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Hannah Garrard explores the ghosts of Victorian author Sir Rider Haggard – through the traces left by his home at Ditchingham House, Norfolk.
Memories lie slumbering within us for months and years, quietly proliferating, until they are woken by some trifle and in some strange way blind us to life.
— W. G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn
Ditchingham House: It is November and the creeping Wisteria branches are gnarled and clutch the outside walls like arthritic fingers. A thin grey mist hovers a few feet above the front lawn, which is studded with tree stumps. This ghostly vapour is an appropriate shroud for the house, because it is haunted.
Max Sebald's narrator in The Rings of Saturn led me back to this house, which I used to visit as a child, "over the marshes of the Waveney Valley to the far side of Ditchingham". Sebald's walking tour through Suffolk is as provocative as his spectral prose. The dead return, roused from sleep and live again: Thomas Browne, Charlotte Ives, and Huang Ti – the Emperor of the Earth.
"It strikes me that if the dead were to write like themselves, they would write like Sebald," remarked an ex-student of the German scholar; and the irony that Sebald has led me back to the front door of a haunted house is not lost.
I begin exploring Ditchingham House again, through archives and diaries, in search of artefacts and in pursuit of the dead.
Lady Haggard – Louie, to her family – has been dead two years; her husband, Sir Rider, two decades. Time to clear Ditchingham House of all the family possessions that are no longer in use.
The house feels empty since Louie passed away: a matriarch who always made sure her home was full of visiting relatives and friends of her husband. Rudyard Kipling often stayed here, and Andrew Lang – her husband's long-time agent. She took her hostess duties seriously, but none of her three daughters are in a position to take up the role of materfamilias. With no male heir to the estate, the next generation of Haggard women are in charge of the Ditchingham properties.
The Ditchingham estate is in constant need of funds for repairs, and the sale will help keep the grounds and the greenhouses maintained. It has fallen to Angela, the eldest, to arrange an auction.
Over two thousand items – divided into exactly eight hundred lots – are listed in the auction catalogue, which bears the following inscription:
Bungay, 1 ½ miles on the Norwich bus route.
of the greater portions of the
Contents of the Residence
Including many choice Lots of
ORIENTAL and other DECORATIVE CHINA;
CHINA; BOOKS; LINEN and other Outdoor Effects.1
On the Saturday before the auction, a marquee is set up on the lawn for crowds of people to come and view items. News of the auction has spread across the two counties, and people have travelled far to take part. Valuable and exotic antiques will be coming out of Ditchingham House, and although interest in Rider Haggard's fiction has waned since empire-building went out of fashion, his reputation for collecting museum-ready curios from foreign countries has maintained the interest of collectors.
I gorge on the list of decorative china in the catalogue: Japanese tea service, twenty-two items; elaborately coloured gourd-shaped vase; gilt and floral two-bottle inkstand; Ming dinner service. Two African carved figures will also leave the house, as well as seven sets of travelling bags and trunks. Two (empty) parrot cages and a beehive are also for sale.
I worry about what fate those parrots came to; their cages sit portentously vacant on the auction table. Rider was notoriously careless with exotic creatures, having once lost a giant turtle (a souvenir for his father) at London Docks on his return from Ascension Island.
"Personally I thought the occurrence fortunate," recalls Rider in his autobiography, The Days of My Life. "Imagine the local butcher confronted with a turtle; imagine the domestic cook and the quantities of soup that would have resulted, if it ever got as far as soup!"
More fortunate for the turtle, no doubt, sculling his way to freedom along the Thames' murky riverbed, the local butcher none the wiser.
The catalogue reads like a witness to the end of an era in paper form: 1945 is the year the Haggard women move out of the house for good. This peddling of the family silver happens the same year World War Two ends and Labour promises universal welfare. It is time to move into a modern Britain: there is no room for colonial artefacts and embarrassing specimens from a dwindling Empire. Britain celebrated too hastily in 1918, and Europe wants to forget.
Peacetime celebrations will chime through the village of Ditchingham in November. But Germany will rise again.
There is bitterness towards the Old Order. In his diary, Rider writes of betrayal by those who have exploited the Empire – "a place for sport and weekend parties" – and used its indigenous populations as canon fodder for the war:
I thank God that I have lived to see the downfall of the Victorian idea and ideal … the whole business was an elaborate show and sham … the real aims of life were not Patriotism and Duty … but pleasure and money.
Honour and duty in battle were hallmarks of what it meant to be English when the Empire was expanding – scenes of which Rider crystallised in his fiction.
He rebukes his critics who "proclaimed [him] a barbarian because I wrote of fighting – horrid, vulgar fighting". The drilling of guns, rattling through Europe, remind Rider that it is the likes of patriots such as himself who have been central to the evolution of duty in Britain's young men, and "the yoke of slavery and ultimate destruction." He is maddened by the hypocrisy of his political counterparts.
The distant sound of guns on the Western Front rumble on through the year, and Death has its ubiquitous presence. "One is pursued by these voices of war and death," he writes in May. And in July, the noise from Ypres can be heard in Norfolk: "The guns are going so heavily on the Western Front that the constant drumming of them interferes with my work here at Ditchingham."
A conversation with his remaining true friend, Rudyard Kipling, hangs heavy after conversation turns to their prospective ages (Rider is ten years Kipling's senior). "You have the less time left in which to suffer," says Kipling, with reference to the loss of their infant children.
Ditchingham House, with its encompassing, rural stillness, is the place from where Rider and Louie grieved in private for their son, Jock. Their bucolic home has been a sanctuary from which to write and take long walks. The countryside has an uncorrupted beauty: dawn mists glide across flat marshes in the still, open spaces of the Bath Hills. And in the evenings, a cerulean dusk moves in.
The year 1918 has seen disappointment and dashed ambition. With emphysema setting in, Rider has had to cancel his work on a project investigating the Agricultural Wages Board. Work for the Board would have helped satisfy his reformist ambitions and bolstered his name as a politician, rather than a mere writer of fiction – a fear he acknowledged in part in his autobiography.
"At the bottom of my heart I share the British contempt for the craft of story-writing," he writes.
His novel, Moons of Israel, has barely been reviewed, and is not making any profit. Love Eternal received a "sympathetic" review in The Times, but confirmed his doubt that he is not "a literary artist". Paper is in short supply and most of his works are now out of print due to the war-effort. Rider is in danger of being forgotten.
St Mary's Church, Ditchingham: In one of the triptych of scenes in the stained glass window, the view of the Bath Hills is etched out in amber and yellow glass. Either side are the pyramids of Giza and Hilldrop, Rider's farm in the Transvaal. Lilias, Rider's youngest daughter, had the window installed after her father died, to commemorate the three distinct spheres of his life:
Sebald reappears momentarily, as I stand in the church examining the window. A ribbon of water and an oak tree set the sylvan scene. This view can be seen from Ditchingham Lodge, the second Haggard property – which sits a quarter of a mile from the House. The Lodge appears as a concluding milestone in Sebald's journey in Rings, and the pleasing symbiosis of this brief union between Sebald, Haggard and I is satisfying.
St Mary's church is full of the Haggard family, quite literally: a black marble slate marks the place where seven family members' ashes are interred, including Rider's. I locate it after some hunting. The slate is hidden beneath a rug "to save it from getting covered in bat poo," the churchwarden tells me. I read down the names of the dead. An author of over seventy titles of fiction and non-fiction, no mention is made of Rider's literary life:
Ditchingham church is full of earnest requests to be remembered in death, as if the robustness of objects can in some way thwart life's temporality. Louie and Rider donated the clock on the spire in 1892 in the name of their son, Jock. The laminated notice informs me, clinically, that Jock "Died in 1891 at the age of ten from a perforated ulcer, following a bout of measles". A simple stone cross to the right of the chancel door marks his grave, and the whole congregation pass by it each Sunday as they arrive for worship.
