Oh wow

Went to harvest an old photo from my blog today and am now having a bit of a crisis over the ads I’m seeing below my posts. HOW LONG HAS THIS f*BEEP-ery been going on??!!

I’ve been seeing scams like this myself on various websites and always thought it was because they were crappy sites, but, ehm…

Do you facebook?

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crafts, intention, social media

• Instagram
• Facebook
• Pinterest

I have to admit that I do, just a little bit, even though I don’t like most of the platform. I don’t like the ads, I don’t like the way I can’t choose to get all posts in chronological order instead of the same few ones more than twice, I never play games or surveys, they don’t have my phone number, there’s no messenger on my phone. I also don’t like how one “must” have a “Page” to get more followers and sales, therefore I suck at both. And yes, I know they are connected to Instagram, which I do like, there’s no black and white.

But my friends are on FB, not here, locally, so if I want to keep up with them it’s a must. So how do I connect the dots? Blogging, newslettering, showing off photos and maybe eventually projects for sale, community, sharing and building more connections, learning.

Apples, piglet, and a recap

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blogging, country life, creativity, inspiration, intention, life

• Instagram
• Facebook
• Pinterest

Some of you wondered if you’d missed an entire subject on the blog; clearly you haven’t, I just suddenly didn’t write much about my antics for several years.

Open Studios

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#notsobighouse, art show, challenge, commitment, community, creativity, determination, exhibition, intention, open studio

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• Facebook
• Pinterest

I promised I’d begin my “new” blog by telling you about the event I participated in this November. (photos at the end)

About 2 months before, an art community that I subscribe to suddenly decided we should all do this together, set the date for mid-November, wham. Er, um, whut? I’m not ready for that. I don’t have the space to do that. I live out in the middle of nowhere and it will be dark and cold. I don’t have enough paintings to show. They’re not good enough. I don’t want strangers in my house! I also don’t want nosy neighbours from the next village in my house. There’s not enough time! I had other plans, I just want to finish my paint project.

But in the end I enlisted anyway. Just to see what would happen, to my stress levels, my self confidence, my work speed, my sense of privacy. What happens if you don’t wait until you’re perfect and ready? If chances arrive and you don’t take them, will they come back?

Working, not blogging

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art, artist, blogging, creativity, inspiration, intention, life, new start, newsletter

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• Facebook
• Pinterest

I’ve said it before, so it may sound hollow by now: I really want to get back to blogging again. Yes, the exact same spot where we left things at the beginning of the year. (I went back to look at my post from Nov. 2020 as well, but today I’ll be addressing things backwards)

Pia has a Plan?

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blogging

Allrighty then, do I have your attention now the holidays are officially over?

Blogging, SoMe, juggling life in general – is that a well-hidden secret of adulting? I wonder what percentage of the population are actually super organized all of the time. I keep coming back to the intention and then bam, months happened.

Paper mache

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art, crafts, creativity, figurine, papermache, Sculpture

While I’m not done debating what to tell you first from my accidental blogging hiatus, I can see I wrote something last summer about the Alebrijes class I took. Alebrijes are specifically Mexican mythical creatures and I’m not really staying within the confines of that, but the technique I initially worked on comes from that tradition.

So why not round that off by creating a mini exhibition of my first pieces. I’m still working on the subject in fits and starts, multiple ideas on the back burner; but this summer was quite warm aka the past dries too fast and goes mouldy + we had people looking in the windows which I’m not super fond of I must admit. Most of these figures have already been aired on Instagram, so please excuse me if this is a recap for you.

Studio update

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DIY, studio

I can’t believe I announced the extension of my studio more than a year ago and only now realise that I never followed through on that.

So in order to begin blogging again, I guess I might as well start where we left off. I’ve spent some time delaying this by internally debating whether to begin at the end instead, so a compromise was reached: I’ll either share willy-nilly regardless of when a thing actually happened OR this might be a one off heehaw petering out into nothing.

2020

Hello everyone!

Hayloft studio

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country life, DIY, studio, summer

Three years since my studio was finished and it’s been a wonderful space, even more so since I had water installed. It’s also very cluttered however, the more I do, the more canvasses are stacked everywhere, done or half done, various supplies getting crammed into to few shelves. What I really need is a dry and dust free storage space and/or weaving room separate from the painting! (my dream is 100m² heated studio with straight walls including my office/library, but that is a completely different budget, especially the heating cost)