Well it’s officially 2011. Wow last year has been a … huge one. EFFING HUGE in fact. A big, big, big year of HUGE firsts and some lasts as well.
In Feburary I started back at my last ever year of uni, and also celebrated my 5th anniversary with my lovely boy (not a first or a last!)
In March I opened my etsy.com store and made my first sale in June. Not long after that I was featured in a blog (Cute Stew) for the first time and had my first giveaway at the same place.
In June I had a painting in an exhibition for the first time (Drawgasmic) and will (when the book arrives) see my art in a book for the first time. I’m planning on submitting again this year! Yay!
I’ve even got published for the first time this year, in Blanket Magazine and the Thirteen Month Project (twice!). Much like my Drawgasmic book, my subscription to the Thirteen Month Project is still coming in the mail, so thought I have been published, I have yet to see any of my art in a book in the flesh (paper).
I submitted art to the Indie Fixx Feed Your Soul - Free Art Project, and will be submitting a downloadble Valentine’s Day card soon!
I’ve painted four commissioned portraits this year, and have another commission for the new year (and it’s a biggun!) I have yet to post about my most recent one, but I will soon!
As the year drew to a close I had to practically abandon my art and blog and YOU dear reader to focus on my (cough) career! I still feel so strange even saying that out loud.
I graduated from my Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Education in Dec with Second Class honours, and (before I had even graduated) got my dream job at a little Anglican College teaching Prep – Year 9 music to boys and girls. I start on the 17th and am pretty much beside myself with excitement.
As for this year, I have some resolutions (many of which are the same from last year!) Some of them are already underway.
Carla Thursday’s
Resolutions
for 2011
1. Eat better. For pete’s sake EAT BETTER. Well, I eat pretty well, but I need to eat more raw vegetables, more fruit and less carbs (I am a sucker for bread and pasta). Also, more water, more green tea, less cofee, less alchol and more vitamins (particularly vitamin B).
2. Get up early and walk every day. This is partnered with going to bed early too. I honestly, don’t know why I don’t do this, when I know that I feel amazing afterwards.
3. Meditate. At the beginning and end of each day. This is a habit that is yet to stick, it’s a tricky one, but my mind makes more sense when I do.
4. Get organised. I am starting a new job and a new life this year, and my life is an organisational nightmare!
5. Get your art out there. This I have already started doing, I have posted ads to Gala Darling
and on The Curious Pug! Click here to read about Alycia’s sponsers!
I also (DUN DUN DUN) mailed two of my prints to Frankie Magazine today.
Frankie is quite possibly my favourite magazine, and the most delicious publication ever. Just the thought that someone at Frankie will see my paintings fills me with delight!
I hope that this year will be equally huge and as exciting as last year, for me and all of you.
xo
