October

October is here!

This is my favourite month of the year, Autumn is also the season of wonder and wandering. I always make wishes and put my goals on paper… this looks like a good time to improvement.

The lonely thing I regret is that I’m not that kind of person who bake from morning to evening every pumpkin and golden apple they could find in this season, it was a thing on my thirty, but now I don’t;

maybe someday I’ll go back on backing mood, for now I eat some very good pastries and tarts from excellent “pasticceria” here in Trieste, so I am not very guilty about not baking anything, I also love to eat biscuits from Scotland and Walkers Shortbread are my favourite.

Anyway, talking about goals, there is some I feel that are very important to me: Definitely improve my drawing, get my portfolio done and working on renewing my website (heek, here this is happening!) I cutted off many stuff on this new version and also I’m switching the language from Italian to English, ageing is taking me to another level of consciousness. I feel like I changed my mind a billion of times on who I was supposed to be, but now I feel like I am what I am, and there isn’t anything to demonstrate, anything to take for sure… I am here to do my best but I don’t wanna be stressed about this fact. I’ll do my best and I’ll be grateful for what I’ve done over the frustrations of what I didn’t achieved, knowing that the best has yet to come.

Last week I joined the Picture Book Course by The Good Ship Illustrations, and I’ll be super busy for the next 7 weeks on learning and growing as a children’s book illustrator, the first week was amazing already!

Ok, that’s all, things I have loved this month:

  • We celebrated a full year of Rebecca Green’s Patreon, The Dessert Club. I enjoyed every single month of it, she is amazing and so generous on sharing her knowledge.

  • Inktober - it seems I can do this! I completed two challenges, a personal one and one by Furry Little Peach - see more at Instagram hashtag #jdeebellaicss22

I wish You a happy October, happy Halloween, happy Everything season! (And lot of cinnamon and pumpkin rolls of course!

Xoxo, Giusy aka Jdeebella