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spillustrate
- Feb 27, 2022
- 2 min
Family Visit
often dread people coming to visit. I’m such an extreme introvert that it is a struggle having people invade my safe space with their...
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spillustrate
- Feb 19, 2022
- 2 min
Being an artist and complex-PTSD
I had a blog post half prepared and then I met up with an artist friend and I thought I would write about that. We always cover a wide...
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spillustrate
- Feb 11, 2022
- 2 min
Spillustrate Team
Since I set up my website a while ago, my work has been evolving as I continue with my coursework and I’ve been having a major rethink...
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spillustrate
- Feb 4, 2022
- 2 min
Preparing for my birthday
It has been a hard week this week. Since being much more aware of my feelings and emotions I have to deal with stuff rather than block it...
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spillustrate
- Jan 29, 2022
- 2 min
I'm back, plus Fear
That was a tough week. I’m so self conscious, making an audio tape presentation to hand in for my coursework was a killer. Not to mention...
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spillustrate
- Jan 22, 2022
- 1 min
Holding post
Just a very quick note....I am really struggling to get my already late Assignment ready to be handed in, trying not to be stressed (deep...
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spillustrate
- Jan 13, 2022
- 3 min
Giving and Receiving
[Before I get onto the main post, my migraines follow a familiar pattern, the week after I have recurrent minor episodes of nausea and...
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spillustrate
- Jan 8, 2022
- 2 min
Migraine / timeout
I’ve been out of action the last 36 hours with a migraine. In the past I have been quite secretive about any “off days”, seeing them as a...
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spillustrate
- Dec 31, 2021
- 1 min
Post xmas catch up
Well I tried to post last week but I just couldn’t get on my website, and I was too time pressured to try again. The good news is that I...
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spillustrate
- Dec 16, 2021
- 2 min
Family and Reality
A really ironic thing happened yesterday, my father, from whom I have been estranged for the past 30 years, sent me an email with his...
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spillustrate
- Dec 10, 2021
- 2 min
Pre Christmas meltdown
It’s been a funny old week as I had my annual pre christmas meltdown. The good news is that I used to have this in October so early...
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spillustrate
- Dec 3, 2021
- 2 min
Updates and procrastinations
page of visual diary from a few years ago I’ve had a quiet week, my Moderna booster was on Tuesday and like so many people I had 48 hours...
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spillustrate
- Nov 26, 2021
- 2 min
Neuro diversity (again)
(Just a random sketchbook page to accompany this post) I have posted previously about being interested in the topic of neurodiversity and...
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spillustrate
- Nov 18, 2021
- 2 min
Report back on Thought Bubble
An interesting table at Thought bubble Well, overall the Thought Bubble experience was a bit of an anticlimax. Firstly, I think because...
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spillustrate
- Nov 11, 2021
- 2 min
Feedback versus Criticism
I have always struggled with feedback / criticism. I have said before on my blog that in an ideal world I would prefer to play a piece...
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spillustrate
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
Excited or anxious?
The cat helping with the printing last week, they find the press so comfy. My mood has been cycling recently round and round in an...
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spillustrate
- Oct 29, 2021
- 2 min
Back again but not getting very far.
It’s been a funny old time, enforced absence from my work, computer broken, fixed, but actually not really working that well…. So I spent...
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spillustrate
- Oct 27, 2021
- 1 min
Back again
I didn’t post last week as my computer crashed. Hopefully after a little trip away, a mini break at the computer shop, it is back up and...
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spillustrate
- Oct 14, 2021
- 4 min
Neuro diversity
Meeting up with an art friend. I always come away from meeting my art friend high as a kite and my head exploding with ideas. And that is...
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spillustrate
- Oct 8, 2021
- 1 min
Speaking out against violence towards women by police officers.
I spent last weekend helping a dyslexic friend write a letter of complaint about the police handling of an assault. A man had launched an...
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