A lot has been going on for me and my family this month. My Nara has sadly passed away, which has taken a devastating tool for us especially my mum (Sarah) and my uncle (Mark) so I've been trying to keep myself busy while grieving over our lost, we'll going to her funeral at the end of the month. I am also leaving the hotel I'm working at (The Ye Olde Fighting Cocks) in Arnside to work at another hotel in Silverdale (the Silverdale Hotel) at the second week of February. 

While both of these events were happening I still kept busy in working on tapestry designs for Kendal Calling and other drawings. So far I almost on the design of the space theme set for this year and working the design of the previous event that have happened at Kendal Calling (2019, 2022 and 2023).

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The Christmas season and the new has been keeping me busy me with work and helping get ready for the big event with my family. But every spare-second I've been multi-tasking on several drawing and been working on new tapestry designs for Kendal Calling.

So Far, I have finished one drawing today this month I'll be trying to finish with the rest of the other I've started, before "the New Year's Eve" events.

Some progress has been made, for some the project I've been doing these couple of months and I've been trying to keep busy and helpful before Christmas like setting up some decoration or getting some presents for  my little nephew.

What I'll for the rest of the season, I'll be working on more drawing of Marvel, DC and other Dinosaurs so that by around January I will working on selling some.

While I have just been doing this drawing, I have made a start on working tapestry designs for next year's "Kendal Calling". Last time I tried working on some designs it didn't work exactly well, because I was too focus at college and university, but with some help of a couple of people who are in charge of the event, I will be able to get the designs right.

​https://www.kendalcalling.co.uk/

It is now the middle of September and a lot of kids have now gone back to school for a new term. Just before that happened I was finally able to help some builder finish rebuild the last of the stone at Ash meadow in Arnside.

Stone wall (last seen):

This is was a good thing to do during the summer and change to keep me busy as well as my regular job in Arnside. I'm thinking of create a few drawings based upon the work and effort me and the builders have made.

I've been offered some more work like this next time I'm able to help, until then I'll be keeping busy at my job  at the hotel and work on a as much drawings and designs as I can before Christmas.

The new bar JJ Cornfield's in the village (Arnside), is finally build and opened serving customers. There are still one or two things that needed to be build, but they'll sorted and done very soon everyone and coming to visiting the village is having a good time as well as the locals.

JJ Crossfield's Bar

I'll be helping out now and then whenever I'm free from my main job in the village. While that was done, I was finally able to work getting the wood huts at the back of my house starting with the big pile next to them, it didn't take long to get it all chopped up and into the huts and get them fill up for the coming winter.

Wood huts (Before):

I'm so glad to have finally to get the work done this summer, because with and finally some space in the corner me and my family are ready for the coming winter and soon after that season I'll be ready to get some more logs, branches and twigs for restock.

I almost forget to mention that I'm also working on another job, which I was given to keep myself a little busy for the summer. I next job is helping a stone-build name Ben re-build a stonewall in the village (Ashford Meadow) the was badly knocked over from heavy rain, strong winds and fallen trees.

Stone wall (Before):

We are over half finished on re-building the wall, for the time being Ben has had go work at other places, so wall has put on hold until Ben is able to come over and finish to rest of the stone wall.

The good thing is from all three things, I should be able to work some more drawings and designs of my own for the rest of the summer.

These past two I've working a lot more harder than ever before.

I haven't able to do more drawings for awhile. I've been helping out with my father Matt and my uncle Steve Jackson on a very big project in the village. They have bought a building that was once a restaurant when me and my family first moved in Arnside, but it got closed down so my father and uncle have bought as part of the brewing company. Because I'm not doing want hours than I should at my other job in the village, I'm helping them out on striping everything out of there turn it into something better than ever.

The building was called Gado Gado, but will soon be called Jacko Jacko.

Working so hard on two jobs can be exhausting, but the goal is to try and get it up and running by June. It may not be opening on the first week of June, but you can only hope.