I have a website!

Which is currently down.

And two shops!









By the way, I am now taking commissions!

If you're looking for my art, just look here!

MY ART MASTERLIST
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If you're looking for my fics, just look here!

MY FICTION MASTERLIST
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I thought it was time to put up a commission post with a price guide-line.

I will do original or fanart. I will also make greeting cards. I could be talked into making custom made notebooks. Rather than put up a boring list of things I will or won't draw, you can just contact me so we can talk it over. The exact price will depend upon complexity of the piece.

For examples of my art:
B&W Ink
Watercolours
Lino Prints

Because LJ is being a drag as usual here's a link to the price guide tables on my website

What happened? There's a new user agreement? How bad are things now?

Even though I had said I would be around more, I haven't been. Work was killing me for a while in february and march. Then I had personal and family things in April. Also I have been quite down and depressed for a month or so now.

But I am still alive, still making myself get up in the morning and do stuff.

What has everyone else been up to? Is LJ still a thing or have people moved to DW now?

Social media is addictive and a great time waster, but ultimately just depresses me with the futility of existence.

We are all seeking validation through it in our own way, and we all count our likes and shares obsessively. We all know that when it comes down it it is pointless, but whatever.

I often wonder if there is something wrong with me with how uncomfortable selfie culture makes me some time. I know all these brilliant and interesting and smart people who seem to take a ridiculous amount of selfies to share. I have been told by friends that my facebook is boring because I don't have enough photos of myself on it.

Truth is, I photograph badly, mainly because I don't like being photographed. I become self conscious and put on funny faces. And I feel slightly ridiculous taking selfies usually. I do like taking reflections of myself in interesting and distorting surfaces, but that feels more like art.

Also I don't want to be judged on how I look. I am so much more than that. The way I look is the one of the least interesting things about me. I have long ago got over most of my image issues and am mostly happy with the way I look now - except for that extra weight I put on in the last year from stress eating. But still I don't really want to take selfies.

And I wonder is there really something wrong with me? Is everyone else a lot more well adjusted and happy with themselves than me, and that's why they fill their facebook feed with smiling photos of themselves? Does anyone else feel like me?

This is my favourite profile pic for social media so far. I think it is a really cool photo, not all my friends agree.

Things are slowly getting better with my mother. Thank you everyone for your kind words and thoughts!

Currently I am cold, bored and looking forward to returning to London to be honest.

I keep telling myself I need to take baby steps to get back into the swing of blogging.

Now is the time of new year's resolutions and people looking back at their year.

My new year's resolutions:
1. work on getting a better job
2. be more physically active
3. eat better
4. try to save money
5. get back into creating art and crafts
6. try to resurrect my abandoned wordpress website/blog

You know the standard stuff.

I would rather not look back at 2016. It was a hard year, but I made it through.

This is a very familiar story to a lot of you. Everyone has family who got sick or died over the holidays.

Last year my father had cancer. He learnt about it at the end of November, and we all suffered through the worry and uncertainty until he managed to have his operation in the beginning of February.

This year I was looking forward to a relaxed christmas and have been in a gift buying and card making frenzy for weeks. The only person I haven't bought a present for is my mother, because she is difficult and I want to get her something she will like.

But now all I can think is what is the point?

My mother had a stroke this morning. And I'm stuck in London so I can't go to the hospital and see her. Or my father. It's early to say how bad it will be. But its the weekend. And ever since the crisis greek hospital have been struggling with lack of equipement, necessities and staff.

The doctors said it was a light stroke, but she isn't talking. And it looks like probably she can't understand what my father and sister are telling her. And if she can't speak or understand english, then no way will she be able to speak and understand greek.

I don't know what to do. I am too far away. It is the christmas period so even if I managed to be able get compassionate leave or something from work to leave a couple of days earlier, the plane fares will practically be my whole monthly wage right now.

A quick fly-by post. Anyone living in London want to come to a concert with me tomorrow? None of my friends can make it (probably because I don't have enough friends.)

I have a second ticket for Maroune Hajji and the Master Musicians of Jajouka at the Barbican at 7h30 tomorrow. Both the bands play traditional Sufi music from Morocco. The first more meditative and the second more energetic (I am hoping for swirling dervishes!)

The tickets cost £16 each because I get a members discount on some events.

https://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=19556

Oops, I fell off the grid again. I occilate between long bursts of being very busy and shorter bursts of hiding in my room marathoning tv shows.

The most exciting thing I got up to was going to Wales for the last bank holiday weekend in August. A group of us went camping in the Gower peninsular.

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More updates at a later time :)