Where I've been

Sheepish hellos from me as it's so very very long since I've been here

So, what have I been doing? Well, I returned to work full time, being an accountant for a charity and it sucked all creativeness from me. Then, it put me through hell from April this year - talking about outsourcing and then finally making me redundant. I officially finish on the 10th December but am currently at home trying to find another job and getting cared about the whole thing.

So, how about you guys (if anyone still has a link to me that is)?

I hate feeling the way that I am doing at the moment - scared, anxious, worried, unable to look forward to Christmas, concerned about money (I don't put the heating on during the day - wrap myself in blankets and wear a hat indoors etc etc). I feel like I could be getting depressed or going slowly mad here because there's a big part of me inside that is screaming help help help and scrabbling around in fear at what is to come in the world. Everything I see on the TV, every bit of news I hear on the radio just makes me more anxious.

Is it just me?

I can't eat properly with these feelings inside me - I'm full of fear and can't get the food down. Great for my weight but it means I don't have clothes that fit so that's more expense!

Agony and frustration

I've got a bad back / shoulder and it damn well hurts. I'm loving my new job but am exhausted before the end of the working day so I'm not able to give my all as I would wish. I've got loads of pics and things to share and I so want to get on with art but it's painful to sit, to be on the PC or do anything for long.

I hope that doesn't come across as a whinge too far - I just want to be back to my normal and get on with everything!

Waving

I am here, honest! I've started a new job (which I love) but have picked up a shoulder / back injury that is severely limiting computer and art / craft time - not so good

I'll be back properly when I can

Sending love

Retrospectively Proud

All of this digging keeps turning up work that I've done in the past. Like many, I've always been hypercritical of my own efforts, but given a bit of perspective, I'm really proud of some of the pieces I've seen. I'll try to get a few pics up next week - plus I'm going to have a textiley giveaway......

Altered art goodies Update

Digging out goodies to send off is providing me with so much fun that I'm clearing out the spare bedroom storage at the same time. I'm determined that everyone who has asked for stuff will get some goodies, so please bear with me while I dig around.

Remainder of pages

Here are the rest - I love the last one the most

Artist book exchange

I took part in an artist book exchange earlier in the year. I ended up having to alter a small stapled book called something like Great British Eccentrics - I retitled it Odd Birds and had a great time interpreting that. Here and in the next post are the images of my pages.

All of the entries will be shown online and then there will be a swap about so I end up with someone else's art - how cool is that?!