In his autobiography, Rider broaches his son's death with Lost World valour: "I touch the healing robes of Death. I refer to the death of my only son." He expresses the sting of guilt – because he and Louie were in Mexico when Jock caught measles – and of a misinterpreted sense of dread that preceded the trip.
"When I went to Mexico I knew, almost without doubt, that in this world he and I would never see each other more. Only I thought it was I who was doomed to die." [Rider's italics.]
Something akin to prophecy forewarned Rider, and he chose not to act on it.
Rider dabbled in spiritualism as young man, and was a frequent visitor at the Hanover Square addresses in London where the Society for Psychical Research held their séances – until he was frightened off by the inexplicable movement of heavy furniture in the room.
"The whole business is mischievous and is to be discouraged," he later remonstrates.
Rider's fiction and non-fiction are peppered with musings and imagery of death incarnate inhabiting the earth. The hero of his Lost World series – Allan Quatermain – is convinced that spectral beings have their presence all around us: "Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but inextinguishable and immortal elements of life."
I struggle to summon the eternal in the church, which weighs heavy with icons of the dead around me.
The dead are central to Rider's narrative. Death brought Rider both fear of being forgotten and faith in the possibility of an afterlife, where he and Jock would be reunited. It is no coincidence that his autobiography opens with an anecdote about a telephone call – "an excited inquiry" – from a London press agency, asking if the famous author had died.
"Miss Hector, my secretary, answered that to the best of her knowledge and belief I was out walking on my farm and in average health."
Ditchingham Lodge – the final place on my list – where Rider's granddaughter and great-granddaughter, Nada and Dorothy Cheyne, are expecting me, is far more welcoming than Ditchingham House. The Lodge is Georgian and four storeys high, with blue-slatted shutters opening from its many windows like open palms.
"As I approached, I could see window panes glinting in the sunlight," wrote Sebald, as his narrator spots the Lodge from across the Bath Hills.
A woman in a white apron – what an unusual sight, I thought – came out underneath the portico roof which was supported by two columns, calling a black dog that was running about in the garden. Apart from her there was not a soul in sight.
It's the woman in the apron that I ask Nada Cheyne about, as a literary opener to our meeting.
"That must have been the housekeeper, Mrs Bud," she tells me. "Because I certainly never wore a white apron!"
Although Nada is in her eighties, she is neither frail nor showing any signs of losing her memory. I ask her if Sebald stopped to talk or introduce himself as he came loping across those fields. But he just walked on, making a dutiful wave to the housekeeper, on his way to the church from where I had just come from.
The Cheyne women have met with most of Rider's biographers, and were least impressed by D. S. Higgins ("Who made everything sexual," tuts Nada). I tell them that I've visited the church, and that I too grew up overlooking the Bath Hills. Nada gestures to the large bay window behind me and it is the same view as Lilias' stained glass; my hometown of Bungay nestled into the horizon.
"He [Rider] loved the Hills," Nada says. "He wished he'd lived here, and not in Ditchingham House. It's always been a drain financially."
Born in 1925, the same year her grandfather died, Nada had lived in Ditchingham House since she was a child with her mother Sybil, her aunt Lilias, and her grandmother, Louie.
"It was a very feminine house" recalls Nada, "Because it was just us women living there."
Nada's aunt, Lilias Haggard, wrote of them both wishing on a cuticle moon in 1936, when Nada would have been a girl of ten.
"Last night a thin new moon lay in the western sky, among the stars … Nada and I duly bowed three times and wished!"
It is Isis, the ancient Egyptian lunar goddess, whom the Haggard women include in their feminine enclave. This small act of otherworldly worship Rider also vindicates through his recollections of his time in Egypt; a tender ritual passed down from father to daughter to granddaughter.
"With … the old Egyptians I am at home," he writes. "I venerate Isis, and always feel inclined to bow to the moon!"
Rider's visits to the Pyramids with the Egyptologist, Dr Budge, were the catalyst for his curiosity in reincarnation and the idea of Ka, or body-double – the possibility of which he and Kipling often discussed. Although he cites the phenomenon as "quite insusceptible of proof", Rider revered the Egyptians, and letters written from Ditchingham House are often marked in the top left corner with a handmade hieroglyphic stamp: a salute to the ancient Egyptian credence that the dead will surely live again.
Dorothy tells me with pride that three generations of naval officers have lived at Ditchingham Lodge, including her father. She paces to and fro with her hands clasped behind her back as she recalls the seafaring lineage of her family home. She is in her fifties, stout, with short bobbed hair and is still wearing the windbreaker she arrived in. I think that she too would have made excellent Navy personnel. After excusing myself to use the bathroom, Dorothy is waiting outside for me, holding up a portrait of her great grandmother, Louie. It covers Dorothy's face, because she is short, and beneath the picture of a woman at ease in her middle years, with a string of pearls and shawl about her shoulders, are Dorothy's legs in sensible trousers. It makes me jump when Dorothy speaks from behind the painting in portraiture-ventriloquism.
On the walls of the staircase are some original illustration plates from one of Rider's Lost World novels. Giant Zulus with piercing eyes and bared teeth tower over Quatermain and his allies, brandishing spears. Nada points out "Old Wrinkly"– a painting of Rider in his sixties that hangs above the banisters. His nose is strong and fine, his face lined. His eyes pensive and blue as he sits in his chair with a book open on his lap.
There is a portrait that hangs at the very top of the stairs. The painting is of Jock, aged about nine, wearing a brown knitted tank top and cropped trousers. He stands to the side as he prepares to take a swing with a golf club. His eyes have the same blue intensity as his father's and a small, tight smile crosses his face.
Beneath Jock's portrait, on two small hooks, hangs his golf club – about three quarters the size of an adult's. Nada tells me the painting was removed from Ditchingham House a few years ago "to keep him safe".
And I remember now – the portrait of the little boy that I always had to look at when I visited Ditchingham House. He played golf on the lawn; his club was his favourite plaything. My father once lifted me up to take a closer look at Jock playing on the lawn. I touched the canvas, and could feel the fine ridges of the brush strokes beneath my fingers.
Sebald turns and walks back across the Bath Hills, Rider closes the book on his lap, and my ghosts now have nobody to haunt.
1 The Ditchingham House auction catalogue can be accessed in the archives kept at the Norfolk Record Office (reference: MC 180/145).
Hannah Garrard is a creative non-fiction MA student at the University of East Anglia, England. She is interested in exploring the narratives of place: the texts and the lives they conjure. She is currently working on her first book-length project about a West African refugee camp. Follow her on Twitter.
Stories from the Ivory Tower is an online series of creative non-fiction essays that draw their inspiration from academia. These commissions are made possible through the University of Melbourne's Cultural and Community Relations Advisory Group (CCRAG).
Painting of Sir (Henry) Rider Haggard, by John Pettie (1839-1893).


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One thing has always had the power to connect humankind across time and space: music.
In June 1941, Nazi Germany invaded Soviet Russia, and later that year laid siege to Leningrad (known today as St. Petersburg). The siege lasted more than two years and killed at least a million people. The conditions in Leningrad during the siege were unimaginably terrible – soldiers died trying to defend the city, while its inhabitants succumbed to illness or hunger. Dead bodies littered the streets, since few could spare the energy to give them a proper burial. In desperation, some resorted to cannibalism.
During these dark times, humanity was revealed at both its worst… and its best. At the height of the horrors of the siege, Karl Eliasberg, a music conductor, received orders to begin rehearsals of Dmitri Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony. It was nearly impossible for Eliasberg to find enough musicians for his orchestra. An order had to be issued to soldiers at the battlefront, calling for anyone with musical ability to join the orchestra. In this way, rehearsing the symphony united and inspired the people of Leningrad, demonstrating that the people of Leningrad would never give in.
Even when Eliasberg had enough musicians, they had no energy to play their instruments. For they not only had to struggle for food, they also had to deal with their loved ones dying. One in three people perished during the siege. Yet the musicians persevered. On August 9, 1942, despite the odds, the Seventh Symphony was played in Leningrad and broadcast throughout the city and the country. Thankfully, there were no German air raids to interrupt the performance.
