Off to Japan in a few days!!! At first it was something of an unexpected opportunity but I am absolutely buzzing with excitement about this trip. There are so many things I am curious to see and do. I can't wait! My, um, absence from deviantart may however not be all that noticeable, considering I didn't quite yet get around to fulfilling my ambitions to actually scan the past year's work and get a proper look through my giant watchlist of everyone's gorgeous art! Things have been generally brilliant but still quite crazy!!! And things do look very much set to continue in this vein in the immediate future... Slow and steady progress is (occasionally) being made behind the scenes, though. See you all later in the New Year! In the meantime, I hope you all have a very happy Christmas and New Years' (if you celebrate them), and have a fantastic holiday season!!! Keep being awesome.

XOXO Celia.



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Hello my lovelies! Many apologies for my recent (and by recent, I mean the entire year) absences from deviantart! I'm afraid my hellishly embarrassing levels of inactivity look set to continue until about December. For a moment there looked like a spare few days on the horizon, but t'was not to be. Hee hee hee I can't even bring myself to type the number of deviations and messages that have piled up on my watchlist, but I know they're so marvellous that I certainly can't I bear to delete them either. I'm definitely looking forward to the prospect of keeping up with all the fantastic art again and giving it the attention it deserves!!! Come the summer holidays, I may also actually get around to scanning and posting what will then likely be the entire year's work...

Needless to say things have been busier lately, but I'm absolutely loving the new and more varied routine!!! At the moment it's mid-semester break; I've just returned from a week's holiday in Broken Hill which was lovely; the animals are currently well in spite of some recent dramas; a language has been at least attempted; there may be a bit of travel on the horizon to look forward to; uni and work and frolicment and such are very involving and more than behaving themselves... and numerous biscuits have been made and consumed. I'm really enjoying the way things are going at the moment. For the meantime, please forgive my continued absence in the immediate future. Hope your art and life is filled with fabulousness. All the best!

Keep being awesome.

XOXO



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Hello my lovelies! I'll be making the transition from lurkerdom into complete absence for several weeks as of today, as I'm off to England to visit my sister!!! So excited!!! I am so, so happy that I secured someone to care for my little rats, piggies and cats and got over my badly timed stomach flu in time to fly. Yess! My apologies for commenting even less than usual (that is, not at all) in the intervening time.

Keep being awesome!



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Meep! I seem to be becoming increasingly sporadic in my internet use. But I'll certainly still be floating about, keeping up with everyone's wondrous art and commenting here and there. And I will get my deviantart-y act together temporarily and clean out the old gallery, try to be a bit more selective about what I do submit in the future, and (possibly) then actually post things. Just not as often.

...Things're spiffy.

Keep being awesome!



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Huzzah! The final stage of my grand plan for getting up to date, art-wise, begins! I'll do my best to space it out so as not to flood any message centres, but I've started posting the predominantly watercolour personal art (original characters, fanart, animals, and so on) from 2005 and from this year, and the end of the backlog is in sight! EXCITEMENT.

Funnily enough, when I was at art school, I ended up drawing almost nothing for pleasure in my spare time, but when working in a not-particularly-interesting job, or now that I'm at uni, I'm back into it again! And, lately, concentrating more on original work, too, which is currently feeling somewhat more rewarding! I know that some amazing people want to, and seem to be able to, concentrate almost solely on their art and put so much into it - but out of curiosity, who else here feels that their artistic enthusiasm is dependant on a balance with other elements of life (which may or may not be less fulfilling)?

Since I last posted about anything remotely connected with real life, I have adopted two beautiful British Shorthair cats! With the nervous laughter of the literary nerd I confess I named them Bertie and Reggie. Unfortunately, Tobias - the last rat of my original fantastic four - passed away earlier this year, as did one of my two guinea pigs, Mr. Squeaky. I'm currently on a shelter search for a new guinea pig friend for the cagemate he left behind, and I'm feeling the suckage and disorientation that comes with being ratless for the first time in years! But in general - although I won’t attempt to give any kind of summary, partially because I can’t seem to remember anything - uni is going very well indeed, and things are rather super.

And I finally got around to watching The Mighty Boosh, which may just be the best thing ever.

Keep being awesome!



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