LadyKnightAlanna

My dears, it has been so long! Life has certainly "happened" to me and I have quite a lot to tell you, if any of you remember me at all here on DeviantART. Here is a quick rundown of what has happened since I last was on here in 2015: I graduated in 2017 with an M.A. in Historical Textile Conservation and Costume History from the Fashion Institute of Technology, which was unfortunately only a few months after our Dear Leader took office and so many museum jobs disappeared just as I was becoming rather disillusioned with the museum industry itself due my discovery that it runs almost entirely on unpaid intern labor, forcing skilled practition

I've been on deviantart for six years...seven years in December.  Of course it's had its ups and its downs, but I've barely been on here at all the last three months and I am quickly finding that I do not have time to actively maintain three pages at once--especially with the addition of my Facebook page.  At this point I think the best thing to do is wrap it up over here. The fact is that over the last couple of years I've struggled and struggled for greater exposure and gotten nothing.  Zero.  Zip.  Maybe I can't figure out exactly what people want.  That's a possibility.  With my resources I've always tried to do my best with limited succ

That's the number of Deviantwatchers I have, as of two days ago!  I'm really grateful to every single one of you for your interest and support over the years :hug: I hope I continue to create art you enjoy ;) I'm counting down the work days until I can terminate and get myself back to college where I belong.  As tempting as it is, I have thus far refrained from sticking a calendar above my desk and crossing off the days. My mother's birthday was today!  Monday is a bit depressing for a celebration, but she cooked up a couple of steaks (which was a little too rich considering I haven't eaten meat in a loooooong time), and then we topped it