31st August 2009

Hello peoples and a welcome to any new watchers that are taking a peek.

It's been a funny old month, mostly because I am slowly coming around to the idea that I will be leaving my home, country and job of 14 years to move to Holland. Moving from Central London to a village with a populace of just over 2000 will be quite a change of scenery. I'm hoping I'll cope all right, I am very much looking forward to finally living with my boyfriend and having a home together though

The adjustments are huge however and much of my time when I move will be spent learning dutch and working in the family shop on a part-time basis. It will be different from managing a business in the way I am now - but after 14 years of working for this company; I am more than ready for a change.

So I have two and a half months left of London, time to start working on my list of things I love doing to cram in before I leave; eat mussels at Belgo, see Coldplay at Wembley, go to Westminster Abbey & the Tower of London, see the changing of the guards, have drinks in an outdoor bar in Canary Wharf, eat at and be verbally abused by staff at Won Kei... Have a picnic on Hamstead Heath... Oh so much to do.

I also wanted to say a few words about my DD for Forest Winds - thanks so much Jo, it's my first DD and very dear to my heart. Many many thanks to all the people who commented (soz - still to reply to some) and faved and watched me as a result. I was blown away by the nice comments.

There were a couple of duds there though, purist modelers, people who didn't like the clothing on my dryad (because they have first hand knowledge of what dryads wear presumably?) And one today who was just spamming hate mail on anything they came across that offended them, (I felt inclined to check their recent activity.) It's the first (and I hope last) time I've ever reported harassment. My art was positively Disney-esque compared to the other stuff they were commenting on. Bizarre.

Oh - and sorry for the lack of art. I think my muse did a bunk to the south of France. I'm downloading Poser 8 now though and the new TerraDome thingy from RDNA, so am hoping for a little artistic enthusiasm to start creeping up on me

Anyway - peace and fairy dust to you guys and gals. Hope you're having a good Summer xxx