Thursday, July 3, 2008
Why I can't work in a cubicle, this could be me...
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
I have been studying cafepress all over the internet.
I am about to shut down half of my store on the internet, the half that I made for someone else and the half that no one uses. Useless real estate, the wholesale warehouse for American Legacy. You can see that the retail side has been shut down while I have been ill and gardening has made me believe...
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Start your own live television channel. FREE
I just started my own television channel and as soon as I buy my video camera, I shall begin to interview artists around town here. It is still in BETA version, so channel names are still readily available. Grab one now and then work at it later....gomedome, majroj. You two have things to teach, as...
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
2 more paintings sold and so, I delivered 3 more to the store.
I tell myself to get back to the clay and I must, but, the paintings keep bringing in the money and it is hard to fight success. Starving artists follow the money.... I finished another painting of a Guatemalan mother from behind, woven turban and pom poms and a woven and embroidered blouse in every...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
I just sold a $600 painting. My highest price yet.
I remember when I started all of my 16' by 20" paintings on eBay at $7.50!! This one was three feet by four feet, a Guatemalan Indian girl with a blanket on her head. Today I finished painting a boy from San Juan Atita'n, Huehuetenango who sells flowers. It is about two feet by four feet, long and...
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Monday, March 24, 2008
I have entered the 'cheating phase' of my folk art painting business.
I bought an Argus slide projector on eBay for one dollar. I bought a twenty dollar box of 500 or so slides on eBay, slides of tourists and poor quality photos culled from travel collections being sold. The seller was culling people out of the travel of their travel slide collections and I asked...
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Monday, March 17, 2008
Photo slideshow of research photos for my paintings...
I paint Guatemalan and Mexican Indians on canvas sometimes and I can never find enough photos of fabulous textiles to use and to reuse. A wonderful fellow and his wife were delivering textiles from Southern Mexico and Guatemala to the UNICEF store here in town. I asked for permission to photograph...
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Saturday, March 8, 2008
Thanks for procrastination prayers...I am renewed.
I have not done much in some people's eyes, however to me, it feels like I have begun another journey. I finished re-arranging the studio, cleaning the floors, walls, ceilings and shelves and removing half of the things from the area. Then, two nights ago, I sat down, put the audio book Midnight...
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Keep good business records as the IRS could audit at any moment.
I know this for a fact. It has just happened to me! Now, where did I put my old returns and their records and receipts and my workbooks??!?!?! I have been housecleaning and re-arranging things in a fairly haphazard manner recently. Oops.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Prolonged illness changes a business plan.
I had so many prototypes to make, so many wonderful things to create and instead made nothing, watched my income drop by one third and with the lack of health insurance and a real doctor who follows my care and actually diagnoses something, well, the plan got tossed. I am trying to develop a new...
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