Design diary

Yesterday I visited the autumn Malvern show, during the show I saw a range of flowers and garden displays. This show, however, was quite different to the spring show as there was a higher focus on large vegetable competitions rather than flowers due to the time of year. This has allowed me to really see how, throughout the year how gardens can change and develop. Over the next week, I will try and sketch some of the flowers I’ve seen and research some of them that I particularly liked.

Creativity test Today we attempted the creativity test; it allowed us to see what skills we innately had in terms of creativity. Shockingly , my highest one was boldness, and my lowest was perception, a skill which has improved but not my best skill over time. After taking the test, Eloise and I tried doing the test as each other to see if our perceptions of each other were the same as our perceptions of ourselves. After taking the test as Eloise, it glaringly showed my perception of her and my "boldness"! However, her more subdued and observant nature meant that her score was the same as mine when she pretended to be me.  On the left, you see me as Eloise- it's clear that I have a more "yes" "no" mentality toward Eloise's personality traits rather than a more whimsical "maybe" that others may have. On the right, you can see Eloise's results as me, showing she sees most of the skills I also see within myself. To me, this shows she...