January 2024 Forecast (Patreon)

WHERE THE FORK DID 2023 GO?! Did someone hide it and forget where they put it? It sure feels like it.

Magnificent friends. How the hell are you doing? I hope you are all thriving, but if your answer is 'surviving', that's totally fine -- I am so happy that you are here. 💖

Normally I do this whole long rambling about what the upcoming month is going to be like, but honestly it feels like the new year has left me with a blank mind. That may not be a bad thing, though. It means there are so many new opportunities and ideas that can fill my brain instead, and that basically is what I think my 'theme' of this year will be: New Opportunities & Ideas.

Obviously you may already be inundated with all those shaming-but-poorly-veiled-as-inspiration guides on how to make "good" New Year's Resolutions. I'm not about that, because frankly, I don't even know what the hell I'm going to do for dinner later today, let alone what I wanna do for the rest of the year. 

Don't get me wrong - I did still make a very very rough plan for each month this coming year, but I'm not looking at them as goals or anything that I have to achieve in that given month. It's more like what I do with my Maps app: adding bookmarks for "Want To Go" places. So in a way, I guess it's a list of "Want To Do" things that I can use as viewpoints along this metaphorical road trip. If I miss them, it doesn't mean the trip ends, it just means that I will end up having a bit of a different route than planned, and that's okay. Detours happen and will happen (and not just with my train of thought hah). And who knows? Maybe I can still revisit those things at a later time because it's not a linear path, after all.

Enough of my waxing (un?)poetic about Life Plans™ though, because as a real poet said, "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men \ Gang aft a-gley."

✨ January Special Events!

• Shining Stars Super-Special Hangout!
  🗓   10 January 5:00PM GMT (12:00PM EST / 9:00AM PST)
  Sketchbooks! Sneak peeks! Chilli! No wait, chilling.
  Add to calendar!
• Movie Night!
  🗓  20 January 8:00PM GMT (3:00PM EST / 12:00PM PST)
• Snack & Sketch!
  🗓  25 January 8:00PM GMT (3:00PM EST / 12:00PM PST)
  Get your snacks (or lunch, or dinner, or brunch) and (digital) pencils and we'll do some colouring and sketching together!

Since it is a new year, a friendly reminder that it's totally okay if you still end up writing 2023 for a few more weeks...or months. But you know what you should make sure to update? Your mailing address if you are on the Prism Pal or Spectral Star tier, so I can send you your goodies!

Here is to another year with you, fantastic friends. 💖