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Archive - October 2007 Last Blog until 11/6Posted Oct-31-07 04:42:55 PDT I will be away from my computer until Tuesday 11/6, so I'm going to leave with a site from my favorite NOLA artist. Someone turned me on to him a few years ago but I never completely felt the magic until I entered his gallery and smelt the Wet Paint! http://www.michalopoulos.com/
New Auctions on Ebay - Thank you Cards or Custom Artwork NotecardsPosted Oct-31-07 04:34:07 PDT Free Quick*Sell Gallery from ISDN*tek Check out my latest original artwork reproductions now available in a Note Card! Great for Thank Yous and Blank Inside. Includes Envelope.About my latest work - DreamerPosted Oct-30-07 10:38:13 PDT Updated Oct-30-07 10:39:09 PDT Dreamer is different in the resepect that he is the first cat that I have painted with shut eyes. This may be slightly inspired from the 20 hours a day that my kitty Jasmine rests. OH, she wakes up and hangs out with us after work while we make dinner. Sometimes I try to wonder what her mind is thinking, she has somehow turned into Garfield, sleeping but wide-eyed and bushy-tailed as soon as she hears the soft squeak of the Fridge or god forbid the oven door. I think she even comes when the Micro-wave beeps. The after dinner she hangs out with us just to make sure she isn't going to miss anything. That's my little old lady kitty. I love her tons, even when she is getting her beauty rest I'm sure to make visits to her Lair (to be sure I was using the correct word, I actually googled it) -
DreamerPosted Oct-29-07 11:24:00 PDT
Free Quick*Sell Gallery from ISDN*tek HorizonsPosted Oct-26-07 09:50:33 PDT It’s good to diversify, if you are able to do so in your own comfort level. I have been thinking about this coming year 2008 and how I will do things different to widen my inventory up again. In the past I have painted all sorts of things, only recently streamlining a bit more on cats and cars. Only I think about the other series that I have done in the past that have sold well. I guess I have to start seeing what calls to me and then move forward. I will still continue cats, but may have to add some new content to my site! This is both something I have thought about and also some great advice from some good friends! little old lady kitties-it's hardPosted Oct-25-07 10:10:18 PDT I've been having a struggle with knowing that my cat may not be in the best of health, but doing what I can to pro-long her sixteen year old life. It's not that she has a disease (besides hypo-thyroid) or anything (that I know of) it's just she isn't seeing as well & she's frail...she's having problems finding her box & digesting normally. I've been doing the dance of food/litter changes (talks with the vet) - samples to the vet.... to see if I can get her back to a normal state, but I think the fact is that she is just old. She doesn't have the control she once had. I noticed that she is spending more time sleeping, but seems to have human food radar when I am in the kitchen (magically appearing, in what I would have to say would be maybe a slight spring to her step.) Funny, the rest of the time she moves a bit slow! This week she sat outside the shower curtain while I was inside, just waiting - sat on my lap while I used my computer and layed beside me on the floor while I worked form home. This may be normal behavior for your cat, but for mine "Miss Independence" it is a bit more clingly. Not that I mind. The last trip to the vet I was told to start preparing myself for the end, but I don't know when that will be. In the meantime I do what I can to give her all the love and attention/food/water and whatever else makes her happy. She has been with me since she was born so it's hard to think about her in kitty heaven. About my latest auctionPosted Oct-24-07 10:38:49 PDT OK, so it came to me in a dream, a very angular looking cat with a captivating steer. I thought Orange, the brightest orange I could fine, so bright that I couldn't even mix it with the colors that I have on hand. I had to take out my stash of on-sale craft colors just to get it to the vibrant hue that I did. Just a note - I did mix the craft paint in with my Interactive Acrylics which I find superior. When it came to choosing a background I found a straight hue Cerulean Blue, mixed with a bit of white in spots. The result, something that is more of a folk-art piece than something that a cat lover would exclaim "that looks just like my cat!" It was what I was going for, a different design that is less natural and more fantastic. I had fun creating this painting using an orange sheen over golden eyes. Thanks for reading my blog New Buggy for my artwork!Posted Oct-23-07 10:27:21 PDT I have to say that the last time I had a "new" car, it was 1989. My truck "Chuckie" (not the new car I bought in 89, but a 92 which I took possession of in 95 is more than halfway to becoming vintage and has the rust to show it.) Now that I'm married (something new as well) - It was tough to have two older cars in the family and since one of ours (not Chuckie) went to car heaven this week - we bought new. It's amazing the deals you get when you purchase a 2007 at the end of the year. We ended up with a perfect Art Car a Chevy HHR. Although I will still drive Chuckie most of the time due to my short commute, the new car (not yet named but will be) will eventually be mine full time. I'm pretty excited about this new buggy and look forward to traveling in a reliable car to far away shows next year (cat shows of course.) Thanks for reading my blog Folk Art - Egyptian Cat on EbayPosted Oct-22-07 10:03:12 PDT Updated Oct-22-07 10:04:50 PDT
