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April 01st, 2018

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Happy Easter

Happy New Year

Happy April Fool's Day

This will be the first time in 62 years that Easter has fallen on April fools day. So I'd keep your wits about you, in case the pranksters in your family or circle of friends are feeling frisky!

Did you know that April 1st used to mark the new year up until the 1500s when the Gregorian calendar took over from the Julian calendar. Those who forgot the change and attempted to celebrate New Year’s  on the wrong date were teased as “April fools.” 

April 1st has come to mark new beginnings for me and holds quite a few memories. Rewind a few years...

It was always a day to watch your back growing up in the UK, especially at my high school. It was often the teachers you had to watch out for not the kids! Every year our mischeivous art teacher would manage to out smart and out prank us, in often elaborate ways, planned over months! I feel for one hook line a sinker one year...  I was an excited but insecure 17-year-old, high on life after being accepted into art school. That is until I received a formal letter on April 1st, from the art school, with instructions for an essay and self-directed project. Loaded with art speak gobbledy gook, my heart stopped and my excitement turned to fear and dread. That morning, I hurried into the art room in a panic waving the letter at my art teacher, who had a huge smirk on his face. Thankfully, he didn’t leave me in my misery too long. I’d been had, well and truly! Fast forward 5 years...

...At 24, young and carefree, I arrived in the US at JFK airport, on April's Fools Day 1989. I was just as relieved to find my best friend from high school, waiting for me, as she was to see me in the flesh.  I think both of us were quietly suspecting this cross Atlantic reunion might just be a prank.  Fast forward quite a few more years... 

...After an 18 year career with the British Government in New York City.  I decided to start a new career in the Arts.  My last day at work kept getting pushed back until March 31st and yep, April 1st, 2006 I, began another new chapter as a full-time MFA student at the New York Academy of Art...

...fast forward a few more years...

...on April 1st, 2012, I married my husband at Dubois Beach in Stonington, CT. became a stepmom, and settled into a new life in Mystic, CT with a studio a the Velvet Mill.​
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Happy Anniversary!

April Fools offer!

This year rather than try to PRANK you, I've decided to THANK you, with a one time
Special April Fool's offer of 25% off all prints in the shop.

Offer ends midnight Monday, April 2nd...
Sign up here to receive the coupon code
offer only lasts thru Midnight Monday April 3rd
so don't delay ;-)
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