Ramblings

So, it turns out that May and Natasha are quite "shy" and do not enjoy posting on the blog. Hm. I suppose it's all up to me. Be prepared for vast quantities of meaningless babble as I am incapable of writing anything else. Ah well.

We've been having quite a few discussions about Ellerslie privately on Facebook. This makes it hard for anyone else to know what we're thinking, as, well, it's private. But I have gained May and Natasha's permission to publish bits of our conversation. Only the relevant bits about Ellerslie, though. Not the bits relating to mangoes, cushions, soup etc. etc.

Note: After a long struggle with myself, I decided not to correct any of the following spelling or grammatical errors.




Natasha:

I'm touring my city, I've found heaps of inspiration! LOTS of ideas which I'm planning to discuss with you'll once I get back.

[blah blah blah]

Other important things- how are we going about asking money for ellerlsie? Should I write up a proposal? How much time do we have? Are we taking it too lightly? I'm worried about the finances!

Are we going with multi-level? If yes, then we need lots of materials!! aaaaaaaaaaaaargh! I'm freaking out here, dedicating today for research! By the time I come back, I think we should each have an impressive set of 3 design ideas! main complete ones, maybe not decided on the materials and all, just create 3 different types of spaces, so we'll have 9 good ideas to start off with. We'll keep eliminating or adding the good ideas to one main design idea! OMGOSH! I hope you're understanding what I'm saying! let me know if you need me to call you! I know I can sound foolish when I write

Overall, I think we should have 2 main ideas, 2 because, one can be ambitious, but if something fails like- maybe we don't have the budget or maybe we don't get laborers, or materials, we can resort to the other simpler project/design idea without having to start from scratch. Of course, the 2 designs should have the same character and feel, only different in complexity and difficulty level~ :)
Lots to discuss! I am trying to get back by 12th, assuming it wouldn't be too late. HOPEFULLY!


May:

yeah, i know how u feel on the finances but we should focus on the design idea 1st cause we need an amazing jaw dropping design plan to get them spending $ on us :P

anyways, I <3>


Zara:

I like your idea of each of us coming up with three ideas. I also had an idea. In the meeting Kate stressed the importance of keeping to the brief - so I thought that, before we actually started designing something, we should make a list of everything that conveys to us a feeling of tranquility, calm, and peace, and seeing if we can translate some of those things into our designs.


Natasha:

I like the idea of jotting down stuff, we could play "word association" it always helps! It should surely be one of the first things we do before we run off designing, but as we agree on each of us coming up with 3 designed spaces, we could do the jotting individually and later when we are each discussing our 3 design ideas, we could say how we thought it was peaceful, etc.! and how we came to design that blah space! Okay, now I'm assuming that's what you meant us to do in the first place, but you know my habit of stating the obvious :P

I;m trying to look up different types of gardens, we are supposed to be doing a courtyard garden I know, but I thought it would be interesting (note: not May interesting) to use certain features of another type of garden in the "courtyard" garden. I got very inspired by you Zara! the "suburban courtyard garden" is a fatteh idea!


May:

what i had in mind now is some woodland forest with bird sing...
err... i'm kinda dont know what to put on the blog.... *shy*



And that really is all we've come up with at the moment. It is difficult to compare swell ideas when one person is overseas and the other two live so far apart it's ridiculous. One of us really needs to get a car.

Well folks, that's all I have time for at the mo!!! I'll post the brief for Ellerslie up when I next get some free time. My family from India has arrived and they're taking up a lot of time! (Not complaining! Time exists to be passed in cheerful company. Or with dvds and hot chocolate in bed.)



Zara.