Hmm...I could have swore that I've updated since that last post....Perhaps it was only in my mind...
Anyways, I hope you all are doing well. Things have been quite hectic around here as usual. We are currently looking for a new home...either to rent, or hopefully to buy...although prospects for buying are looking pretty grim. The houses that we can afford in this city are smaller than the one that we are currently renting, and that is already too small for us. UK houses are just so damn expensive. £100,000 will buy you a tiny 2 bedroom terraced house with a tiny kitchen and a small living room and a dinky bathroom that doesn't even have a bathtub. and you can forget about closets..they just don't have them here. If I took that same cash and converted it to the $, you'd have nearly $200,000 to spend and for that, you could get a massive 4 bedroom home with a huge kitchen, lounge, dining room, and a couple of bathrooms.....at the least....and probably a garage and a basement. We've been house hunting for about 3 months now and just haven't found anything at all. It doesn't help that we need to stay pretty close to the school district that my daughter is in so that she doesn't have to change schools. So it looks like we might just have to carry on renting, but I'm just rather tired of renting by now....and if we have to move (which since our landlord intends on selling our house, we most likely will have to) then I'd rather just buy and have a place that we can do whatever we want to it...
Other than that, I've been rather busy at work...and busy at home. I've been taking a fair bit of photos lately..many of which you can see at my
flickr site. although I've not had a lot of time to do much other artwork. I finished my social science course and now I think i'm going to join the open college of the arts and work towards a photography degree. An art degree will give me a better prospect for getting into a masters program for Art therapy. And as much as I enjoy academia, I really hate writing essays and papers....I'd much rather be doing art.
Anyways, that's it from me for now!
"Learning to dream"©Tracy Adams 2008
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Comments (11)
@faeriegirl -
Hi Faeriegirl
@kissthewitch -
Where I'm at? I'd be LUCKY if I could get a very small STUDIO apartment for $500K. Yeah. I'm gonna keep renting for a while. haha
And spooky poultry-legged fish. hehe You do so love the fish. And the hats. It's good to see you creating artwork and posting it again - even if you are too busy to get much going. I love seeing it when you do post it! One of these days when I'm not all broke from living where I live, I'm going to buy a whole collection of your art and hang it on the walls. I greatly enjoy your style and can't wait to see more!
Good luck with the housing searches!!
Sorcia
@sorcia -
hey Sorcia!!! yes, you are right....i'm sure it is VERY expensive out there....and where you live in America makes a huge difference....but of course, I'm from ohio....so you can get a lot of house for not much money there! you just can't get any jobs! here there are differences in house prices depending on where you live, but no matter where you live, it's guaranteed to be small and expensive....if you want anything that has 4 walls of it's own (a detached house) you are looking into the equivalent of $500,000 just for a small one....england is such a cramped space that houses and land are at a rediculous premium and most houses are terraced (think block or row houses all attached) so you really only own 2 walls..although now city living has become popular and so there are a lot of converted stores/warehouses which have been made into apartments......and they're even more expensive than houses! and then there is London...hahaha...it's probably like living in san francisco.....so far out of any normal human's price range!! property is so expensive in London that people who work in London actually have to get a London bonus in their salaries to make up for the increase in cost of living.....
@Southland -
Molly, I hear ya there....I don't know how anyone can afford to live in California....
And thanks about the pictures! if there's anything you want to know in photoshop, i'd be happy to tell you how i do it if i can! I sell a few pieces now and again....but not a great deal of it....although I'm hoping that this piece gets into ballistic publishing's "Exposé 6" book....it's a book of digital art...it's been shortlisted...so at least it has a chance! I haven't ever exhibited anything....but i would love to one day....
Good luck for the house hunting , Tracy . I know the prices are hyper - high in UK .
I like your legged fishes . You have a style that we find in each of your art works . This is a surrealist style .
Love
Michel
@fauquet -
thank you very much, my dear friend ((hug))