A little life update

This is the first chance I've had to really sit down and write out a blog post in far too long. As you may have seen me vaguely mention, these past few months have been very busy. In fact, probably some of the busiest months I've experienced yet, and I'm very glad things have slowed down enough now that I'm able to start investing time in my hobbies again.

So, given my absence during this time, I thought it was time for a catch up. Up until now I've been reluctant to say too much about what's been keeping me so busy, simply because I wanted to wait until I knew the outcome before I spoke about it properly. As you likely know, I'm currently at university in Brighton. While I'm really glad I made the decision to go to uni and I've loved being in education again, unfortunately the course I'm on just isn't right. While I'm still going to my lectures and will be seeing this year through, I also know this isn't how I want to spend the next three years, so after a lot of thought and talks with my family and friends, whose support has been utterly invaluable, in October I decided to apply to study graphic design. I think even when I applied for this course deep down I really wanted to pursue design, but because I thought that having never studied it studied it before there was no way I would be accepted onto a course, I pushed it aside as a pipe dream. However, when I started studying something else I realised it wasn't something I could just push aside and decided to go for it despite my doubts, and have spent the four months since then working tirelessly on building up a portfolio to try and get myself a place. During that time there have been countless late nights, a generous handful of wobbles, and a lot of stress, but I'm absolutely thrilled to finally be able to tell you that I have been offered places with my dream universities! I'm still undecided as to which university I'm going to pick, so I'll have to keep you posted on that, but either way I will be starting a new course in September, and I could not be more excited.

Working on my portfolio has been taking up most of my time since October so things have been pretty quiet outside of that, although in February I did travel around the country a little to attend interviews, including a day-trip to Winchester and my mini trip to Cornwall. Now things have settled down I'm focusing on catching up on anything I've missed at uni, as well as finding my blogging feet again and getting back on track with Project 365, which sadly did have to sit on the back-burner while I focused on design work.

This weekend has been quite a lazy one, and it's been nice having the freedom to sleep in and spend some time doing nothing much at all. That being said, N and I did go out for dinner on Friday night to celebrate, and we treated ourselves afterwards to a few glasses of wine at our favourite place, Ten Green Bottles, which we've agreed we're going to make a more regular thing. We also popped out this afternoon to pick up a few things, including a loaf of fresh rosemary and sea salt sourdough which I topped with perfectly ripe avocado, sun-dried tomatoes and sunflower seeds for a truly dreamy late lunch.

I hope you're all well, and I'm very much looking forward to posting more regularly again. Also, happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there! I hope you get spoiled rotten.