New Year, New Things to Report!

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Well, its a good job my resolution wasn't to blog more :o

It was however to list an ACEO a day in my etsy shop, and so far so good!

Also having a massive sale 45% off all my items from last year!!! only running until the 28th Jan so if there's something you want at a bargain price,you better get it now!!

I also joined ATC's for All which is a super cool site where you can trade ACEO's/ATC's with other people and join in on their swap games, I have just finished my entries for the
Sacred Heart Swap
Be Still my Beating Anatomical Heart
Small Screen Sci Fi
Just click the links to view my galleries.
And as soon as I can figure out the whole printing deelie, I will be making some prints of everything.
So I've been very busy really.
And yesterday I made my first sale of the new year so WooP!

More new things..

Now just to get them listed hehe...

New Work in time for Halloween!

These will be winging their way into my etsy shop over the next few days!

My first BNS on Etsy

Woohoo! My First BNS!
For everyone who doesn't know (and I only recently understood the concept), a BNS or buy and stay is a treasury list to promote sellers.
Its held in a number of rounds, and some have different rules with minimum buys etc. But basically you buy something from one of the shops listed and then post a comment listing the transaction id and the shop name. And then your shop gets a turn in the next round. Simple.

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTIzNTgzMDJ8NTc4NDkyNjYy/open-bns-oh-so-blueby-comfy-36-sales

So please go and take a look at the wonderful stuff on offer in the shops (mine included) and don't forget to leave a comment saying pixiecorpse sent you offer, I would totally appreciate that one!
Thanks and don't forget to check out my new ACEO's and paintings while your there!

NEW STUFF ON ETSY

New stuff on etsy click images to go straight to item! woohoo!

Free Gift!!

Ok so to celebrate my birthday, throughout August I will be giving a blank ACEO card inside one of my envelopes, with every purchase on my etsy store... Gems Menagerie or click the store widget on the right...
A bit of a crap free gift I hear some of you cry...Well fear not theres another part to this. When you get your order with the blank ACEO I will also include my email address so once you've created your fabulous ACEO, just email me a pic with any links to etsy stores, or your own blog and I will be more than happy to post a blog entry here for you! And don't worry it won't take me as long as my last post to write it!
So happy viewing in my etsy store!

Thinking about the New Year…

I know there's resolutions to be had, which I will decide upon later..

But the main decision has to be which way my art work is going to go, and I had a brainwave of doing nude ACEO's, I've always liked painting nudes and seem to do it best so I think that is how its going to be this year....

Nudes, nudes and more nudes...

Piet Mondrian

This is a sneaky post really to plug my etsy shop because I have just made an ACEO (2.5" x 3.5") in the style of Mondrian. And even the simplicity of his images is very hard to do, getting straight edges for starters, drives me crazy. But the effects are amazing. When I saw the image of the Mondrian Building above I thought it was a museum of Mondrian's work but I'm not sure I think it may just be someone's house. I wonder if hubby would let us do it to ours? I doubt it.
And considering Mondrian died it 1944 its great how his paintings are fresh and exciting even today.
If you want to know more about Mondrian click here for the Wikipedia.
If you haven't guessed already the bottom image is the one available in my etsy shop. Just click the image to view the listing.

ACEO's in Etsy

So if you haven't already had a look in the etsy store lately then this is a heads up!!
ACEO's are now available and I'm loving them all, its so much fun to do! So enjoy the ACEO goodness!

How do they do it??

How does everyone manage to get so much done while I'm left floundering about and scratching my head (better time management you say....Yeah your probably right)
But what I mean is if I try to drop the requisite numbers on entrecard, I don't get anything else done. If I actually get some art work done nothing gets done on the pc.
Although with my new found information on ACEO's I have managed to do some work on those whilst putting the kids to bed but its only the initial Biro or pencil sketch that needs painting afterwards, but that's a definite saving of some time once they're asleep. But it can be a struggle if our daughter is feeling a little bit naughty and decides that I'm not really using the pencils etc. and she wants them.
And I need to buy a marker or a stupidly small paintbrush for the more fiddly pictures, because the ones I've got just don't cut it. And it doesn't matter if I've just bought them or how pricey they are the bristles ALWAYS start to deviate from the initial shape and blob paint all over where I really don't want it to go.
So how do you manage it all, the work and all the social networking/ promotions stuff and painting so little and finely because I want to know!

ACEO's

I finally found out exactly what they are thanks to
Pat's Encaustics - Art in the Wax
and I am so very excited by them, now I really can't wait for Friday because I'm going to buy a new cutting tool too so I can cut out the little 2.5" x 3.5" card and get my paint and sketch on. I have far too much going on in my head and will be glad to get it down on the cards as well as a few new greetings cards and paintings, oh yeah I'm going all out on Friday, just hope I can carry it all back with the kids in tow. We're using the ultra light Quinny pushchair with no underneath for storage as our Graco died a horrible, horrible death. (And I miss it like crazy, think daughter does too as there's no riding on the roof of this pushchair).