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Aug 22 min
Epiphanies, revelations, emotions
This week has been a roller coaster of emotions. I have made huge leaps forward, experienced happiness and contentment that I thought...
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Jul 112 min
Trip away
I never want to go away from my home where I feel so comfortable and safe but one of my offspring FORCED me to go down to London to see...
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Jun 241 min
So now a break from zines and back to printing?
I have not been feeling like doing my blog in the last 6 weeks but I’ve recently come back to wanting to do it again. What put me off?...
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Mar 211 min
Careful what you wish for!
We lurch from day to day. This week we had a total power cut. So having been complaining about too much noise we were abruptly catapulted...
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Jan 72 min
Review of last year
I notice that some of the bloggers I follow had done recaps of last year and I thought it was a good idea. I have 3 rather different...
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Nov 1, 20231 min
A busy time
I’ve fallen a bit behind with my posts. Life got busy for a variety of unrelated reasons, all adding up to me not posting. I think that...
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Oct 16, 20231 min
Working on cards
I've moved over to spray paints for the time being.
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Oct 9, 20231 min
Working but doing what?
Working in my sketch books. Not much to talk about this week. I’m working on more printing although at the moment I’m not happy with it....
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Oct 4, 20233 min
Meeting new people, doing new things.
Another very busy weekend. This time I made my way to the Lakeland Comic Festival. The Lake District is very beautiful even in the rain....
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Sep 25, 20232 min
Busy time, physical and mental.
After a very busy weekend in lots of different random ways, I have needed to be gentle with myself. I have been over in my studio and...
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Jul 18, 20231 min
A bit more printing
This time, adding a second colour. It’s funny that I spent all week thinking about doing it, putting it off, doing other stuff....then...
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Jul 8, 20232 min
Music / Art
I am experiencing some similarities between my music and my art. When I first started going to adult education lessons I would find...
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Jun 17, 20232 min
Cleaning up after printing
I did some more printing this week, trying to ease myself back into it. Last week was using water based inks and this week I went back to...
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Jun 10, 20232 min
Slow, slow, slow
This week I have been rejigging my studio around to start printing in it (I used to print in our basement before but the cats made it...
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Jun 4, 20231 min
Back to printing
So let’s have a break from my internal world for a bit and go back to printing! Plans, getting ready. First I’m still needing to set up...
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May 14, 20232 min
Printing! I'm meant to be printing!
As always, life takes over what we think we should be doing. I meant to really embark on hand printing but instead got led down other...
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May 6, 20233 min
Migraines and yoga
A week ago I woke up feeling fine, had a quick walk to the shop which was lovely, fresh and peaceful, the birds singing, which was lovely...
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Jan 29, 20232 min
Working on Zine 5
I’m back at work at Zine 5 now. It is slow progress, slowly whittling away at the pages, putting things together and then fiddling around...
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Dec 16, 20221 min
Big Surprise!
Just got my degree result and I got a FIRST! Was not expecting that. Reading through the feedback I think it was my pecha kucha...
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Dec 12, 20222 min
Working on Zine 5
I’m eating the elephant one mouthful at a time….it feels like glacial progress but I have actually got some sort of plan for the entire...
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