Thankyou to everyone who has commented so far. I've been very touched by some of your comments via facebook and email. I've only recently started showing my work to anyone, and to receive such warm feedback gives me confidence.
I've been working the past couple of days; I got so tired after my shifts that I didn't find time to make anything. However, tomorrow I plan to continue with mounting the Shoreline triptych. The three panels will be viewed through apertures in silk mounted on a cotton lining, then I will knit a border in natural coloured hemp fibre yarn and take a photo to post on here. It all has to be done and handed in by 1st July for the end of year exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in Bristol. There is a private viewing at 6pm on 2nd July if anyone is in the area with nothing to do! It's on for four days and I can't wait to see what my co-participants are entering.
I'd very much like to go on and do the MA in Textiles (Contemporary Dialogues) in Swansea University, but alas there is no sign of movement financially, and until this happens, I must work full time. I often wonder how other artists make a living if they don't teach, or have other careers. How does one pay all the bills when an income isn't guaranteed?
I have a career as a social worker doing nights on an emergency duty team, but recently I've been feeling that I can't continue doing such a high-stress job for much longer. Working nights for longer hours than my day-time counterparts, frees up my daytime for making art (when I'm not too tired) and I can't imagine going back to working days.
Something has to shift methinks and I feel a change is looming on the horizon.

Today I've started designing my website. I've been banging on about it for years, and have researched various ways of getting myself out there, but have always stumbled at the first hurdle when deciding what to call it, what it should look like, which provider to use etc. This has been a creative block in itself.

Things are moving for me in the artistic side of my life, and I am entering a textile art work in the forthcoming end of year exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art in Bristol (2nd - 6th July 2010).  Seems like now would be a good time to get my finger out and put a website together so that people can see the various threads of my creative life in one place.

I'm publishing it today, as this will ensure that I continue to add to it; though it only has a few bits and pieces on it yet, and most pages are still under construction. I hope to update the blog regularly with pictures and commentary on process. I have so many ideas, but until now they've been floating aimlessly in a lumpy and directionless, albeit colourful soup.

I am so easily distracted by ideas, and often abandon projects before they reach fruition;  being seduced by the next creative impulse. I'm sure other artists experience this, and it takes a lot of discipline to follow a thread through to completion. I'm trying to break this pattern (or chaotic lack of pattern!) and hopefully adding my art to the website and blog will help me stay focussed.

I'd love to hear from other artists about how they tackle this problem, and any comments on this or the work itself will be much appreciated from artists and others alike.

Wish me luck!