My First Blog!

Hello all.......so this is me!

I have decided to set up a Blog, as you can see; and thought it would give people a chance to get to know a bit more about me & my thought processes!

So I thought my first post would be about how I got started as Katie Vale Designs. Well I've always been Katie Vale.....so it was just adding the Designs part that you are probably interested in. From a young age I've always been found making things (quite often just a mess, but not always). And when at senior school I really began enjoying art, spending a huge amount of time drawing, and creating pieces in mixed media. I've always been inspired by my Mum, who is incredibly creative & talented, and can create amazing curtains/clothes/soft furnishings from any sort of material she comes across. So I suppose being creative was always in me!

By my early 20's I'd got a bit bored, & thus signed up for an evening course in Floral Design & Floristry. My reason being that I love flowers & art, so thought the 2 went together well. I did a course for a few years, and during this time I had to create some floral head-dresses, as well as wire button holes. Before long I was adding wired beads & crystals to lots of my college work. My items were always the wacky designs, with flowers protruding from twisted metal; or strands of bear grass with wire wrapped around it, beads added to the tip & a "cage" being created over the flowers. Before long I'd fallen in love with the flexibility & durability of wire work. And so when I finished this course, I took my self straight back to college & did my first wire work class. That's where it all began.......