I ask myself this question quite often. It’s usually asked every day as most of my days pass by in a flash and I have lost track of time. Again.

But that’s what happens when you love what you do.

And I do.

Making patterns has brought a sense of calm, meaning and mindfulness to my life. Maybe it’s because time and a rigid schedule doesn’t matter anymore. I am lucky to have finished working outside the home and my children are grown so the majority of my time is my own. I am free to spend my days thinking in colours and patterns. I spend my nights dreaming them too. I just wish there was a way of recording the images and colours that fill my head.

So what do I do everyday?

I am a self confessed homebody. I love home. I love the quiet and the solitude. I love being here with my family. But life keeps moving. My husband and our 22 year-old daughter work. Our son is in his first year at University and working part time. So there are lots of comings and goings. My children think it’s because of my age that I forget what day it is or what time it is. But the reality is that it just doesn’t matter. Aren’t I lucky!

The majority of my days are spent sketching, designing, reading, learning and being inspired. I love being inspired! I really do enjoy a good book, my garden, listening to great music and looking at beautiful things. They are all part of my day-to-day life. And therefore my designs. I’ve always been one to value education but now I can learn because I want to, not because I feel I have to. So my schedule is fluid. Sometimes I am working on the beginnings of a new design. Sometimes I am working my way through the messy middle. And sometimes I’m finishing a pattern and being a little sad that the enjoyable process is at an end. But my sadness doesn’t last long. I know that another night will see a flood of thoughts, ideas and colours appear. And a new idea for a design will begin to form in my head.

Another day, another opportunity to be inspired and design!