Hi

I'm sorry for being away. I needed this time to think a lot of things and thankfuly I'm finding a way to be out of this crazy events.

Lots of things happened this month. Mostly inner changes that are surprising me. First I started re-organizing my eating routine since I had a start of an eating dissorder for the stress and anxiety. I'm eating more protein to keep me satisfied and some fruit, yogurt and peanut butter as snaks. I've dropped 2 kg in a week just by eating healthy. It was an amazing result.

One of the best parts of the month was having a space in a local convention. It was a great chance to be noticed by the people who goes to this events. I was glad to find and other artist friends there. I will advertise them as soon as I get their deviant id's.On saturday I was the stupid assistant on the drawing workshop. Being selftaught and not having a a well known technique, it was hard to explain my methods to people who are still starting on this. At least it wasn't a full loss. On sunday I was given a better space and start to sell some prints and cards of stuff I worked in. I'll be uploading them during the month and I still have to see if I could sell sets of stickers to keep recovering the expenses. I also met lots of new people who support local artists, it was amazing to receive this kind of attention and to feel part of a team of artists.I might join them in the next edition that will take place in october as a pre-halloween convention. It's going to be (finally) an exciting year.

I also received my copy of Curvy. My image appears to be the smaller of all the ones printed, wich made me feel sad, but well, at least I can brag this feature in my curriculum. I'm also waiting for the organizers to contact me to see how much I have to spend to bring the painting I did back to me, since I'm sure it didn't sell. Anyway, the experience was exciting. Now I have to see how am I going to recover $250 usd mom lent me to ship the canvas to Australia.

On the saddest note of the month. I buried yesterday another of my cats. Pelusa. She was a lovely stray kitten we saved almost 2 years ago. She started signs of calicivirus a few weeks after we brought her home and since then she had suffered lots of ups and downs. A few months ago she had her best moment that she even could climb to the kitchen table to ask for food, wich she was never able to do. But after a few weeks, she started going down again and we started giving her the support treatment we always give her. IT didn't work. She developed osteomielitis, wich is a bone infection that entered through the ulcers in her mouth. When we noticed, abscess she had exploded and we realized a day after because she didn't show any signs of pain. A week after being with the vet, the infection spreaded and started killing tissue. We put her down yesterday. I miss my midnight companion, she always went to the kitchen at 2am with me to ask me for ham or sour cream. We all feel so sad because we feel like we failed her by not noticing her problem on time. At least she's not suffering anymore.

And well, things are just taking the place they have to be in. I can't promise to have all the commissions ready right away since I received more freelance work this week. But I will try to at least finish 1 or 2 each week. As well as with custom ponies. Many pending on the list and I'm tired of having the people waiting because it's unfair. I will try to keep the sentimental stuff away for a while and see if I can finish all the commissions soon.

Thanks a lot for your support and for your trust everybody
With all my love
Diana