My relationship with books, reading and words... a love story!

A poem for any writer who's ever been stuck

Talking about the strange habits and hobbies that make my heart sing.

A little re-introduction - where I've been the past 5 years

I am so happy to me back!

This is my entry to find the Monkee mascot a name. Checkout Dreemie's challenge here. Once upon a time, in a street not very far from you, a little Monkee woke up under a big tree. He sat up and shook

Hi everyone, I'm home. And after a day and a half of sleeping, I've caught up on the emotional trip to Wales to spread my mum's ashes. It was a really special visit. Mum wanted to be scattered in a sacred

Tomorrow I'm headed back to Wales to stay with my dad for a few nights. Normally I look forward to these visits, but this time I'm headed back to spread my mum's ashes on midsummer's night. It would have

Hey Steemians! How is your Thursday shaping up? Mine? Oh mine's great. Totally fine. Or at least that's what I keep telling everyone. I'm living the dream after all. I've got all day to write and get my

Morning Steemians! So continuing my mini-series bringing you up to date with the few bits of artwork I completed while on Dreem hiatus earlier this year, this morning I thought I'd show you London. Whenever

Good evening guys! So today I hit my first milestone using Partiko- I reached 50,000 points! @dreemsteem and I are egging each other on to reach 100k, and I know that there's a way to go, but reaching

Hello Steemians! Yesterday, I was so excited to receive a parcel in the mail from my friend @naltedtirt. I knew this was on its way, and have been annoying the mailman ever since I got the heads up that

Happy new week my lovelies! So, in my eagerness to develop technique and try new things this year, I decided to teach myself how to oil paint. As you know, I usually work in graphite, so with all its rules

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Happy Sunday Steemians! Yesterday I posted about my new silver Thaler coin... what I didn't mention was that, in the same antiques cave I also bought an 1853 Dime. Now, I know that I was overcharged for

Looksee what I just found in my local antiques cave... So apparently this is a Maria Theresia Thaler. These coins continued to be struck after her death in 1780... and if I've understood correctly, the

Morning Steemians! So in my mini series of getting you up to day with my art projects prior to the writing bug happening, today I wanted to share with you my Succulent piece. I was looking for something

So before the writing bug bit me again this year, I was working hard on creating some pieces of art for sale, and at the same time developing my technical abilities as I went along. As some of you know,

Happy Tuesday folks! I have to be honest with you- today hasn't been the most productive of my life. I'm meant to be working on the plans for my fantasy trilogy so that when I get writing again next week,

Happy weekend Steemians! I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend! Yesterday I decided to go on a trawl of our local antique shops to see if I could spot any silver that was begging to come home with