On Friday I took delivery of my new embellisher, which I was lucky enough to be able to buy with a grant from Trent & Dove Housing, my landlords. They allowed me £500 to buy this, and hopefully with the money left over, a sewing machine. I have applied 3 years running for this grant, and have been successful each year, the first year buying a digital SLR camera, last year a new computer.
On the subject of money, I have run out of my student money, and have had to apply to the ALF fund at the university. I am working 10 hours a week and don't feel it would do me any good except financially to do more hours. On reflection of my financial circumstances, I have improved on last year as I haven't been frivolous, but there is still room for improvement because on paper, if I were to not run up debt before my next pay day in January, I would £700 per month to pay rent and live in with student money alone, so here's hoping I can do that between now and January.
I have things I need to buy/pay for on the course including digital printing, wood, heat transfer paper, wool tops for felting. I will though get by somehow. My priority obviously is keeping a roof over my head so if I can do that, then I know the rest will be sorted. I have faith !
I have bought some wool tops from the internet. I have been researching the best price and I found 500g of off white wool for £2.60 and a bag of mixed colours for £2.90 on a website called Handmade Presents. As I want to try heat transfer onto felt I thought that the off white would be a good colour to start with, as with Heather Belcher's piece Sugar and Spice referred to earlier in my blog.
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