NicoleCadet

I got sidetracked on answering an email (20/12 - Christmas madness happened), and now the email bounces. So Ellen F, if you see this message, please contact me again

I've had a number of people asking about my commission prices. As I'm going to be overhauling my site (hopefully over the next few days), I thought I'd upload them here while things may be in flux.

Please note that I have a bit of a waiting list and probably won't be able to start any new work until early 2015. Things are flexible, commissions sometimes fall through, but unfortunately I can't take on any work for Christmas presents given my current schedule. Book cover work takes precedence of character commissions.

Just a quick note to say that my website may be down for a bit as I move DNS providers. Not sure if this will cause interruptions on my emails, but I'm still here

Just a quick note to say that my website may be down for a bit as I move DNS providers. Not sure if this will cause interruptions on my emails, but I'm still here

Thanks for all the birthday wishes! It was a very un-birthday day. I've spent the last five days in Victoria visiting my brother and his family, it was my nephew's first birthday, then my birthday two days later. So my birthday was spent returning home. It's a reasonably long journey, though it could be much worse. 2 hours flying, 2 and a bit hours in the car, oh and the hour or so getting to Mum's place in the first case! Lucky we did fly from the GC, someone drove onto the Brisbane airport runway and sent the whole place into disarray the day we flew out. We did however almost miss our flight. Two lines, we were waiting for the end... turns out they formed a continuing line for the gate right next to it so we got our names called o_O

Anyway, once we got there, it was time to play aunty with the nephew. I'd only seen Ollie when he was about 8 weeks old, so this visit was a lot more interactive! He's the kind of bubbly kid that is always laughing, is far too clever for his own good and can occupy himself easily (and I'm not a kid person!)

The Gippsland area where they live is beautiful. All farms, moo cows, horses, sheep, old farm houses and tiny colonial towns. It rained on and off, and the wind blows right through you, even with the sun out (winds off the Bass strait or off the snowfields). I know, nothing like Europe or the US where they get snow and stuff, but for someone who lives in the subtropics I was so happy to have cold weather! Bris-vegas, of course got cold that week... but daily temps of around 10C were awesome (Brisbane is 19C today, and that's considered cold). I could wear my coat and scarves and stuff, it was awesome

I saw a little Burmese cat at the B&B Ollies other inlaws were staying at, and I wanted to take it home. *sigh* I think they would have noticed meow-ing hand luggage. So apart from birthday dinners, driving around the country side, and relaxing, it was a pretty sedate holiday. We almost missed our flight home... more traffic than anticipated, a man having to basically strip down because he kept setting off the metal detectors, and the gate being right at the end of the terminal.... oh, and then we sat on the tarmac for ages as some poor soul either had a turn or a panic attack or something and we had to wait for the paramedics. But all in all, a good holiday, and now I have a mountain of commission work to catch up on, taxes to do, a new computer to purchase and assemble, and a bunch of laundry.

I needs a sleep!