First off, if you check out the Events page, you will notice a new event (in addition to my Pompeii to Paris talk): Flourish. “To flourish is to grow, thrive and blossom. To flourish is to develop succeed and prosper. To flourish is to attract attention, make bold gestures, standout from the crowd.” The textile design students at Massey University have been creating gorgeous one-off silk scarves as a fundraiser for Downstage Theatre.  If you are lucky enough to be in Wellington you can visit an exhibition of the scarves  at Thistle Hall, and attend a fantastic evening at Downstage to bid on one of the fabulous scarves. And the scarves  are fabulous – I’ve been watching the students create them and drooling over the designs!  They have put hours and hours of work into the designs, and they can only get one true printing off of them. Second, you may have noticed my new poll function on the sidebar.  I’ll be running weekly lighthearted polls about textiles and fashion and pretty much anything and …