We made it through the month of Blue Monday and Burns night - very important in Scotland - and now we get ready to make it through Valentine’s Day, whatever that means to you. 

I love many things and many creatures, however, I will keep this love letter on track as I delve a little into my relationship with stationery AND my growing love for illustrating fruit with Procreate.

Welcome to 2022. If you had the relationship with 2021 that I had, my guess is you are happy to be starting a new year.

I am grateful to report that last year was reasonably kind in the grand scheme of things. However, the dust of the pandemic lingered and made it hard to see a clear path ahead. In a personal sense, last year was a struggle and very much about survival - get to the end, endure. On Hogmanay, I felt a real sense of relief to be moving on. A good friend of mine said it felt like we had reached a checkpoint after facing one of the most challenging segments of our lives.