Change gonna Come...

"Change gonna come"

to my Rustic Goth Etsy Shop.

I have stressed about this for several weeks now...

what to do with my Etsy Shop?

Should I keep the Shop name...Rustic Goth...or

change it to something else?

Should I clear everything out and start brand new?

What to do...what to do?

So...

I've decided I'm keeping the Shop Name...

I guess I'm rather 'attached' to it...

but

most of what I currently offer

is 'going away'.

At least it's going away from my

Etsy Shop.

I'll be moving my Melancholy Girls, Steampunks,

and Zodiac Girls

to my Rustic Goth Zibbet Shop.

Currently I have a 50 item max in that shop,

so I'll have to pick and choose

which pieces to offer.

(If that site picks up, I'll pay for the premium account

and list more...but I have to see what happens

before I commit to paying a monthly premium.)

My whimsical art prints and creeper prints

are going to find a home in my

Bonanza Shop.

Wearable art and handpainted art covers

will be discontinued after the Holidays...

and I won't be doing those on any of the sites.

I've already done away with the bookmarks...and don't think

I'll be offering them anywhere in the future.

I'm going back to 'basics'.

In my 'eBay' days I made a dandy little living

from my abstracts, tree art paintings...etc.

so I've decided to get back to what used to work.

I'll keep a handful of my signature character and fairytale paintings...

in my Etsy Shop...

I just won't be doing new character pieces as often.

I'm still not fully committed on what prints I'll offer

in my Etsy Shop yet...

and I won't be making the drastic changes all at once.

(I don't want to have an empty shop...

though,

I wished I could afford to take a month long vacation

and reopen with all new stuff...)

((...in a perfect world))

Anyway...change gonna come to my Shop

and my Art in 2012

and I am rather excited about them!

A couple new ACEO paintings.

I'm 'slowly' getting back to my painting...
I'm still working on the courses that started back
in January...
though sometimes I wonder if I'm actually learning
anything..or not..

So...to keep my 'sanity'...I need to paint!

Here's a couple of new characters
I did for my Rustic Goth Etsy Shop.

Rustic Goth Zazzle Shop

I LOVE....LOVE...LOVE this little Mug!
I'm going to be ordering a set
as soon as I put some new pieces on
to go with it.

I cannot believe I have been so 'remiss' in getting
all of my wonderful little Rustic Goth
pieces added to products
available in my Rustic Goth Zazzle Shop.

So....I am taking this last week of May
to get more items into this shop.

A Couple New Digital Pieces....

I'm going to be listing a couple of new digital originals in my shop in the next day or two...either late Thursday or Friday.

The first piece...is the first in my 'Grimms Fairy Tales' digital series...and it is titled..."The Girl Without Hands"............here is an excerpt from that tale...

So he went to the girl and said, my child, if I do not cut off both your hands, the devil will carry me away, and in my terror I have promised to do it. Help me in my need, and forgive me the harm I do you. She replied, dear father, do with me what you will, I am your child. Thereupon she laid down both her hands, and let them be cut off.

The second piece....( still untitled ) was started, after I ran across the lyrics of an Evanescence song...

Field of Innocence
Evanescence

I still remember the world

From the eyes of a child

Slowly those feelings

Were clouded by what I know now

Where has my heart gone

An uneven trade for the real world

Oh I... I want to go back to

Believing in everything and knowing nothing at all

...it kind of took on a 'life of it's own'...and didn't really stay within the 'perimeters' of the lyrics...but, I like it...so I let it 'do it's own thing'.

So....

...about once a month, I feel the need to 'take a break'. I'm not actually taking a break...just doing some 'restructuring'.

I've got several paintings in the works...

I need to get my 'dolls' from the 'design' stage to the 'finished' stage...

I'm designing a new digital art series...based on 'The Brothers Grimm'

So....I'm not actually taking a break...just trying to get some work done.

In The Treasury....It made the front page Friday afternoon!

I love doing the digital photo manipulation collages...like this one here...'A Long Forgotten Past.'

It is currently in a Treasury entitled 'White Rabbit.' This Treasury expires shortly after 1 am on Sunday, June 15.

Tomorrow! I'm going to organize my studio so that I can finally get some paintings done....in the meantime...look for a couple of new prints of my paintings in the next day or so.

