Season’s Greetings and Merry Christmas! And Thank you!

December 25, 2018

purple christmas baubles

Hello! This is just a very quick message to say I wish you very happy season’s greetings and Merry Christmas! I hope you’re having a lovely holiday and will have a very merry new year!

By the way, thank you very much if you took the time to vote for me in the UK blog awards, whether or not I make it to the shortlist next year, I appreciate it so much!
See you in 2019! May you have a good one 🙂

Musings and ramblings, Writing,

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?…

handmade Christmas cards

Giving handmade Christmas cards

December 8, 2021

There’s something about sending handmade Christmas cards that’s loaded with all kinds of baggage. A few people will get it. My cousin will get it. My mother and sister-in-laws will get it, because I know they love to craft. Oh – I can actually think of two of my friends who are creative souls, but I don’t think the majority of people receiving my cards will fully understand why I do it….

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…

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….

If you don’t love yourself, don’t panic! My problem with “inspirational” quotes & musings on self-esteem

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