A Happy New Year!

I saw in the new year with my boyfriend and a few friends playing geeky games and getting slightly tipsy. It was really lovely. I hope yours was mervelous!

2011 was a little bit up and down art wise. Downs wise, just to get them out of the way, I succumed to sadness a little bit and my art suffered for it and I was absent from art making and posting for a little bit. Positives have however managed to outweigh the negatives! I still haven't destroyed any of my art, which is incredible for me! I've been looking back at last years New Years post and I'm feeling really proud of myself. I've achieved 4 out of the 5 goals I set myself. I kept up with this blog, had huge moments of productivity at times, and I believe I have improved my tecnique and my eye somewhat. I opened my Etsy shop, finally! (Although it's curently closed, but it will be re-opened again very shortly) And on top of that, I have my art up for sale in a real-life shop! I've even sold some stuff, which is amazing to me! I've been published in a little magazine and I've painted a huge mural on a wall-something I have never done before and I'm rather proud of the result!

I feel that this year has lain down a few little beginnings for myself which I hope to build upon this coming year!

Art things I hope to achieve this year:

-To draw more. Find more time for my creative pursuits. I want to overcome my depressive episodes before thay stop me from arting.
-I want to keep up blogging, and blog even more than I have done this year.
-I want to re-open my Etsy and expand my shop a little bit more. More prints and trinkets for sale!
-I want to start attending craft fayres with my wares! I have one scheduled to attend this April (more information about it a little bit further on in the year when I know a little bit more myself!) and if it goes well, I hope to do more!
-I hope to get published again
-Overall, I hope to become more established and a little closer to becomming a self-sustaining artist!

Finally, I'm going to share a little quote that has meant a lot to me this past year, and I take with me into the next.

"and by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the ongoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." -Sylvia Plath

Oh! & before I forget; I started a little Tumblr just for my art: http://naomivonmonsta.tumblr.com/
& moved my personal blog to this little Tumblr here: http://www.unseeliefiend.tumblr.com

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