2013 Review

I totally don't blog enough.  Here we are, on the 4th of February 2014 for the love of all that is cheesecake, and I only just realised I didn't do a review of the year.

2013 was the year I stuck to my New Year's Resolutions for the first time ever.  I did art, mostly badly.  I fucked up my hair.  I am now vegetarian for the first time since I was 17.

But it was a landmark year in a gazillion ways.  I started going to gigs and found my motivation here...

...to finally do something about my hippopotamussyness.  So far as I'm concerned Laurence did it, not me.  I have loads of hideous photos of myself but none of them spurred me on to diet.  If this didn't exist (and if he hadn't been such a sweetie that April night in Oxford) it wouldn't have happened.  I closed 2013 having lost TWENTY PERCENT of my bodyweight.  And it's been EASY.  Taking the piss level easy!  Literally I think about food, then I think about the next time I'll see Fearless Vampire Killers...and that's that!

So here we have Heggie circa August 2011 and January 2014

Size 24 to size 18

2014 should be a cool year.  No FVK gigs to look forward to yet and I haven't had any time to paint as yet (stoopid uni course!) but I'm going to London to see All Time Low and to Glasgow to see Fall Out Boy next month which is gonna be all kinds of cool.  Erin has her first uni acceptances through and stuff is finally happening y'know?  Exciting times.

Just Checking In

It's been over a month since my last blog...not a lot has happened.  Good Lord but my life can be awfully dull.  Work - eat - sleep - tweet...and now paint.  That's about it really.
I am no longer Punk Panda on Twitter (the starting point for my last blog) but Hegwitch which amused me as a play on my name (my surname is Speller, geddit?!) and the concept of a Hedgewitch.  That's exciting isn't it?  I doubt I'll ever change my @ name.
However, one utterly thrilling thing has happened - Laurence Beveridge followed me on Twitter!!!  I'm too old and self conscious to fangirl here so I shall fanlady instead.  Altogether more dignified!  Still totally FVK obsessed obviously - I have tickets for three more gigs, the first of which is in six days time (*_*) then two on consecutive nights in September.  Should be fun!!!
I am half way through my Art Is The Weapon resolution for 2013 so time for a review perhaps?

All acrylic on canvas. My Little Killjoys (Jan) 8" x 20"; The Light Behind Your Eyes (Feb) 20" x 8"; FVK/Kerrang! Pandora Style (Mar) 24" x 24"; Laurence Beveridge (Apr) 30" x 24"; Kier Kemp (May) 16" x 12"; FVK Pokemon (Jun) 40" x 50"; Angel King Ruple (Jul) 16" x 20".  Plus of course there's a tonne of doodles including the tatdoodle I got in April and its sister tat that I'm getting inked next week.
Still veggie, still fucking up my hair...

I can't believe I've actually managed to make resolutions and stick to them!