happy november! hooray .... what a great month!!!

i love november ....
it's not crazy like december, but it is still all full of excitement and potential and happy holiday cheer ......

my day is packed so i'm doing my organized bullet point blogging of all the things i HAVE to tell you ....

1 .... i have not eaten any candy yet today, and it is already ten o'clock ..... my kitchen table is one thick layer of candy, and yet, i am exercising restraint ...not sure why, but might as well, while i can ....

2 .... i let the kids sleep in an extra thirty minutes this morning ..... try this ..... put your wrist on your forehead, palm of hand facing out ... tilt your head, moist eyes, fluttering eyelashes ...... squeak: no, no, i just can't wake up yet ...... did you do it? then you did the perfect imitation of sophie ......
me: sorry babe, you gotta get up
she: is it monday?
me: no, it is thursday....
she: then why does it feel so horrible this morning .......

yup ... that' s what a sugar hangover can do to you .....

3.... yesterday, with orange hair on my head, i walked into the school to host drew's class party .... and saw a friend ... a decorator friend .... a decorator friend who had a painting on consignment for a client .... a decorator friend who had a painting on consignment for a client and told me that yippee hooray they bought it .... rock and roll, i sold a humongous painting without even trying ..... how groovy toovy is that ...... here's the pic... four feet high, three feet wide ....


4... i 've just taken pics of 35 boxes that are for auction on friday night.... i have a million chores to do for that ...... i have a humongous weekend of activity planned, so might be blog slack ..... forgive me if that is so ....

5 ..... my blog contest is still open .... there are already more than FIFTY entrants .... the contest is open til saturday at three when i'll know how many prints i sold at the marketplace ..... so far, i think the lowest guess is two ... and the highest is in the thirties or so ..... two entries down, and you can sign up too ... make your guess .....

happy november ..... what are you going to do this month?

trick or treat...

i had THE GREATEST DAY .... it started fun, the middle was fun, near the end was fun, and pretty soon my kids will be home from trick or treating .... and they'll be SO excited and sugar high and that'll be fun too ...... this morning i went to pottery .... and we had a halloween party .... most of us dressed up as our teacher , carol .... she is the cutest, funkiest, fun teacher EVER ... she usually has her hair colored with spray dye .... orange, pink, or red, generally .... and she wears EVERY day, quirky oddball glasses .... like, stop signs or the statue of liberty ..... she has fifty or so pairs i think!! very fun .... a little odd ... but odd is best ..... so .... i adorned my own glasses with green to be grass ... and a flower ... and sprayed my hair orange .... to be her ... i wore a tshirt that matches one she frequently wears .... and she also wears funny socks and colorful shoes ..... i wore my painted and doodled shoes ...... hop over to flickr for this pic with notes to role over ....

this is most of the class .... mostly in colorful hair and fun glasses ... most are wearing groovy shoes too ..... can you see carolyn in pink? hot pink hair? she has on flamingo glasses .... can you see carol, my teacher, she was actually dressed far more conservatively than usual .... she had been wearing a hillary clinton mask ... but underneath she had orangey hair and glasses with spots for THREE eyes .... three eyed glasses are her version of conservative .....

even though pottery was all giggley and fun, i still actually worked with clay .... i started on some nativities that a friend asked me to make .... she's giving them as gifts ..... after pottery, i rushed home, walked the dog, and dashed off to school to run drew's class halloween party ... they decorated pillow cases for trick or treat bags, ate cupcakes, chips and candy .... and had a happy time ..... all three of my kid saw me and said....orange hair? ..... somehow none of them were as surprised as i thought they might be ... ha ....
actually, a couple days ago, we were watching the suite life of zack and cody .... and the mom was being a horror .... i asked my kids if i ever embarrass them .... simultaneously, i got a yes, a no , and a wellllllll .... drew, definite yes ... sophie, not at all ... julia said, you could embarass me but my friends are all used to you so it's ok and really, instead of embarrassing me, you should just feel embarrassed for yourself ... HA ..... i need to try harder to embarrass them apparently ......

.... and then after school and some down time, the kids dressed up .... so happy and gleeful and ready .. they were cute and fun .... and so self sufficient now .... everything is a little easier with them all growing up so nicely ......

