Thanks so much everyone for all the wonderful cards and birthday wishes. I spent my 38th having a lovely day out with family and friends, and have spent the weekend doing a few bits and pieces I needed to do for myself.

This is one of my birthday presents – a wonderful odds-and-ends collage-card in purple and black by my wonderfully creative friend Jaihn over at Truly Spacious.

'Rho Collage Card' by Jaihn @ Truly Spacious

© Anam Stubbington

And Anam made me a gorgeous scrapbook page with pictures of me and my fairy Goth daughter, Fay, from their Christmas visit. You can see the original here. I have such wonderfully creative friends, they always amaze me.

This week I’m a busy, busy little bee, finishing off the first of a series of 3 new workshops that open on March 2nd (more on that later), working on some journal pages for an offline workshop I’ll be teaching soon and putting together some workshop proposals and samples for a potential new venue near where I live. I also have 2 commissions to do (one of which is something of a monstrosity because it’s actually a set of pieces) and plenty of other things I need to catch up on, so the first two weeks of February are going to be somewhat manic. I do love being busy though, so it’s a great start to the year!