Good Morning, please grab a cup of coffee/tea and join us for the Friday Morning Clutch. A series of interviews with some of our favorite inspiration personalities. This is the last interview for this year. As we head into the wonderful season, life is busy, if not a whirlwind. So I will resume the first of the year. Thank you every one for stopping by, for saying hi to our featured artist and for just being you. Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and the Best of the New Year to each of you.
And here we go, it is my pleasure to introduce Enfys also known as En. If there is a jet setter among us, it is Enfys, flying between her home in Hudson FL and across the ocean to her home in the West Midlands region of UK. She is wife, mother and loving grandmother. She is design team member many times over and has a respectable list of publications to her credit. Also one of my favorite tid-bits "she has little sense of direction", her lost stories are close to my heart because I could get lost in a closet. So without further ado:
Here's En:
1. What time of the day is your time to create? Do you have any exercises that get you started?
Exercise? The only exercise I get is lifting my coffee mug to my lips! I probably create more in the evenings than earlier in the day. I am not a morning person.
2. From where or what do you take your inspiration?
I often see a stunning unusual colour combination in a fashion garment, that inspires me. I get a lot of inspiration from blogs, there is such a wealth of talent out there, and if I am having a dry spell, challenge blogs and sketches always get me kick-started again
3. Are you a neat creator or a messy one? What frustrates you most in the process?
Incredibly messy. Being messy I often search for ages for a completed die-cut/stamped image to finish a card. I know I put it on the table, but in the tornado like conditions it vanishes. I usually find it stuck to the seat of my pants when I go to bed......
4. What do you think is the most important thing in creating a card or project?
The idea............if the creative urge is there, everything flows
5. From 1 to 10 where do you rate color? What is your favorite color?
Definitely a 10. I love using unusual and clashing colours together. In crafting the colour I couldn't be without is black, it gives such a pop to any card, although funnily enough it's a colour I rarely wear.
6. If you could have an afternoon tea with any 5 people alive or not, who would you invite?
Right now, when I am in Florida, it would have to be my four little grandchildren, with the bonus that they are too young to come to tea themselves, so I would get to see my kids as well.
7. Who is your safety net?
My husband Mike, he is incredibly supportive of me, puts up with the endless hours I spend crafting, bringing me frequent cups of tea and coffee. He is proud of me as well, and that makes me feel so good
8. If you could go anywhere in the world to gather inspiration where would that place be? Real or imaginary?
I think it would have to be India - all those fabulous jewel colours and the hot sun...... I am lucky enough to have travelled pretty extensively over the years, and one of my favourite places is South Africa
9. What is your definition of comfort food?
A quick fix - I am the sort of person who eats to live not lives to eat. Having said that, my idea of heaven is a large iced carmel latte swirl with lashings of whipped cream.
10. If you could thank only one person in your life, who would that be?
It would have to be two people, I can't differentiate between them, my parents. I had a most lovely childhood, they guided my sister and myself very wisely, and although they died some years ago, I miss them still.
