happy solstice! I’m celebrating with a BIG SALE in my Etsy store 🙂
Hi folks! after a pause my Etsy store “Made By Mixy” is now open again. There’s original art, postcards, art cards, stickers & zines. To celebrate the reopening, and the solstice, everything is 40% off all weekend 🙂
Happy Solstice to you all! X
All my regular blogging is over at Mixy.Art.Blog now – so if you’d like to catch up do check out the new site 🙂
To celebrate the solstice I’m running sale with 40% off everything in my Etsy store
To celebrate the solstice this weekend, a new moon, and the beginning of a new season, I’ve reopened my Etsy store today and all weekend I’m running a Solstice sale with 40% off everything. My gift to you! With much love X
original art, postcards, zines & stickers
Hello dear friends!
Depending on the hemisphere you call home, today is either the shortest or longest day of the year. I like to set aside some time this week to set intentions and bundle up any loose ends so these last days of December are a gradual transition into the new year.
This year I’m super busy combobulating things in readiness for the start of TWELVTY in just a little over a week! I’m so excited!! And to celebrate the holidays, I’ve made you a little gift!
This ebook is all yours when you join my newsletter for irregular (once or twice a month usually) updates on my doings & makings.
Be well, my friends, Much love to you all X
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Hello lovely friends of the internet, I’ve missed you, where have you been?
I haven’t posted in a little while due to an absence of images.
This is the coming together of a doodly thing I did a few weeks back
Watercolour and fountain pen, intricate and involved but in a stilted inhibited style, so I left it there
My creative mojo has dropped off temporarily, the tide’s gone out, so I’m patiently waiting it out.
Meanwhile, I wish you all a beautiful Solstice, whatever that means to you. Be well, lovely souls X
I’m not rushing or hustling the old year out, I’m not one to wish my days away, but I am dipping newest thoughts into next month already.
Next month – Next year – Next incarnation of being me in this life.
While I’m indifferent to the big new years fuss that happens around midnight on 31 December, I do love the clean freshness of 1 January every time it comes round.
So much so, I don’t want to guzzle it all in one day, I want to savour it.
My routine, such that it’s becoming, begins toward the end of November and by Winter Solstice it’s up to full speed. Those last 10 days of the year represent the closing up of the old year. Loose ends neatly bundled, filed under the past.
As 2015’s page a week book winds up I’m already sewing the seeds for 2016’s year-sized art challenge.
To kick off I’m going to take on Belinda Fireman’s #selflove365 adventure of a daily 1″ square drawing.
I bought a concertina sketch book way back – I think with the intention to take it away on a trip – but either it didn’t go with me, or I didn’t find the time to fill the pages. Either way, it’s fresh and ripe and raw!
It’s already ready to be 2016-ed!
NY Resolutions with a subtext: I must try harder, be this-er or that-er. I’ll do more of the things I don’t want to and less of the things I enjoy. All those unrealistic, unwanted demands pinned to a future version of self. So often they’re rolled out – same every year – safe in the understanding it’s just empty words that can be consigned to oblivion by the time you go back to the usual routines next week. Do you do this?
Fuck it, yeh? Never really meant it anyway.
And we begin this dramatically different, new phase of life with indigestion, a banging hangover, the tormentful regrets of the hazily recalled night before….
‘did I really say/do that? did that happen? what did happen? …..?’
Cos that makes sense, doesn’t it?
….so it’s just another Wednesday night in my world, then?
Heck NO!
Like the New Moon on the Winter Solstice just 10 days ago, like every New Moon, New Month, Birthday (personal New Year) I like to set New Wishes. It’s punctuation in my life: a pause for consolidation, review, and rev up for the next phase.
Tomorrow I’ll share with you my first Wishes of the New Year.
Meanwhile I wish you all, dearest digital friends, the happiest of beginnings to this new phase. May it bring you abundance and joy beyond you expectations. Love to you all X
I tend to think of the period from Winter Solstice as my New Year. That slow muddle of Sunday feeling holiday-days that ache on for the last ten days of the year, as the season turns and the days get longer, it seems the time for reviewing and recounting, consolidating and setting new hopes.
2014 has been a full and fast flung year in my world.
I finished college (for now) – I learnt a bunch of new skills including animation and film editing which I’ll show you some of soon.
I made some big changes with my ‘day job’ – the regular bill-paying part of my life, I’ve released some of the duties and in doing so I’ve also released some much needed hours each week not to mention a load of responsibilities which has sat uncomfortably on my shoulders for long enough.
I’ve gained an acceptance for some areas of my life that have been hanging in a state of limbo. I’m biding my time with equanimity and letting the future unfold in its own way.
I’ve made a radical lifestyle change, dropping old habits that were no longer serving any good purpose. (I even acknowledged they probably never did serve that much good.) And they are now in the past.
I’ve adopted some new regimes of a very healthful and positive nature. All these years I’d lived so much inside my head, like my body was just the transportation system used by the mind and spirit. So I’m addressing this misbalance. It aches and complains, but it’s just waking up. We are beginning to work together in better harmony.
Some old friendships rekindled, some new ones just beginning, it all feel right. I began to explore directions for my immediate future. It is very exciting times!
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