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spillustrate
- Jul 14, 2022
- 3 min
Events of last week (part2)
Third event: Attending the comic book fair in Macclesfield, MACC-POW. I had to do this as part of my course, putting my work out there,...
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spillustrate
- Jul 7, 2022
- 2 min
Events of last week (part 1)
What a week it was! By a weird synchronicity, 3 totally unconnected things came together one after another just to make life more...
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spillustrate
- Jul 3, 2022
- 2 min
Rocks
I’m writing this ahead to time as I’ve got a very busy end of week coming up. The last few days have been filled with anxiety. Why did I...
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spillustrate
- Jun 24, 2022
- 3 min
Signed up for a course!
I posted a few weeks ago about what I might do in the future and then an email dropped into my account with a newsletter from LDComics....
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spillustrate
- Jun 16, 2022
- 1 min
Working in Zine 4
I’ve managed to get back to work again, (it’s just showing up in the studio, you end up working by default) and I’ve been grappling with...
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spillustrate
- Jun 11, 2022
- 2 min
Head exploding time
After virtually a week off, I’m back in my studio after a busy social time, family visiting here and me visiting family. Now I’m trying...
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spillustrate
- Jun 3, 2022
- 2 min
End of an era
Funny old week. I handed in my final Assignment for my degree in Visual Communications this week. It should have been a great moment of...
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spillustrate
- May 27, 2022
- 1 min
Working on Zine 4
Quite apart from real life problems, I’ve been working on Zine 4 and it has brought up lots of pesky emotions which just get in the way!...
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spillustrate
- May 21, 2022
- 2 min
Family Events
Health update: I can sum this up as “Irritatingly unresolved” The biopsy showed normal tissue but the surgeon thought he had missed the...
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spillustrate
- May 13, 2022
- 2 min
Still with the health stuff
A weird, full on week, overall. In the last 10 days I have seen 5 different medics for 3 different issues! Having not seen any doctors...
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spillustrate
- May 6, 2022
- 2 min
Interesting times (for me personally)
We have all been living through “interesting times” recently with the pandemic and now the war in Ukraine but this week I have been going...
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spillustrate
- Apr 29, 2022
- 3 min
Other people's responses are out of one's hands
A weird thing happened in my Yoga class last night. My teacher came up to me and in front of a few other people said, really intensely,...
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spillustrate
- Apr 23, 2022
- 3 min
Making decisions....hijacked by a migraine
I’m going to attend a small comic book fair in July and need stuff for the table. I will have my zines, business cards and my tea towels...
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spillustrate
- Apr 14, 2022
- 1 min
Landmark moment
I’m really winding things up this end, so nearly at the finishing posts for my course… I’ve just sent the final copies of Zines 1, 2 and...
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spillustrate
- Apr 8, 2022
- 2 min
Illness behaviour and Tea Towels!
I’ve written before about having migraines, well this week I’ve been poorly all week. It has been very useful with Covid around, everyone...
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spillustrate
- Apr 1, 2022
- 2 min
Vulnerability hangover
So I handed in (via the internet) my penultimate Assignment and instead of feeling relief and lightness, I plunged into a 2 day (and...
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spillustrate
- Mar 26, 2022
- 2 min
Pride
I’ve been thinking about pride a lot this week. Of course pride can be a good thing but I think I notice about myself that pride is a big...
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spillustrate
- Mar 18, 2022
- 2 min
Loneliness
A follow up to last week is that I had to put a ban on myself getting fixated on an issue which I had no control over, no say in and...
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spillustrate
- Mar 10, 2022
- 2 min
Loyalty and confusion and knowing you're right
What do you do when you feel very angry about someone’s behaviour and everyone around you insists that you are the difficult one and they...
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spillustrate
- Mar 4, 2022
- 2 min
A good book on Emotional Neglect
I’m going to add a book list to my blog as I’ve been reading a new book that has been really helpful. I’ve struggled to find books that...
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