NellWilliams

Greetings all!

I changed my username to my actual artist name to fit with my other creative outlets:  NellWilliams.com and my facebook page www.facebook.com/nellwilliamsd….

I have been working on some professional project and hope to catch up my DA account to my fb page and personal site.


Miss you all,

Nell

Hello to all my DA friends,

More health hi-jinx have played havoc with my creative outflow, (not to mention the WoW expansion) but I am still alive.  Turned out that everything over the summer was due to vitamin deficiencies and B and D and for once I have something that can be fixed YaY. I also stole the recliner that had been in my son's room and find it much easier to sit at the computer. So as I am recovering from this vitamin thing and getting my strength back I injure to discs in my lower back by walking over uneven ground lol Something that only I can do . I love my chiropractor as he has already taken care of a disc injury I had 5 years ago to where its like it never happened and he is working his magic on the new ones.  I have actually created some pieces specifically with t-shirt design in mind and I will post them within the next week.  

I really hope sometime this year to post a Journal entry that doesn't involve illness or injury But I have to say that I see the light down there a ways and there was a long time that all I saw was darkness. Being practically bedridden was not something I handled very well and I am still not able to take on much in the way of responsibilities and that stings. I always considered myself laid back but I also considered myself the one that took care of everyone and now my Husband has to take time off to take my son to the Doctor because I don't know if I will be able to do it. That sucks. But it isn't permanent and that's what I have to remember.




Kisses,

Nell

Wow I hadn't realized that I had actually created quite a few images that I had not submitted here. With the "work" I have been doing for my author friends and being ill here and there I most of my images end up on my facebook page.

Just to sum up the past few months

As you know from a few posts here and there I have a "working" friendship with two wonderful authors R.J. Sullivan  [link] and Eric Garrison [link] Well what was a few fan art images and artwork for a blog event that they did has taken on a life of it's own lol. R.J. was signed to a book deal with Seventh Start Press [link] and suddenly I am designing a T-shirt to be sold at FandomFest [link] and a bookmark that has been given out at author appearances. Well my name is all over everything so I had to get professional hehe. I revamped my portfolio site and even created a Facebook Nell Williams Designs page (like me like me) [link] and that ends the links

I have never hidden that I suffer from Fibromyalgia and while I  have never been a loud advocate for the condition (a failing on my part) I don't hide from it. I want to be the person known for her creativity, intelligence (spelled that wrong lol) and as you can tell silliness, not fibrogirl. However, the condition as well as my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome have been playing a larger role in my life and its quality over the last few months. The basic problem is that I develop a tolerance to most medications over time and have not had an effective sleep medication for a while. About a month ago I switched to a Gluten free diet and that seems to help the pain

I think that in the last year I have had about 4 identity crises. You think that your life is supposed to be a certain way. You go to work and have a routine and a purpose. When you are disabled at a young age, I consider 36 young to be disabled, you lose a part of yourself and wonder what your purpose is? How do you contribute to the world. It really messes with your self worth. First I tried to replace work with school, but then I had to stop because it was putting my family in a debt that I did not see a reason for, then I tried to replace it with religion only to find that the direction I was going was not one that I agreed with. Then as I was riding the roller coaster of ups and downs health wise of the last few months I just lost it.  But then my wonderful husband reminded me that I am the glue of this family, that I take care of everyone, pay the bills, make sure Doctors appointments are kept and that my son is going in the right direction.  While I still have a hard time dealing with what I really feel is being a slacker, playing video games, doing cross stitch and making images with the ever present annoying naps, I am me and I am working on accepting that I while have no control over how my body limits me my mind is still mine.

So over the next few days I will be uploading quite a few images.

Nell

March has been an amazing and terrible month for me and both have kept me from being on DA as much as I would like.

First the amazing. As you know from a few posts here and there I have a "working" friendship with two wonderful authors R.J. Sullivan  www.rjsullivanfiction.com and Eric Garrison lulu.com/homebrew. Well what was a few fan art images and artwork for a blog event that they did has taken on a life of it's own lol. R.J. was signed to a book deal with Seventh Start Press www.seventhstarpress.com/ and suddenly I am designing a T-shirt to be sold at FandomFest fandomfest.com/ and a bookmark that has been given out at author appearances. Well my name is all over everything so I had to get professional hehe. I revamped my portfolio site and even created a Facebook Nell Williams Designs page (like me like me) www.facebook.com/nellwilliamsd… and that ends the links

I have never hidden that I suffer from Fibromyalgia and while I  have never been a loud advocate for the condition (a failing on my part) I don't hide from it. I want to be the person known for her creativity, intelligence (spelled that wrong lol) and as you can tell silliness, not fibrogirl. However, the condition as well as my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome have been playing a larger role in my life and its quality over the last few months. The basic problem is that I develop a tolerance to most medications over time and have not had an effective sleep medication for a while and I developed a tolerance to Adderall and rather than increase the dosage anymore I have stopped taking it. My doctors are still monkeying around with my meds and add this or increase that with the result being that I was a tired in pain zombie. That would be the terrible .  Any energy I have had has gone into the above projects and I am still no where near what I want to be with them. I am working on launching a cafepress store and have to go through my existing art and see what templates they will fit and create new art in larger resolutions for shirts and such.

One of the things that I love about this new direction in my artistic career is that it involves me reading a lot of books and that is also something you can do bedridden lol. Yesterday and today (hopefully all day) I have noticed a return of some of my energy and I think it is related to me having to cut back on a med that was raised last month so cross fingers this will be and upturn and I can cross more off my to-do lists and get a chance to play with some of the fun that seems to have come out of Daz releasing the Gen3 morphs. Of course re-installing my g3 content is about as fun as sizing images so meh but stick with me, I'm still here <3

Nell