A member of the audience, Olga Kvade, recalls, "On the one hand I wanted to cry, but at the same time there was a sense of pride. 'Damn you, we have an orchestra! We're at the Philharmonic Hall, so you Germans stay where you are!' We were surrounded by Germans. They were shelling us, but there was this feeling of superiority."
The very Germans that she spoke of were listening that day. Their conditions were also bleak, and many soldiers were only there because it was their duty. Everyone who heard the music was moved by it – this stunning act of defiance – regardless of what side of the war they were on.
Shostakovich faced criticism for the piece, as many felt it was too simplistic. Some also believed he had inserted some anti-Stalin undertones. Regardless, in the time and place, his Seventh Symphony, simply named "Leningrad," was incredibly powerful. It went on to become his most famous piece. Even today, listening to it can give a hint of what the people of Leningrad must have experienced during the invasion. For a little more than 78 minutes, the people of Leningrad showed the world the best of humanity.
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Dmitry Shostakovich speaks briefly, then plays part of the first movement of the Seventh Symphony.
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Mike is a lifelong outdoorsman, who grew up hunting and fishing the woodlots and waters of Maine and New Hampshire. He became involved with numerous other outdoor sports over the years- mountaineering, rock and ice climbing, sailing- but always returned to hunting and fishing as the foundation of an outdoor life.
Mike went to St. Paul's School, and subsequently graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a BA in Philosophy- an obvious lead-in to a career in the outdoor industry. He spent 19 years at L.L. Bean, Inc., in various capacities, including leadership of their Fly-fishing and Wingshooting Schools. L.L. Bean gave him the opportunity to hunt and fish all across the country and overseas as well, and grounded him in the notion of social responsibility. He left Bean's in 2002 as Vice President of Retail Merchanding and Branding, and marched off in a new direction, completing a Masters in Medicine, and a Surgical Residency, and now practices as a Surgical Physician Assistant in advanced laparoscopic surgery.
Mike has been a local TU officer, a Hunter Safety Instructor, is a Registered Maine Guide, and a Maine Wilderness Guide. He is also certified in Advanced Wilderness Life Support and is an Advanced Wilderness and Expedition Provider. He and his wife have hiked and climbed in Nepal, Bolivia and throughout North America, and spend as much time outdoors as they can. Nowadays, Mike is primarily a traditional archery hunter and a trout fisherman, though other opportunities are always considered.
Mike joined BHA as a way to support the traditions of responsible sportsmanship and stewardship that he was taught through family and a lifetime of associations with true outdoorsman. He serves as Treasurer of the New England Chapter of BHA.


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These days we're pretty used to seeing maps designed to accommodate a wide range of user circumstances including colour modifications for those who perceive colour differently or the use of audio to provide a narrated map. There's also a small but important research area that encompasses tactile mapping for people who have limited or no sight at all. This map is regarded as the first to be made that was specifically designed with blind people in mind. Quite simply, all we know about cartographic design in terms of standard visual variables goes out the window.
Samuel Howe designed this atlas, comprising maps of 24 US states with a page of text accompanying each, for children at the New England Institute for the Education of the Blind in Boston. The medium was a heavy paper stock and every line and mark, symbol and piece of text was embossed. While braile was invented some 12 years earlier it wasn't capable of representing even simple, let alone complex, cartographic symbology. Lines take on different shapes and forms for different features and numbers and letters are used as symbols to locate places, each of which is expanded on and shown in the accompanying text.
While clearly the amount of detail one can include is heavily constrained by the technology and also the fact that recovery of detail is through the fingers, Howe did not sacrifice basic map components such as latitude and longitude and scale. Water has an embossed fill and mountains are shown using a series of short lines, not unlike a heavily generalised hachure effect.
The atlas was used as a geography teaching aid and the children could learn where boundaries of countries, roads, mountains and a range of points of interest lay. While braille took over for communicating words, Howe's maps still provide a clear lineage to maps made in a similar style today. The techniques used today tend to follow the same as the production of heat-moulded relief maps using a plastic sheet. Conceptually though, features are still commonly embossed on maps for the blind.
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- At least 5 years experience developing user experience architecture and design for ecommerce, web and mobile properties.
- Proven experience working in an agile/scrum environment.
- 4 year degree required in graphic, multi-media, web design or closely related field.
- Experience working with IBM WebSphere Commerce.
- Experience using project tracking tools such as MS Project.
- Knowledge of key web metrics that drive traffic.
- Knowledge of style guide production and brand evolution.
- Strong quantitative data analysis and critical thinking skills.
UX Architect responsibilities include facilitating, generating and executing exceptional digital user experiences. The UX Architect will lead the design of user experience and styling of digital properties across all platforms and delivery methods, including web and mobile. The UX Architect will define user requirements in response to business goals, working with business stakeholders, product management and technology partners. The UX Architect will create prototypes, process flows, wireframes and design specifications. The UX Architect will create use cases to document business rules and expected online customer behaviors, and drive innovative solutions to develop interaction models based on customer journey maps.
Meet Our Recruiting Team
Bill Courtney
Director of Recruiting
Bill Courtney has been with TDK Technologies since April of 2010, and is the Director of Recruiting. Although Bill brought with him a tremendous amount of technical recruiting experience, much of what he learned about leadership and responsibility came to him by following a family tradition of military service. Bill spent 8 years in the United States Navy, serving onboard nuclear powered submarines as both a Radioman and a Diver. After Bill completed his service, he worked as a network engineer while finishing his Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology from Lindenwood University, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. Later, Bill continued his education, earning his Master's Degree in Business Administration, also at Lindenwood.
After spending several years at other local recruiting companies, Bill found a home at TDK, working his way up from Recruiter to Lead, and from Lead to Director of Recruiting. What continues to drive Bill is the challenge of helping people find and achieve their career goals, just like a recruiter did for him at one point as a network engineer. Taking it one step farther, now as Director, Bill enjoys mentoring junior recruiters and helping them achieve their goals as well.
Bill also enjoys a challenge outside of work. He spends his free time playing golf, training in Tae Kwon Do, and continues to scuba dive, still holding his open water and advanced open water diving certifications.
In or outside of work, Bill is always the first to discuss why he is at TDK. It's the people. The people at TDK, and the people that lead TDK, David and Kristin; how they go about their business, how their roots are also in technology, and how they transfer that into a different approach to IT recruiting that cannot be found anywhere else. To join the TDK team, contact Bill or any member of the Recruiting team today by sending us a message or submitting your resume. We would love to hear from you.
Kelly began her career with TDK Technologies in December of 2009, joining the Recruiting team as...
Kelly began her career with TDK Technologies in December of 2009, joining the Recruiting team as a Sourcer. At the time, this was a new position for TDK, but Kelly proved that the role was essential, and was quickly promoted to a Recruiter.
Kelly earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Missouri, and continued on to Webster University and received a master's degree in Human Resource Development. Kelly and her husband have two children - daughter Harper and son John Michael, and they enjoy catching either a Rams or Blues game, or just about any band at a live concert.
Getting to know people, learning what motivates them, and helping them achieve their goals has always driven Kelly. Before joining TDK, Kelly worked as a personal trainer, and she continues as a Recruiter to help candidates reach their goals by finding rewarding positions that they will enjoy. She especially likes finding that elusive job for a candidate that they didn't even know existed.
Kelly loves working for TDK and thinks of it as a second family, supporting each other to succeed and grow, together, as a company. To join the TDK team, contact Kelly or any member of the Recruiting team today by sending us a message or submitting your resume. We would love to hear from you.
Adam has been with TDK Technologies since May of 2016. He brings with him a background in sales...
