Comfort........

Strange the things that bring comfort to us.

I've had a rough week or so due to different things and this morning was a particular low point. I needed some kind of comfort and familiarity. For me, this need takes me to a place called Abakhan fabrics. It is a place that sells material, fabrics, gifts, stencils, cross stitch and so much more.
I love to go there and look at all the Bridal collection in the vain hope that someday it will be me. Walking downstairs of the old mill, on the cobbled floor reminds me so much of my mum; it's wierd but it's often this place that I have my strongest memories of her and not so much home. There is a certain smell in the place due to all the fabrics that has not changed for the 20 years of my life I've been going there.
It's wierd but it's a place I don't really like going with other people. It's my place. I'm not rushed there or mocked for the things I'm looking at and I can be just me.
And so off I toddled this morning just in search of some solitude, thought time and inspiration as well. Can't say that I found the inspiration but I do feel a lot better for having been.

Does this make any sense?!?!? No worries if it doesn't, I just wanted to post:-)

Bubbles

My housemate received some bubbles for Christmas from her sister. They are very cool as they are ones do not pop on contact. She was just blowing them around the living room and sure enough they were landing ont he laminate flooring and rug and not popping. See pictures below!!

How cool are these. They are just lying on the floor and don't pop until you stand on them or smack them! Esther had some on her head but I didn't manage to get a photo of that!

Something new....

Well I did something new yesterday...I went to the cinema by myself. I wanted so much to see The Chronicles of Narnia and all my friends had already seen it with their family. There was much internal deliberation as to whether I was going to go or not as I didn't want to look like a sad billy-no-mates.
After the decision was made that I was going to go, it wasn't all that bad and in a way was quite liberating...to know that I could spend that amount of time by myself, doing something that goes against our societies rules so much, yet not just survive it, but enjoy it. At least I know now that if there is a film that I really want to see, there is no need to think that I have to miss out on something because no one wants to go. I feel like I discovered something new about myself if that makes any sense!

If you haven't seen the film yet, then I would highly recommend it. I thought it was awesome. Firstly it was great to see that they had kept to the original story in the book. I wanted to go home and read all of the books all over again. Secondly it was so much like the BBC version in 1988, it was great. It made me return to Sunday afternoons in front of the fire, with the light off falling in love with C S Lewis' work. The set was similar, but so much bigger and better, I loved it.

I suppose the thing that I loved the most was the symbolism that Lewis incorporated from the Christian faith. To see the promises that the Queen gave to Edmund, promises that she had no legal right to give, took me back to the story of Adam and Eve and also the temptation of Jesus in the desert. The way in which the devil will twist things and try and promise us things (like he thought he could give Jesus the world if Jesus would bow down and worship him) that he has no legal right or ability to give. Also the way Aslan sacrificed himself -

"It means," said Aslan, "that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."

This is exactly what Christ did for us. To see the symbolism on the screen was awesome and sent goose-bumps all over me. To know that Lewis was trying to convey the central point of the Christian faith in such a great way for all ages was great.

Go and see it if you haven't. It's even worth going by yourself!!

Happy New Year

Hello

Hope that everyone is well. Just wanted to post to say a Happy New Year to everyone. I hope that everyone is well and had a fantastic time whatever they did.

I'll write more soon

Love Ya

Ems x x