Creative Update – Writing, Art, Crafts and more…
I thought I would bring you all up to speed with the recent going ons in my life in terms of my creative output. It’s been a pretty hectic year filled with so mcuh drama and unexpected hardship so my creative life has been a bit sporadic and all over the place.
The reality of life…Instead of sugar coating it, I will jump right in.
So here we go. This past few months has seen me having to grieve my grandmother who passed away. Goin to her funeral resulted in staying in a hotel for a couple days and I was exposed to covid. I then ended up with long covid and pneumonia that affected me for about 3 months and I was stuck in bed for most of it. I then had another month of recovery after that and have still some ingoing issues. I break out in hives daily for absolutley nothing and have been told this may take the rest of the year to calm down.
Chico underwent surgery and had several teeth removed. So our poor pup had a few vet appointments and then his actual surgery which was one of the most stressful days of my life. He is completely recovered and doing fine.
So then, my father had a stroke leaving his entire side paralysed and even though we now have him home he is not yet recovered. This was a major period of upheavel in our family as we rallied around the perosn who was normally the doer-fixer-carer for the rest of us. He has leg use back and is learning to try and reclaim the rest of his body. So as you can imagine they still need us to come do tasks, diy and sometimes taxi service uuntil my father is better with his arm and leg.
On top of all that I twice pulled the pectoral muscle in my chest, tearing the muscle, which immobolised my entire upper body for a chunk of time and spread over a couple of months. It was caused by some gardening DIY if you watch my youtube vlog and is why it’s on hiatus. I am currently still resting because of the injury and taking time to recuperate.
There has been some minor famly drama going on the past month and just in general, some stresses and such relating to my private life. This resulted in having two anxiety attacks in a week which up until that week had not happened in over a decade. The result was that my immune system took a huge blow and I ended up really sick for a week or two after.
My kids have both had pretty serious health things this past 2 weeks. My son had a bleeding eyeball which swelled so badly and he oozed out a huge blood blob. Thankfully it looked a lot worse than it was and he has severe conjunctivitus caused by hayfever…something we have both been suffering with. He is now fine and using eye drops.
My daughter came down seriously ill right after his eye scare and we thought she might have toxic shock syndrome (long story, don’t ask)…thankfully or not, it turns out she has bacterial tonsilitus and is now on medication. So I am caring for her while also resting my entire right upper body LOL.
As you can see it’s been a pretty tough few months.
Writing – BooksThe first on the agenda is what is happening with my books as you all keep asking. I am very close to releasing a brand new story that has only until now been seen by a handful of readers. I am one chapter away from completion before I polish it up and put it out there for all to buy. So bear with me as this is a painfully slow process at times.
Awakening and Carreo both have future books planned but you have to be patient as I have so many lined up to write. Teen Drama will be completed after my new release is out.
The book is called ‘The Breath you left’ and I will be showing it off to you all soon!!!
YoutubeI am in the process of trying to decide the identity of my youtube channels. To date we have a react channel, my craft channel and a home vlog channel but I am struggling to juggle them and need to find a way to combine the vlog and crafts. It’s a process and I will slowly figure it out. All links are in the menu above.
I have been so hectic I have not been on top of the monthly challenge and hope to get back to it soon.
KnittingI just released two new patterns this past month or two and have a collection of little berry dolls in process. I already put out a basic dressable dolly pictured below and am now working on the cute fruit girls.I am fitting this in while I have downtime and am unsure how long it will take for the ‘Berry dolls’ collection to be complete. After all are designed and published I will produce a Berry girls pattern book in print. I am also working on turning them into digital cuties for merch.
Buy patterns – https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/LianaOCF
Merch for Awakening and CarreroOver on my Etsy I just launched a whole bunch of Awakening items for sale and uploaded the existing Carrero merch. So if you are an avid book lover who wants my handmade merch then the link is here – https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/LianaOCF
Also we have a print shop with shirts etc for all of my art and books – https://www.redbubble.com/people/LTMarshall/shop
My cute art is here – https://ltmarshall-shop.fourthwall.com/
If you have any questions on anything I forgot to update you on then let me know.