Adam has been with TDK Technologies since May of 2016. He brings with him a background in sales management, as well as technical knowledge he gained while working with technology companies throughout the country. Since graduating with a Marketing and Management degree from Truman State University in 2011, Adam has brought his excellent customer service and problem solving skills to every client he has worked with, ranging from start-ups to Dell.
In his free time, Adam enjoys ultimate frisbee, softball, hiking, fishing and pretty much any outdoor activity. In addition, he enjoys learning how to develop software and utilize new technologies.
Adam became a Recruiter because he is committed to helping people achieve their career goals, whether it's finding the perfect job or helping a candidate better market themselves. To join the TDK team, contact Adam or any member of the Recruiting team today by sending us a message or submitting your resume. We would love to hear from you.
Kristie joined TDK Technologies in July of 2019. She brings a background of customer service,...
Kristie joined TDK Technologies in July of 2019. She brings a background of customer service, retail management, and recruiting for large companies nationwide.
After graduating with her undergraduate degree from Webster University, Kristie went on to Operations Management and continued to Western Governors University for her Masters in Business Management. She earned a Certificate in Project Management from Cornell.
Kristie and her husband have one son, Jameson, and two rescue dogs, Heidi and Midas. She enjoys spending time with family and learning new things. As a result of her time in retail management, Kristie grew to love recruiting, working as a team, and encouraging other to achieve their goals.
To join the TDK team, contact Kristie or any member of the Recruiting team today by sending us a message or submitting your resume. We would love to hear from you.


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Woman arrested with Oregon militants released from jail — and promptly calls feds 'murderers'
The only woman arrested with other militants following occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon claims Nevada rancher LaVoy Finicum was yelling "Just shoot me," before law enforcement officers killed him following a traffic stop.
Shawna Cox, who was released from Multnomah County Jail on Friday and is expected to return to her Utah home on Monday after being fitted with a GPS tracking device, was in the car with Finicum prior to his death.
According to OregonLive, Cox did an interview with blogger Rick Koerber over the weekend, describing the law enforcement officials who tried to stop Finicum as "murderers."
Cox stated that she was in the truck driven by Finicum, along with Victoria Sharp, Ryan Bundy and Ryan Payne when they hit a roadblock on Highway 395.
"We noticed the [law enforcement] vehicles," Cox said. "They flipped their lights on."
After Payne told Finicum to slow down, Payne showed his hands outside the window only to have officers shoot at him.
"They shot at him," Cox said. "He said they mean business."
Payne then got out of the vehicle and was taken into custody, while Cox, Sharp and Bundy stayed in the truck — with the two women sliding to the backseat floor.
Cox stated that Finicum yelled to the police, "We're going to see the sheriff, we're going to see the sheriff," before taking off again only to be stopped by a second roadblock.
She stated that she was still down on the floor and couldn't see what was happening , but heard Finicum yelling at the police again after exiting the vehicle.
"He was yelling, 'Just shoot me, just shoot me, just shoot me.' That's all he said. And then they did," she explained, before adding that law enforcement officers continued to shoot at him while he was down.
Despite not seeing the action — and despite video showing otherwise — Cox questioned whether Finicum reached for a gun.
Asked whether Fincum had a gun in his inside coat pocket at the time of the shooting, Cox said, "He didn't have a gun. I saw him lying on the ground, he never reached for his inside pocket, nothing. He had a pistol strapped to his hip. Why in the hell would he reach inside for a gun?"
Pressed as to whether Finicum went for his pistol, Cox stated, "He never had one in his hand."
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Hey, so you must have googled my name for some reason, what are you a stalker? JK! Maybe you heard about me through Happivize.com or one of my books and are trying to find out a little bit more about me.
There's not a ton more to share past what's on the Happivize.com about page.
If you haven't visited that site, it's my favorite. I was in the shower when it came to me that we needed an Amazon for energy healing. I had already been working with energy healers and interviewing them, but unless you happened to catch the live podcast, you were out of luck. So now I'm growing Happivize so that whenever you need a healing pick me up, or help with a specific issue, or just kind of want to see what's out there, you can find what you need when you need it.
Before that, I worked as an EFT Practitioner with private clients. LOVE love love EFT.
Before THAT, I was mainly focused on traveling or saving money to travel. Lived in California for about 10 years total (Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, Studio City) and Brooklyn Heights.
I left when I was 25 for my first big trip and was gone 2 1/2 years – New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Laos, China, Vietnam (with a few weeks in the South Pacific). Highlights of that trip, New Zealand 9 months, one of my top 3 favorite countries.
Then came back to the States and lived in NYC. Moved to LA. Left again for a year overland Mexico, Central America, South America. Learned Spanish in Guatemala (great place to learn btw, you stay with families and get 4 hrs private tuition very inexpensively, I preferred Xela). Argentina another top 3 country.
Came back, left again for Nepal, Everest Base Camp! Six months in India (last of the top 3 favs). Middle East and Europe. Those are my three LONG trips.
Total is over 60 countries at this time of writing, with many more on the list. Latest favorite was Botswana, had been wanting to go since I was 19 and it exceeded expectations.
Now I have Columbus as my home base (I was born here and left when I was 18 – my family still here), but I am doing a lot of road tripping with my sweet dog, Daisy (pit/boxer/bulldog according to her DNA but a petite 40lbs). Might get one of those super kitted out conversion vans.
What else, love tennis to play (not very good but love it) and to watch – my cliche favorites Fed and Serena – but how can they not be?
That's a pretty short summation for one's life!
I'll leave you with a few of my favorite photos from my travels.


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I am teaching from a marquee in my garden until the weather turns. Alternatively I will teach a maximum of 4 people in around my large farmhouse kitchen table and another table if needed.
Enough space between students - 1 1/2 mtrs apart.
Wear face coverings.
French doors open etc....
All government guidelines followed.
Please enquire for further information.
On this wet felting day, you can choose between various options below:
Scarf, footstool, slippers, picture, bag because they use the same technique -wet felting.
All materials Included.
Scarf making- You will be using a silk scarf and merino wool fibres to create you unique scarf. Alternatively you could create a warm woolly scarf.
A Footstool. The small footstool is provided and upholstered in the lesson. Option to bring your own footstool.
Beginners welcome.
Scarf option: during this fabulous felting day, we will make a scarf using soft merino wool, incorporating a beautiful silk mix scarf .
There is a variety of base scarves for you to choose from or please bring your own if you have a specific colour you would like to use.
Technique: By manipulating a thin layer of wool through a fine scarf we will make a scarf with characteristics which are quite different from a traditional woolly scarves you can purchase. There are many possibilities for transparency and exciting texture with drape and flexibility in the material, this lends itself well to the beautiful movement required in a scarf.
Footstool - Create a unique picture of your choice and upholster the small footstool that is provided. or bring your own,
Techniques- You will learn how to mix different colours of wool like an artist mixes paints, incorporate a selection of alpaca, wensleydale curly tops and silky shimmers to enhance your picture.
Bring a picture or a brief idea along for inspiration, or I have images, books or examples that you may like to work from.
Airbnb available at the property.
If you will be redeeming a CraftCourses gift voucher on this course, the voucher code must be provided at the point of booking.
6 hours of creative felting tuition
- Expert tuition from a creative feltmaker - Barbara from Feltworld
- Refreshments provided.
- Explore colour, texture with 100% natural fibres-wool, alpaca & silk!
- Nuno scarf- Fine Silk mix scarf included
- Footstool- Provided -Approx 12''x12''
- Lots of inspiration ideas, examples available
- Maximum of 4 places so you get lots of attention
This craft course provider has been awarded Platinum status for receiving 50 or more 5 star ratings from previous students.
The Students' Choice award ensures that course providers get recognised for their efforts in the teaching and practice of UK craft.
They also allow tutors to gain valuable feedback on their courses and for new students to find the course that's right for them.
1 day (10:00am to 4:00pm)
Next available date
15th November 2020
Barbara was very welcoming and an excellent tutor. I had lots of fabrics and wool to choose from and ended up with a beautiful scarf.
