2018 in Review - It was a very good year!

This past year has been much different in tone and scope than the last. Artistically, I've been productive in different ways...with fewer paintings but many more crafts completed.

That said, there is so much to be thankful for including the fact that I've maintained a reasonable work-life balance especially compared with 2017. For me now, its all about that work-life balance plus exploring new artistic horizons and continuing to do the work!

My arts-related accomplishments for 2018 include having:

*Completed 5 Let's Face It! projects in this 2018 course
*Made 36 Blog Posts
*Done a video log (VLOG) for every day in February!
*Started keeping VLOGs more regularly starting in July
*Created 5 iMovies
*Started a spontaneous art journal and completed 38 pages
*Watched and totally enjoyed these movies: Loving Vincent, Christopher Robin, and A Star is Born; other great movies though harder to watch included Green Book and Dark Money
*Created 50 shimmering ornaments
*Completed implementing a photo filing system and naming conventions for RAW, JPG, PNG, and other image types
*Enjoyed a weekend meet-up and art-making session in Cambria with Creative Club compadres
*Joined a photography club
*Started a wheel-throwing pottery class
*Attended a wonderful Jake Shimabukuro ukulele concert at the Mountain Winery
*Visited the 'Truth and Beauty' exhibit of Pre-Raphaelite art works in San Francisco
*Participated in the 2018 Woman Unleashed Online Retreat (Winter)
*Kept an Awesome Jar and have reviewed the 9 entries (reminders of the positive)
*Written a poem (inspired by owl hoots on a impressively quiet night)
*Learned to make Shambala bracelets

(and these are in addition to having walked more than 350 miles since July!)

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