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The children’s book Every Someday that I illustrated is available for purchase now

Just before Christmas the children’s book Every Someday written by Amanda Lenker and illustrated by me was self published on Blurb in soft cover, hard cover and hard cover with dust jacket editions. It’s a fantastic little book and your kids will adore it!
On blurb you can preview select parts of how Every Someday reads [...]

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Apple is nice and a sneak peek at new art

I phoned Apple computer on Thursday evening and told them my story. I remained calm and didn’t get angry as getting angry doesn’t do a damn thing. I asked if I could exchange the 24″ iMac for the new 27″ iMac. The supervisor on the phone agreed with me and waived their 14 day return [...]

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Dear Apple Computer

I purchased a new 24″ iMac 2.93Ghz, 600GB Hard Drive from you on September 4th, 2009 for $2,149.00 CAD plus an additional $199 CAD for extended insurance coverage. I love my new computer and have loved using apple computers since 1993, when I first used a Quadra in art college.
Here is where the love stops.
I [...]

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I Won – The Most Wall Worthy Art Contest!

The best intentions to write this post yesterday withered as the day progressed, and sleepiness combined with the inability to concentrate swept over me. The excitement of winning first place and having three room rental tenants move into my house on the same day was slightly overwhelming.
I slept for 10 hours last night.

Thank [...]

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A Midsummer Sale

A Midsummer Sale – Buy 2 get 1 Free
Choose from over 100 Open Edition prints and ACEO mini prints from the top two SALE sections of my shop. All $5, $12 and $20 prints are included in the sale.
Simply write your free choice (of equal or lesser value to the lowest priced item within your [...]

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Little Art Feature List

Can you guess where?
1. Design Milk
Thanks Jaime!

2. OMGPosters
I didn’t know this wondrous site existed until the link came into my blog dashboard. Thanks for the feature!

3. and Cuteable
Thanks for including my mini mushroom greetings in your Friday Flickr!

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A Video Thank You

The following is a Video thank you from MsDragonfly who won first prize in the Pick What You Win Art Giveaway.

When I ship art I always ask the person who bought it or won it as is the case here to let me know when it arrives. This helps me keep track of shipping times [...]

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Review – Epson R2880 – Part 2 – testing the Canvas Roll

This is the second part of my Espon R2880 Review. You can read the first part here.

Set up is straightforward
Do not rip the plastic off the canvas like I did pictured above. The white plastic holders do come off and it is much easier to remove the plastic and paper coverings when they are off! [...]

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Review – Epson R2880 Printer

A few weeks ago I got an Epson R2880 printer. Ever since, learning to operate this fascinating piece of equipment has ensued…

Set Up
After a false start first using *metal saw horses to make a table with, I purchased a folding plastic/metal table from Canadian Tire for $39.95. If you buy this printer you will need [...]

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My art is featured in Canada’s Style at Home magazine

If you live in Canada or have access to Canadian magazines go and pick up the December issue of Style at Home magazine and flip to page 59. My art is featured within the Shopping Etc section under the Sites We Love Column.
Best of All, Style at Home tried Etsy’s shop local feature and found [...]

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Monday’s list – stats, features and missing friends

All orders are shipping out on time
Milton the Fish made the Friday Finds Fish List!
Very close friend leaves to build snow bridges for four to five months in Northern Manitoba on Wednesday morning so companies can get their precious oil out while the marshland ground is frozen and accessible
Do you love me featured [...]

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The Ad was Stripped During the Last 48 Hours

Sadly, the rotating gallery of Gawker Artists was stripped from my blog’s sidebar as it was in violation of Wordpress.com TOS.

Sadly, the ad is not an ad.

Sadly, I will not be able to showcase that rotating exhibit of other artists work from Gawker Artists in this blog’s sidebar.

Sadly, the ad was displaying on my blog [...]

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Modish is hosting a HUGE Givaway!

I am entering the November Modish Draw – part one by using the Broadcast Method (described below) and you can to if you are a blogger.
The total prize is worth $778 USD!
You could win a gorgeous assortment of handmade goods from artisans and crafters worldwide. And if you don’t win simply visit their respective shops [...]

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Jessica Doyle is on Gawker!

Once upon a time I applied to become a Gawker Artist(s). And was approved for both an online gallery of art and also for displaying their rotating exhibit which encompasses all Gawker Artists in this blog’s sidebar (see below left). I submitted both the Sassy Sea Urchin and Sunflowering Times for their approval.
Today it went [...]

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The INCrowd Interview

Carolyn of nilochliann on Etsy who is a very active member of Indiana’s Etsy Street Team contacted me in July for their international interview series posted monthly to their blog.
The interview is live. Go and read it!
Thanks Carolyn for the opportunity to share my words with you.
Cheers!

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The Buzz Interview

The Queen Bee aka Tameka contacted me in July for an interview to be published later to her blog. To quote her,
She is one of a few Etsy artists’ whose style is as identifiably her own as the historical works of great artists I’ve been forced to memorize and identify on sight in art history [...]

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Design This Design That Magazine Feature!

About a month ago I was contacted by Ariadna Ramley of Design This Design That Magazine based out of Mexico for an interview featuring my artwork. The issue is live online now. It looks fantastic and is full of gorgeous artwork from artists world wide!
She interviewed a total of 68 artists for this issue! I [...]

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We Fourish and Reproduce

…but first we grow.

We Flourish (above) made the front page of Etsy last week. Thank you LillyYella. I think We Grow did at one point to. All three originals in this series that are named We are on exhibit at the Klausen Gallery in Uptown Saint John. I created prints of them in three sizes; [...]

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It happened out of the blue

http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5736378&page=1
Anyone who sells on Etsy and has posted within the promotions section of that site’s forum also knows that within 23 seconds flat your promo post will be 6 pages deep within that section.
If you are lucky, someone else will post an item related to your item and your thread will be bumped to the [...]

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Christmas in July

I am partaking in a one day only Christmas in July Sale with other talented folks at Etsy. Little Black Boxes has the complete list of participating shops.
Hope to see you in my shop!
Beginning NOW at 12:00AM EST Saturday Morning ALL orders of $20 or more before shipping will receive a free ACEO mini print [...]

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