New year - New Broom

In my last post of 2011 I wished for hard work, new lessons and a dose of luck. Today on the first day of the new year I ended up wiping my blog clean. Time will tell how lucky this is, but I am optimistic.

The prompt for this came from Google blogger, informing me that my Picasa web album was full. There it was, the first lesson. I didn't even realise that I had a Picasa web album, let alone that there was a limit on it.

When I went to look at the pictures on Picasa my heart sank - duplication upon duplication, more rubbish than my eyes could stand to look at. Three years of progression, that much was evident, but not much else. So in the spirit of new year beginnings I decided to take a metaphorical broom and sweep the whole thing clean. Of course this had implications for the blog too, so I brushed that down at the same time....

I can hear the faint screams from at least one person, but bear with me. I didn't really "want" to declutter this stuff, but once I had started I realised just how much it had been dragging on me. These stacks of pictures weren't foundations for further work, they were millstones limiting my creativity. Once that realisation came I promptly dragged out and dumped most of my City and Guilds sketch/workbooks... oh and I deleted the image file on my mobile phone too.

Goodness I feel lighter now ..... Happy New Year !