Free Quick*Sell Gallery from ISDN*tek The Kitten and the Falling LeavesPosted Oct-20-07 17:36:34 PDT Updated Oct-20-07 17:37:10 PDT The Kitten And The Falling Leaves That way look, my infant, lo! What a pretty baby-show! See the kitten on the wall, sporting with the leaves that fall. Withered leaves - one - two and three from the lofty elder tree. Though the calm and frosty air, of this morning bright and fair. Eddying round and round they sink, softly, slowly; one might think. From the motions that are made, every little leaf conveyed Sylph or Faery hither tending, to this lower world descending. Each invisible and mute, in his wavering parachute. But the Kitten, how she starts, crouches, stretches, paws, and darts! First at one, and then its fellow, just as light and just as yellow. There are many now - now one, now they stop and there are none: What intenseness of desire, in her upward eye of fire! With a tiger-leap half-way, now she meets the coming prey. lets it go as fast, and then; Has it in her power again. Now she works with three or four, like an Indian conjuror; quick as he in feats of art, far beyond in joy of heart. Where her antics played in the eye, of a thousand standers-by, clapping hands with shout and stare, what would little Tabby care! For the plaudits of the crowd? Over happy to be proud, over wealthy in the treasure of her exceeding pleasure! William Wordsworth (1770-1850) A good WebmasterPosted Oct-18-07 11:18:11 PDT I have to say I am truly loving my webmaster, and that hasn’t always been the case. I am with a company that sort of forgot about my little business for a while, but after constant badgering and three weeks or so, my site used to be updated. Now I have super Web-gal and she is light lightening fast (even on weekends) - I was so used to saying ASAP, Please, Hurry, important to the old one (who worked for the same company) that I started ASAPing my new gal too, but she said it wasn’t necessary and you know what - it wasn’t! My site now has a Note Card Page with Original Artistic Note cards which are clickable from the homepage and I will be offering these products on Ebay Soon. I have also updated my latest commissions Hot Rod on my Cat Page and Willy on the Car. thanks for reading my blog The Calm Before the StormPosted Oct-16-07 10:19:37 PDT I’m in a pretty good place pre-holiday and have been actually taking a little time off to enjoy the fall. This means instead of working on my artwork all weekend, I take four hours off and play a bit. A month from now things will get crazy, so I am trying to prepare for that by vamping up my inventory of small giftable objects such as small paintings, notecards, etc. I still have two commisions to do that are both on trade and no rush, but I still need to get them done. I have been trying to get in a grove where I balance out my free time, my art, looking for a job, and existing p/t jobs. I just read a book called “The Present” it is a quick read and by the same author as “Who stole my Cheese.” It put some of the balance stuff into perspective and made me realize when I focus instead of spreading myself so thin, things are better for me. Thanks for reading my blog, new Holiday Cards are at the printer, should be posting them soon. Current Ebay Auction - Special PricePosted Oct-15-07 11:20:23 PDT
Free Quick*Sell Gallery from ISDN*tek New Holiday Note Card Images-Coming Soon on EbayMercury is in Retrograde AGAINPosted Oct-12-07 10:31:08 PDT Ok, enough of this, I feel like whenever I have big decisions to make Mercury is in Retrograde! I guess technichally it started yesterday and goes until 10/31. I'm a Mercury Retrograde flunky, read below and then tell me how I am a bad planner. My husband and I are buying a new car and it has to happen soon - We are traveling, both by car and on a plane (oops) - I am interviewing for a great job - and well that's pretty much it. I can just hope that we really use an extra does of clarity, caution and care. Since I married Mr. Triple C, I'm hoping we are in good shape. Being aware about Mercury RX is half the battle. Luckily my art negotiations/commissions etc. are pretty much a done deal for the rest of this month. When Mercury is Retrograde Use an extra dose of clarity, caution and care pertaining to travel, especially by car, communications of any kind, contracts, sending letters and publishing. So, other than publishing my blog, which I promise I will not publish anything that could upset Mer RX - I think I'll keep my emails short for the rest of the month.
