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ALL. YOU. NEED. IS. LOVE

28/10/2019

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PART I of V

28/10/2019

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That's It.
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PART II of V

24/10/2019

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PART III of V

18/10/2019

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PART IV of V

16/10/2019

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PART V of V

14/10/2019

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Cora Makes New

11/10/2019

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Introducing...Cora Makes!

The words 'graphic' & 'design' never really sat well with me, it just seemed too 'designy' too 'graphicky', you get me? What does it even mean ANYWAY?!

Well, according to Wiki; Graphic design is the process of visual communication and problem-solving through the use of typography, photography, and illustration.

OK, that pretty sums up exactly what I do. So why ain't it for me?

I went to this thing in Milton Keynes, a thing where you sit in a room and you watch a PPT presentation and a lady (or man) talks about business and marketing and social media and all that jazz. It was one of the better one's I have been to, to be fair. The lady (this time it was a lady) spoke - amongst other things - about growth mindset and Carol Dweck (she's super cool if you want to check her out) which is unusual, and as a fan of the CD I was impressed they linked her ideas and process to business. Common sense I guess. Ain't it always!

Any hoo, one of the things the lady also spoke about was the 60 second pitch. I dislike the word pitch in that context; pitch fork is cool, black as pitch, also cool, pitch as a perceptual property of sound, super cool. A pitch as a thing you do to people to make them buy a product, just makes me feel a bit icky. Snob, probs? Idiot? Defo. Well, one of the parameters they used to 
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A Major Influence

10/10/2019

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So, I deleted the majority of my social media accounts...Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn...and it feels SO good. I have decided my time is better spent drawing, designing, creating, making & learning. Most importantly; getting better at what I do rather than constantly worrying about content for my posts.

​I know it’s odd & maybe a little perverse but I’m not doing it as a act of self sabotage, it’s more an act of freedom. I was getting lost in the process, the pretence & the pretending. I am sure millions of people have genuine content they feel passionate about, I was just having to try so hard to find it that when I did find it it didn’t mean anything at all. I might change my mind...I may go running back, arms outstretched like a lost lover, I might never engage again...who knows. Right now, it’s a YES YES YES.
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The answer is always yes...until its not

8/10/2019

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I did it. I deleted all my social media accounts, bar Instagram. Why? Well, I will tell you when I know. Love you! X
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Evaluate. #inktober and #inktober2019

3/10/2019

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Never too early/late to revaluate. Re jig. Re Order. RE. WIND. Re RUMBLE.
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Like,

26/9/2019

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So, I was, like, OMG. Look what my mind can do, it can make the sun come out.
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The Empty Vessel...

25/9/2019

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Active Listening - Hear What People Are Really Saying

Listening is one of the most important skills you can have. How well you listen has a major impact on the quality of your relationships with others. For instance:
  • We listen to obtain information.
  • We listen to understand.
  • We listen for enjoyment.
  • We listen to learn.
Given all the listening that we do, you would think we'd be good at it! In fact, most of us are not, and research suggests that we only remember between 25 percent and 50 percent of what we hear...LISTEN we might learn something x
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Yeah, right?

24/9/2019

 
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Greta

23/9/2019

 
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Skip school, shout, march, protest, scare us. Scare everyone.

Insane in the Brain

20/9/2019

 
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The lights are blinking I'm thinking
It's all over when I go out drinking

To Do List

19/9/2019

 
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Just a day to unravel, sort out, sweep up and make good. And guess what?The To Do List is looking lovely X

Tuesday's Child

17/9/2019

 
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'Tuesday's child is full of grace. People born on a Tuesday will supposedly be very gracious, agreeable, refined, and polite in manner or behaviour.' I was not born on a Tuesday.

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16/9/2019

 
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OK.OK.OK.

LOVE IS THE PHOENIX

11/9/2019

 
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In our lives we will be many people. What one day seems unbearable is vapour the next. We cannot avoid sorrows, we can undoubtably expect change. Hold on. Light always follows dark. Love is the phoenix. - Alison Moyet

Triangles are my favourite shape. Three points where two lines meet.

9/9/2019

 
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Bite chunks out of me
You're a shark and I'm swimming
My heart still thumps as I bleed
And all your friends come sniffing.

Triangles are my favourite shape
Three points where two lines meet.
Toe to toe, back to back, let's go
My love it's very late.
'Til morning comes, let's tessellate.

Go alone my flower
And keep my whole lovely you.
Wild green stones alone my lover
And keep us on my heart.

Three guns and one goes off, one's empty, one's not quick enough
One burn, one red, one grin
Search the graves while the camera spins.
Chunks of you will sink down to seals
Blubber rich in mourning.
They'll nosh you up, yes they'll nosh the love away, but it's fair to say
You will still haunt me.
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Triangles are my favourite shape
Three points where two lines meet.
Toe to toe, back to back, let's go
My love it's very late.
'Til morning comes, let's tessellate.

Landscape

5/9/2019

 
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Its all there, you just got to find it...its OK to take your time. 

Here we are then.

4/9/2019

 
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Back at my desk and my first thought is to cardamon buns and coffee! Beans & toast, fish & chips, cheese & biscuits, its just the way it is. The law. Well, not today.

I just got to get a groove on. Get focused, write some lists, re write some lists, worry. Feel better, worry a bit more; then feel power coursing through every fibre of my being willing me on. Hell YEAH!

The Only Way is UP. Or Down. Baby.

29/7/2019

 
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Either way, its just the way you look at it. It changes day to day for me, but thats cool. Its finding the  power  to control the power that often eludes me. 

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” - Aldous Huxley

Life Soup

23/7/2019

 
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Life Soup. You gotta love it, or find a way to. Theres no way out of it, especially with a fork.

#adoodleamonthisalsook

22/7/2019

 
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OOK indeed. So, a doodle a day was being crazy on my bad self. Im gonna try one a week innit, Then a month. It was helping though, a lot, really helping, OOOk OOOk Imma gonna get back on it. Sweet. 
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