.... and here's my brag photo ... i don't usually do this on my blog ... but GOSH!! isn't she just the sweetest little witchy poo EVER??
... and one last photo ... of drew and julia, ghost and vampire, opening our gate to prepare for the onslaught of ghouls and goblins and spidermen (we got five spidermen) ..... hope you all had happy halloweens ..... now it's the down hill, fast dash to thanksgiving and christmas!!! eat candy, you're going to need the sustenance!!!

ps..... what's your favorite candy?
i'm a twizzler girl .... but on halloween, i always LOVE those itty bitty snickers .... how bout you?

... and now i have an idea ... better thought out than most of my ideas .....

and my big idea now .... is to have another blog contest .....
mostly, just because i liked the last one ....
but partly because i PASSED my 200th posting without even NOTICING ... how can that be?

so ....
the history:
a few weeks ago i did the norcross art show and sold fewer than 20 prints ....in 2 days ..... i was happy to sell any ..... so the fifteen or 18 or so felt great ..... i really don't know how many i sold .... more than 10, fewer than 20 .....
then, last weekend ...... at a one day art market, i sold 28 prints .....
so .... why did i sell more at a shorter event?
i don't know ... and i have some hypotheses, but, too dull probably for anyone but MOI .....
so.....
this weekend, the show is SHORTER still ..... just six hours long i think ..... and it is a market .... and i think MOST vendors there won't be artist booths .... does that give me a better shot or a worse shot of selling as many as last time ... as many as the time before? ... fewer than that? or could i even break 30? well, at this point who knows ...... that's the contest .... making your educated guess ....
the only variable i haven't discussed is that this show is at MY church .... across the street from MY house ... at MY kids' school .... so... chances are good that i'll know a few people there!! mabye even everyone ...ha! ......does that hurt my selling or help? again.... we can't know ....yet .... and that's why we are having this little blog contest .....

so ....

guess ....
comment on this post .... with a number.... and your contact info if your name isn't a link (or if i don't know you already!)
the person with the closest guess will win any one of my original art prints ....personalized .....
and heidi, you won last time, but you can STILL guess again .... you could personalize the print and give it as a gift if you are lucky enough to win again .....

sign up with your guess before saturday at 3 ..... good luck .... cross your fingers ... be optimistic ..... happy trails .....

ps... ok .... here's the ps:

after posting i went to heidi's blog and found she was having a contest and that there is this whole blogarama thing going on... all sponsored by rocks in my dryer .... so sure, sign me up ...... i'm part of the blog contest FEST now ... groovy-toovy, huh?

HOLD THE PRESSES ... STOP .... LOOK .... READ ... CELEBRATE .....

wow....
i made a list of ninety seven things to do today ....
and i've now, hours later, done, exactly ONE .....
but it's a good one ....
oh wait...i've done two .... i posted my blog winner, heidi .... so my first blog post today was my first thing ticked off my list ....
but number two is SOOOO great .....
i made an etsy site ....
really....
i did it .....
i'm official....
i have an etsy site to sell my prints on ....
i know you wanna look ....
go see .....
looking is free ....
my art for sale here
now, that's done .... i need someone to buy something to see if it all REALLY works ...ya know?
like ... here's a glitch .... i'm not sure i know my paypal password.... it's been a couple months since i've used it .....
but ... hooray ... it's a start .....

happy monday, bloggy friends

yippee ... these are the five collages that i have made into prints ..... and am selling..... and have had a contest for!!
how many did i sell at the marist art festival?

jeannie guessed 77
heidi guessed 35
roberta guessed 55
cindy guessed 37
linda guessed 110
sallie guessed 154

my family guessed:
andy: 55
julia: 75 (she changed hers from lower because she didn't want to be the lowest guess in the family!)
sophie guessed 110
drew guessed 155

and i did a bad job of getting y'all to guess right .... if i'd been playing, i would have been closest without going over .... though that's not the rule..... heidi went over, but was closest ......

background: at the LAST fest i did.... norcross, two days, i sold fewer than 20 prints.... but still, i sold some!! what a relief!! ..... i thought with this one, marist, just a one day show, but with a buying crowd, that i'd sell the same amount .... twice the clip of selling with a shorter time, but still..... i thought about 20 .... and i sold 28 ..... so, better than i thought ... but WAY less than i led y'all to guess by saying guess between 10 and 200 ..... ha .... i never thought y'all would all guess so high .... it makes me VERY happy though to know that my best blog readers are all happy optimists ....

so..... heidi, you win, honey!!! hip hooray ..... tell me which one and what personalization you want .....

now, off to clean the DISASTER that i call my art studio!!!
happy monday!

ps .... stay tuned ....i'm going to do another contest for the show i have THIS weekend coming up ..... i'll announce it tomorrow or wednesday ...... yippee zippy hooray .....

