Positive Life Events: A Year of Growth

What positive events have taken place in your life over the past year?

Hmm…quite a few, I think!

It’s actually been quite a distressing and lonely year. But, despite that, I feel I have accomplished a lot.

A massive, but positive event for me this year…was completing 10 months of EMDR therapy for C-PTSD. This was undoubtedly, one of the hardest, but necessary challenges for me….well, for a long time, anyway!

I joined the world of WP blogging. I believe I’ve made some wonderful friends and have built some positive connections. I have learned a lot and I hope I will continue to learn from my fellow artists, writers, poets …

To be featured in “FEATURES by VALENCIARTIST” on WP, of which I’m truly grateful.

I quit smoking!

I picked up my paint brush again.

I have completed two paintings, and I’m currently working on my third and fourth.

I continue to write the final chapter of my memoir.

For those who know 😉…shenanigans & 💃💃💃 will be escalated in 2025! 😂😂

Happy Saturday, my friends! ❤️

Wild Animals

Do you ever see wild animals?

My garden visitors…

And there is me of course….🤷‍♀️

Happy Friday ♥️

Why Da Nang is One Of My Favourite Travel Destinations

Do you have a favourite place you have visited? Where is it?

I have visited several countries over the past twenty years or so. One of my favourite places I have visited, has to be Vietnam. I spent a wonderful two weeks in Da Nang. The culture, scenery, food, and especially the people…they were so friendly and welcoming.

Da Nang is also known as the city of bridges.

How beautiful is this? ❤️❤️❤️

Happy Thursday! ❤️🌻

🤷‍♀️

Share five things you’re good at.

Five things I’m good at 🤔🤨…

Listening

Observing

Feeling

Dancing

Laughing

Don’t ask me to write a list of things I’m not good at! 🫣😵‍💫

Celebrating My Quirky Self: The Beauty of Authenticity

What is one thing you would change about yourself?

What is one thing that I would like to change about myself?

There ‘maybe’? many things I would ‘possibly’? want to change about myself.

But, change to what?

I’m not perfect by any means, I have my faults, imperfections….blah blah blah.

Who’s to judge anyway? You? Me? Anyone?

Alright, (make sure you spell it correctly, not Allwright) there are times… Well, most of the time, I wish I had more self confidence, less ‘self doubt’!

But that’s not a change, that is growth, development, reflection, self affirmation, self worth. These are attributes that grow, not an overnight change.

So, no…there isn’t one thing I would like to change about myself. In fact, I quite like my quirky, bonkers, imperfect self. I Need work, but hey ho!

Happy Tuesday, to my imperfect, bonkers, friends. ❤️

Night time creativity

Are you more of a night or morning person?

The answer to this question is dependent on what is happening in my life at any particular time. I’ve had a number of jobs in the past where I have had to rise from my bed at 3am. I have worked split shifts on a rolling ten day pattern, to a 9am-5pm working day. Thankfully, no more.

But now: 🦉

I often paint and write in the evenings/early hours of the morning. My creative mind comes alive when the outside world is silent, dark, it somehow feels safer. Safer in the knowledge that the majority of people are asleep. 👩🏻‍🎨

Happy Monday ❤️

Each to their own.

What are your feelings about eating meat?

Happy Sunday!

It is traditional for us Brits to have a roast cooked dinner on a Sunday! Whether thats beef, lamb, pork, chicken, turkey, or a vegetarian nut roast.

Talking about food could get messy!

Have a beautiful Sunday! 😋❤️

Oooh…well…hmmm…ahhh….🤔

What are your two favorite things to wear?

NOTHING!

Well, that’s not entirely true…

I love to wear my Dr Martens! ❤️❤️❤️

That’s it!

So, my two favourite things to wear…is nothing, and my D.M’s!

What a question 🤷‍♀️!!!

Have a wonderful weekend 🤗❤️

Reflecting on My Most Challenging Choice: Justice vs. Family

What’s the hardest decision you’ve ever had to make? Why?

The hardest decision I’ve ever had to make…

I was a teenager. I had to decide if I was going to instigate legal proceedings, give evidence in a Crown Court of Law in the hope of prosecution.

In truth, I didn’t really have any choice… if I wanted justice.

I went ahead. A two week Crown Court case with the victim and the perpetrator in the same room….

As to why it was a difficult decision?

Because it was against my own father.

It was a harrowing trial, but it was a decision I do not regret! A decision I am proud of!

I’m hitting town today with friends…a bit of galavanting, lunch, shenanigans, and 💃💃💃 🤗🤗

Happy Thursday! Happy Thanksgiving! ❤️

Festive Food

Do you or your family make any special dishes for the holidays?

As a child I was brought up in a Jehovah Witness household. Therefore, we didn’t celebrate any holidays.

Just to clarify, I am not a Jehovah’s Witness!

A JW does not celebrate Christmas, Birthdays, Mother’s Day, Valentines, Halloween, Easter….nothing!

As a child, this was difficult! Difficult for myself, and my siblings…we were outcasts in our community, school, friends…everything!

I now, wholeheartedly, celebrate all of these events, with my friends. ❤️

Roast Turkey at Christmas, lamb at Easter, (oh, and of course…chocolate eggs 🍫🐣😋), cake on birthdays, Mother’s Day (I won’t go into that), Valentines chocolates, and Halloween pumpkins.

Roll on Christmas celebratory dishes! 😋😋😋

Happy Wednesday! ♥️