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Working on Something for the Little Ones …

Like many young children, my toddler and older baby love that Antipodean canine and her family, Bluey. To be honest, I probably like it as much as them. I can quite often be found chuckling at Bandit, Chilli and their offspring, sometimes when the kids have given up watching. We hope to be moving next […]

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Work in Progress

The worst thing about running an arts not for profit and home educating my children is that I don’t often get to work on my own art as something always comes up to get in the way; or I feel such guilt about doing something for myself, which is meant to be my career, that […]

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SLAM Fridays: SHAPE CLOSING PARTY

Why is it that whenever anything big is meant to happen I get ill?  I don’t know why but that is what always seems to happen.  A couple of weeks ago I came down with a bloody awful virus and I am having a nightmare trying to shake it.   Tomorrow is the closing party […]

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New Website Finally Finished

So a few weeks ago I decided I hated my website and convinced I didn’t have enough to do already, I decided to tear it down and start all over again. It has taken me a huge amount of time and at various points I have thought about giving up on it but I am […]

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My Shop Is Online

So I haven’t written for a while (well outside of my moaning about the lack of thought toward disabled artists by a gallery) so I thought I would catch you up on what I have been doing. Well outside of creating art, having pointless boat trips to galleries and home educating my children I have […]

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Day 7: Book Turned Up and Submission to Photobook Show

Well today despite poorliness I have done 2 new things (kind of).  I have started to open my mind to self-healing through chanting, the power of aum and hypnosis and I have submitted to the Photobook Show. When I say I have submitted, what I mean is my book turned up this morning and I […]

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Something New a Day: Day 6 — I applied to join a very choosy network

Well today on my journey of re-wiring my brain and feeling the fear but doing it anyway I attempted to join a rather selective Arts Network.  I always find these things awkward and I don’t really like the idea of them; after all art is subjective so someone judging me and something that is very […]

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Fragments Selected for SELF exhibtion

I was very happy yesterday morning when I discovered that Fragments has been chosen by Young Quay at Quay Arts to feature in their curated exhibition, SELF. If you are on the Isle of Wight between 1st March and the end of April then please do pop in an have a look. The Private View […]

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Something New a Day, Day 4: Create a Fake Social Network

I was unable to post yesterday as I spent all day creating the fake social network and then felt so unwell I went to bed.  Anyhow you will probably wonder why anyone would want to create a fake social network if it wasn’t for bad reasons.   Well  I have been working on an art […]

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Change your Life Day 3: Poetry Submission to Ninth Letter

So today’s new thing is  I submitted a collection of six of my poems to University of Illinos’ literary journal the Ninth Letter.  Although I am well aware that nothing will probably come of any of this I think the main thing is that I am trying to make a positive change in my life […]