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I feel like I have had A Week.

Monday was okay, but then Tuesday I ended up feeling really shitty (with added crying!), so I trundled myself off to Burnley to buy art supplies I don't need.

I promised myself I didn't actually have to buy anything, ( tl;dr: but then I bought stuff because I was sad )

I haven't mentioned everything I bought, because I can imagine it's kind of boring? Especially because you can't actually see what I got? It's funny though, I've watched so many art haul videos on YT lately that I thought I should come home and make one of my own. Except that I don't have video editing software. Except that today I discovered several programs that are likely useable to me, since they work (it looks like) like movie maker in Windows. It's also just occurred to me that if I got a spare memory card, I could use my old phone for filming! That way I wouldn't have to be swapping between cards in my actual phone all the time (and, as it happens, I've got a spare card, because the one in mum's tablet never got used).

OMG I COULD BE AN ART YOUTUBER.

A TERRIBLE ONE, BUT I COULD BE ONE.

(I mean, I don't have the fancy equipment, but I've got daylight lamps, something to film with and now I could have editing software! This isn't really a path I've seriously considered, but it is something I've wanted to do for a while. Maybe I could dink about for a bit and see if I like it, and if I do, maybe upload some stuff? OMG??)

(I am making ABSOLUTELY no promises. It's just a dumb idea right now).

I think there's a bunch of reasons I felt so crap - number one being it's December, and it will be mum's birthday in a week. I think number two, although it took me till this morning, and feeling somewhat better to figure it out, is that I didn't sleep at all well on Friday night, and it's taken me this long to feel better. Also I might have a mild form of The Lurgy that is going around town, which obviously also does not help.

I feel a lot better today, though, so that's good!

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In other news, I decided to make myself a large art pouch which can fit an A5 sketchbook plus some other bits and bobs in it.

I've seen several that people on youtube are using, and it never really occurred to me that you could have a pencil case that was bigger than normal size (aside from those ones that have zips on three sides and open like a book). I'd thought about buying one, but then it occurred to me that I could make my own, since I have everything I need right here. I've even got some upholstering material that a friend gave me years ago, some of which, it happens, is exactly the right size :D

So I'm going to do that, and it shouldn't take too long.

I also have been making cards to go in my Etsy shop, and I made Xmas cards for my nephew and brother and sister in law. It was really easy, it didn't take very long, and I had fun!

I like papercrafting (and scrapbooking papers, zomg. I could tell I didn't feel good on Tuesday because I went down the aisles in the Range with the scrapbooking stuff, but didn't give any of the papers even one glance. Usually I practically have to stand on my hands to stop myself from buying it). But, as with everything else, I'd been worried about mucking it up or making something that looked horrible. But you know what? I did okay! So I'm going to do some more things like that because if they're easy to make, and they'll sell, then why not get on and do it?

Also I watched a video last night about making your own books, so I'm going to have another go at that, too.

It's so weird. I was convinced I wouldn't know what to do with myself now I've got all this free time, and now I have too many things to do all at once, heh.

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I think I've probably said enough here for now, so I'm going to go off and get something to eat.