A Little Bout Love...

[caption id="attachment_479" align="aligncenter" width="692" caption="Available for sale in my Etsy store"][/caption] Love is all around us.  We see weddings, engagements, and anniversaries happening all of the time.  People honoring their love with celebrations. [caption id="attachment_480" align="aligncenter" width="692" caption="Available for sale in my Etsy Store"][/caption] Sometimes it is easy to overlook the love around us....to feel lonely.  Sometimes it feels like everyone else has the love we desire.  When that happens to me, I begin to look inside.  I firmly believe that we have to have love inwardly for our own selves before we can love outwardly for someone else. [caption id="attachment_481" align="aligncenter" width="692" caption="Available for sale in my Etsy Store"][/caption] When you love someone, you do make promises.  And you create expectations.  I have yet to figure out the secret of loving someone unconditionally, without expectations of what THEY will do for ME in exchange for my love.  But I am working on it!  I believe in the power of love.  I believe that love can help create positive change.  It can inspire people to be the best version of themselves possible.  Love can change a person from the inside.  I hope this brings a little love to your day!! [caption id="attachment_482" align="aligncenter" width="692" caption="Available for sale in my Etsy Store"][/caption]

My first print!

I'm so excited!  I took a class this summer about how to turn your art into something that can be sold.  And here is my first print!! Step 1 - bought a fabulous new art quality printer (Epson R1900) Step 2 - bought Epson Luster Paper Step 3 - bought and learned (sort-of) Photoshop Elements Step 4 - scanned a painting I had completed Step 5 - edited it and printed it!! Voila! So why does this excite me?  I guess because it is progress towards a dream that a year ago I didn't even know I had.  That's the funny thing about dreams, isn't it?  They can shift and change and carry you in directions that you can't even imagine.  Someday I would love it if a person loved my art enough to buy a piece of it - a print, a canvas, a calendar....  So the first step in making that happen is getting the art into a format that can become "for sale"! Next step - creating the web-store it can be bought in!  You can bet that I am on it!!
October 28, 2011 by 1