My name is Marie Carolin , I'm an Artist , blogger , reviewer , writer , poet , I'm a kind of all rounder Artist , trying to make a life in the art industry even just getting my art out into the world , I love doing Art , calligraphy or reading about art , i try all medias, including wood burning and collage , sewing projects to paper crafts . I have been drawing since I was about 6- 7yrs old, and I have mastered black and white fine art (Pointism) as this is my Favorite type of Art style , I also do Watercolor , Pastels and Oils , Acrylic and work with plaster scene, as well as paper Mache to do more sculptural items , plus Charcoal and of course Pencil , then we get to the fabrics and thread , I do a lot of sewn projects and I created a series of fun character badges that you can see in the video above , I did a 100 day challenge on Instagram by making a badge a day for 100 days , you can see this on my You tube or in video above along with all the other things I have made if they are not on this blog you will find them in my Instagram at Maria.Preston44 . so other than that , I am a mother of 6 , and I also want to do open University , and study Art History along with classics or Humanities .
My Qualifications
**Interior design course level 3 **Art history diploma **Eco Building design diploma **Calligraphy diploma **Color Therapy diploma **ABC level 3 Foundation diploma in Art and Design = (3 A levels )(Pre Degree) **Master Herbalist Diploma **ABC Level 3 in Digital photography **ABC Level 3 in Life Drawings **Fashion Design Level 1 **Aromatherapy Basics Diploma ** Tarot course Diploma
In progress diplomas AND OTHER COURSES At the moment Museum studies diploma library sciences diploma , Egyptology diploma ancient history diploma . Latin part 1 (cambridge) Latin part 2 (cambridge )
Goals FOR THE FUTURE
Ok my Goals/ & WIPS
I have many things I want to do including write a book or two, one of which is poetry , and the other 2 , are novels , which I have started both books , so we will see how far this goes , and also the Poetry book is called (black Manifestations ). I have also started designing My own Tarot Cards which has been a good few years in the making so far , and also set one of my Manifestation cards are in my store , well they need to be restocked so I'm hoping to do that soon , set 2 and 3 are in progress along with my first Tarot Cards The Mono deck , I am also designing a few Zines so that will be fun as well .
I am designing a tarot course for the beginner so that will be something I am working on at the moment too, more details are on the tarot module page , its attached to the tarot cards page .
Also my book , and my poetry , needs to be finished too , but more on that later .
FARCARIA Farcaria is a new fantasy World , I made up , where you follow a map around the continents and islands and you meet and follow different races and creatures on their adventures , you also work through dungeons and other things too , and journeys across Farcaria with friends to discover what it is you need to do , I do want to include a selection of short stories , and poetry for this new fantasy world , which you will be reading through out the game and adventure , also i am creating these stories and poetry because it will help your connection to each of the characters I have created for this game and adventure through FARCARIA . . And it will have so much to offer as well as game cards and so on , each game card you will get a character , (creature / human or other ) , and you will be able to follow this character on its journey through out Farcaria , But this will not be available till maybe next year , or onwards , this obviously depends on the work and time I put in to it . But I will announce more in the coming months . But more on this page about Farcaria is coming soon ,.. you can also check out the page for Farcaria in the menu above .. to read more when it becomes available . The Map is nearly complete , I am going to start dungeons and character cards and magic shard cards too , along with the enemies and items you pick up along the way , also point system for hits done and damage taken . But like I said more coming soon .
Smile equals happy mind
Happy mind equals healthy mind
I love Books as you can tell from my book review page . a book can take you on many journeys not just one , you can be a traveler of the impossible and travel the world through lots of books .. please check out the books around the world page ... for more information
MY CANCER jOURNEY
I Suffered from Breast cancer 15 years ago this November 2023
I had gone through so much before this day had even happened ,. if there is something i would say to someone having a bad time is , stay strong for today , and wait for tomorrow and stay stong again for that today ... because these days wont always be . Having to deal with abuse , and rape , makes me a fighter , and I'm not gona stand for any shit , people don't like me , then so what , I'm me , I'm for me and no one else can do a damn thing about it . I'm myself and I , come first . The image below was taken in march many years ago , I had just started chemotherapy and my hair had just started to fall out , one of the worse moments in my life ,... as you can imagine . as I loved my hair , I actually thought my hair defined who I was , but later I found it was my strength that defined me .
I am getting on well, And I'm am proud of who I am now , who I have become even though my life has been very hard at times I still smiled even on my worse day , I still have many . but you just have to push past them as best you can , and you will see the light at the end of the tunnel , I was basically going through treatments for that whole year from December to August the following year . After my cancer treatment had ended , a couple of years later i started getting light sensitive eyes , and then that lead to a lot of other problems like migraines . enlarged spleen and just aches and pains , and tiredness .
I am now a Migraine sufferer , and I have light sensitive eyes . which means on really sunny days and bright but not so sunny days , (daylight really) are a pain in my butt literally , I do prefer night time , and candle light as well . But I am Happy in my life even with all the rocks on my path . you get what your given through life and its how you handle them that makes you a better person for it , and no god did not help me through my life , I did it . I did all that work on my own .