Beautiful little being. Congratulations J xx

Love is not gifts, not flowers, not necklaces.

Love is not wanting to kill my favourite musician.

Love is not fancy worded poetry; look how sad I am, I lost her.

Love is not throwing in the bin the watercolour she did your cat.

Love is not berating me for hours and hours.

Love is not a trophy.

Love is not without care.

Love is not lies, not rumours, not bullying.

Love is not hurting my child.

Love is not dead eyes.

Love is not my having to look after you, all the goddamn time.

Love is not taking all of my time, never giving me a chance to draw, a chance to be me.

Love is not picking fights; my birthday, my mother’s operation, my study, my friend’s death.

Love is not linking your actions to the cruelty I saw inflicted on women by men. In searching for help I was told to ignore it, just go to sleep.

He’s having a bad time.

Love is not traumatizing.

Is incredibly special.

A little drawing of her current favourite toys.

International Women’s Day, we stand here at a vigil for a woman who was murdered by a man.

Hello March, when autumn should be here but we all know there will be hot and windy days ahead. February was quite the time. I’ve slowed down on the sketches because I have another large drawing on the go..

Can I tell you how wonderful it is to be free from study at the moment. Bliss. Brain clutter is clearing. I work and then when I have downtime and that is free time. Freeeeeee.

It was a dear friends birthday recently, I did a little drawing of their amazing boy – it is wonderful watching him come out of his shell.

I enjoy drawing peoples pets that I have spent time with, I have the chance to try and capture their personality too.

I might put together a zine and blog post of Cats I Have Known but not at the moment, I got freakin ferns to draw.

GOODBYE FOR NOW.

I made a little zine, you can purchase it from the zine vending machine – Details here

It is also at the Festival of the Photocopier today in North Melbourne, which I wish I could be at but cannot make it!

I have a lot of small drawings and skecthes that just sit around in boxes/ folders/ books so I thought this would be a fun little thing to print. Might make one about cats..

This zine only has a small amount of the drawings I did in lockdown, there are many 😀

I turned 41 this week, wild! I started the day by waiting for an Officeworks to open so I could get myself pen and paper gifts. With coffee! Bliss.

It was just one of those days where things were normal and incredibly lovely and very, very funny.

Daughter and I planted this small army of sunflowers.