Life in Lockdown
Hey guys ♥
How are you going?
Lockdown life is, well, you know how it is. It’s okay, and not okay at the same time.
I’m grateful to have a home that I love, a husband I love spending all this time with, fur babies to hug and kiss and play with, a park right outside my front door I can walk around, and plenty of hobbies to fill up my days with. I'm really concious of my privilege and how lucky I am to spend my days just sitting around in my home that I love.
I’ve become addicted to crochet, my PS4 has gotten a mad workout over the last few months, I’ve started playing around with watercolours and gouache (and also digital painting on my iPad which I’m really loving). And of course I am utterly in love with our new puppy Ollie. He is so full of joy, he comes for cuddles and lovebombs me everyday - I don’t know how we would have gotten through lockdown without him making us laugh with his goofball nature every day 😭❤.
But even though there’s been stuff to smile about, it’s not all sunshine and roses. It’s been pretty hard being locked up and unable to work, and even though I support this lockdown I’m also completely over it. It's been hard to muster up any motivation to work on all the big exciting creative ideas I have,especially when I can't do what I actually love (photograph people) and have no real deadlines or a boss to keep me accountable! And a few weeks ago I just hit this rough patch, I think when I realised that I’m unlikely to be able to get back to work until the mandatory face masks rule is lifted. And who knows when that could be 💔
I am really proud of myself though for mustering up enough energy to really smash out my blogging queue, and prepare about 30 sessions and weddings sitting in my backlog ready for publishing (it’s the little victories right?). It's taken me about ten times longer than I thought it would lol, and scheduling them and writing content and preparing SEO for all of them though is a whole other job which I have barely even started yet 😅.
But I just wanted to say hey, I hope you’re okay, wherever in the world you are, and that I’m still here. Just patiently waiting until I can re-open and start photographing some happy moments for you all.
My heart goes out to you, to all the health care professionals making sacrifices to care for the ill to all the parents stuck at home 24/7; the stressed out teachers trying to pull their class through homeschooling; to all the couples whose dreams for the perfect wedding have been broken; to all the single people and peeps struggling with their mental health - I’m sending you all the biggest hug ♥
I hope these photos (let’s just face it, it’s mostly puppy spam) put a smile on your dial today.
Big love,
L xo
