princessdeia

I have been thinking a lot about my future lately, long term where I see myself, what I would like to do. I believe all creative people think about ways they can make money from their hobbies. However, I don’t really see how this could work for me. I could charge for my knitting, but is there enough call for bespoke knitting for me to live off? As much as I enjoy cooking, I don’t think I could charge people for my food. I have made (and charged) people for greeting cards/invites but there isn’t enough money in this for my to live off.

I am lucky, that I do get to be somewhat creative in “day job” but for the past year I have only really been doing this part-time and I would like to increase this next year, but I need to increase my portfolio.

Designing the Knit Nation website for Alice, made me realise there are a lot of creative people out there who all need websites/blogs creating or updating. So I have a proposal… A bartering service.

Here is the deal…
I am willing to offer my services in creating or re-designing someone’s website or blog. Whether it is a creating a new header, adding up a shop, or totalling creating a site.

In return, I am willing to trade services, it could be products that you sell, a lesson in a new technique (I would love to learn how to speak Spanish), or something you know longer need (I would love a sewing machine).

Interested? comment below.

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I am a little late posting this but I have been busy working on a few secret things. (More about one of those later). Last month was my birthday, who knew 35 would be such a memorable one.

As my birthday is on Halloween, the festivities always start the night before as we decorate the house, this year we were up until 1am blowing up balloons. Surprisingly I was up early the next morning. When Jason and I headed to Westfield for him to buy me a present (which is becoming a bit of a tradition), what I didn’t know was my mum and sister had also given him some money to buy me a present. So when I was picking which bag I wanted he encouraged me to buy the matching wallet, and then produced a card explaining everything. I nearly cried in the shop.

Too calm myself down we headed to the champagne bar.

Then we took a pause from the celebrating to watch the football in the pub, at one stage we looked into getting tickets to the game (as Liverpool were playing just down the road), but they were too expensive (over £150 each) so we settled for watching the game in the pub. I am glad we didn’t go as Liverpool had an awful game and lost.

Then we popped home for some more champagne and cake with my mum and sister. No baking this time (the cake was from Marks & Spencer), but this cake reminded my of the birthday cakes I had as a child.

There are numerous restaurants in London I dream of going to but without a doubt I have always wanted to go to Nobu, and my birthday seemed to be the ideal opportunity.

I tried to take photos of every course unfortunately I forgot about this starter so you will have to imagine what the oysters looked like, but you can view the rest of our meal here.

Now remember that secret project I was talking about – well you might have seen the advert in knitting magazines or seen the news on Ravelry but Alice and Cookie A are organising a major knitting event here in London next summer, and I was lucky enough to be asked to design their blog.

Tags: Birthday, Food, Knit Nation 2010

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