Should I stay or should I go now...

Well, anyone who's received an email from me can see that I removed the blogline from my siggy... the shame of not keeping up with my blog go to me!

But I don't want to be a quitter.. so my goal for March is to blog twice a week! That's a big goal for me...

Okay, what to write about...that's always the problem... and who in the world is going to read this...another problem...


Let's start with the easy stuff... Yesterday I finished packaging up ONE HUNDRED beautiful handmade gift cards for a retailer in California. I thought it would be boring to do, but I ended up doing the whole order myself. Normally Lisa does all the orders, but I had time, and she wasn't here, and I shocked myself by how fun it was to stamp the back of the cards with my logo, and trim the images with my NEW trimmer blade (I have this amazing Genesis printer from the scrapbook days, but never replaced the blade before...), and adhere them to the cards JUST right, and score, and fold, and add envies, and slip into cello, and tear off the cello seal... phew!! I definitely don't make money on these cards! But I loved thinking of some Callifornia ladies laughing and connecting with the work... that's such a joy... I should have taken a picture, but hey, at least I'm blogging again!

the ART OF THE day...

Yay o joy o yay! I painted with Elizabeth this week! Two times! It can be so hard to find time to fit the creating part in with the business-ey part, and I had some canvases that had backgrounds all ready for me to do... I wanted to do faces - ladies, in fact... so I did this girl, and called her Persephone:




Then Liz challenged me to do a whole alphabet series of these girls, and I accepted the challenge! Did she throw down the gauntlet? Or lay down a gauntlet? Something like that... anyhoo, I immediately changed her name to Apersephone, and she shall be the first in my new series. I'm so happy - now I need to buy a bunch of 8 x 8 canvases - and Jerry's didn't have any!

I don't know if I'll call the series ABCDLadies?, or maybe MNOLadies... or maybe....something I haven't figured out yet!

ThE ART OF THE day...

today the art of the day is making a couple of personal pieces for people... I made a bat mitzvah pendant for the temple in Sandy Springs... hope they like it. The birdie I used is called Rocket girl - 'cause I think her little feet look like she's shooting off into the air!

THE ART OF THE day...

Today the art of the day was realizing that I needed to stop making certain sayings, so I can free my brain up to make new ones. That's going to be the best way to get rid of a creative block, methinks... so I sent out a note to my lovely retailers, and another note to my lovely customers, and now I already feel FREE to make new art! I can't wait ti the old ones are sold out - I'm going to put them in their own spot on my table...