We FINALLY had some snow...

It was just a dusting of snow, you probably wouldn't even call it snow if you lived up North lol. It was fluffy and beautiful and inspiring though. I worked that day at Cato (my day job now), came home and took no less than 85 photos . Here are a few of them :






I only have one in my Etsy shop at the moment but I'll be putting the other ones up as I go along this week. The ironic part is that I'd decided to totally launch into spring with my shop photos lol. We just never get snow though so I wanted to get these in there while it's still winter :).

Are you on Facebook?

Do you love it? It's such a great waster of time lol. I was just on there doodling around and I thought - hey, I really should be posting on my sadly neglected blog. I just put a bunch of photos of my kids and Richard if you want to go have a looksee :) ... Jen's Facebook Page I'm always so curious about people I meet online and what they look like. I think everyone has a mental picture of the people they interact with here.

I drove about an hour to Knoxville today, I picked up a canvas that I'm entering in the Dogwood Arts Festival competition. If it wins it will represent the whole festival in their posters and things. There will be an exhibition of all the artwork chosen and the public will pick the representative art. The winner will get $2000 as well as the status of their artwork being on limited edition posters, etc of the festival. It's a big deal to win it as far as getting your name out there. I'm totally hoping I'll win! This is my entry :

It's actually all beautiful and glowy in person, it looks almost zen-like for lack of a better word lol. I'm doing it on a 30"x30" gallery wrapped canvas so it will be really big!

Hope everyone is enjoying the new year and not freezing their butts off! It's 6 degrees right now here and for TN that's pretty extreme cold ..brrrrrrr.

New Series of Springtime Art

I'm adding 3 new pieces of art to my Etsy Store today. One I uploaded this morning and I'm uploading the other two this evening. Somehow I scored 2 (yes 2!) days off in a row. I was so excited :). So I've cleaned a little house, cleared out the messiest closet we have and planned some new artwork.
I'm calling these the springtime series. They're light and airy, very cheerful.
I think they're the perfect anecdote to the winter weather we've been having. I'm in TN so we're mostly having clouds and cold rain but I saw that you guys in Ohio and Chicago are getting a lot of snow. I think it's the same front...we actually have a chance of snow from it tomorrow.



I'm back to work tomorrow unless we get that snow and schools are shut down. I can't really complain though because the schools were closed last week due to the flu. Work was cancelled on Thursday and Friday for me since the schools I was going to be working at were closed. So that on top of Monday and Tuesday off due to my work schedule, well, I can't really complain about going back tomorrow lol.


I'm looking forward to getting some frames for these and putting them on my wall. I'm planning to upload some photos in my Etsy shop of my artwork framed and matted just so anyone who's interested in buying can get an idea of what they'll look like on the wall. I'm also lowering my prices....the 12x12 size of these prints look really awesome hanging in multiples of 3 so lowering the prices will make them more affordable if anyone wants to buy the whole series.

Creative Sunday

I'm trying to spend my Sunday updating my Etsy listings. I uploaded two new pieces of digital art today. One of them is 'Cross that Bridge When You Come to it' (long title lol). It's in 12x12 and it's an introspective piece. I really like the way the camera caught the sunshine coming over the bridge and the reflection of the trees in the water below. It's available for purchase at my Etsy store, just click a link to the right and it will take you right in there. My other new item is called 'Winter Sun', a lot of dreamy light blues and beautiful contrasts. I like this one, the colors make me happy :).

It's also available, along with my other pieces of art, in my Etsy store at http://www.everydaymoments.etsy.com/.

I discovered today that there is an Etsy Bloggers Street Team. I'm going to try to join so I'm going to be updating my blog to reflect the criteria that they have listed. I'm off work for the next 2 days YAY! so it will be a perfect time to get things updated. My income tax should be here by tomorrow or the next day...I have a whole list of Etsy items that I want/need/havetohave. They're in my shopping cart ready to be purchased the second the money shows up in my account. I'm so excited! I hope it gets here asap because the things in my cart are getting bought by other people and most of them are one of a kind. Once they're gone, they're gone. Etsy has the most awesome stuff :).