{ kass } an artistic journey

Publication!

I'm excited to say that I have an article in M Magazine, a liftout in today's Sunday Age. So far I can't find a link to the article on the website but here is a scan...hopefully if you click on it, you can read it.

Given that Belmere Creative is less than 2 months old (and thus only 2 months since I decided to try for some freelance work), I am very excited to have this early success. I am especially excited to have had success on a topic I love, and a place that is my second home.

ETA: It's up on the Age website here

http://www.theage.com.au/news/north-america/the-girl-stays-in-the-picture/2007/09/06/1188783412832.html

*tap tap* is this thing on?

yes, and we are LIVE.

Belmere Creative, that is.

The website still has some work to happen but it's up, it's live and I would love some feedback.

In other news, I have a shocking head cold and feel like total CRAP. Not only that but with this virus, it of course sets off the urticaria, which is the fancy word for the skin condition I have been battling since returning from Canada. Turns out it is a viral condition, meaning there's no cure. It will just "go away" (I was so pleased to pay the dermatologist $140 for THAT gem). I come up in red spots, varying in size and redness. They tend to just come from nowhere, make me itch then go away just as quick. Not right now. When he said I had chronic urticaria, he wasn't kidding. Right now, the spots are HUGE and RED and RAISED and ITCHY as hell. It's rather unpleasant, on top of the head cold. I sooooo hate being sick!

On that note, I am going inside to blow my nose.

introducing

BELMERE CREATIVE

Why Belmere, you ask?

Belmere is the name of our family farm in Bairnsdale, which has been in our family since 1960 and which soon will be sold. We expect that the house, which Plugger lived in and died in, will be bulldozed when the farm sells. And Belmere the farm will be no more.

Belmere (the farm) got it's name from the two racehorses Plugger had the greatest success with - Bell's Chance and Mere Talk.

So when I was thinking of a name that meant something to me, I naturally thought about my family and my beloved Plugger, who I miss so much. But I didn't think Plugger Creative Services really sounded like a serious name!! Then it occurred to me - the farm. Belmere. The more I thought about it, the more it made sense to me...and the other names I had been thinking about seemed to fade into the background.

So Belmere Creative Services it is...with www.belmerecreative.com being the domain name I have registered (there's nothing there yet).

And why Creative Services? Well...I plan to offer my photography as part of my business. But there will be more. Other creative opportunities are arising and I hope will continue to. So I needed a term which provided an accurate "umbrella" - and I felt Creative Services was a great way to describe what I hope my business will become over time.

Exciting times....