***Note..

This piece made the front page of Etsy today...(Friday-June 13)...and got tons of hits.

Etsy's Dark Side Street Team

It seems I have been moving forever!! I am still not entirely moved...my daughter and I are planning to spend the afternoon organizing my studio tomorrow...(I do, at least, have my print center/ packing-shipping center/ office space/ completed.)



I felt like I could finally spend a few hours going over everything on Etsy's Dark Side Street Team...and I'm anxious to get more involved.



To find more about this wonderful group...you can visit



Etsy's Dark Side at Ning



Etsy's Dark Side Street Team Website



Dark Side My Space

Sneak Peek....

What I've been "up to"....

So....this is what I've been working on....designing and making a line of dolls based on the 'creeper' characters found in many of my original paintings.
As my very first creation, this little guy will not be offered for sale. For more than twenty five years, I have always sold completely out of my creations and because of a flooded basement, I don't even have pictures of those creations. Some were so special and unique that I really wished I had kept, at least, one of the original pieces from some of these creations for my own collection.

I have worked on several designs, for these little guys (and gals), and have elected to go with a painted head and hands finish with yarn hair...the hair on this guy is called 'eyelash yarn'. I found it at Joann's Fabrics.
The body is muslin, stuffed with fiberfill and weighted with rice. I am looking for a spray on finish to protect the painted surfaces of the dolls.

I still have a few 'kinks' to work out before I can put them in the shop...but, I have to tell you, I do have some really cute little guys in various stages of completion.

I'm hoping that I can have them ready by this time next week.

In the meantime...I have listed a few new original ACEO paintings...and I hope to paint a few more by the week-end.

This week....June 9

Yay...I managed to get a couple of new ACEO paintings done this week-end.

"Go Ask Alice".... has just been listed in my Rustic Goth Etsy Shop.

Inspired by Grace Slick and Lewis Carroll.

"He Needs A Home"... this sad, pallid little gal holds such a sweet little owl. He needs a home, I wonder if she'll take him home.

"It's All Mine" ... is a kind of 'follow up' to another of my paintings, "Give It Back"...

The first piece has been listed...the others will be listed by day's end, Tuesday.

I'm Back....with some very new pieces!

Well...I hopefully am back 'up and operational'. I ended up needing a new wireless router for my computers. Both my laptop....(which I do most of my "computer" work on)...and my PC...(which I upload my pictures..print my shipping labels, prints...etc.).........were both affected by my faulty router. I got a little behind, but I'm hoping I can be all caught up by the end of this week-end.

My "working vacation" was helpful as I was able to make some new decisions on both of my shops. CMZart is going to get a whole new look, over the next couple of weeks. I was very close to just shutting that shop down.

As for Rustic Goth...well, I'll just say...I'll be listing fewer ACEOs and even fewer ACEO prints.

I will be doing more photography, photo manipulation and digital art pieces. I'll be removing a lot of what I currently have in the shop to make room for the new pieces.

The photo I have with this post is an example of a combination of photography, digital art and photo manipulation. I really do like this piece and it made into a Treasury within a day of listing it.

I'm Getting Around

"Bella's Bat" appeared for a brief time in my Rustic Goth Etsy Shop, as a Limited Edition ACEO Print.

She's baaaack...this time on Art Cards Wanted. Com.

I am offering only a few select pieces on that site and this is one of them.

I've included a link to that site in my Favorite Links.

Do try to check out my Rustic Goth Squidoo Lens. I update it several times throughout the day and I have included a growing list of links to other talented artists on that site. You just might find some new and emerging talent on one of my list links.

In the meantime, I will continue to add pieces from my late husband's 'Barren Trees' series, as Limited Edition ACEO prints on my http://cmzart.etsy.com/ site.

Check it out!!! I noticed there are some new pieces just available at http://www.trunkt.org/BellatrixArt. These are some really great pieces.

While I am at it, if you love jewelry, you'll simply love http://distinque.etsy.com/. I'm especially fond of her 'leaf' pieces. I think they are absolutely exquisite.

xxx

What's Love Got To Do With It?

I don't put together too many videos and the one's I do are few and far between. Every so often I have to do one, just to 'refresh' my memory. I didn't save this one correctly, so I couldn't upload it to You Tube, unless I wanted to re-do the whole thing...I didn't!

Hopefully it came out alright without saving it as an mv file.