That sound you hear is the clink of glasses here at Liquid 6 Image Design. Why? Because Monday saw the one thousandth unique visitor to this website and over 3,790 page loads. We didn’t expect the site to have so many visitors in such a short space of time, so we’re walking around in SmugMode here. It’s truly insufferable.

We’ve had some people wondering why there are ‘blank’ blue buttons on some of the pages. They are there because, as you are aware by now, the site updates on a weekly basis. Every week, a button is filled in with the previous week’s article. By the time we put the site to bed in June, all the buttons will be filled. We could have added them one at a time but that leaves an ugly – to our minds – white gap at the side of the screen. There’s also something satisfying about watching them gradually fill up – well, there is if you don’t get away from your computer often enough and have only vague recollections of daylight and the outside world. Something natural, aren’t they? That’s what we’ve heard…

The Festival launch trundles ever closer, art supply shops throughout Sussex hear their tills ringing ever louder and frazzled artists wander the streets muttering darkly, wondering why it is they always leave it too late to arrange their framing/display stands/printing, etc.

Our Open House Virgin, Christina Ure, has dilemmas of her own this week, some of her own design, some strictly down to others. She can hear the clock ticking!

Our artist profile this week is the lovely Angela McKay, who talks about the difficulties faced by traditional artists in a modern world.

The open house profile looks at the work of Petra Joy, who stages a unique, adult only exhibition in her Studio/Home on selected evenings throughout the Festival.

Finally, our weekly article asks what it’s like being a child in an open house. Do they think Mummy and Daddy have gone mad, do they enjoy it and what, if any, are the benefits? Three children share their unique view of events with us.

See you again next week.