Hello everyone!  And happy new year to you all!  I took a bit of a break over Christmas and although I was still posting on Instagram and a bit on Facebook, I have enjoyed the time off.  It has given me time to rest and reflect and start to plan for what my blog might look like in the coming year.  These last few days I have been quite poorly though with a sore throat and virus, I am feeling very tired and very low.  But with everyone back at school and work I thought writing about my goals and aspirations for 2019 would be cathartic.

Wow 2018, what a busy year for my blog!  A huge, heartfelt thank you to my readers for loving my blog enough to visit and read my posts, for signing up to my mailing list, for commenting here and chatting to me on my social media posts.  It is all very much appreciated!  Every single one.

​Sophie Fois is an extremely talented young contemporary artist based in the beautiful Buckinghamshire countryside.  I will admit to knowing nothing about art although I think the best way to choose art for most of us is because we just love it!  And I love Sophie's work.  I also love her studio in the village of Turville, it is just behind the Bull & Butcher Pub, take a drive through the country lanes, have a walk up to the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Windmill or around the village where the Vicar of Dibley was filmed, have lunch at the pub and visit Sophie in her studio.