Where have I been? I have been wondering to myself of late.

After the last few weeks of almost full time hours at my office job having some time off for more than a week feels like pure joy & freedom! 

I'm hoping the next 10 days will be a combination of major relaxation time and painting!  I'm looking forward to catching up on all  things art related that I haven't been able to attend to or follow up on etc etc and I plan to start a new painting too. So we'll see.

Also some other news, very exciting.... finally the release of The Magical Times Magazine, is out NOW, featuring some of my paintings! YAY!

You can purchase a copy via their website here, its the one with Linda Ravencroft's art on the cover.

I t  feels like all I have been doing of late is working at my office job, which explains why you haven't seen any new paintings from me since April.

I really want to start a new painting but have been a little too exhausted lately. At least I have the day off tomorrow though its my birthday so I will be doing birthday stuff. :)

One cool thing that I found out recently as a result of spending so much time at my office job was that someone that works in my office runs and ETSY shop!  A lovely lass by the name of Jordanna and her shop is called Mankie&Frankston. It's cool having someone at the office that I can chat about blogging and selling stuff on ETSY with. 

I saw via her blog that she had created these cute little make up bags made out of different fabric designs and I had commented to her that I thought they were very cute. The next day I arrived at work and she had left one for me at my desk, which was very sweet! So I thought I'd share a link to her blog and shop because she is very clever at what she does and I like her stuff.

Here is a pic of one of Jordanna's purses.




And here are some Links:

Mankie & Franskton ETSY Shop
BLOG

Do not attempt painting when you are tired have been working in an office full time for the past month.

I just had to get this one off my chest today, feeling a little frustrated. I agreed to work full time for the whole of November to cover for the fact that we are down staff. I was really wanting to paint but I guess I need time to refocus and regain my creative energy and since this small painting that I attempted hadn't turned out so well I think I might wait till I am back to my usual part time work hours to start painting again. ( which will hopefully be within a couple of weeks.)
I decided I would post the painting anyway but only here on LJ, its only 5" x 7" canvas which is tiny as I usually paint on 16' x 20" or thereabouts
and it also didnt photogrpah very well either.