Jubilee Cupcake

I'm not what you would call patriotic but I've been dying to make some thing for a while. I'm making a cupcake headband for a jubilee tea party I've been invited to at the weekend. I've crocheted a cupcake from a pattern in one of my favourite craft books by Twinkie Chan. I've chosen blue, red and white. I'm going to use my glue gun to attach it to the side of an Alice band. Just a bit of fun but it was good to make something again.

Link to journal paper

My first journal paper has finally been published! It can be accessed through Emerald:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17035892&ini=aob

Hopefully this will be the first of many and the start of a successful career in research (fingers crossed).   

Knitted Kittens Craft Group

I'm still so busy so sorry blog posts have been slow to non-existent but I'm happy to report that I've nearly finished my first draft of my 4th chapter (Data Collection and Analysis) and I'm pretty happy with it so far. As this chapter has been formed from the opinions and perspectives of my participants it's been the most interesting to write by far and has come together really quickly.
Anyway here is another fabulous poster designed by Sophie Daniels for the next Knitted Kittens craft club.

 
I've been busy spending a lot of time on applications applying for jobs and sorting out my first three chapters so they can be assessed within the department and it pulled me out of working on my analysis, as a result I had become somewhat distant with my data. However, when I read the transcript for the Knitted Kittens focus group it really inspired me again and reminded me about all the great things in my study. It rekindled my passion and interest in the domain and since then my work has been coming together really easily. Knitted Kittens is the best thing that I have ever done for this study (maybe one of the best things I've done ever!) and I'm glad it's going to be with me when I have finished my research.