...and sunday is a day of rest .....

i'm here, i'm here!!! i missed a day of bloggage because i went to be SOOOO early last night ... just tiredtiredtired from the show .... the getting ready, the packing the car, the unloading, the setting up, the getting up early, the "being on" all day, the packing up ..... whew!! lots of work ... but, i had a very successful show .... so, all worth it ... i always say i want to be a gallery girl, not an art fest girl, but you can't beat the immediate gratification of a show.... people walking into the booth and liking it and saying so ..... and even better, people buying stuff ...yippee ..... i have not counted my money, counted my receipts, or found the paper with my tally of prints sold .... but i'll get right on that .... someone has won the blog contest ... tomorrow we'll find out whoooooooooo ......
hope you had a happy weekend .....

ready, steady, GO!

ok.... i'm pressed for time, so i'll be organized blogger, rather than rambling blogger:

1. my car is packed for my art fest ..... 40something canvases, six clocks, five types of prints .... what will i sell? i set up today at three o'clock .....

2. i've got a GRAND blog contest..... you have to guess how many prints i'm going to sell this weekend ... and win a print ... read my previous blog if you need more info..... if i get loads of entrants i'll give away more than one ..... if i just get the two that i already have, i'll do two prizes!! ha ..... play!! make a guess .....

3. and i have no picture for you, so i'll give you a happy link to click ...... practice your pumpkin carving skills here .....

tra la la .... hope you have a gorgeous, fun weekend ..... like i plan to have .....

my favorite pumpkin is an apple .... and i'm having a blog contest .... yippee, zippy, hooray

i love pumpkins ... but i particularly love them UNCARVED .... i like them whole ..... i like not being the one to deal with the pumpkin guts ...... julia is reading over my shoulder and just said " i think pumpkin guts are fun" ..... we DO carve pumpkins EVERY year at allison's pumpkin party ....but, my druthers would be THESE fabo face bits ..... that are just like mr. potato head bits ... but made for a pumpkin...i.e....very pointy so you can get them in ..... i bought one set and all these pieces came in the set .... i thought it would be three pumpkins worth ... but i was wrong ..... that's why we have an apple too .... tra la la and trick or treat ......


this is one clock i finished today .... rah ..... luckily you can't tell that i ran out of batteries, so this one isn't quite working yet .... it is on my list of things to do thought... buy batteries ..... tomorrow ...... my list of things to do to get ready for marist is HUGE ... but hopefully all doable tomorrow .... i got LOADS done today ... including picking up my BANNER .... i am SO pleased with it!!!



and this is my fourth clock of the week ..... now i've done two dominos, a scrabble, and a marble clock.... and i have a spades clock drying ..... just need to put the findings on after it dries ...well, it's surely dry by now ..... i just have to take the time to do it ...... hopefully i'll sell one or two this weekend ... otherwise, all my kids are getting groovy clocks for christmas .....

i also picked up my prints ..... i need to sign them, number them, stuff them into cellophane with a cardboard dooda .... and put in my bio ..... note to self ... print out some bios .....
oh, oh, oh ......
let's have a contest .... i JUST thought of it this instant ...... i was rhetorically going to ask how many prints you think i'm going to sell .... but i'll SEND you a print, personalized, signed, numbered .....if you are the closest guess ..... yippee .....
that made me happy to think of ......
ok .... i have five print choices .... originally fifty of each, though i do have less than that of some since i've sold quite a few ..... so your guess should be less than 230 ...... i need to sell ten to cover the cost of my booth ..... so .....
pick anywhere between 10 and 230 ..... you could guess less than 10, but then you are either a pessimist or a cynic and i don't want to send you a print!!! my contest, my rules!!
ok .... contest closes saturday at 4....that's when the show ends .....make sure i have your email to contact you in case you win .....
on your mark, get set, guess........

