I skipped my morning running sessions during December with all my art shows & holiday orders & cold weather wussiness. But I missed being out there on my feet, so I’ve been back at it and it feels goooooood. So many birds singing their winter songs..
From my photo escapade on Dec. 29, 2012, in Atchison, KS.
I’m testing out the gallery feature in this new blog format… Click on the image to make it larger! (Typing this after a couple hours of fidgeting and filtering through and reworking code after I couldn’t get it to work because of some other code modifications I made. It’s like one big word search in a foreign language without knowing what the words are.. snore… BUT, I’m happy with the results.)
Many thanks to Caitlin for sending me these images of a pillow she made out of one of my “Shelter Each Other” tote bags. I thought it was a great idea! And the addition of color is a nice touch. (I’ll be making my own soon to go with my pillow collection).
Please pardon my dust as I try to figure out this whole blog thing. It’s been a few years since I’ve made any major updates. This theme should look pretty once I figure out how to make it work right.. but I can only tell it’s right if it’s live.. so.. I’m gonna sleep on it after a nail biting evening trying to back up my website before I updated to the latest version of wordpress. I was still in the stone-age in techie years..
I’m making some more little birds this morning. This afternoon I’m starting in on one of two commissions that I’ve got in the pipeline, awaiting approval on an illustration job that I worked on yesterday (about eagles, no less!), and checking out a shipment of postcards that just arrived from Bizarr Verlag, my publisher in Germany, with five of my paper cuttings printed on them. They look great – pics to come soon. I’m also starting on a new blog design this weekend – I *think* I finally found a WordPress template that’ll work for me after a long search, so if things start to look wonky, it’s me, not you… And if you don’t see any changes, it’s because I can’t figure out how to make it work! But I’m ready for something fresh and simple that works across platforms – out with the old, in with the new (it’s a state-of-mind thing, really). And here’s a little quote to end this post with:
“In the end, just three things matter:
How well we have lived
How well we have loved
How well we have learned to let go”
-Jack Kornfield
These tiny birds are always a top seller at the larger shows where I can only sell originals and I’m trying to get a handle on them before the show season by making one or two everyday. However, I’m going to list some in my Etsy shop soon as well. The birds on the right side sell for $35 and come framed to 3 x 4 inches. The bird in the vase sells for $65 and comes unframed and matted to 5 x 7 inches (it’s easier to ship unframed). Check back tomorrow for new listings: http://ruralpearl.etsy.com.