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Substack
I’ve joined Substack! Hurrah! It’s still very new to me and I am finding my feet (or should I say voice?) I’ve published a couple of entries and am loving finding likeminded people to follow. it can be a bit like a rabbit hole, before I know it, I’ve spent…
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Farmvember
For the entire month of November, my sister https://www.emmacavill.com/ and I ran a farm related challenge over on our Instagram pages. The aim of the challenge was to keep up a daily sketching habit, which is all too easy to drop when life gets busy. It was off the back…
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Boatober 2023
I write this post having just completed my 31st consecutive daily sketch of a boat! Which is surprising because I don’t ever really draw boats and have never committed to such a long challenge. Everyday in October the fabulous Doug Jackson posts a reference photo on instagram for anyone to…
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Half Term Holiday
We are back from a 3 night break by the sea feeling thoroughly refreshed. I don’t know whether it was the awful summer we had and the lack of beach days but we all had a yearning to be by the coast. We didn’t want to travel far for just…
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Daily Illustrated Journal
I think keeping a daily illustrated journal has actually been quite life changing for me because it’s enabled me to have a creative outlet every day (even or especially when I have very little time) which definitely makes me happier. It’s something I don’t have to think about much, but…
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Garden Journal sketchbook Tour
Emma (my sister) came for the day yesterday and we always have a good natter about all manner of things. Yesterday we talked about E-bikes, farm life and the kids. We also had to go out and usher my three pigs back into their pen after they had managed to…
Nikki Hawkins 