Be In The Place

April 15, 2005

by me!!

(despite being a day late) I couldn’t have asked for a better birthday present! The first copies I’ve seen of my book came in the post today! How exciting – I literally did a dance!

And it looks really cool. Thank you Rebecca Garrill for the cover design, it really suits the story perfectly. And I love the shiny sun.

My parents have now read it and my Mum has decided it’s good enough to tell her friends about. And that’s praise indeed. The rest of you have to wait until….get your calendars, filofaxes and diaries….ready?Pen? May 5th!!!

Be In The Place, Writing,

Creativity ideas #ourcreativeyear

February 21, 2022

This year, I thought it would be a good plan to try and encourage everyone to be more creative. Every month I’ll be writing a few ideas based around a prompt or theme to hopefully get you going! …

frozen lake

January 31, 2022

I just made it to the New Year, and then I got very ill indeed. It was nothing more serious than a fluey cold, but oh my god, I don’t remember the last time I felt that ill! I had hot flushes and chills (they were multiplying) and couldn’t breath lying down, so three nights of trying to sleep upright in the settee downstairs left me extra tired too. Anyway, the upshot is, even if I’d wanted to run into 2022 full steam ahead, I simply couldn’t. I was kind-of forced into a slow January…

Fairy painting

Are you an artist? Am I?

When is it ok to call yourself an artist? Is it when you sell a few pieces of work? Is it when you make a full time living from it? Is it when you are represented by a gallery or when you’ve had a well-attended solo exhibition? Or is it simply when you spend time when you can, creating art because you love it?…

Modern fairytale painting

A fairytale in a painting

November 4, 2022

I don’t know if you had the same thing when you were at school, but once a week or so, we’d all be handed a card and we’d have to write a story about the picture on it. I remember it quite clearly because I’d look forward to that lesson and I always wanted to write an amazing story, but I was never inspired by the picture so I was always disappointed with what I wrote….

Barbie Fairytopia

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