I really don't update here very much, do I? This isn't much of an exception.

I do have some exciting news, however! By this time next year, I will be living right in Melbourne St Kilda, preferably, because I don't think I could ever move away from the beach. It will be good to get out of here, this town zaps all my creativity and positivity. The only downside is I won't have many friends there and I'm so very shy humbug.

I have been taking a more hands-on approach with my art, focusing mainly on things like sewing, cross-stitching and my favourite, making dread falls. They look lovely if I do say so myself. On that note, *meme* from the Hair Extensions Forums should be sending me a pair of falls soon so lots of photos are in order. You'll finally see what I look like

Things are going well lately, I'm quite happy.

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It's amazing what a walk can do. Walking and admiring nature really puts me in a positive frame of mind, knowing such beautiful things surround us. In an area filled with violence, rampant drug abuse and general unhappiness, I've managed to find beautiful things surrounding me, and that makes me feel special. It's also reaffirmed to me that beauty really is everywhere, but sometimes we have to look to find it.

Before I start going philosophical, I shall get to the point. I've been inspired (and oh, it is a good feeling!) to put aside my Photoshop work and instead focus on photography - at least for the time being, to explore other creative outlets. I have been slowly but surely improving at digital painting, but I want to put that aside and focus on capturing special things around me.

I have a few ideas which are really pushing my general style, but I think it's good to challenge your boundaries once in a while. That's how I got stuck in my uninspired moods - I wasn't doing anything new.

One person I'd like to thank is *AndySerrano. Through his artwork, I've seen that there's a big world out there to explore, and he has inspired me to go outside and get looking myself. Everyone should go look at his gallery

Sorry for the lack of... anything.

I've just been feeling inadequate lately, in everything. I'm sure it'll pass eventually.

I hope you all have a great festive season this year! Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year to you all! I'll see you in 2009



PS. My hair is now blue

I haven't been submitting much because lately I've been dissatisfied with my work. I don't think what I've uploaded really shows all the stuff I can do in photoshop and it wasn't really as creative as I'd like it to be. I'd find a stock image that I'd like, get some ideas in my head and a week after uploading it, notice that it had already been done before. Don't you hate when that happens?

I've been going through the longest art block known to man because I'd been feeling gloomy and depressed for a while, but now I'm in a cheerful place so I think I'll be moving from darker stuff to more fantasy type things. I'll still make all my usual darker pieces but I want to expand my horizons a little... get a bit more creative and stuff. I already have an idea in my head which hopefully hasn't been done before so I should be uploading that shortly. I also want to get more into digital painting and vexels and such, but I might hold off uploading anything I make there until I get lots of practice

My sub ran out and honestly I don't think it's worth purchasing anymore, not when free members get most of the features anyway and not when our exchange rate is doing as badly as it is now... anyway, enough from me, I just wanted to pop in and give a few updates, I'm still very much alive and active here