THUG UNICORN - INSTAGRAM

I started writing poetry when I was 5 years old. I used to scribble lines on top of one another and call it a poem. 🌲🌲 When I was 6 years old, I wrote my first book. It was called “Little Baby Boohoo” – it was about a baby who cried all the time. That book was about me. 🌳🌳 When I was 7, I wrote another book. It was about a princess, who went into the forest to find love & happiness, and then return home. The princess was my mother. And that lover, she didn’t find him and she never came home. 🙏🙏 I wrote and wrote until the tender age of 9, where I stopped writing all together. Because it was then that pain pierced my heart with tremendous loss. 🌹🌹 I was overwhelmed with a kind of grief that woke me up to the realisation that I was and had been an unwanted child… that, by the time I was 2 years old, I was abandoned by my mother and father and rejected by both of them over and over again. I was ostracised by aunts, uncles and cousins, and I saw, in these sad moments, that I was also different from the kids I went to school with, making me lonelier than ever. I knew then, that I had been growing up in family riddled with addiction, abuse, instability, alcoholism and neglect… ❤️❤️ It took me almost 3 decades to publish my next book, The She Book. After years and years of dreaming myself awake, I found the courage to "be brave" and to tell my story. #bebrave #tellyourstory #threemonthspostpartum 🦄🦄 #theshebook @tanyamarkul 💋💋 Weekend offer & it's only available this one time! Here goes: if you are a registered yoga studio, cafe, workspace, shala or bookstore, and are in the US, you can order 25 copies of The She Book for 100usd (includes standard shipping). Offer good for orders placed on August 11+12. Email tanya@thugunicorn.com to get your She Book on. #yay

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LEA MOON - INSTAGRAM

I have been using a palette knife to spread paint on the Gelli Plate. #gelliprint #gelliplate #gelliarts #gelliprinting #paletteknifepainting #paletteknife

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PAM CARRIKER - INSTAGRAM

Background in process #artjournalroadshow with @mbshaw #artunraveled2018 #mixedmedia #artjournal #artatthespeedoflife

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