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Today i just had one of those moments where you realise how your actions and responses to have life have changed, I think they call it growing up! BUt what excited me is that I have grown up in my fathers hands, the more i have grown in my faith And the more I give my life I have found the true joy of trusting God. LIfe hasn't got any easier but I have more hope and have been so secured in God by God that what ever i am faced with i can overcome as i am not alone. : )

Sunday i found out that a good friend, colleuge and instructor died in a motor cycle accident. He was killed instantly aged 27. He had recently bought a house in the country with his girlfriend. he was saving for an engagement ring and they had even planned the songs for their wedding. Their thoughts were of the future getting married and having children. Nether are chrsitians. She has had her entire world collapse and cant deal with the idea of life with out him. She needs many prayers. Bob, has been a key person in my kayaking club teaching hundreds of people to sail, a club that was more of a family for its older memebers, staff and volunteers. I spent much of the hard times during my a levels there as it was very close to my school, bob was often there too. It is the type of place you gravitate to and can spend hours there, and bob was so key to that. His loss is impossible to believe.

YAY this evening we had one of those if this is you get up to the front times. Well this evening I was up there, God has called me to bring his light to Goldsmiths. I fell that it will start with real hard prayer for the college. There is such a great dark hold over Goldsmiths and God wants there to be light. I am really aware that this will be a mighty battle and that it will be a really spiritual battle, battling for students hearts. God hasn't really revealed to me the true depth of the darkness yet but he will and i just pray it will give me such a passion! But God has already has the victory, the battle has been won!

well this is my first Blog entry. I was inspired by Meg.Ltd to start my own blog.

I spose it starts with where i am now. I am at Goldsmiths studying BA Design, in the second term of first year ( i am pretty sure it was only freshers week last week!). My current studio project is FEAR. It all began with a group research element of the project. As the only girl in my group i got landed with the job of group leader. We were asigned the phobia, agoraphobia....the fear of leaving your safe place and the fear of having a panic attack in public. After a trip up town with a boy with his head in a box and a crash course in video editting the group part of the project was over. Then came part 2, working alone i must design a product for a suffer of agoraphobia. I began with looking at how agoraphobia could limit life, this lead to realising most things i assumed you wouldnt be able to do, you could infact do on-line. You can shop, bank, meet people, work...but what couldnt be recreated was physical touch. Physical touch is a very important part of a relationship as it can be very affirming, caring, comforting and loving. I loosly considered the physical touch in respect to holding a baby but quickly moved onto physical touch between couples. Mainly focusing on hugs and hand holding as both are much more uncomplicated aspects of physical touch within a relantionship. The project is in the development stage where I am developing a hand holding jumper/glove. Over the end of the jumper is the fingers of a hand, as you put your hand into the sleeve you slide your hand into the hand, holding hands. I am also developing a hug jumper which intialy was a number of inflatable squares taped round me where the ody of someone hugging me would be. This hug would be incorparated into a jumper. It is here where the concept of the hug jumper is still not quite defined as my tutors would like me to also explore having a hug jumper that involves both members of the couple. I playing with the idea of hug channels in the jumper in which someone hugging the wearer would put their arms when hugging them. But I am sure this will all have moved on a lot before my deadline in 2 1/2 weeks!