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Your scarf looked fabulous, loved the colour choice and blending of your fibres :-) .
I have followed Barbara for a couple of years and have wanted to do one of her workshop, which I finally got to do and wasn't disappointed.
I took part in her wet felting bag workshop with two other ladies, who were also lovely.
Barbara demonstrated each stage of the process and gave us individual attention as and when we needed it.
This session was an all day one where lunch was included, and you definitely need the full day to complete the piece.
I love my bag that I have made, and would thoroughly recommend this workshop.
I travelled a distance to take part in this session and was not disappointed that I had. In fact I have no hesitation in attending another of Barbara's session and hope it isn't too long before I do so.
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:It was a pleasure to finally meet you and teach you :-). Your bag looks fabulous and look forward to teaching you many more stages and techniques. I'm glad you enjoyed your stay visiting Penkridge and Cannock Chase.
Really lovely day with my daughter, I made a picture and she made slippers. Barbara was lovely very knowledgable, would recommend!
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you Lynn. It was a pleasure to teach you and Sammy. Love your felt creations :-).
Really fun day making felt slippers. Nice lunch and cake included thanks very much :)
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Enjoy wearing your slippers Sam, they looked fabulous. Send me a picture when you have the leather sole on them :-).
Very informative day. Lots of help and support. Made a felted Nuno scarf which is unique. Would recommend anyone to give it a go. Would make a lovely day out for couples or gift for a friend where you can make something to keep and take home.
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:It was a pleasure to teach you Maxine. Your scarf looks stunning. I look forward to teaching you the next level...I am going to put on an advanced class to include layers and extra silks. Join the Newsletter on my website if you would like to hear more :-)
Great day with Barbara - making my beautiful Nuno silk and felt scarf. I really did not expect to be able to make something so beautiful - particularly since I was a first time felter.
A lovely day with my sister - working together on our projects - I can highly recommend the course - we will be back to do another scarf or maybe have a go at Batik next time,
We were really looked after by Barbara - she is so patient and helpful - and makes a lovely vegetable soup!
Great value for money - a full day of activity, plus tutoring , plus lunch and a beautiful handmade one-off scarf - fab!
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you for the glowing review 😊. I had a lovely day sharing my skills with you and Janet. You can be proud to say that you made your unique scarves. I will look forward to teaching you again in the future.... You will enjoy the batik 👍. B
I spent a wonderful day with Barbara learning the techniques for making a bag. I'd done some wet-felting before, having taught myself from books, but was lacking inspiration for what to do with the pieces when finished. Barbara is patient, encouraging, informative & incredibly generous with her ideas. There were four of us on the day, all doing something different & we all had lots of one-to-one help. I came away with a really nice bag & lots of confidence & the inspiration I needed to carry on this amazing craft. Barbara opened my eyes to the endless creative possibilities of felting & I will definitely be going back for more workshops - I can't wait.
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Your bag looked amazing Eileen, and I feel inspired to use my bags again 😀. I'll look forward to seeing your future projects.
As a novice felt maker I had no idea what I would be able to produce during a one day course with Barbara. I completed two pictures which I am so pleased with, one I will frame and keep and the other is going to be made into a cushion cover as a Christmas gift. Barbara was really informative, showing me and a friend the techniques we needed but very hands off so we really had completed our own felt designs. She was always there to encourage us and to show us other techniques we could use to improve our designs. With four people and three different ability felters making completely different products Barbara provided just the right amount of help and support for every one throughout the day.The lunch provided was great too.
I am definitely going to felt again, many thanks Barbara.
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you Fiona. Happy felting and if you need any advice, give me a shout and I'll be happy to answer any questions. Barbara
I thoroughly enjoyed my day with two other ladies making a Nuno felt scarf. Barbara was a superb teacher, explaining each step clearly with a great level of knowledge and skill. It was all very relaxed and enjoyable, and I left the day fully inspired to continue with this craft and even try out batik on another course (to be booked with Barbara of course!).
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you Carol. Loved your sarf and I hope you get many years of pleasure from it :-).
I spent a wonderful day today playing with colours and textures to make my nuno felted scarf. Barbara was a really positive and informed tutor who helped me to experiment and not make too many mistakes along the way! She has a lovely selection of colours to choose from and gives lots of encouragement.
What a lovely way to spend a day.
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you, your scarf looks fabulous. Best regards Barbara
Despite slight anxiety about train delays I arrived just in time and everything was very relaxed. All new to me so I was really interested to find out how felting was done and how much energy it took! A lovely experience. Lunch was just right and the day went so fast. Barbara is a great host and has lots of tips and skills to pass on. A really enjoyable experience.
Loved the tactileness of it all.
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you very much Fiona :-)
I very much enjoyed attending the felt picture making course with Barbara. We received a warm welcome alongside tea and biscuits to settle and whilst we considered the focus of our project for the day, then lunch and cake as the day went on kept our energy up for all that wet felting!
Barbara's style of teaching was clear, informative and supportive, whilst informal and easy going. Enjoyed every minute!
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:I'm so pleased that you got a lot out of the day. Both yours and Saras pictures looked great. They will look brilliant in a picture frame :-).
Just had a fantastic day with my Mum learning how to make beautiful nuno felted silk scarves. Barbara is very knowledgable and enthusiastic and there was plenty of individual tuition and support as neither of us had felted before. We learned a lot, thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and the company and came away with 2 stunning individual silk scarves that we will wear with pride! Thanks Barbara :-)
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you Jo, I am happy that you and your Mum had a lovely day.
A well run and informative creative day. Barbara is not only a good teacher but a welcoming host who made the day so enjoyable and the new skills easier to grasp. I would recommend this course to anyone looking for a new craft challenge. 😁
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you for your kind and encouraging words Nick, I love my job and I hope this shines through. Lynn's scarf looked lovely and your picture was fabulous. I hope you both keep up felting as well as enjoying your other activities. Best wishes
Had a wonderful day making a Nuno felt scarf.
Good company and learnt lots.
Thank you!
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you Diana. Your scarf looked fabulous, I hope you have the techniques to create more beautiful nuno scarves :-).
A fantastic morning felt making with Barbara. A fabulously patient and knowledgable tutor. Im definately going to come back and learn more!
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you for your lovely review Kim, I look forward to you attending another day and seeing what you create next :-)
Made a lovely picture, Barbara a lovely lady and great tuition
Super lunch provided
Thanking you very much
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Arrrhh many thanks for your kind review :-). Your picture looked fabulous...keep on felting. Barbara
Two days spent working with Barbara to produce a fantastic nuno scarf. What a delight it has been to enjoy the good company of Barbara and other participants, the patience and clear delivery of learning techniques. A "feeling positive" weekend. Thank you.
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:It was a pleasure to teach you and sister Geraldine over the two days. I love what I do and it is all worth while when I have lovely people who make my job a pleasure plus humour played a part or our days. You both made amazing pieces of work too-talented pair :-) along side Kate and Holly :-).
Wonderful course!! Had a lovely time, lovely place to work! Comfortable environment, great people and learnt so much! Really happy with my scarf can't wait to wear it!! A lovely creative day, just what I needed! Lots of ideas, and laughs! I will be back!! Xxx
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you Holly, I will look forward to teaching you and your mum again sometime :-).
I had a really lovely time on this course, not only did I learn to make a wonderful scarf and new skills but it was also such a lovely environment with lovely people. Just what I needed! Really pleased with my finished piece!! Would love to come again xx
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:It was a pleasure to teach you Holly. Your nuno felted scarf is beautiful. Thank you for traveling such a distance to attend my felting day :-) .
I came to Barbara's workshop for the 2nd time with my sister. Although I had tried Nuno Felting before I had a lot to learn from Barbara. We had a fantastic day and I came home with the most beautiful scarf which has had rave reviews from people when I have worn it. My sister has been equally pleased. Not only did we learn we had lots of fun along the way
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you for your very encouraging review Edna :-)
Barbara is an excellent and very patient instructor. It was an enjoyable course and I was really pleased with the landscape felted picture I made. This was my first time doing wet felting. Highly recommended.
