Hello, people from all over the world!
Many of you already know that ExiArts has a tradition to donate for planting trees from the orders people make on the ExiArts website.
But then you might have been wondering why the my last Monthly Report was for March 2024 and where did the tradion go?
Long story short - ExiArts has had very few orders since March 2024. In total ince 1st of April 2024 until today- 15th of April 2025- a little over a year we have had only seven orders. The business is still on about 400 euro minus for the year of 2024 as per our accounting.
This all sometimes discouraged me and I also had financial hardships back then and could not make the donations for April 2025 and with time I just stopped making these Blog posts.
I was also discouraged for the business overall but now more than ever I am preparing a come back this Spring and Summer and overall in 2025! I am now preparing at least three new lines of journals and one line of albums that I will present in the coming months. I am now working in the Netherlands and in the end of May 2025 I already have the ticket and I will travel back to Bulgaria permanently.
I plan to make my first YouTube Live on the 1st of June somewhere from the Rhodope Mountains around my town of Smolyan. Maybe this first Live on YouTube will be on the highest peak in the Rhodope Mountains- Perelik Peak but still have not decided firmly yet.
Bellow I want to show you the statistics of ExiArts website for April 2024- we had 4 orders and as per our rules of our Plant a tree campaign
I had to donate for planting 16 trees for April 2024 but I donated for about 30 trees. Further in the article you can read and see the donation screenshots.
The next screenshot shows you how I have made a donation to the Foundation 77 or Gorata BG is their Bulgarian name. Gorata in Bulgarian means The Forest.
Thus my tradition for planting trees is not over. It is in its early days yet. :)
I will soon announce my new project for an Eco House on the land of my father and my uncle. I have been permited to build there a villa- my dreamed house and homestead for the future. Thank you, God, for blessing me to be able to try to do this! Finally the beginning has just begun!
I will soon make a Blog post for announcing this project and sharing insights of what is my plan.
I will also document everything along the way with my camera. I will by new smartphone with good camera to continue making videos for my YouTube channel.
The house will be build experimentally with the help of friends and volunteers maybe. I am still thinking about this. Mainly I want to build most of the things myself.
But during the first year of this three-year plan will be The Workshop made of clay, wood , and stone. Of course the preparing of the Eco Hous terrain and making the base of the house too. Lets see how it will start when I go back to Bulgaria at the end of May 2025.
If I will build a house then first I will need a workshop, right?
There are fallen trees on the ground since couple of years on the land and we will take them for wood material.
Lastly, for now though, some ways of building that we will use in this future experimental Eco House are cob, cordwood, cobwood, and branch net and cob , also stone masonry.
It will be A Great Adventure!
Hristo Hvoynev
ExiArts
15, April 2025
