Oh my - the days/weeks seem to be flying by... as usual!! But I am quite LOVING life :)
Since my last post I have done a zillion things:
- the screen printing workshop the next day went VERY well - now I have two more of those running next month!
- both my kids got sick - Curtis twice in two weeks which slowed everything down, and meant I had over a week of getting no work at all done, and I had to cancel some planned Valentine's classes.
- Our Brown Owl's group met again, and we focused on Cross-stitching - which I thoroughly enjoyed!! (quite surprised myself as I wasn't too keen initially) - I have even done a lot more of it since the Brown Owl's meet! - it should be finished off soon :)
- I have made a start on all my business organization and planning (and boring financial spreadsheets etc)... but still have a heck of a long way to go...
- I am feeling VERY happy mentally with my directions and ideas for my business - I can see that taking this time to slow down, re-group and re-think is definitely the best thing I could have possibly done...
- I have attended another program run by the Caloundra Regional Gallery (that was yesterday: a disability awareness workshop), it is really good to be out networking and socializing with other professionals in related fields..
- Curtis did his first Kiddie-Kicks session today (it was also good for me to see how another organisation runs their kids classes...) - plus loving watching him have so much fun!
- and 'plans' for working together with my friend Kylie to develop my business into a franchise model are starting to progress - eeeek! (and to be honest that can lead to moments of mega-excitement for me - because I REALLY believe that we can make a fabulous success of it! I reckon it could go extremely well - and prove to be very lucrative... and it is just so exciting really - imagining that in about 3 years time I could be the founder of a very successful business, that I love the work I do, and I'm making lots of money... yeah - it's exciting - but for now I have to keep my feet on the ground and my nose to the grind-stone really...)
And apart from those main points - it's just been the normal non-stop busyness of life. With the fun on Valentine's Day thrown in aswell! Ben and I went out for dinner which was lovely, and Tilly made this love-heart canvas. (I did a dot-painting heart pictured at top).
Tilly is enjoying school (thank-goodness) - and all seems quite routine now. She has almost completed her 4th week there - which means we are almost half way through the term: eeek!
Just last night I got her to decorate a satchel to use as her new Library Bag for school (because mummy didn't want to buy the boring navy-blue school one that everyone else would have, when I could see the opportunity for doing something more creative) - and she did such an awesome job!! I had to let her stay up late, because her drawing was going so well and she was motivated to do it.. Here are some pics:
And lastly, I have been making time to just do some random creativity! I've experimented drawing on a few small canvases using my Giotto markers (which are great!). Here's one illustrative portrait that I quite like:
That's it for now :)
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