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you David, It was a pleasure to teach you. Barbara
Barbara's felt making courses are lots of fun and you have the opportunity to make something unique. And it's always interesting to see other people's creations! You don't have to be particularly arty or creative as Barbara offers lots of ideas and inspiration for your project.
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you for your very lovely comments Helen. It is always a pleasure to teach you. Barbara
I recently did a two day felt class with Barbara. I learned so much. Not only did I learn but I had so much fun.
Lovely day making felted slippers. Barbara was really friendly, helpful and patient with my newbie felting technique!
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you Sophie for the encouraging review.
Today I completed my third felting course with Barbara. I just about had time to make 2 shoulder bags! I really enjoyed the day and, although I've done a felting course before, it was good to have Barbara's guidance and advice on techniques. I can highly recommend Feltworld courses - there's always a relaxed and friendly atmosphere - and you get to make something original to take home!
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you for writing the lovely, encouraging review Helen.
So very happy that I came and did this course. I've come all the way from America and it's well worth it. So much fun and learned a lot. Highly recommend it.
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you for writing the lovely, encouraging review Janis.
Fantastic course, with lots of options for what you make. We made felt slippers which look amazing and it was really interesting to see how you built them up.
Great instruction and a lovely way to spend a day.
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you for writing the lovely, encouraging review Anna.
My husband and I both had a fabulous day with Barbara, making Nuno felt scarves....! My husband hadn't planned to come along - long story! - but was pleased he did. Barbara is a superb tutor - she inspires with lots of samples and ideas, and explains the process very clearly; she's very professional and very welcoming. I wouldn't hesitate in recommending this course/workshop - if you're on your own, with a friend of in a group, I'm sure you'd have fun...and you get to leave with a stunning Nuno felt scarf, too!
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Hi Bron. Thank you for your lovely and very encouraging review. At times this business can be difficult but I like you love to teach and inspire. Best wishes Barbara
Barbara is such an inspiring teacher/instructor....I have learned so much from her classes. She has given me the confidence to work with a mixture of Wool incorporating my Husky Wool. I have created 2 beautiful scarves that I will treasure and also created 2 wrist cuffs.
Thank You Barbara.....I will certainly do another class soon!!!
Dawn 😉
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Hi Dawn, Thank you so much for you kind and very encouraging words. You brought something unique and very special into my world of woolly fibres with your beautiful husky fur. Your two nuno felted scarves are gorgeous.
Thank you so much Barbara for such an excellent course. It was extremely good of you to run the course just for me when the others dropped out - I really appreciated that.
I thoroughly enjoyed the day - I started as a complete novice, feel I learned tons and actually left with a superb scarf that I am very proud of and shall definitely use! Following your excellent introduction to felting I have already ordered myself some supplies and am determined to experiment more with this fascinating craft. You not only explained how to felt but also gave me an insight into why.... Thank you very much again!
Today I completed my second wet felting class and thoroughly enjoyed it! I made a shoulder bag and was very happy with the finished product. Barbara is a great teacher and as well as giving very clear instructions, she has lots of examples and suggestions for whatever piece you are making. The classes are fun and very relaxed. I can highly recommend taking a wet felting course with Barbara and I look forward to taking another in the near future.
Thank you Barbara!
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you very much for your kind review Helen. I enjoyed our day too. You are the star who produced a fabulous piece of unique work :-). Best regards Barbara Meek
A really great course today. My first time at wet felting and I came home with a really nice unique nuno felted silk scarf - far better than I ever expected. The class was small and everyone received individual attention. I learnt a new skill from an expert. Barbara is very patient and makes everyone feel very relaxed. I would highly recommend this and any other course that Barbara runs, others on the day wet felted small hand bags which also looked fun
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you very much for your kind review Jayne. You are the star who produced a fabulous piece of unique work :-) and as a first time felter, your scarf is beautiful. Best regards Barbara Meek
Excellent day today, making a wet felted shoulder bag. I'm really pleased with the finished product. Barbara is a superb teacher, and has brilliant ideas. Classes are small, so that you get expert one-to-one tuition. This is the second class I have attended, I made a wet felted picture on the first occasion, again an enjoyable experience.
Response from Feltworld - Creative Art Courses:Thank you very much for your kind review, you are the star who produced a fabulous piece of unique work :-). Best regards Barbara Meek
Many thanks Barbara for an excellent day. Lots of helpful tips and a wonderful array of wools and silks to choose from. Students are very much encouraged to decide upon their own projects, so at any workshop everyone could be working on something different - an excellent way to see what the range of possibilities are and to get inspired!
I had a great day making a nuno felted scarf. A friendly course with excellent tuition from Barbara. I have enjoyed learning a new skill and would recommend it to anyone.
Wonderful, friendly course, I have learnt great techniques and had a great day too. I am leaving with a beautiful, hanging piece of colourful art, that has been wet felted, Barbara is a great encourager as well as teacher!
I am an absolute beginner and just one day with Barbara and I've made a footstool I'm really pleased with. An interesting day learning a new technique and a wide choice of colours. Lovely lunch included makes for excellent value. Highly recommended!
Wonderful course using different felting techniques. Walking in as a total beginner and leaving, understanding how to complete wet and needle felting techniques.
A great way to spend a day, coming away with two beautiful pieces.
Attended Barbara's felting course today. I'm a complete novice and did not know what to expect. I was given a warm welcome on arrival and shown a variety of things to make. Thank you for your patience and enthusiasm which helped me to create something which I am proud of. The process is fascinating. If you want to try something different I suggest that you give this a try. Expert tutition from a lovely lady. Thank you for an enjoyable day.
I did a day course with Barbara learning how to wet felt. I made a felt landscape picture. I had never done anything like this before but Barbara was lovely and welcoming and convinced me that I would leave at the end of the day with something to be proud of. I thoroughly enjoyed the day and loved the way the felt changed with each process , and yes, I am extremely proud of my very own work of art!
I have been on two of Barbara Meeks courses.....what an inspirational teacher/instructor. I have learned so much from Barbara and she has given me the confidence to work with and experiment with my own dogs Husky Wool using Wet Felting and Needle Felting techniques. I designed (with Barbaras help) a Nuno Scarf using my Husky Wool from each of my 12 Dogs.....just love it!!!!! I could not have achieved this without Barbaras clear teaching and instruction......EXCELLENT!!!!!!
Will certainly be attending more!!
I had the best time wet felting a landscape painting with felt. It was very therapeutic and with great results.
Barbara is a wonderful teacher,and took me through all the steps. I loved listening to her extensive knowledge of this craft. (especially about the Turkish Rug)
Highly recommend.
Many thanks Denise
I have totally loved these courses. Excellent tuition from Barbara in a lovely relaxed atmosphere.
I am looking forward to joining another course in the near future.
I attended a course on wet felting with my sister. We are both new to felting but with expert instruction from Barbara we both came away with amazing felted pictures. I would recommend this course to anyone interested in creating unique felt art in a friendly environment with an expert tutor.
I attended a scarf making course and came out with a beautiful scarf, my own creation & original. Would recommend this course to family, friends. Great fun & meet new friends.
I have never done anything like this before and was a little hesitant . I needn't have worried. The very patient Barbara ensured we were all fully trained at each stage and was happy to re-explain points when necessary. We had a good laugh whilst watching our scarfs appear before our very eyes. Barbara even provided a delicious lunch . I came away delighted with my creation and have given it as a present to another friend. She has decided to go on a course with Barbara as well . What a great day. Thank you Barbara
I attended a felting workshop with Barbara, there were 3 of us on the workshop and we all made different things. I made a lovely nuno felted scarf.
I plan to attend another workshop as I would like to do more nuno felting with silks and other fabrics.
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I had a very enjoyable day at the nuno felting scarf making course.
