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My son Jupiter was born on 8 May 2011! I was induced 2 weeks early due to a pregnancy related medical condition. Apart from the induction I had a natural labour & birth which lasted all of 1.5 hours (I know you're jealous. Or if you've never given birth you probably have no idea what this means).

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I have been busy busy for a change! Usually I am just lazy lazy. I have been cutting down on my World of Warcraft time lately (and unfortunately also violin time, I'd like to play more but am feeling hugely unmotivated currently), not really as a conscious choice but I just find I am busy with other things ( Read more... )

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I am working on a blog post listing my 10 favourite art supplies. I need to take some pics to jazz it up a bit and then I'll post it, hopefully within a couple of days.

In the meantime I wanted to share these two journal pages I did this past week. Although I usually don't plan my journal pages before ( Read more... )

[Originally posted on iris-impressions.comAfter many many years (2, pretty much) of not creating any art videos, I finally made one again ( Read more... )

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After creating Hetty & Dimitri's painting I wanted to do art more regularly, but found doing paintings quite intimidating (especially if they're just 'for me', rather than a present). So I decided to get back into my art journal. I neglected art journalling for over a year due to judgements swirling ( Read more... )

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When I was in my second year of uni I shared a flat (in Lewisham *shudders*) with Hetty. In the same year she met Dimitri and on 31 July 2010 (Saturday just gone) she got married to him! I went over to Gibraltar where the wedding was being held (they live there) and spent a lovely couple of days with Hetty, her family & friends. It was really ( Read more... )

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When I say new, we've been living here almost a month already! Time flies. We're picking up Tikka (the kitten) on Friday. I am so excited, I can't wait!


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