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2010 - Looking Ahead

Sat Jan 9, 2010, 9:18 AM
  • Mood: Relief
  • Listening to: John Serrie
  • Reading: Tintenherz
  • Watching: Good Eats!
  • Playing: Staying warm!
  • Eating: Celery stalks (diet time!)
  • Drinking: Green Chai
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Before we get started, a quick acknowledgment of a fictitious birthday. If Nagini hadn't felt particularly peckish on that fateful night in spring, Severus Snape would have turned 50 today. Happy Birthday, Severus!

And just to show the bandwidth of inspiration from romantic to tragical to comical, here are some of my Severus faves. The man surely has become a cultural icon since he first snarled and stalked his way into our collective hearts and into Harry's nightmares in "The Philosopher's Stone"





Well, I for one have to admit that I am happy to see 2009 over and done with. The year saw my business nearly tank, the cancer-diagnosis of a relative, money worries out the wazoo, too many sleepless nights, zero vacations, a total write-off of my old car and an accident of my brand-new car. I know some folks here have been through much worse, but I really am glad to have the last 12 months over and done with.

Art-wise not much happened, except that I have had less time for it than I would have wished. I did make some good advances in beadwork, including some ambitious brick-stitch and 3D projects and the whole series of Shoowa bracelets. Drawing stalled a little - I had time for some HP fan-art, but nothing on the scale of my tarot - as did my silver-clay work, and I didn't make a single art glass bead or decent stained glass project all year!

I would like to announce here with a flourish, that I have marvelous and ambitious projects planned for 2010, but I'd be lying. And we all know what they say about resolutions and good intentions - flagstones on the road to hell, all of them. So I will just see what I can get up to. All I can promise is that I have some nice knot-work ideas for silver-clay, that HP fan-art is not dead yet, even though I seem to have taken quite a break these past few months, and that I have some cool patterns planned out for more beadwork.

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:iconmagpie-poet:
Good luck in the upcoming year. My '10 isn't shaping up so well, I'm going to count the restart for the Chinese New Year I think!

Oh, and I wouldn't worry about you not having grand plans yet, I'm sure you'll end up wowing us with your brilliance as ever.
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:iconellygator:
*Ellygator Jan 13, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Year of the Tiger, I believe. May it bring you good fortune. I will have to dig up some projects for sure this year...
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:iconmagpie-poet:
I've no doubt you will.
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:iconceltcraft:
~CeltCraft Jan 10, 2010  Professional Artist
I hope we can both accomplish something awe inspiring this year, to ourselves if no one else, lol!

Here's to a fantastic 2010!
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:iconellygator:
*Ellygator Jan 13, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
I raise my glass to that!
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:iconbright-circle:
Here's to a better new year (and to more artmaking!)
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:iconellygator:
*Ellygator Jan 14, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you! I wish the same for you!
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:iconardenellennixon:
Here's hoping 2010 brings you all of the prosperity, creativity, and joy that your sweet self deserves! *hugs*
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:iconellygator:
*Ellygator Jan 14, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Thanks so much! I hope the same for your art and your business.
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:iconardenellennixon:
Thank you:) *hugs* We're already of a brighter disposition, thanks to my pirate's first payday yesterday. Our belated Christmas/Birthday exchange is planned for this weekend, and I've never been so excited about giving our van an oil change. Or I should say, being able to :) Take care, dear Elly!
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