This is a sponsored post for New Dawn Diet WEIGHT MAINTENANCE AND WEIGHT LOSS I don’t know about you but I’m finding the perimenopausal/menopausal years very difficult to shift & maintain weight. Once upon a time if I felt I had a bit of weight to lose, I could eat a little less for a bit and voila – weight gone, dress fits, all good! Nowadays, this doesn’t work and I have to up the ante quite a bit! I’m…
SHOW ‘N’ TELL Hello there! My last Art Chat Show ‘n’ Tell was on May 23rd and well I’m not gonna lie, I’ve kinda had an AWOL art mojo for a while and also haven’t had much time to devote to my art, so…
I’m late! I’m late! For a very important date! It’s Taking Stock time again – the June edition – and here we are already powering our way through July! I had a bit of surgery so that kinda put a little spanner in the…
BILATERAL CATARACT EXTRACTION and INTRAOCULAR LENS IMPLANT – What a mouthful! The time had finally come for my eye surgery. My right eye (the worst one) was to be done on Monday 20 June and my left eye was to be done the next…
Hi there! Just a quick post to let it be known I’ll be taking a break from the blog for a short while. This is because I’m soon having surgery on my eyes (bilateral cataract extraction and intraocular lens implant) and will need some…
Reflecting on the last 10 years has required a lot of thought and soul searching. I’ve tried to do it openly and honestly but without oversharing too much. I hope I managed to get the balance right and I hope you enjoy the read.…
SHOW ‘N’ TELL Well here I am with another Art Chat Show ‘n’ Tell. This is where I share what art I’ve been doing lately. I had contemplated starting a monthly linkup where others could share their creativity also, and mentioned this in my…
May catch up because um … will you look at that, I blinked and it’s been almost a month since my last blog post! I’m not organised so I thought I’d just do one of those coffee catch-up kind of posts where I fill…
SHOW ‘N’ TELL I thought I’d have a show and tell element to my Art Chat posts where I share my recent art activities. These posts will mostly be more visual than wordy depending of course on what I have going on and…
It’s time for my first Taking Stock post for 2022, and oh what a year this year has been already! Wouldn’t you agree? Let’s jump straight in. Making: Art again after far too long of a break – more on that in my next Art…
Photo by Valerie Titova on Unsplash ART & MENTAL HEALTH I couldn’t have an ‘Art Chat’ series of posts and not talk about the benefits of doing art (and all creative activities) for our mental health. When I do art, and particularly when I go into ‘the…
ART CHAT – named and explained! Art Chat is a new blog series – kinda like a mix of show and tell and coffee chats about all things art related. Last month I wrote a post to share my latest artwork with a plan…