Annie Brundrit

Creative Freelancing Ideas - Oh and Flowers Too..!

I'm kind of floating my way through the days at the moment.
This week I should hear whether or not I still have a job, which is a repeat of this time last year.
It is such an odd state to be in - you have no control over decisions about a massive and important part of your life - especially difficult if you are a control freak, like me!
I now feel for anyone else who has ever been made redundant, or who is in the position of going through a selection process for redundancy.
Trying to think of all the possible future scenarios is a way I can attempt to take back some ownership.

I have been looking at working for myself - but as I am no spring chick there is very little funding I can access to help me set up.
Plenty of great sites offer advice so I read them avidly. One thing to know stuff in theory - another to do it practically...
Anyway here are a couple of sites I've had a look at recently:
Enterprise Nation
Creative Choices
Red Lemon Club
Freelance UK
Creative Freelancer
On a brighter note! - here are some close-up pics of plants from the garden:

Oh When? ~ Oh When Will It Be?

A Space Of My Own by anniebrundrit

Oh soon - please soon. I am in need of a place dedicated to making my own work...for the survival of my own sanity!!

This montage (or 'set' as they are called on the website) has been featured on the Polyvore homepage - which means it is brilliant and fab and very good as well, actually - or - more likely - that people share my sentiments and a love of white with turquoise and green!

T'wit - T'woo I hear you all whistle -

- well GET THIS.......

My rocket picture came 12th in a contest called "SPACE TRIP!"

Very pleased as Polyvore IS my new obsession - taking my mind off all the oddness at work at the moment...

What Kind of a Loo is That...?

Yes, this IS a lavatory!! - This is our loo at the Hub - where I work... Decorated beautifully and eclectically with a montage of all kinds of randomness - ready to inspire at all times; something new for every visit!

Shingley Shells

We went to the sea-side at the weekend

These photos are of Maggie Hambling's Shell sculpture at Aldeburgh in Suffolk. It's right on the beach, in the shingle.

Commanding the eye as you walk north from the town, it is at once precious and robust - serving as a climbing frame, cave, slide and it sounds great when you drop shingle onto it!

It makes some amazing abstract shapes - and yet is very shell-like! the welding is beautiful

And we took the little boys with their little sailing dinghies to the boating lake..

This is one of four fancy craft being monitored by a really grown-up boy playing with his big-boy boats... There's always one, isn't there?

Go Outside...

Go Outside! by anniebrundrit

At last - I feel more up to getting out and about - cycling, gardening and long evening walks with the dog! And wishing I had the spare dosh to go horse-riding...

Oh and boating and abseiling (yeah right!)

Sunny Sunshine - C'mon!

Yesterday! by anniebrundrit

Oh Happy Days - I LOVE the sun! Makes me feel so much better - I can pootle about all day outside and even meet my lovely brother and the boys at the woods for a delightful picnic by the charming castle made from oak. There's a huge xylophone deeper in the woods too. Finding the right sticks to bash out a hollow wooden tune is half the fun!

I collected some lichen that was lying about under a huge oak tree to photograph:

looking green and delicate in the shade

posing on a roundy stone

bleached and harsh in the full sunlight

Create Your Own Digital Collage Here...

I have started a new page called Create and Play.
You can use the separate images from some of my digital collages created on Polyvore - to play around and create your own image!
Enjoy - it works!!