Happy New Year

It’s 2023 and it’s starting as a warm one here in Norfolk UK. We rang in the new year as a family, including our daughter’s boyfriend. It was a fun evening of laughter, just dance, Wii sports and alcohol-free bubbly.

We look forward to 2023 as a year of being happy, healthy, and full of things we love to do.

The end of 2022 finished in a bit of a blur, with both Hubby and I testing positive for the dreaded Covid a week before festivities, and our son having a horrible cold, but a negative C test. Our daughter on Xmas eve announced she was feeling ropey, but remains negative.

My December started well – I started a new job, my first in 6 years, I am now a part-time librarian for our local library, and my new employer is super keen to know what I can bring to the library artistically, so watch this space for potential classes being run by you know who!  I took part in a local craft fayre and sold a journal there, it covered the cost of the table at least, and we all bought things from other stallholders so we definitely gave back to the community.

I have also been excited to sell a journal on Etsy, it was a lovely Grunge Botanical folder made from the base of an Amazon package, so that’s something to ensure I keep going with, it’s a slow burner, especially as I am not promoting it at all, but I’m happy people are liking my work enough to buy it.

I had some art showing in an exhibition for 2 days before Christmas and I am so super happy to say that I sold a piece. Apparently, it could have sold twice over, so that’s one to do again in the future 🙂

Due to illness, my art took a back seat over the festivities, all my ideas of “I can do loads of art college practice” went out of the window and I struggled to even achieve doodles for a few days. 

So here we are in January 2023.  I spent a lovely time on New Years’ eve and New Year’s Day in the studio, tidying up and generally making marks on papers, I followed a lovely matchbox tutorial from The Ugly Art Club, and a Big Painting from Laura Horn Art class, some Awesome Art School classes.

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