Four exhibitions, three awards and two cakes.
Amanda Tittley
Nov 13, 2023
1 min read
Well now I can call myself an " award winning artist "! A judges' first place award for a landscape painting, a second place award for a self-portrait in acrylics and a third place for my hare picture in pastels.
Okay, boasting over ! Christmas is coming and the order book is getting fat. I'm going to be busy with commissions, but I'm dong what I love so it doesn't feel like work.
oh yes - the two cakes ? The exhibitions offer coffee and cake so we provide lots of lovely home-made cakes so I got baking too.
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