Well, the groveling paid off...

Business is picking up again. I am too busy to keep my blog up. But, I am having a blast!

I am so depressed...

nothing is selling. I have been working very hard making beautiful paintings and nothing is selling. What is going on? I am just keeping on keeping on. I am not going to change anything. I am very happy with my paintings and it is great practice. I will take them to sell locally. That is one thing I haven't been able to do before because they sold too fast. I never had more than a couple at a time.

You just never know...

The piece that I finished last week is now for sale on Ebay. I thought that it would sell fast with lots of bids and watchers. So far no bids and 1 watchers. This painting in particular really surprises me. I love this painting. In my eyes it is everything that I ever tried to achieve in my pieces before. Everything is exactly where I want it to be, how I want it to be. I really felt how they say connected to it while I was creating it. Nervous the entire time that I was going to mess it up, but I didn't. It is perfect. So I thought. Well I guess that that is all that matters. What I think. I would just hate to have to sell it for $20.00.

Anyway here is the painting for this week. I had to finish it early because I am leaving today for the "Women of Faith" conference. See ya soon!

It's the most wonderful time of the year...

The kids have gone back to school. Although, Blake has not started preschool yet, he will be gone next week. It has given me the opportunity to get back to painting. I am so happy! Here is the piece I am working on this week. I think it is coming along great. I almost am afraid I am going to ruin it. It is smaller than the ones I usually make but, if it sells well I will make a similar one 16x20. Email me & tell me what you think.

Back to painting...

Perphaps it is the thought of the coming autumn weather but, lately I have found myself with a yearning to paint again. I had some success selling paintings Idid a year ago on Ebay and it started the forgotten Ebay fever all over again. What is it about that process? I find myself checking my auctions every hour practically. Then I remembered my love of painting folk art. I always find myself feeling bad when an idea I had doesn't pan out. I am constantly getting new ideas starting them out and then coming to a stalemate. Something blocked it, being the resources, expense, or marketing. Now, I am beginning to realize it is just timing. It wasn't the right time but, if I hold on to it for long enough I can find a use for it. I see that happen all the time in my work. Everything old is new again.

The dream has come!!!

Last night I slept the whole night in my own bed in my own bedroom no less.
the whole remodeling process is not done yet but, it is completed enough that we could sleep in it. This was the first night I have slept in my own bed since Easter. Yah! Of course, I couldn't sleep well with all the new noises but, I was able to get up at 5:30 to work on my blog.

How does everyone like my new logo? I love it. I am just not sold on the color. Let me know what you think. email me at atmylittlecorner@aol.com with your comments!

On vacation...

We are currently on a vacation in western Pa. I guess it is what you would call one of those "staycations." We are visiting relatives and also my husband is going on a job interview while we are here to help defray some of the gas cost. The drywallers should be done with my bedroom when we get back home. All that would be left to do in there is paint. I am very happy to sleep in a real bed last night and not one of those pull out couches.

Traveling like this gets your mind wondering. Every town has a story. Every person in a town has a story. Some people have many stories. In Johnstown PA, you can't go anywhere without learning something about the horrible Johnstown Flood (and the wonderful Steelers, of course.) It was very devastating, killing thousands of people in one day. They have two museums about it and the accounts of it plastered on walls all around town. I just wonder why people cling to the history of it so fiercely. It happened over 120 years ago. No one alive now would have remembered it. They fixed the dam. It does serve as a reminder to good dam maintenance for other cities with the same landscape problems, like just recently out west. The problem with that is that those people have probably never been to Johnstown.

I am not dissing on Johnstown. This behavior is natural. My question is only, why? Are we afraid to forget all the brave people? Maybe. I don't really remember the single people I learned about there. Only the devastation and loss of life. Maybe, it is just me.