December was a brilliant month for me. I returned from my sisters wedding and a great Caribbean break, refreshed and revived and ready for our 10 day stint at The Winchester Christmas Market. The Market has run for many years and is stacked with wonderful must have Christmas gifts and goodies. Our Luvio shop sold our ranges of Christmas cards and greetings. I must say, I spend my whole time designing for who I think my customers are, it was pretty special sitting in a chalet for that time hearing reactions to my work!
Most of December was punctuated by SNOW (Will it ever end?!). It was pretty at first; building snowmen, drinking mulled wine, watching old films whilst the big, fat snowflakes fell. Then it became hazardous with the ice and then irritating not being able to travel. My boyfriend and I did escape off to Dublin for a fabulous family New Year and I got to meet my cousins little boy Tom for the first time. A gorgeous gurgling baby boy, very sweet. Other new additions to The O'Donovan clan included two Jack Russell pups who are utterly adorable. We managed to get to The Morrison, my favourite (after The Red Cow Moran of course!) Dublin hotel for drinks. Our visit was completed by it snowing in Dublin for the first time in a zillion years, we didn't mind and we stayed in cosy by the fire wittering away.
Before we left for Dublin I had a night with 2 more of my Irish cousins in the Sussex countryside watching 20 year old video's & playing charades. The video's were inspiring and I have decided to keep up the video tradition and I began that evening. When I watched my video's back my hand was shaking so much from laughing that I hadn't managed to capture anything except some strange coffee cup angled shots. Christmas and new year for me was a lovely, family oriented time and one of my new years resolutions is to steady my hand sufficiently to capture life in glorious digital-technicolour for us to watch in another 20 years.
Most of December was punctuated by SNOW (Will it ever end?!). It was pretty at first; building snowmen, drinking mulled wine, watching old films whilst the big, fat snowflakes fell. Then it became hazardous with the ice and then irritating not being able to travel. My boyfriend and I did escape off to Dublin for a fabulous family New Year and I got to meet my cousins little boy Tom for the first time. A gorgeous gurgling baby boy, very sweet. Other new additions to The O'Donovan clan included two Jack Russell pups who are utterly adorable. We managed to get to The Morrison, my favourite (after The Red Cow Moran of course!) Dublin hotel for drinks. Our visit was completed by it snowing in Dublin for the first time in a zillion years, we didn't mind and we stayed in cosy by the fire wittering away.
Before we left for Dublin I had a night with 2 more of my Irish cousins in the Sussex countryside watching 20 year old video's & playing charades. The video's were inspiring and I have decided to keep up the video tradition and I began that evening. When I watched my video's back my hand was shaking so much from laughing that I hadn't managed to capture anything except some strange coffee cup angled shots. Christmas and new year for me was a lovely, family oriented time and one of my new years resolutions is to steady my hand sufficiently to capture life in glorious digital-technicolour for us to watch in another 20 years.
The mood board above sums up my December; the work I completed, the people I worked for, the landscapes I experienced and the music I listened to. As I say, it was a brilliant month.
See you for January's update soon! Meantime, keep warm.
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