strength Velcro instead. Also the images on my wall had been moved closer together to create a more focus on the group of pictures rather then one picture at a time. The Velcro worked for a while but being expensive and in short supply it had to be spread out and made to last which didn't work well as I resulted in breaking a frame when it fell off the wall. I had already broken and repairers 3 frames previously and didn't want to have to fix any more. So over the weekend I will search for alternative solutions to my problem.

Final.Exhibition.Preparations.

The Chaos of Preparing.

The time has come to put up and sort out my final exhibition at Hull College. My previous blog was showing how i would like to layout my wall, this one shows how it all looks ON the wall. Just a single nail for each picture, but first I drew them all out on paper the nailed through the paper while it was on the wall so I got them all in the right places. In these picture they are hung on the wall but not all of them are straight yet and still lots of mess about, but I think it's looking good! Organised Chaos :)

ESOL

Small gallery in the lobby of HSAD, ESOL is all about teaching English to people who want to learn it, me and a few friends all created images from stories and poems they had written all about the changes they have gone through, the hardships and lives they had left behind. The opening of this small display was greatly appreciated by the people who had written the poems/stories and was viewed a lot more then I expected.