Death of a Computer

Last week my computer caught a nasty virus and we decided to wipe it and reinstall it.  I got all my files off before wiping it... or so I thought.

I hadn't backed up some of my pictures, in fact all of the portfolio ones of work from December.  This affected my dragon wreaths, my 2 new sharks (the lovely crackle pitfire ones...), one of my favorite struggling birds sculptures... most of those are sold, so the pictures are irreplaceable.

Since the only way we have to remember our work is photos, I felt like I'd lost my friends.  I nursed my grief with my comfort food of choice (spaghetti with lots of cheese) and dove into a book for a few hours.  I finally told myself that I will be making a lot more great work this year, and next year, and the next, etc, so while I may not ever get those photos back, I will have plenty of others coming soon.  Hopefully before I apply to shows.

The biggest annoyance is that I lost photos of work I was planning on posting to Etsy, so I had to go retake those before I could list the items.  And let's not even talk about how I forgot all my music files...