did you say bad news? .... you're always supposed to get the bad news first ... my kids always want the good news first .... but maybe cause when i ask them good news/bad news... my bad news is always crazy, not bad ....so they get the good first cause they know that's the only worthwhile element to the conversation ... anyway .... i digress .... no surprise there, huh....
ok.... good news, bad news?
all right .... i actually should say good news, i'm a dope news .... what's that make you want first ..... i'm sticking with good news last as the best option .... so i'll go with the oh-dopey-me first .....
a day or so ago, on the blog post that apparently nine hundred and thirty seven people have read and 68 folks have commented on (!!!!!) ..... i announced to the world that i had just MISSED noticing and celebrating my two hundredth blog post by a couple posts .... and ... well ... that's wrong ... i was adding the year and october together ... but apparently since october is actually a part of the year, i was counting all those posts twice ... duh ..... so ..... one day, when i say, yippee, 200th post, will you just smile knowingly and not think mean thing about my iq? ... thanks .....
so....
good news?
i sold another painting .... i'm feeling a little giddy with success ....
this is what sold, purple heart:
it was at lola's .... i think i had three hearts there .....
i really love these hearts .... i think over the course of two years i've sold about 20 or more ....
i originally made a set of twelve and hung them over my fireplace .....
then, i kept making new batches ...and selling them in sets ... and made em and sold em and made em .....
i have six hanging above my desk now ... the last two sales i've done, when i strip my house of art, my kids have asked, are you taking those, you should take those, those always sell so you should take them ... but ya know, they are HIGH on the wall above a tall hutch on a tall desk .... hard to hang straight... really, hard to hang at all .... nope, i'm keeping them and i'm done with hearts .... BUT ......
i had ONE left .... a blue and green one ..... with very chunky bold strokes .... dark .... a solo piece of heart art that was originally intended to be part of a set .....
and i donated it to marist for their raffle ..... and the woman who won it LOVED my work, had bought a piece last year .... and commissioned me to make three more hearts to round out the set .... how's that for good karma? i donated something quite a bit pricier than required ... and looky there .... made an extra sale ... to, actually, a way groovy woman .... perfect ..... so now i'm thinking i should be making more of these hearts, huh? not just for the commission, but for their grand potential ..... so, that's what ....
was all that worth a second post in a day?
tomorrow, i'm setting up for the pirate ball and auction at church .... at church we often discuss giving your time, treasue, and talents for good works .... so the pirate theme is perfect because we are all giving our time, treasures and talents to make it happen AND ... we are auctioning off treasure boxes ..... so, setting up for that party and auction.... then setting up my booth for saturday .... then going to the pirate ball ..... then saturday morning, the market place ..... i'm more excited about the market place than i otherwise would be because of my blog contest.... have you voted? have you guessed? how many prints am i going to sell? don't miss out ... scroll down a couple posts and find the contest if you haven't already .....
now, to watch survivor .... i taped it .....
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