Yes, I am officially the worst blogger...IN THE WORLD EVER!

I am always reading blogs but never have anything to add to mine. Well, that's a lie, I am just lazy sometimes.

At the moment I am feeling a bit light headed with life and how quickly it is moving and changing. The gallery is going really well although it still feels fragile. You can get quite obsessed with work/life/money/goals but sometimes I suppose you need to just 'let things happen' and hope for the best.

I feel a bit like the girl in the picture above ... but with more of a gormless face at the moment.

:-)

Back from holiday and feeling refreshed with a bit of a tan. Had a very relaxing time mainly doing a lot of this:





Of course, we had to take over at karaoke! Back to normality now with the Gallery etc. Seem to have 10 ton of work to do but that's okay. I have also managed to plant my veg at last! Hopefully, it will grow and we can look at getting some chickens!

Well, since we opened our gallery lots has been happening. Apologies to all the poeple/friends who have emailed me recently. I haven't had a chance to catch up!

I am off to Spain for a week in the sun on Saturday. Hopefully this will give me an opportunity to relax, take stock of what's been happening these past few months and then work out how to move on. Oh, and get a lovely tan!

Well, at last I can finally share my news.  I didn't want to jinx it until we finally got the keys but my business with my Mum has now moved up a notch.  On Thursday we got the keys to our first ever Gallery!  It is situated in Yoxford, Suffolk and was once an art gallery so all the lighting etc is there already.  We have now started moving in our bits and bobs and are busy painting walls, taking down shelves, building desks and finding great artwork!

On display will be a selection of fine-art, sculpture, prints and ceramics (only the very best of course!).  So far, we have around 10 artists and are looking to open up on the first weekend in May so I am a bit nervous.

As you can see from the pictures the gallery needs new signage etc and there is a  temporary sign in the window-luckily we can pull down the blind behind the window display at the moment as it's a bit of a mess inside with all our paint!

Oh...and it's going to be christened 'The Art Garden Gallery'......

More updates soon......

Changes, changes, changes....

At the moment there is a LOT of exciting things happening on the horizon. They involve Old Parish Rooms, a little village, some beautiful paintings and lots of hard work.. I can't say just yet but I promise to reveal all in the next week or so... :-)

This week I have impressed myself - I have managed to get three print jobs to the printers in one day! Hows that for stress?

Only one has come back so far so I am still waiting for the other two which is the nail biting part! Here is job number one: I had to get it set up in one day for a rush mail out which went out on Thursday. It is a double sided A5 flyer which promotes digital 'one-to-one' workshops by Tony Pick. It had to tie in with the wedding booklet I made previously but have a separate tear off booking form - I have used a similar colour scheme etc.

And, guess what? I am famous! I am on one side as I have to model for any portrait/lighting workshops. The day the picture was taken it started to snow and I was absolutely freeeeeeezing! Check out the wellies........

FRUSTRATED.....

This is about the only image I have been able to 'squeeze' out of me in the past six weeks or so. Do you ever find you loose all sight of what it is you are trying to achieve because you are simply trying to do too much all at once. I have a dreaded 'to-do' list literally as long as my arm and currently getting longer (the list, not my arm).

Today, I could not concentrate on ANY of it so instead made even more 'to-do' lists to see if that would help...it didn't. So instead of doing nothing (which I CANNOT physically make myself do) I wrote a list of 10 things in my life I am currently happy with to make myself feel better:

1. Matthew
2. Carrot cake
3. The thought of organising my garden and perhaps getting some chickens
4. Making sales
5. Daffodils in my garden
6. Living by the sea and going for a walk there every week
7. Online shopping
8. My woodburner (I have no heating at the moment)
9. Smell of clean clothes
10. And how could I forget......wine...

I also wrote a 'things that are really pissing me off' list- this is highly recommended if you are feeling frustrated because you can go back and read it and it will make you laugh. Plus, it gets you off facebook if you want to waste some time! :-)