After my year in Japan, I set my sights on Australia, where I stayed for seven months on another working-holiday visa.
In Sydney, I worked as a waitress at a German restaurant, but everybody noticed my French accent! The pay was surprisingly good in Australia, so I was able to save quite a bit of money in just three months, which I then spent on a three-week roadtrip across the west coast of Australia with a friend.
At the same time, I was working hard to build up my online custom portraits store. A lot of people who saw my portraits asked if I could do portraits of their pets as well. The idea had never crossed my mind, but I knew it sounded like fun! I began to add custom pet portraits to my online shop, and that is when my online store really started to work!