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December 10, 2020
It's the downhill run to Christmas and I, along with everyone else is busy, busy, busy!
I have just wrapped(excuse the pun!) two more books! Yay! Several more  to complete but loving every minute of illustrating them. Look below to see a sneak peek at what to expect from the two books just finished. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a safe New Year.

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November 8, 2020

Finally my website is passable enough to publish. I'm sure I have more work to do to it to get it up to scratch and so it will be an ongoing process and a huge learning curve for me.

Latest news! I have just completed 25 large illustrations(Illo's) and 25 smaller illustrations for a children's book about a satin bowerbird. The author, Barb Cromie, is yet to publish so the title and an explanation of the story will have to wait as I respect my author/illustrator confidentiality agreement. However, with Barb's permission, I have posted some illo's from the story. See my portfolio pages.

As most of my friends and family are aware, I was published for the first time in May 2020. The book, Watching Through The Day, by Julie Thorndyke and published by ipoz Publishing, features illustrations undertaken during a year of personal turmoil. Soon after I was engaged to create the illustrations for Watching Through The Day, I was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer. 

However, I was not going to let cancer stop me from seeing my lifelong dream of becoming a children's book illustrator come to fruition. And so while I recovered from surgery, I sat with my computer in my hospital bed and illustrated. I illustrated all through my chemo treatment and my radiation treatment and my recovery at home. To be honest, having the distraction of illustrating and a deadline to meet, stopped me from worrying about myself and helped me to have a positive attitude throughout this personal saga.

You can see some of the illustrations from  Watching Through The Day, on my portfolio pages and if you click the image, it will open the ipoz Publishing page where you can purchase the book, alternatively, you can click the following link 
https://www.ipoz.biz/portfolio-single/watching-through-the-day/ 

With these two books now complete, it's back to the "drawing board" for me. I am currently illustrating three new books with more to come so watch this space .....


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November 15, 2020

Spent a lovely weekend celebrating Christmas lunch with my work colleagues at Sandy Hollow Hotel. I took my mum as my partner and she enjoyed herself immensely, commenting what a happy bunch of people we were. I believe we are all happy because we each love our position within the family business we work for. Our bosses treat us with respect and patience and always let us know we are valued members of their business, in fact we all feel more like one big family rather than work colleagues!
Mum and I spent the night at Sandy Hollow Tourist park, in a nice, neat and clean room. We awoke to the sound of native bird calls and peaceful, leafy green surrounds.
As I sipped my coffee, I watched a large white cockatoo sunning himself or herself on a branch overhanging the dam. He/she seemed to be enjoying the warmth of the early morning sun when another cheeky cockatoo sidled up to him/her only to be met with a peck or two to shoo it away off his branch.
It's the simple little sights like this that make your day and sets the imagination alight. This cheeky cockatoo reminded me of my cockatoo from my yet to be published children's story "Willy Wally Gully"©.
Well, I have illustrations to get on with so until next time. Love life and take enjoyment in the simple things.
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