Entering a new year can feel emotional at the best of times, and this year more than ever - I think we’re all feeling that. On one hand, there’s the relief of finally leaving 2020 behind. The hope that we’re through the worst of it, and that 2021 will be a better year. Then there’s the quiet voice whispering that maybe it won’t be, that we have no idea just like we had no idea in the beginning of 2020. Ouff.

But for me, the new year feels emotional on a creative level too. I know that 2021 will be a year that will challenge me. I have known this for a while now, and entering it feels both exciting and nerve-wrecking. I’m going to do things I have never done before, things I have resisted and feared. So I’m walking into 2021 a little apprehensively, but holding hope close to my heart.

I entered 2020 like all of us, unaware of what would soon come to dominate our year. I knew it was going to be my first year of running a creative business, not that it would almost instantly be affected by something as big as the pandemic.

It has been quite the year, and as always around this time I look back and think about what really happened. How the year unfolded and what I’ve learned. So, here’s what has emerged.