It seems DA ate my last journal entry about my Liverpool trip. What a pain. Bigger pain lately is that I had to take my laptop to the repairs for a service, and it turns out it has an issue with its cooling fan. So I'll be without it for a while. On the one hand it's annoying, and puts a bit of a dampener on the last few days of 2011. On the other, if it can be fixed, it'll be good as new, and if it can't then it'll at least work long enough until I can get a new one....so long as it doesn't get too hot that is.

But first world problems aside, this Xmas has been good, and I've got some good things going for 2012. I got some nice presents from the family, including some interesting ones- I'm not exactly familiar with John Grisham legal thrillers for example, but new gifts are the most intriguing- sort of like a lucky dip, only with more wrapping paper. My Mom and stepdad liked their presents- Star Trek (original) Season 1 for Mom, History Channel Mythology documentary series for stepdad. I'm planning on heading down to see the rest of the family to find out what they thought of my presents that I bought on said Liverpool trip (thus avoiding Black Friday and the Xmas crowds ), but this depends on what happens with my 2012 plans.

I got some good job leads in the run-up to the new year. There's the JET application, which will be getting back to me and the other applicants over the next 2 months on whether they've made it to interviews or not. But I've also applied for a job at a retail place on a cruise ship. Why? Well, I applied for it out of the blue via reed.co.uk, mainly to fill in my bit for my jobseeker's allowance. But they actually got back to me and put me amongst the 18 other applicants they were interested in. After downloading their guide to confirm my interest in the position, they sent me a psychometric test to complete to see if I'm the kind of guy who could work out on a cruise ship for 6 months at a time away from home. Pretty fancy, but after completing it they said if I got contacted on the 9th of January, I'll make it to interviews. If not...well, I'll be left with JET to look out for. Least it shows my luck is turning a little, and that I'll be making a good start to the new year.

Just need to make some new art works now, or at least complete the ones I've been working on. Maybe I'll stick them as is on the old family PC and bolster my scraps section, maybe get a few critique pointers and the like. But we'll see how it goes.

Until then, I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas, some Happy Holidays, and a tremendous New Year

(Extra note: Does anyone know how to edit the footer? It's a bit late to ask, but since DA's last change I've no idea how to change it).

FEATURED!
March 28th 2010
This was done a while back- about 10 days ago in fact, but :iconcaricaturID:, aka :iconmarisangoea:, did a caricature of my moody mug in 'The Dave Today'. Isn't it just purdy?-

Many thanks, Marisangoea

December 3rd 2009
:iconJeannieBlue:'s recently done a Best of 2009 article and, lo and behold, my two choices of what I consider my best pieces of 2009 managed to get into it Much love and thanks to Jeannie Give it a looksee, then check out her works

Lookie here

September 17th 2009-
Via a contact at ModelMayhem.com, Dewald Brand at Dewald Brand Photography asked if he could feature a few of my pieces in the studio section of his website, Behemoth Of Moscow- a neat website offering fashion, photos, a regular blog, and the said studio section offering works by a variety of artists...which now includes a few pieces by me So check it out and enjoy!

Site: www.behemothofmoscow.com
Dewald Brand Photography's Model Mayhem profile: [link]
My own artist's profile at Model Mayhem: [link]

August 30th 2009-
:iconnixtigris: has featured some of my work in a few of his latest pieces you can check them out here;

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Needless to say, I'm flattered. Be sure to check out the rest of his gallery too. His 3D pieces, while being neat, are also really well detailed and pretty realistic. I'm sure you'll like it

HUMBLE PLEA UPDATE:
Check out this link: [link]

Well, though I found this out a little too late, it seems Rachael, the girl previously mentioned in my Humble Plea, is now being assessed for a lung transplant to help her condition. So with any luck she'll pull through with it and be okay Thanks to anyone who donated previously from when I put up this link. If you want to find out more about lung conditions, or how Rachael is getting on from her experiences, check out the above link and check out what they have to offer.


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