A couple of days ago I came across the phenomenon called zines. Seeing as how I've been trying to reconnect with my creative authenticity recently, this feels right up my alley! Needless to say, I dove headfirst into "the YouTubes" and what I saw made me so very happy!

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Is putting a lot of time and effort into social media good for visual artists?

We all know social media is a bottomless pit and a black hole for your time. You check your Instagram for just a moment and when you close the app half an hour has gone by without you having noticed. Your Facebook feed basically does the same thing..

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So, a while ago I came across this really cool platform called Buy me a Coffee.

It's a platform that lets you support creators doing what they love to do; create!

How?  By buying them a "coffee" or "pizza" or "book" or in my case a "tea", a small one of donation just to show you appreciate their work.

You can also support on a monthly or yearly basis with a subscription, these subscriptions usually come with perks, and a creator can set different sorts of subscriptions offering different things to their supporters.

For instance, I just set up my first member subscription level, the "Tea Club"!

It's €3,- per month or €30,- per year.

It comes with the following membership offerings;
- access to exclusive behind the scenes and work in progress posts
- hang out with me in my art space through live videos and talk to others on my Discord server
- receive discount coupons for my shop and extras

I'm slowly building my Buy me a Coffee page with more cool things. I want to add another member level offering digital downloads to my members. And another level offering physical items. I'm curious to see where this will take me!

x Sylvia

So today was interesting...

The short of it is..I managed to miscommunicate with my website hosting company and the result is that the wrong part of my website was deleted and can't be recovered.

Which now means that I have to rebuild most of it....

My heart sank when I learned this, and I actually felt nauseated for a moment😅

Now I have to rebuild all the links and pages, and rewrite some parts.

Luckily the blog was backed up!

I guess you know what I'll be doing tomorrow...

I created this very cute Valentine's day card saying "You are my Mountain(not just my rock)"

They are now available in my shop!

You can choose to buy one or a set of five.