Hello from Carlisle

[buzzybee]

Hello everyone, I'm Becca, and I'm up in the frozen north in Carlisle. I've lived up here for 6 years since i came to college here, and now I'm in love with a Cumbrian so I'm stuck up here! I studied Contemporary Applied Arts at CIA when it was CIA and thats what got me thnking about all these ish things. I dont make any claim to be incredibly Ish at all, I joined this forum because these issues and Ideas interest me, and at times weigh on my mind, and I want to be able to discuss these ideas, and get hints and tips from you all!

Being paid minimum wage at the moment and living in a rented flat I'm not in a position to be incredibly sustainable, but we do what little we can. My work, when I get round to making any (I trained as a weaver and occasionally get to my loom) I try to make out of wool which has been worked as little as possible before reaching me, and I dye it all myself with natural plant dyes. I wrote my dissertation on sustainable futures for textiles, and it really got me thinking about the whole textile industry.

I would love to one day have a veg plot, and a cut flower garden and a plot to grow my own dye plants but its a little while off yet! thanks for reading ifyou got this far, and I'll start talking soon I guess! Becca

[Annpan]

Wow, that sounds really interesting, do you have any photos of your work?

Welcome to the site

Remember we all started somewhere and this site is great for all sorts of advice and ideas.

[buzzybee]

yeah but being a bit thick i'm not sure how to put them up? do I use the upload attachment thing below or do I copy and paste?

[Rosendula]

Hi Becca

I think you need to upload the images to the internet - one of those photo gallery sites like Flickr. Other people would be better at advising you which is the best site for it (I have my own website, so I can cheat). Then you click on the 'Img' button when you're typing a message and insert the web address of the image you want to upload between the {img} {/img} things that pop up. Is that any help? Or is it gobbledygook?

[ina]

Hello everyone, I'm Becca, and I'm up in the frozen north in Carlisle.

That's far down south for the likes of us...

Welcome to the Ishers.

One of these days I shall also work more with wool - I have a few fleeces waiting to be processed... So far it's only knitting!

[buzzybee]

well I'm from the real south really, I was born and raised in Peterborough, but i live up here now. almost the other end of the globe to you!

[buzzybee]

by the way, I'm working on the photos, I take them at too high a thingy to post them straight in here but I'm working on another way of getting them online. I have them on my facebook account but I'm not sure i can/want to link to that on here. I'd love to hear your opinions of the work tho so I'll put them on as soon as i can.
thanks everyone for the welcome!

[pumpy]

Hi,Becca..........i can think of a lot wourse places to be stuck, other than Cumbria.(worse). And don't worry. No-one is more computer illiterate than me!!

[buzzybee]

oh i know, i just like to blame it on him! :) I'm 5 hours from my parents, thats the hardest thing. its a lovely unspoilt part of the world. I wouldn't mind being stuck where you are, my Grandpa lived in Norfolk and going there now he's gone. Its a lovely part of the world!

[pumpy]

you gotta blame someone!! There are so many similarities between Norfolk & Cumbria (apart from the height-above-sea-level!). It's a place i would choose to be stuck in. Maybe Egremont?

[Shirley]

by the way, I'm working on the photos, I take them at too high a thingy to post them straight in here but I'm working on another way of getting them online. I have them on my facebook account but I'm not sure i can/want to link to that on here. I'd love to hear your opinions of the work tho so I'll put them on as soon as i can.
thanks everyone for the welcome!

There are a few ways around this... you can reduce the size in a photo editor... or upload them to flickr.com or photobucket or similar photo hosting services.

Welcome to Ish

Oh... and yes you can post a link to your facebook if you want to do so

[hedgewitch]