I keep missing my thankful Thursday posts
I am thankful
For my husband and kids
For food
For Air
For movement
for art
for fruit
for carrots
for people
For Dreams
What are you thankful for
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Nore litle red art
I need to do a thankful post. There is so much I am grateful for. The last two years have been hard but I have been growing as a person and as a mother, wife and artist.
I love my family. What are you thankful for?
I am thankful for my husband, kids. I am thankful for god. I am thankful for sleep. I am thankful for art.I am thankful for water. I am thankful for air. I am thankful for music. I am thankful for hugs. I am thankful for days without homework. I am thankful when I just go out with my family. I am thankful for fairytales. I am thankful for ebooks. I am thankful for Zazzle to allow me to create. I am thankful when my husband cooks.
My art this is my whimsical art lately. These are what I called little known Fairy tales. There are more coming. One I am tweaking and another.
Little Red Riding Hood and the Cupcake Tree plate
Repunzel Meets Mr. Salad
Little Red Riding Hood and the Gift of Love
Red Ridng Hood Meets the Vampire Eclair
The Thankful Plate
MY modern art I did some of my modern art on Mini messenger bags
World’s Worst Cupcakes, free ads, my art
World’s Worst Cupcakes
Its getting closer to Halloween. I made the World's worst Cupcakes the other day. Okay maybe not the world’s worst but Carlo’s Bakery and Georgetown Cupcake won’t be hiring me any time soon. These cupcakes were little indented crispy pucks. I poured wells of colored corn syrup which softened them a bit. The frosting was off but not bad. I couldn’t find my go too frosting recipe and the recipe I used had too little fat. They did look like Halloween cupcakes but not in a good way. One my kids loved the cupcakes but I think she just like the frosting and well of colored corn syrup.
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Here is my latest art
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I did this Halloween Postcard a few days ago to make a friend laugh.
I didn't feel like cleaning the other day. I realized lots of things had had a place and that place was the trash. I made friends with Mr. Trashcan. and Ms. Recycling bin.
I designed some paper dolls for my girls over the weekend. I hope to print up for them so they can cut them out. I still need to make food for them. I just noticed there not a lot of modestly dressed cool dolls out there and as cartoonist/abstract artist its my job to make them for my girls. Girls can still be girls and feminine without having to wear skimpy clothing.
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My new cell phone covers for Iphone5 "iphone 5"
These are some products for writers I made with my art
Some of my other art
Other art by other artists
Charging up your Writers Life
I started out my career as a gothic fantasy writer and poet then switched gears to children’s self help fiction. I don’t write as much now because I am a slow editor and can take me years to edit the grammar mistakes out of one novel. I never made that much money. I was only ever internet famous, but I had a blast. I decided to become mostly an artist. I do still write the occasional fiction and nonfiction.
I have tons of stories from my life as a writer. One time I was stalked by grocery store employees as a happily wrote a scary story down. The manger finally yelled at me and asked what I was doing.
I stammered “I was just writing a story.” Apparently they were at war with another store who was price checking to lower their own prices. I do have some tips from my writing life as well.
1. Use a mug or water bottle instead of paper cups if you need to drink. Expensive bottled water is usually just filtered tap. So get a water filter if you need to and enjoy the savings. You can use the money for stamps and supplies. You can also store some water for emergencies, but filtered tap water is usually fine for drinking.
2. Just write: it doesn’t matter if you’re not the most famous writer in the world what matters if you write. You can never be published if you don’t write. You can never get your thoughts from your head to the readers if you don’t write.
3. Set a time to write. Books have gotten written on bus stops at work. Do you have just ten minutes a day then you can be a writer.
4. Don’t be grudge your writing friend’s success, celebrate with them.
5. Keep a dream journal buy your bed. Your dreams can be great sources of your writing.
6. You will never be a great children’s writer if you don’t read children’s fiction. You will never be a great science fiction writer if you don’t enjoy science fiction. If you read mainstream literature then you should write mainstream literature.
7. Just because its genre doesn’t mean it’s bad. Genre fiction can hide deep meaning behind it such as war, and poverty. Genre fiction and fine literature don’t have to be separate.
8. When promoting your work use the library to look books on self promotion. I found one book on promotion that loved and quickly bought. Another book on promotion I almost bought in the bookstore, but when I checked it out and read it I found out it had little use except for a few heads of marketing.
9. You will get rejected. I remember getting four rejections in one day. I was so discouraged, but then I got a few really good acceptances.
10. Have fun. Writing should be fun.
in this post Giving brings Joy, post a free add, my art, others art Back to School Pricing for BELLYACHE Giving brings Joy
This not the last time I will talk about giving. People who give more are happier.
There’s a lot of misconceptions about giving. Rich people aren’t always greedy some were very giving before and after they give. People who give more end up more successful than those who don’t. (That’s not why you should give anyway but this was proven by a study that showed people who gave 10% of their income to charity were more successful than those who did not.) People often make comments "why isn’t a person giving locally." Most people I see who give overseas also give locally. You can do both.
People who give are more likely to be their community leaders no matter what party they belong to. The last myth is you have to be mega rich to give in the first place. There a lot of cheap ways to give.
1. Give to your church
2. Buy gum in coin operated machines sponsored by charities
3. Buy second hand clothes at charity thrift stores. Its good for the earth and can save you money.
4. Give without people knowing who you are
5. Donate your squidoo earnings to charity
6. Donate your time
7. http://www.thehungersite.com you can donate by making a few clicks and looking for ads.
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My art I just posted
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Updated Art program
One of my art programs/apps updated so I have been playing with it. There is something life affirming about creating. It will take a while for new pieces to go up.
Charge up Home/life
These are things I’ve done in the past few weeks Simple changes big impact. What are your change ups.
1. New tub mat “an inexpensive way to change up a bathroom.
2. If you are an artist display some of your own art in corner not to sell but just to enjoy.
3. Told people I care about that I love them
4. Listen to uplifting music 5. Read or get a book to learn something new.
My latest art products
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