The Darkness Seems To Be Starting To Lift

As some of you might have noticed, I have been quiet for about 4 month. Haven't done anything art related during all that time as well.

Even the 2 year long art journal projects turned into a plain diary like this for me.

Those months have been really hard on me:
* my daughter changed schools in the middle of the graduation year
* we all moved because of that
* she barely graduated and was diagnosed with chronic illness
* I had less and less income and got sick again and again
* I spiraled down into a really deep dark hole without having the money to get professional help
etc. etc.

Even the great job my youngest son did during his first year at art school and other nice things were barely holding me over the surface.

But, lately, the huge heavy darkness seems to be starting to lift now and then.

Tomorrow, my daughter is having her graduation ceremony. I just finished a tulle skirt for her gown and hope to shoot a decent pic of her in it tomorrow.

And I'm starting to add some color to my diary pages. :)

How have you been lately?  You know I'm always happy to hear from you, right?

Please, feel free to leave a comment here or contact me at ritajc(at)inbox(dot)lv.

Celebration In My Studio

My youngest son Pēteris is turning 16 today.

As some of you know, me, my 2 youngest kids, and our 7 pets happen to live in my studio.


So YAY! Sun is shining and there is a celebration in my studio today!

And I have been very creative: the food and the drinks we have on the table didn't cost much more than $10 all together! One more YAY! :)

My Creative Space

Last week was a really busy and stressful one: had a couple of technically tough translation projects and one of my sons was moving to Canada and visiting us together with his partner on Saturday (and leaving loads of his stuff in our tiny shabby place). And the capricious spring weather wasn't helping me to recover at all: I was feeling better on the sunny days, but have almost no energy on the dull and rainy ones :(
So not much of artsy activities completed in my creative space to show off today, just a couple of art journal pages

 Saying good bye...

Chapters begin and come to an end, but  the way goes on

 

Reminder to my freaking out ego: I am, who I am, no matter, what anybody is thinking of me :)

 Inspired by this video in Seed Journals with Milliande Demetriou

   

Feels unfinished, I might go back to this one some day in the future

And there is another old work book prepared to be my next art journal. YAY! 

I 'm sorry for the bad images again: not much of a good daylight here in the North for now.


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