For: You
From: Me
...because I DON'T EAT TURKEY ON THANKSGIVING!
Peace (to the turkeys!).
Monday, November 23, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
GlassesUSA hooked me up!
I remember being a teenager and thinking it was so cool when I got my first prescription for glasses! Wearing eyeglasses was going to be SO cool! A couple years later my frames were huge compared the the latest styles and I never had time to go get new frames...picking them out took a lot of time and I just didn't have that kind of time. I stopped wearing them.
As a mom, I NEED my prescription glasses! The print on medicine bottles gets smaller each time I fill a prescription! So, I take the kids and go browse through the thousands of choices and can NEVER pick what I like. Distractions or no distractions, it's tricky!
I didn't think I would be able to choose eyeglass frames online. I figured I would need to see them on my face to know what I liked. But at GlassesUSA.com I found a lovely pair that I HOPED and PRAYED would look good! I had just had my eyes examined so I have my new prescription (which is Greek to me).
At GlassesUSA.com, your order is processed quickly, using YOUR prescription, and your glasses arrive in no time packed in their own sturdy case! And then prices...HOLY GOODNESS, they are so economical! This was a SUPERB experience!
Thanks GlassesUSA! They are awesome! I feel like a HOT MAMA in my new specs! ;)
Whadda ya think?
Peace.
I love tiny*prints!
I now know where I will be shopping for my HOLIDAY GREETINGS!
I just got my Tiny*Prints order and LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!
Here are a couple samples from the tiny*prints website!
TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF THEIR HOLIDAY SALE! GO! GO! GO!
I just got my Tiny*Prints order and LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!This website is so EASY to navigate and personalize...I'm not always a "quick learner" when it comes to new sites and ordering and personalizing but this site was a breeze.
Their products are so gorgeous, I found myself looking through other styles and cards for events and holidays I wasn't buying for but I just kept wanting to see more!
tiny*prints is FIRST CLASS! This company is definitely worth a bookmark in your FAVORITES file!
Check out their deals for the Holidays! This is ONE STOP SHOPPING at its BEST!
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
They are bangin' down my door!
Hey all!
I know it's been awhile, I apologize! I've been feverishly working on a couple books and preparing for a speaking engagement - yeah, ME, SPEAKING! Like a bumbling idiot, probably! I may grace a post with some video of it after it's over - heck, if I can figure it out, maybe I will SKYPE it - we will see!
I love y'all for subscribing and it will pay off in the VERY near future. Listen why.
My inbox has been INUNDATED with companies asking me to review products and some are offering extra items for giveaways! JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS!
PBS, TinyPrints, VTech Toys, Simon&Schuster and MORE!!
Can you say FREE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING? Enter a contest and win a toy or discount that will help to complete your holiday shopping list!
SO...if you haven't already...SUBSCRIBE, SUBSCRIBE, SUBSCRIBE!
Peace.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
At my art table...
Well, here I am back at my art table (WITH caffeine in my favorite cup - it's my own design!)...ready to dedicate the entire day (well, at least until the pre-school bus comes) to my latest project...
A BOOK DUMMY FOR SIMON & SCHUSTER
I want to thank all of you for supporting me through this publishing journey. So many of you contact me and ask WHERE you can buy my books. I don't have any published but I have many written and even more partially written. I have notebooks FILLED with simple ideas that would make a one-of-a-kind, quirky story! I will never live long enough to write every one of them!
This current project is a first for me. I am submitting as an AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR! Yep, I am taking your advice! I have been thinking all along that I wanted to just concentrate on ONE or the OTHER....writing OR illustrating. Come to find out, it make my writing SO much better when I can use MY OWN illustrations to SHOW the story. It's cleaner. Clearer. It feels like I have found my niche.
I recently had a review with an art rep from NYC who selected a few illustrations in my portfolio and said it was such a unique style that I needed to "run with it!" You can read more about that meeting HERE at my children's book blog.
OK! Back to work (and my coffee!) before I get sucked in chatting with you!
