Saturday, November 22, 2008

new blog address :)

I am starting a new blog on typepad!! I have been wanting to do something new for awhile, but just kept putting it off-Katie can't get on my blog for some reason-So,I decided to start it now!!

here's the new blog address-it'll take me a bit to catch on and fix it up, but I will be posting from here now!!
http://mycreativejourney.typepad.com/my_creative_journey/
and here
http://mycreativejourney.typepad.com/art_for_sell/

Saturday

I was working on an oil pastel picture, and it was looking good-so i was going to just add a little bit more color-shade a bit, now it's a big mess:(
I double checked with my son to make sure I wasn't being overly critical-he agreed-So, I am not going to get upset over it or down on myself-I must learn something from it!! I guess that would be sometimes when it looks good I should STOP!! I do tend to keep going, and it's happened quite a few times, the more I did the more I messed it up
well, I am going to take a little tv break and try again!

***maybe I could glue the page into my art journal, do some layers over it-that way I can still use it:)

Friday, November 21, 2008

Guess What?!

I got an email from Liz and Jackie from Illustrating Stories
(it was to me and 2 others) asking if we would like to be creative contributors to Illustrating Stories!! I don't know about the other 2 people, but I said YES!! I am so excited, I can't wait!! this is what they have in mind:
  • It would start in January and last for six months (then, we'd all have a chance to re-evaluate and decide if we'd like to go for another six).
  • During the six months, we'd give you all of our digital items in the store for free in exchange for your creative talents.
  • You'd make two pieces a month for display in a special IS album (online).
  • The two pieces:
    • Would include at least a little bit of one of our products.
    • Could be an art journal/journal page, collage, photo, layout, or some other form of an illustrated story -- it's up to you.
    • Could be digital, hard-copy, or a combo of both -- it's up to you.
    • Could be posted/submitted elsewhere, too (Hey! it's your work).
  • We'd introduce you on IS as a member of our creative team.
  • Finally, if you had a piece you wanted to write for IS, we'd consider it. If it fit with our vision for the site, we'd publish it with you as our guest poster in the "by" line.
I just think this will be a good experience for me, and I am looking forward to starting:) plus I am just honored to be ASKED!

Friday

It's a much better day today!! I'm tired from not sleeping again, but that's nothing new-I won 2 giveaways!!! So I will have 2 new books to read soon (one was a Nora Roberts, and the other one was by Carolyn Parkhurst, whom I have never read before). PLUS!!! I will be able to get Nate's ipod touch this weekend!!! I sold a few things to get the $, but they were things I never use, so I won't miss them) That means I will have 1 paycheck to get him a few extra presents-there WILL be more than 1 gift under the tree!!

p.s. we are getting ready to go see twilight-I am glad I we bought the tickets, we both needed to go do something fun-Natey is in a good mood, no grumpiness this evening:)

great giveaway!! Modish

I really would like to win this giveaway!! looks like a TON of great stuff!