I was made to feel very welcome and was given all the expert step by step guidance I needed to make my first nuno scarf.
It made a wonderful gift to my mother.
Thank you Barbara.
A very enjoyable day indeed! Barbara is a great teacher, and her studio is an excellent place to work. She's got some wonderfully inspiring samples to show the range of effects you can achieve with Nuno felt... Very good value, too; I'm delighted with my scarf and plan to experiment further. Certainly I'd recommend this course to anyone!
great day produced a lovely scarf i leaned a lot as a nu-bee to felting i found it fascinating. i recommend the course to all . will try a cat cave or a small pot course before the year is out . Barbara do you do a cat cave course ???
I made a stunning piece of art work on this Nuno felting day with Barbara. It is being measured up to be framed to hang in my living room as it goes perfectly with everything.
I had an absolutely fabulous experience learning something new, the nuno process is just wow, how amazing it is to see the silk and wool react in such a way - beautiful. I'm afraid Barbara that I will be back for more. Fabulous teacher, so calm and explained everything in such detail in stages, and had a good sense of humour too.
Barbara combined giving you the freedom to use your own ideas, whilst guiding with confidence in the finished scarf as you really do not know how it is going to look by the end! As it happened I am delighted and thrilled with my piece. Barbara also provided a great introduction to various techniques and instilled a desire to carry on and learn more more more of this exciting skill. She ensures that the classes are relaxed, informative with lots of examples to inspire the imagination. I will definitly be back for another course and bring my friend and daughter next time...already purchased some birthday gift vouchers :-) Fiona x
Interesting day. Good fun and fascinating to see how the process of making felt works. Thanks.
Lovely day, full explanations and help given by Barbara, whose knowledge and passion for textiles was evident. Would recommend this course
I had a one to one lesson with Barbara so I had her full attention. I have limited use of one hand, but I am capable and with a little help with laying out the fibres from Barbara for an hour in the morning, I completed a beautiful delicate floral unique scarf or I may use it as a wall- hanging. Barbara is very patient, explains the processes in simple stages and a great teacher. She has many years experience and her rug which she made in Turkey is beautiful. Highly recommended.
My husband bought a place on this course feltmaking course as a Christmas present. We went to Stafford and made a weekend of it, hubby went to see his friend and I on my fabulous day with 3 other ladies. I loved it and I am hooked on feltmaking.
I was and still am absolutely amazed at how so very adaptable the fibres are maniputated just by using soap and water and a bit of rubbing that such beautiful pieces of art can be produced. I love my scarf - I could never buy one like it and I am so looking forward to my birthday gift voucher next month, the hints surely must have sunk in.
My friend and I have just been one a nuno felting scarf day with Feltworld and had a lovely relaxed day with Barbara, who is so experienced and answered our many questions as virgin felters lol. She put us at ease and explained with many stages and demonstrations which made it very easy to follow. Her work is so beautiful and textural.
We are delighted with our new creations and excited to wear them. I will also use mine as a hall table runner in the summer... I don't care I will show off lol.five
We have bought gift vouchers to attend another course for our birthday in July/August.
I really enjoyed my day at Barbara's felt scarf making course. It was my first time at wet feltmaking and it was brilliant. Barbara is a very experienced feltmaker/teacher, she talked us through each stage, step by step, I think that we were all amazed at how the felt gripped through the silk scarf and crinkled it up to create a beautiful texture. I love my scarf and wear it a lot, many people have commented on it too :-).


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He co-wrote most of Invincible songs. He was so young ! RIP
May he rest in peace.
God bless him and his family at this difficult time. Invincible is an great album. thank you for being with Michael. r.i.p
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It seem all Michael friends are leaving us.
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Rest In Peace to LaShawn Daniels, co writer of Michael Jacksons Invincible Album and Rodney Jerkins writing partner. He just posted this on Michaels birthday last Thursday. 😔🙏🏽 https://t.co/wPkaZQJKEY— Melanie321 (@Mellie4Justice) 4. September 2019
#TBT Every year it becomes more clear that God allowed me to be part of history. Arguably THE MOST Iconic Legendary artist of our time Michael Jacksons last work, last studio album in its entirety #Invincible was https://t.co/lKqb9wWRQR— LASHAWN DANIELS (@BIGSHIZ) 29. August 2019
This is such sad news - LaShawn was somebody on my list of people I wanted to interview. Such an incredible talent and created some phenomenal tracks to have us all dancing on the Invincible album. Rest Well. https://t.co/Uku94QbWRp— Pez Jax (@Pezjax) 4. September 2019
Damn... so young, and by such tragic means.
For those of you who haven't heard this before, this is one of his originals. (No relation to the MJ album). I discovered this song years ago while reading up on the lesser-known Invincible collaborators. I listened to it constantly; it's such a smooth throwback to early 2000s R&B, sung by someone with a vastly underrated voice. Funnily enough, I threw it on in the car two or three weeks ago out of the blue.
Check it out, and play it loud for LaShawn. Rest in peace.
Rest in peace!
Terrible news. Rest in peace Lashawn
RIP LeShawn.


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Lionsgate has released the second trailer for My Little Pony: The Movie, which sheds new light on this My Little Pony story. Along with this trailer, the studio has debuted a new poster, photos and even a GIF creator, which fans can use to create their very own GIF images from the footage released in this trailer. We also have a poster and new photos which offer better looks at new characters such as Princess Skystar, voiced by Kristen Chenoweth, Captain Celaeno, voiced by Zoe Saldana and Songbird Serenade, voiced by Sia.
The GIF creator at Gif.MyLittlePony.Movie allows fans to create GIFs anywhere between a half-second to three seconds in length, from any of the footage showcased in this trailer. This My Little Pony story is set in Ponyville, where a dark force threatens the idyllic town, and the Mane 6. These ponies, Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Rarity, embark on an unforgettable journey beyond Equestria where they meet new friends and exciting challenges on a quest to use the magic of friendship to save their home.
The film has an all-star voice cast that also includes Emily Blunt as the villainous Tempest Shadow, Liev Schreiber as The Storm King, Michael Pena as Grubber, Taye Diggs as Capper and Uzo Aduba as Queen Novo. They are joined by the original "Mane 6" from the popular My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic TV series, voiced by Andrea Libman (Pinkie Pie/Fluttershy), Tara Strong (Twilight Sparkle), Ashleigh Ball (Apple Jack/Rainbow Dash), Tabitha St. Germain (Rarity) and Cathy Weseluck (Spike). The movie also features original music and songs performed by Sia, Diggs, Saldana, Chenoweth and Blunt.
The My Little Pony franchise was originally developed by Bonnie Zacherle, Charles Muenchinger and Steve D'Aguanno, which debuted with the My Pretty Pony toy in 1981. In 1982, the My Little Pony line was launched, featuring colorful ponies with unique symbols, called "cutie marks," with the original toy line running from 1982 to 1995. The toys spawned the animated TV series My Little Pony and Friends in 1986, which ran for five seasons. The brand was unsuccessfully relaunched in 1997, but the 2003 re-launch became a global sensation again, which helped spawn the hit series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, which launched in 2010. The brand has since exploded into international, multi-media, pop culture phenomena that grossed over $1 billion in retail sales in 2014, continuing to engage and inspire kids and families in over 180 countries across the globe.
Lionsgate is releasing this My Little Pony movie in theaters nationwide on October 6, 2017, where it will square off against Warner Bros.' Blade Runner 2049 and 20th Century Fox's The Mountain Between Us. Jaysson Thiessen, who has been a supervising director on over 100 episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, is directing from a script by Rita Hsiao (Mulan, Toy Story 2), Joe Ballarini (Be Cool, Scooby Doo), Meghan McCarthy (My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Rainbow Rocks) and Michael Vogel (Transformers: Robots in Disguise). Take a look at the new trailer, poster and photos for My Little Pony: The Movie.


