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It was mostly good being back at work yesterday, although I did accidentally eat at my desk and I didn’t go for a walk. I did stop before five and got through all the little bits of admin and emails that pile up when you’re away, as well as a few hours of actual work (I know the emails and the admin is actual work, too, but… you know, billing hours). And I don’t need to do any (publishing) work over the weekend, either, which is nice.
I do need to finish off a couple of festive pieces by tomorrow evening. I would also quite like to finish my third bird post piece and maybe do a little bit on the second giant cat piece.
And I didn’t manage to send out any outreach emails while I was away, so I would quite like to update my portfolio a bit (and, honestly, ideally tweak it so that it has different categories again, as I do think there’s probably way too much on the front page now I brought patterns back in), and then send out a bunch of emails at the start of the week, so they go out in September, because Frankfurt is in a couple of weeks.
And, of course, suddenly I’m coming up with a month’s worth of illustration business admin work that I somehow imagine I will get done in one weekend when I have two illustrations to finish, which, honestly is plenty! Just like the multitude of things I imagined I would do while away for a week, when, really, resting and doing some exploring and inspiration gathering was plenty.
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Your portfolio is so fun!
I really enjoy your short creative posts/newsletter.