(Not that that's a bad thing!)
Peace.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
NAMESAKE Christmas Gift EXTRAVAGANZA
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Original, hand painted NAMESAKES on 9 x 12" bristol board: $50.00 eachI sold about 30 of these last year right before Christmas and I am opening
my "ORDER PAD" once again but for a SHORT amount of time.
My ORDER PAD will be open until November 1st.
I will contact you via email to discuss design options
and special requests for your child's artwork.
Peace.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Kate and I: Crafting together...
I know, I know. You are thinking, "Where did that come from?"
Well, if you have been around this blog for any amount of time, you know that I am on TEAM KATE! Especially, especially especially during this time of her life! Ugh! I cannot imagine going through something like this and even more, I can't imagine it happening so publicly!
My heart is with ya, sistah!
So, I decided on something that would take her mind off the "junk" people are putting out there because the have nothing better to do than bash people they don't even know…
A NEW reality show...Kate and mine…a spin-off of sorts. With my fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants creativity and her very structured nature, I think we could keep the ratings up and satisfy a major network simply on the fact that we would never be totally OK with the other one’s idea of fun. But, we are adults, we are women, we would have a blast.
I have a lot of friends and thousands of you reading my blog and from time to time you all think I have completely lost my mind.
Like when I tell you the creative projects we get into at my kitchen table. Having been a high school art teacher, messes don’t really freak me out. When we are working with supplies that won’t wash off, you know, the kind that stain your skin for a couple weeks, then we go outside. Easy. My outlook is, “no medium will last as long as a tattoo!”
Our NEW reality show would highlight the fun you can have with your kids without having an aneurysm. With eleven kids on our heels, can you imagine the number of segments we could tape in a short time?
Unlike me, Kate is adamant about her hate for messes. She doesn’t do them. Ever. And quite honestly, with 8 kids, who would?! In one episode, she and Jon take the kids to the Crayola Factory in Easton and she barely lets the kids try anything. Although, I totally respect her fear of messes (remember, I have lived with a fear-of-messes husband for 15 years), I have made it my mini-mission in life to show moms that Art doesn't always = messes. It is doable with the RIGHT supplies and an ample amount of planning ahead. I did one of those projects with my youngest this morning and it was delightful. Not a messy hand in sight!
My husband has a hard time with my messy tendencies. When it rains, we go outside and play in the mud. When it’s hot we have water fights...with our clothes on. We have even been known to have a small food fight or two. Although messy and causing my husband a few small strokes, the fun we have will create life-long memories of family fun. It's good to see Mommy and Daddy getting messy and being big kids! Even if Daddy twitches a little.
In my “research” on reality shows it is necessary to have a couple things to be a long-running phenomenon. One of the things on my reality show checklist is an interesting venue.
A place that has never ending possibilities for interesting outings … check. Lancaster County is filled with fun and not-so-common-to-the-rest-of-the-planet adventures. I can see me and Kate overseeing a finger painting project using a horse and buggy as our canvas. I see a big sheet of paper clothes-pinned to the side of the buggy...of course the horse's tail will probably whip away a fly and get into the paint...oh that would add a VERY cool element to a kid-style painting! We could donate the “painting” to Hershey Medical Center to hang in the pediatric wing. Who knows, that horse could become famous! Elephants do it!
Talent is a definite must on my checklist and I think Kate has this covered. Any woman that can juggle 8 children day-in and day-out is Mom-of-the-Year in my book. And I have the creativity piece of our show covered! How cool would it be if the Gosselin kids could do art projects and then we could have greeting cards printed with proceeds going to charity! I could write funny blog entries and illustrate each episode to give viewers juicy behind-the-scenes tidbits. People love that stuff! I LOVE THAT STUFF!!
Of course just the right amount of sheer chaos completes the recipe for blockbuster reality show. Just re-read the above paragraphs, close your eyes and visualize the opportunities for chaos. (although in my twisted brain I REALLY TRULY don't see it as chaos! Honest!) Mom viewers would love it.