tick tock, another clock

i had a scrabble notion for a clock ... dream , think, read, believe , play, run .... twelve happy words .. but then it just looked too choppy on the canvas ...if i do that, it needs to be a bigger canvas clock ...so, let's do small cool words ... hip, groovy, cool, fun, happening....oh wait, happening isn't a small cool word ...it's a HUGE cool world ... running into the same problem again ..... so .... numbers....one, two, three, four ...... and that looked better ..... but, i didn't glue it ..... wasn't ready!! probably tomorrow ... i think it's right ......

so....this is the clock i finished today .... my dollar store had NO dominos ... and i was at walmart anyway ...these are big, colorful, and inexpensive ...... and they worked best on this background ...... i'm happy with this one .... it seems like a colorful, joyful clock to me..... i imagine, if i don't sell this one, it will end up being my kitchen clock ...... i've been looking for a clock update!! ......

oh.... i almost forgot ..... i went to pottery today ..... i made two platters ......on one i scraffito'd , on the other i painted ... for both i used my standard doodle as inspiration ..... do you know my standard doodle? it is on these shoes ... which i just happened to wear all day today ..... rainy days are better if you wear happy shoes ......

tomorrow ...... i hope to show you at least one more clock ...probably two .... and our pumpkins ..... ok? come back......you'll be glad you did!!

it's tuesday .... so i did art

My creation
Originally uploaded by eeeee.

these five canvases were just color glazes over groovy papers yesterday ..... today, with my freshly cut hair, i did some stencil stuff ..... and then i made one into a clock ...

tick tock ..... my hope is that they will all be clocks by friday ..... time will tell .... har har ... time will tell .....
i crack me up ......

....oh...she never blogs in the morning, what's she doing on the computer at all? .... isn't she supposed to be busy with all those other things?

you should watch this video ..... ..... i think it is important .... significant ... telling ..... for some, even life changing ..... i'm a tigger .... doing a pretty good job of living a happy life ... but it makes you think!

..... today, tuesday, is usually an all day art day ... but instead, i'm getting my hair cut ..... i'm such a dork, i really don't care about my hair at all ... until i do, then i'm bummed out that i haven't been doing a better job of keeping up with cute hair .... so, i go to a sylist " my hair really looks best on the shorter side" .... and when it is longer i just pony tail it and put in NO effort ... so i cut it short so i have to put in effort ... and then i let it grow out for a year ..... i'm old enough that i should have a notion of what my hair should be doing ... but no ..... the good thing is that i haven't had bangs in YEARS .... and i use to cut them and grow them out and cut them and grow them out and cut them and grow them out ...... now i just ignore my hair ... until i don't .....

long story short: hair cut day instead of studio day .....

i'll still have some art time this afternoon ...... so come back .....


you should watch this video ..... didja watch that video? strong, lovely man, huh?

happy, rainy monday

five backgrounds
Originally uploaded by eeeee.

..... this is my studio work for today ... i didn't have too much time because i was spending the most of the day with allison ..... but, from 8 til about 9.45 or so this morning i took these five canvases, 12 by 12s, and papered them and glazed them .... tomorrow i'll put lettering on them with my stencils or stamps ... and then .... i HOPE, hope, hope to make them all into clocks ..... somehow, in my head, i'm thinking i should have more than ONE clock to sell at marist ..... and worst case scenario, i make five clocks, sell none, and have them to give as chrismtas gifts .... all three of my kids want this clock for christmas ... so, if i sell none, not that big a deal ..... there'll be plenty of clocks to go around .......
so .... i spent most of my day with allison ..... we worked on photoshop ...she is the photoshop QUEEN and i am humbly indebted to her FOREVER ..... look at this banner we figured out and photoshopped ..... now...... i just have to get it printed on a six foot banner!! cross your fingers on that one!!
.... one more time ... may i say ... allison is a photo shop QUEEN .... my learning curve is daunting, at best, so steep it will take me 97 years to learn, at worst ..... so.... many thanks to allison for getting me through my photoshop first .....
tomorrow should be a good art day .... stay tuned ....