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Oh woe is me

12 March 2010

(This is the post you write when you’re poorly and feeling oh-so-sorry for yourself. And yet, you’re aware that you’ve neglected your blog and its readers and you’re feeling very guilty about that. So you drag your sorry arse to the computer (oh, all right, yes it is a laptop) and write it anyway, because [...]

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Conversations with a Goblin: Meet Mike

18 January 2010

So, for the last twelve months I’ve been hanging out at the Kitchen Table. Not my kitchen table, but Havi Brooks’s Kitchen Table. It’s an awesome place full of incredibly clever, talented, funny and fabulous people who help each other out with their blocks and successes under the beady eye of Selma the Benevolent Despot. And learn wacky [...]

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Why goal setting gives me the heebie jeebies

11 January 2010

Okay, who else has goal-setting fatigue?
It seems you can’t do anything any more without being told that you’ll never succeed unless you Set Goals. (Yes, apparently it’s so Important that it requires initial caps. *snort*)
SMART goals, EPEGS goals, BHAGs… apparently, no-one in the history of mankind has ever achieved anything without using these HR management-speak [...]

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New Year’s Eve confessional

31 December 2009

Oh my poor website, how I have neglected you! Never mind, darling, you know you are always in my thoughts.
But it’s New Year’s Eve, and I have some things to confess.
First, let’s get this out of the way: I really hate New Year’s Eve. It is almost the silliest excuse for fake celebration and excess [...]

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Art Every Day Month – Day 10: Where were we?

11 November 2009

Okay, okay, I lost a few days there somehow. Man, I really hate those random time-slips that just swirl up out of nowhere and suck you forward without the slightest warning, leaving you stunned wondering where the weekend went. Or is that the champagne?
But enough of this levity – back to the molto serioso business [...]

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Art Every Day Month – Days 4 & 5: The Voice

5 November 2009

It’s been a couple of less-than-creative days, I’m afraid.
I’ve had two days in a row working down the coal mine (aka at my old day job) and it’s really wiped me out. Long story, but there are health reasons – as well as my artistic dream – that I don’t usually work there more than [...]

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How to break an artistic funk in three easy steps

1 November 2009

So I’ll come clean.
I’ve been in a bit of a funk.
It’s true. Oh yes.
For most of October, despite it being my favouritest month ever, I’ve been feeling pretty much paralysed by doubt and fear.
Were I living in a war zone, or Neanderthal times, or I don’t know, amongst brain-eating zombies or something, this might actually [...]

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The one where I panic just a little

5 September 2009

Omigod. It’s here already. Open Studios starts today. Already? Srsly?
My art, in public. With a price tag on it. Ack.
Worse, with me there, in easy eavesdropping range, baring my creative soul and offering myself up as an artistic Aunt Sally for people to throw shoes at.
Woah. I must have secret masochistic tendencies. Do all artists [...]

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Danger: low flying shoes ahead

14 August 2009

Earlier this week, someone threw a shoe at me.
“WTF?” you’re thinking.* “What sort of person throws shoes at people?”
Of course, it wasn’t a real shoe. It was that kind of shoe throwing described by the wonderful, wacky, wise Havi Brooks. It was “a particularly condescending remark about something” I did, and at the same time [...]

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Facing the blank page, um, posting box

5 August 2009

It’s actually quite scary having this new website and blog.
It’s scary because it says, up there, live on t’interwebs, that I am an Artist.
That means People might judge me and find me lacking. “An artist? Who does she think she is?”
It’s scary because I want to be me on this blog.
That means People will want [...]

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