hi folks!

first up, don’t forget that this is coming up on Saturday!

_{FYI: There is parking nearby, Swansea train station is a 15 minute walk/6 minute taxi. The Waterfront Museum has a cafe downstairs to grab a drink and snack, plus a really beautiful garden, and it’s a great museum so take a look!}

What I’ve Been Sharing on my Website…

I’ve been going to pottery classes! I’m definitely going to write a whole thing about how I thought I was going to make a pot, and each week I instead get bludgeoned by life lessons.

I FINALLY took a photo of my fireplace, which I painted way back in… February?

I am, it turns out, not inherently gifted at Lino printing.

I also…

• wrote about quiet quitting instagram

• made a zine about how i’ve never finished a zine as an exercise in accountability

• started a work in progress piece of writing about about how becoming a parent made me shed my “I’M AN ARTIST!!!!” identity, and how, I don’t really care?? I feel like I have a lot to say about this, and it’s shifting, so this is very of a certain moment in time and probably going to change and shift.

P.S.

Just finished reading The Way Home by Mark Boyle (who also wrote The Moneyless Man which I read probably 15 years ago??). It’s an exploration of his year living with pre-industrial revolution technology (i.e. in a cabin with no electricity) and it’s honestly, one of the best books i’ve ever read.

Currently reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer it’s about “about the role of Indigenous knowledge as an alternative or complementary approach to Western mainstream scientific methodologies.” but it's also so much more??? It’s an exploration of myth and our place in the world and it’s very much one of those books that changes you. I’m only about 70 pages in and I'm taking notes.

And finally…

here’s your reminder to sign up to and use your local library!!!!! and if you don’t you’ll be cursed with slightly ill fitting hats for the rest of your days.

that’s it. LOVE YA! xxx