#ColourFriday

So today is #colourfriday – an initiative started by the fabulous Holly Tucker MBE the original founder of Not on the Highstreet

Yesterday I met Holly, in Norwich, where she came to talk with around 100 small businesses from East Anglia, to promote her Colour Friday scheme. This scheme aims to ditch “black Friday” and encourage all to get back to shopping with Small, Local, and Entrepreneurs. It was an amazing event, I can’t even begin to explain how honoured I felt being there listening to her, in real life, and being in the presence of so many small business owners. I almost – but not quite – felt like a fraud for being there!

I have this morning been trawling everyone’s posts I can from yesterday, and I’ve already made a purchase! However, my biggest takeaway from the day is:

I CAN DO THIS!!!! I can be an artist, and I can sell my wares, I just have to work hard at promoting myself (not good at that) and believing in myself (again that’s not an easy thing for me to do!)

So here goes

Hello, My name is Donna, I am an artist, and I have an Etsy store where you can buy some of my Journals and my Original Artworks. I also enter my work into Art Exhibitions and Craft Fayres.

Donna Holmes November 2022