Not letting your guard downPosted Oct-11-07 10:57:58 PDT There is a lot to be said for maturing a bit with age, and one of the things that I have learned is not to settle for something that is not going to payoff in the end. Whether it be a job, relationship or just ordering that greasy meal that you know you will regret if you get. Not to say that everything I do does not have to have some huge settlement at the end, but, I’m good people and I work hard & I give 100% so I am thinking I deserve things to work out good. Sometimes they don’t anyways. I have been negotiating some p/t work lately that was giving me an ulcer in respects to the negotiations were not going in my direction. In the meantime I have had an opportunity to explore some other options that would be a better fit for my long term goals. The first position increased my time but not my income - the growth factor seemed impossible. The other opportunities are more time restrictive, but less stressful for my vision of the future. Art will always remain a very important part of my existence, but so is saving for retirement at this point. Balance, Lori, I tell myself. I will have the opportunity to interview int he next few months and I’m hoping that by the start of the year I will have less little jobs, and maybe just one larger one plus art. This year has been great yet I have had to get financially creative beyond words to make ends meet just on creative venues. It’s tough, but someday! That’s what I tell myself, someday. As far as other goals - I’ve been thinking about Grad School alot again lately, hummmm. The right choice for the wrong reason ORPosted Oct-10-07 11:43:16 PDT Is it the wrong choice for the right reason. Let's ponder that for a bit. About a month ago, which ever of these is correct, I did it. It was similar but not as bad as the time I kept holding off fixing a leaking transmission because I was going to "sell the car" & despite the fact that I sort-of kept and eye on it, I was only a bit shocked and horrified when my Transmission blew 100 miles from home leaving me stranded on a desert highway. Guess what, I still have that car, I never sold it - dumb dumb dumb, but I was going to sell - going to reduce the price of the car to the new owner....SO, that was seven years ago, and the transmission is great (it should be, it was very expensive) and the car that I call Chuckie due to it's evil likeness to the little doll from the movie, is still predictabley unpredictable! So, when I made a another wrong decision for the right reason that also cost me money about a month ago, I was a bit devistated. The first mistake seven years ago was pre-husband (very in tune with the car maintenance issues) - the second was current but he was away. It's not that I make bad decisions on my own, it's just nice to have a sounding board for some of the questionable ones. I won't go into the details but it was a Vet issue & a small pet problem. Glad to report all is well, healthy, and I am a bit broker - but my mind is clear. Maybe if this only happens about once every seven years, I'm pretty normal - but - when I think about why I am making a choice, I really need to look at it from all angles. Just like interviewing for jobs (which I am right now) - I love having a few sets of ears to bounce some stuff off of, like my mom or my husband or my neighbor. I guess now that I really look back at my latest oops, it was the wrong decision for the right reason - sometimes I just wish cats could talk. Have a nice day Instincts & My GardenPosted Oct-09-07 13:29:29 PDT Instincts are a funny thing, especially when you are female; but the guys have them too. Sometimes, my emotional head or heart trys to lead me into a direction but my gut tells me something else. It's strange but true. I haven't talked about my garden in a bit, I was a bit disenchanted when I found out I may have lead in my soil from lead paint chips that date back to my great grandparents day. I still weeded and nourished my poor little organic herb garden, even though I was not sure of the results of the lead. Much like my business I give it attention, love, effort even when the chips are down and I'm a bit slower than I would like to be - guess what? It pays off. Much like the gut instinct stuff above, I knew I should keep tending to my garden - even though the full results are not back, I now have conclusive results about the peppers I grew (they are OK.) Last weekend, we cooked a meal using the peppers and it was amazing! More are developing slowly, but for now they will OK as I hope the first frost is not in October!!! I started to think that next year I will do it better, use a raised bed so I don't have to worry about lead, improving upon a good idea with an even better one. I do this in my art business too, I succeed through trial and error - if something didn't work so well this year - I'll try something different next year. Some of what I grew in my garden is questionably edible due to the lead dust & likely-hood of removing it thoroughly prior to consumption - so I will dry my herbs for sachets & use them as gifts! It's my first garden, I went into it with all the enthusiasm of a new gardener, I went through some ebbs and flows with the lead problem, but I weathered the storm, and so did my garden. I have used all these same tactics in my business & it seems to just apply to life - right? Ride the waves, and all that good stuff. Thanks for reading my blog. New Auction on EbayPosted Oct-08-07 06:40:15 PDT Rainy Day OffPosted Oct-08-07 06:36:06 PDT Yeah Right, what is a day off anyways? I so rarely take one it's like I wouldn't know it if it hit me over the head. It's so tempting to continually work on my art business, even if it's from under my big goose down comforter in the coziness of my own room, a slight breeze coming from the ceiling fan & birds seranading me outside my window from the big tree with now brown leaves falling. I actually don't have to work anywhere but home today, it's a good thing since I sincerely dislike Mondays & I have a feeling the cat is starting to get a little sad when I'm gone more. I have been working on great things & using a site named zazzle to promote some of my work. After delivering my big commission yesterday I can breath for a bit before I jump into my next project. My Holiday Cards are at the printers & I'm ready to roll out a Red Hat Society Card (thanks to my mother-in-law) who encouraged I do such a thing...right here on Ebay. Well, I have lots of work to do today. Thanks for reading my blog! 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