Well, maybe I just needed to talk myself into believing that as my 12-year anniversary of being stay-at-home mom approaches, I actually have a ‘marketable expertise’. Maybe I am distracting myself from cleaning. Either way, I think I may be onto something.
Peace.
Well, if you have been around this blog for any amount of time, you know that I am on TEAM KATE! Especially, especially especially during this time of her life! Ugh! I cannot imagine going through something like this and even more, I can't imagine it happening so publicly!
My heart is with ya, sistah!
So, I decided on something that would take her mind off the "junk" people are putting out there because the have nothing better to do than bash people they don't even know…
A NEW reality show...Kate and mine…a spin-off of sorts. With my fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants creativity and her very structured nature, I think we could keep the ratings up and satisfy a major network simply on the fact that we would never be totally OK with the other one’s idea of fun. But, we are adults, we are women, we would have a blast.
I have a lot of friends and thousands of you reading my blog and from time to time you all think I have completely lost my mind.
Like when I tell you the creative projects we get into at my kitchen table. Having been a high school art teacher, messes don’t really freak me out. When we are working with supplies that won’t wash off, you know, the kind that stain your skin for a couple weeks, then we go outside. Easy. My outlook is, “no medium will last as long as a tattoo!”
Our NEW reality show would highlight the fun you can have with your kids without having an aneurysm. With eleven kids on our heels, can you imagine the number of segments we could tape in a short time?
Unlike me, Kate is adamant about her hate for messes. She doesn’t do them. Ever. And quite honestly, with 8 kids, who would?! In one episode, she and Jon take the kids to the Crayola Factory in Easton and she barely lets the kids try anything. Although, I totally respect her fear of messes (remember, I have lived with a fear-of-messes husband for 15 years), I have made it my mini-mission in life to show moms that Art doesn't always = messes. It is doable with the RIGHT supplies and an ample amount of planning ahead. I did one of those projects with my youngest this morning and it was delightful. Not a messy hand in sight!
My husband has a hard time with my messy tendencies. When it rains, we go outside and play in the mud. When it’s hot we have water fights...with our clothes on. We have even been known to have a small food fight or two. Although messy and causing my husband a few small strokes, the fun we have will create life-long memories of family fun. It's good to see Mommy and Daddy getting messy and being big kids! Even if Daddy twitches a little.
In my “research” on reality shows it is necessary to have a couple things to be a long-running phenomenon. One of the things on my reality show checklist is an interesting venue.
A place that has never ending possibilities for interesting outings … check. Lancaster County is filled with fun and not-so-common-to-the-rest-of-the-planet adventures. I can see me and Kate overseeing a finger painting project using a horse and buggy as our canvas. I see a big sheet of paper clothes-pinned to the side of the buggy...of course the horse's tail will probably whip away a fly and get into the paint...oh that would add a VERY cool element to a kid-style painting! We could donate the “painting” to Hershey Medical Center to hang in the pediatric wing. Who knows, that horse could become famous! Elephants do it!
Talent is a definite must on my checklist and I think Kate has this covered. Any woman that can juggle 8 children day-in and day-out is Mom-of-the-Year in my book. And I have the creativity piece of our show covered! How cool would it be if the Gosselin kids could do art projects and then we could have greeting cards printed with proceeds going to charity! I could write funny blog entries and illustrate each episode to give viewers juicy behind-the-scenes tidbits. People love that stuff! I LOVE THAT STUFF!!
Of course just the right amount of sheer chaos completes the recipe for blockbuster reality show. Just re-read the above paragraphs, close your eyes and visualize the opportunities for chaos. (although in my twisted brain I REALLY TRULY don't see it as chaos! Honest!) Mom viewers would love it.
Well, maybe I just needed to talk myself into believing that as my 12-year anniversary of being stay-at-home mom approaches, I actually have a ‘marketable expertise’. Maybe I am distracting myself from cleaning. Either way, I think I may be onto something.
Peace.
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