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We've been following Zimplit from the very moment of birth of this new open source, PHP-based micro CMS venture. Then, we covered Zimplit on a number of occasions, including when the vendor released Zimplit CMS 1.1 and evolved to the point of adding inline editing capabilities.
So what is it now, you ask? Aside from the fact that the CMS designed for "normal people, not for IT gurus" grew its customer base to more than 50,000 users around the world, Zimplit (all encouraged by this kind of attention to develop further and add new features) released a set of new features to make its little mini CMS more powerful than Mini-Me.
Zimplit says it is so thrilled by the growing customer base, it is adding new features "every day." Some of the latest significant changes include:
Browser Add-On
This changes "drastically the way you edit your website." The add-on allows you to create and edit your website "with one click" in the web browser. To learn more, check out this demo. Feel excited? Go ahead and install it and give it a try. Zimplit add-on is available for both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
Don't like browser plugins and inline editing? Zimplit has another option for you.
Zimplit Hosted Version
From micro CMS to (the growing in popularity) SaaS CMS, that's how Zimplit rolls. Recently, the vendor started offering a hosted version of its content management platform. Whether it's a true SaaS CMS proposition is a different story, but Zimplit promises that users can set up a website and e-mail account(s) in five minutes, for €1.00 per month.
New Themes
Zimplit has changed the design page and added more website themes. Check out the themes and download new ones from here.
Simple&Cheap = Best?
Good to see things moving along in the Zimplit universe, even better would be to see more content management sophistication in the upcoming product versions. Unless, of course, the purpose here is to remain as simple as possible for ever and ever and to find that comfortable and prosperous CMS market niche. Stay tuned, we're sure to hear from the "simplest CMS ever" soon.


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Signs and Symptoms of BPD
What causes BPD?
Seeking help
How friends and family can help
Where to go for help
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a serious mental illness that makes it hard for a person to feel comfortable in themselves. People with BDP have difficulty managing emotions, impulses and relating to others. They have high levels of distress and anger and can easily take offence at things other people do or say. This can cause distress in their work life, family and social life. For most people this pattern begins during their teenage years or as a young adult but the distress can improve in later adulthood.
BPD is treatable and people can live full and productive lives.
Signs and symptoms of BPD
A diagnosis of BPD is made following a psychiatric assessment, which can take time. There is no test for BDP. Not everyone who is diagnosed with BPD will experience the same symptoms or present the same and BDP can seem very different from one another.
A person with BPD will have several of these signs or features.
- A history of unusually intense and unstable relationships (e.g. Idealising someone then intensely disliking them)
- Fear that other people might leave or abandon them, including extreme emotional reactions to real or perceived abandonment
- Becoming suspicious of others and feeling detached from themselves or their surroundings when stressed
- Being very unsure of themselves, not knowing who they really are or what they really think
- Acting impulsively and taking risks that are self-damaging including risky sexual behaviour, uncontrolled spending, driving recklessly or dangerous drug and alcohol use.
- Self–harm and/or suicidal threats gestures and behaviour
- Short lived but intense emotional lows, anxiety or irritability.
- Persistent feelings of being "empty" inside
- Showing anger that is out of proportion to the trigger
Borderline personality disorder symptoms vary from person to person and women are more likely to have this disorder than men.
The term "borderline" refers to that fact that people with this condition tend to "border" on being diagnosed with additional mental health conditions in their lifetime, including psychosis.
What causes borderline personality disorder?
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What causes borderline personality disorder?
BDP is a psychological condition that is often misunderstood. People with BPD experience very intense and distressing symptoms that can be challenging to others. It is not deliberate and BPD it is not a fault with the persons 'personality' and they did not cause it.
The exact cause is not known but it is probably caused by genes as well as environmental experiences – not just one or the other. Current theories suggest that some people may have a higher genetic vulnerability and when combined with adverse childhood experiences such as loss, neglect, abuse and trauma the risk is increased. However, some people with no history of abuse can develop BPD. It is not possible to predict who will develop BDP.
Seeking help
Seeking help
It is important to seek help as BPD is a serious mental illness that can cause much distress to the person as well as their friends and family. BPD carries a risk of suicide. It is important to get an accurate diagnosis for targeted treatment.
With the appropriate treatment most people see improvement in one year and over time 80% of people will reduce their symptoms.
Seek help in the first instance via a GP. A GP can make referrals to a mental health professional, such as a psychologist or psychiatrist. Your GP is the best person to start with when looking for effective treatment for BPD.
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Individual therapy
Different kinds of therapy work for different people. Individual therapy involves seeing a skilled mental health clinician for an agreed amount of time. Therapy may be structured or unstructured or a combination of both. Clinicians may help identify problems, develop goals, ask the person to talk about whatever comes to mind or even ask them to try some things outside the session.
Group Therapy
Group therapy involves attending sessions with others who are having similar experiences. Groups usually consist of two clinicians and up to 10 group members who all work together to support one another. Groups often help people feel connected to others who are having similar experiences and provide a space to share experiences, learn new skills, deal with problems, and have fun.
Hospital Treatment
A short hospital stay can help manage a crisis or difficult time and get the person back on track. Ideally, hospital stays will be planned and talked through with the doctor or clinician.
Psychoeducation helps people with BPD and family and friends understand the illness. It can explain symptoms, treatment options and recovery. It can be done individually or in groups and may include written information, videos, websites meetings or discussions with your doctor. This can be done in conjunction with psychological treatment.
Self-Care is of equal importance. It is important to look after your body and your mind.
Medications do not usually treat personality disorders, but they may help with other difficulties such as anxiety and/or depression that are happening at the same time. As with any medications, it is always best to take it as prescribed, and avoid suddenly stopping or changing the dose without talking to the doctor first.
How friends and family can help?
How friends and family can help?
- Encourage the person to seek professional treatment
- Educate yourself about the condition
- Maintain routines
- Remain calm and have a plan for potential crisis
- Acknowledge the fears the person is experiencing and that change is difficult
- Be realistic with expectations – support problem solving by breaking things into small steps
- Seek support for yourself.
The following program is available through Borderline Personality Disorder Australia
Family Connections® is a free, 12-week course that meets weekly for two hours to provide education, skills training, and support for people who are in a relationship with someone who has BPD. Focusing on issues that are specific to BPD, it is hosted in a community setting and led by trained group leaders who are either clinicians or family members of relatives with BPD. Contact Australian BDP Foundation for more information.
Where to go for help
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Where to go for help?
In an emergency Please call 000
Mental Health Line 1800 011 511 - 24 hour service across NSW
Australian BPD Foundation
Project Air Strategy - Treatments services
Australian Psychological Society - Find a psychologist
WayAhead Information Services
WayAhead Mental Health Support Line - Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm
1300 794 991
WayAhead Anxiety Disorders Support Line - Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm
1300 794 992
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This information is for educational purposes. As neither brochures nor websites can diagnose people it is always important to obtain professional advice and/or help when needed.
This information may be reproduced with an acknowledgement to WayAhead – Mental Health Association.
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The Greenville Chamber welcomed two new AlignLife locations in Greenville last week and we were honored to be included in their celebrations and ribbon cutting ceremonies. Dr. Chelsea Sineath opened her AlignLife location at 1300 E. Washington St. on Thursday, January 22nd and Dr. Justin Berg's location at 2541 N. Pleasantburg Dr., Ste. R opened on Friday, January 23rd. AlignLife uses a conservative chiropractic approach to maximize the integrity of the nervous system. Due to the extensive malnutrition and excessive toxicity exposed to the average person, nutritional supplementation, detoxification, weight loss and natural hormone balancing services are also available. Let AlignLife help you experience all that life has to offer. For more information, you can sign up for their complimentary newsletter, schedule a free consultation with an AlignLife doctor, or try one of their pharmaceutical-grade nutritional products risk-free with their 60 day unconditional guarantee. However you decide to embrace AlignLife, we're sure it will bring you one step closer to aligning your life! AlignLife of Cherrydale AlignLife of Downtown
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