New treasury

I finally caught the treasury when it was open. I had a great selection of abstract art in my poster sketch, but yesterday, I went to check on the items, since I saw the treasury would open after not too long, and they were all blank. So instead I made another circus themed treasury, and I'll have to collect the art ones again for next time. To visit this treasury, click here.

Front page!

It turns out you can miss a lot when you are crazy busy. I was checking in on my google analytics today for my Etsy shops, and I saw a huge spike in views from September 21. I went over to Craft Cult, and searched through the front page treasuries from that day, and wah lah! My pastel piece The Thicket made it on the front page!
Thanks StudioElan!

(I was also an alternate in this front page treasury October 4. It's been an exciting week for me!)

Treasuries!

What a treat when I logged in to Etsy today... Two of my shops are featured in treasuries simultaneously! First up is a pine cone treasury by CaitlinSainio featuring a photograph from TholeImagery.etsy.com. Click here to visit this treasury.


Next up is a national parks treasury by dayinthepark, featuring one of my Yellowstone drawings from SarahThole.etsy.com. Click here to visit this treasury.

busy busy...

Wow, the month of September has been so busy for me. In addition to my day job, I helped photograph a wedding, have been working on processing those photos, had a family event, hosted a large event, babysat several times, and did a lot of landscaping at our new house! I'm pretty exhausted. I hope October is slower. I want to share some photos of the perennials I planted, but they'll have to wait another week, until I'm done with these wedding photos.

September here was exceptionally warm and dry the first few weeks. It was lovely. Today, the weather changed. It was cool, really windy, with rain coming and going, alternating with patches of sun. The wind was so strong, we were afraid our birch tree was going to go right over.

I hope everyone else is having a lovely fall!

Treasury

FuriousDreams has included me in a treasury with some other great artists on Etsy! Click here to visit and get a closer look!

Getting back to work

Well, we've been settling in at our house here. It's wonderful. We spend a lot of time out in the yard playing with our dogs. We finally have a big enough, fenced yard so they can actually run! When we have time to relax, it's a really great place, and we are thrilled with it.

Last Thursday, I drove to work, and due to a major accident on my route in, I was delayed over a half hour. Then, on my way home, I went to pick up a lovely sewing table I found on craigslist, and then my car wouldn't start. I couldn't get a hold of anyone I thought likely to rescue me, so I quickly hiked over about a mile to where I was most likely to be able to catch a bus downtown. That bus got me downtown with about 5 seconds to spare to catch the last bus of the night out to our new place. I narrowly missed having a long night on the town. Luckily, the car only needed a new battery, so we got it working again.

That was enough stress for my week though, and I decided that the weekend would consist of de-stressing. We barbecued both days, which was lovely, and I worked a lot on my digital art, which felt wonderful.

Here is another in-progress update of my digital painting I plan to hang in our new living room. Now that I've had a bit of a break from working on any of this stuff, and I'm doing it again, I feel really comfortable and natural at it. I feel like I really know how to manipulate my colors, shadows, filters, etc. to get what I want. It feels great! I've also been working on a digital wedding portrait as a gift, which I am super excited about.

And lastly, here is another in-progress piece I haven't shown yet. It's a bit of a different style. It's an architectural piece from San Remo, Italy. I've had the drawing part of it done for a while, but couldn't decide if it was sufficient as-is, or if I should add some color, so I figured I might as well add the color to try it out. I'm doing the color in a light, sketchy style. The beauty of digital is that you can always go back if you do your layers right! Please feel free to let me know what you think of these pieces.

Settling in

Well, we are all moved in at the new place. It's fantastic!

The unpacking is done. The organizing is almost there. Tonight, I sorted out my art supplies for ease of use in the office. Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to use them. Unfortunately, I am still having issues accessing the internet from my own computer. Hopefully we will get that sorted out soon. My etsy shops are open again, please visit :)

I got a treasury on Etsy tonight. Click here to visit. The photo-uploader isn't working right now. I'll add an image of it tomorrow if it lets me.