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Black Friday

Today's colour is black. My sister will tell me that black is all colours, or is it the absence of all colour...or is that white??? Obviously she is the artist, I am not. My love of colour does not come from a technical knowledge of the colour spectrum, it comes from feeling. I feel colours. I see colours. If you were standing in front of me I would see and feel your colour. My colour today is black. For someone who loves colour so much, for years I wore black. LOTS of black. I thought a was wearing black for it's renowned slimming effect, for edgy funk and tough girl image. But the truth is I hid in black. I hid away my colours. My energy for life. I was afraid that if I wore the sort of colours I felt, that I would not fit in or worse still, I would be laughed at. These things were very important to me at the time. Fitting in, being accepted. Even now, although I have come along way, I still hold back. Inside I am just a rainbow of colour, spinning and swirling and shining.

The beginning of something beautiful.

Welcome! Finally, some of you may say, I have started my blog. It's true I have been procrastinating for a long, long time. But here I am....at the beginning, I guess you are all wondering what the Inn has behind its great doors of creativity. Firstly, let me say that whatever is shared here is an outpouring of my inner me. Not the me that is sometimes overly accommodating, the me that conforms, or the me that compromises. What you will read is pure Den and I can't promise that it will always appeal to everyone. It will be real.  My love of colour will of course be paramount, but so will my obsession with shape and texture, fabrics, jewellery and all things visual. You will discover that food and nutrition feature high up on the list of loves, along with music, travel, art, babies, laughter, my family, a nice cup of tea, Moroccan EVERYTHING, fragment sentences and people watching. A good book, singing, writing and gardening also ring my bell. Laughter, is essential in my wor