I wished there were more hours in the day...

I have so many things going on...all at the same time...

that I sometimes wished there were more

hours in the day.

I don't feel this way often...just the last few days.

At times, even I don't think I realize

just how many things I have going on at once..

this is just a little 'clue'.

But...I do enjoy what I do...and I have to keep myself

busy...

I just need to learn to be careful about

what I take on...

sometimes I tend to bite off more than I can chew.

Blog Features

I was fortunate enough to have two very sweet people

blog about me and my Rustic Goth Shop

this week.

The latest blog was written by the lovely Carrie, at

Cherry Blossom Tattoo

It is an interview based post and she is giving

one of my prints to the winner.

It really is a nice post..so if you have a free minute

or two...please check it out and let her know what you think.

The other post was written by the enchanting Raven

at

Etiquette and the Victorian Gothic Aesthetic

The post is very charming and entertaining.

I am very flattered at all the nice things she said

about me and my art.

I hope you find an extra minute or two to give this

post a quick read and leave a comment...

she is such a lovely little gal.

I am so very honored that anyone finds me interesting

enough to want to write about me and my art..

and I am hoping that all of my wonderful readers

might find me curious enough to want to read more:)

Zodiac Girls Updates....

I've done a lot of work with my

'Zodiac Girls' the past

week or so.

After the Scrabble Tile Pendants,

I decide to list all the 'girls'

as 8" x 10" prints.  They are listed together with the 5x7's.

I've made each one into iPhone cases on Zazzle

and

included them on my Fine Art America site

where they are available as greeting cards, regular prints and

canvas prints.

I will be offering them as bookmarks (at some point)

and sometime in the Fall

as pocket mirrors.

That will probably be 'it' for my girls...

but it's been lots of fun to see what all I can do with them.

Maintaining my Sanity!

I've been in the
'customer service'
profession
my entire life.

Every job I ever held required that I deal with people.
And...I've always tried very hard to do the best job I could possibly do.

To my horror, when customer service is taken 'out of my hands'
i.e....International Shipping/ Post/ Customs...etc..
I tend to Stress majorly!

Everything's okay now...the week off did wonders for my stress levels...
but I did decide to maintain fewer listings in my Shop
keeping the number of items between 150 and 175.

To do this...and still be able to list new items...
I will need to pull some of the older items from time to time.
I've already pulled some items...
Wearable Art Bracelets...
1/3rd of the Scrabble Tiles and Some Prints.

I'm right at 175...with new pieces in the works...
so  I'll be pulling more items this next week.
I've decided to put some of my 'favorites' in my other Shops...
since those shops don't get the 'love' I give to my Etsy Shop.  Course...there's
really no place quite like Etsy...but, I have a few pieces I just can't bear to
retire just yet!
 

A new 'Zodiac' Series

It is really amazing what a few days 'off' can do.

I've got a new 'style' painting series in the works...

"Masquerade"  -- "and She Thought"

and I'm working on two new pieces in this style.

I painted seven new ACEO paintings.

I got COMPLETELY caught up.

And...

I decided to do a new 

'Zodiac Goth Girl' series.

(I decided this before I read about the 13th sign...

which I've opted to just 'ignore'.)

Since I can remember there have only been 12 signs...

so I'm sticking with those.

Capricorn

is the first in the series.

I've included all of the symbolism that goes with the sign...

Element - Earth

Quality - Cardinal

Ruler - Saturn

Symbol - Goat

It was just so much fun creating this piece...

I'll be doing

one each month...

February's sign is...

Aquarius

and I hope to have it listed

early February.

Shop Wide SALE

I'm having a 'shop wide SALE'...

everything in the shop

has been marked down 

10% to 50%.

I had a "dismal" March...

not sure what happened on Etsy...

but many people's shops just kind of

'disappeared'

on Google.

With that...and a number of other 'issues...

it ended up being one of my

worst months EVER!

I don't normally talk about how bad..

or good..

my shop is doing, 

but since I've had so many sales

lately...I felt the 'need' to explain.

Since this is how I make most of the money

I need to live on...another month like

March and I'm not sure I'd be able to

'hang on'.

The worst part...every week one goes without

income puts them behind, at least 2 weeks

on their bills...

because..you've lost a week of income..but not of bills..

now anything you make has to go for 2 weeks of bills...

so..if you go a month...well..

.it's put you 2 months..or more

behind.

So...if I seem to be having a lot of Sales...now

you know why.

Limited Edition Large Prints

After much experimentation,

finding a paper that I liked but, that didn't cost way more than

I could afford to charge for my prints,

I'm now able to

offer a few 'select' pieces

as 

Limited Edition Large Prints.

They are printed at an 11" x 14" image

on 13" x 19" premium cotton archival art paper.

I'm pretty excited about being able to do

the larger size prints and decided to start

with editions limited to 50.

I sign, date and number the prints, just below the image

in the right corner.

Mercy-Inspired by Rustic Goth's little goth girl

I was very flattered when my daughter

sent me a link to this Treasury.

It was inspired by my little Goth Girl...Mercy.

Recent News....

I was recently featured in 

Etsy's Dark Side Street Team's

Art Exhibition.

There are some 'wonderfully creepy'

pieces featured...

I did an interview with 

Tabz at Gothic Toggs on Zazzle

which will run in her blog..

though I don't actually know when at this time...

I'll post a link when it is published.

I've put some new stuff in my
Rustic Goth Zibbet Shop
that are exclusive to that shop,
I'll be adding more exclusive pieces in the coming
days and weeks.

I've got some Rustic Goth designs
ready for licensing...
but I need about a dozen designs
before I begin to submit them..
main thing is...I've begun!