blog vs. website?

I realize I am not a blogger...some may blog daily and I am lucky to blog once a year.  I want to have a place to show my art.  Maybe I need a website.
I look on this blog and see that the text just doesn't show up.  What's up with that?  Will I write all this down and no one see it?
Frustration abounds.  So I tried to set up a wordpress blog site, just as tricky.  I wish I could figure this stuff out.  Maybe it's the cold invading my head that's keeping me from the figuring out part.
Sigh. 
Done.

Liberated My Art!

I participated in a wonderful postcard swap, postcards with lovely art from artists around the world.  Organized by Kat Sloma, you send her 6 postcards of your art, not original work, but I used MOO, so they look fantastic, I love MOO...but I digress...
I have seen 3 of my postcards posted on the FB site, but can't for the life of me remember what the other 2 cards were!  I had 20 images made, and picked them at random.  Was it a nest?  An abstract?  If you received my card, let me know!!

I received some wonderful cards!!

 Ok...tip your head to the right...I tried several times, even saving changes to the rotated photo, and it still comes out sideways.

The wheat field, Shannon Joyce; Dirty Martini, Jill Hejl; Beautiful bowls, Jen Erbe, jennifererbe.wordpress.com; Vase of flowers, Tangerine Meg, www.tangerinemeg.com; Tulips, Dotti Romejart, www.focusingonlifegrp.blogspot.com; Hydrangeas, Kat Sloma, www.kateyestudio.com.

 

This has been quite fun, and I can't wait to do it again next year!!

 

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Art vs. Flowers

I am an artist.  That's getting easier to believe. 
I taught encaustic painting for the first time this summer.
I'll be selling my art at the Best of the NW Art and Fine Craft Show in Seattle in Nov.
I have been able to participate in Friday's On First, part of the WW Art Walk.  It's been so wonderful to meet people who don't know what encaustic art is, and this month I did a demo!  That brought many more people to watch and ask questions.
Now, to ponder the title, Art vs. Flowers...
I leave tomorrow for Seattle again to play with beautiful flowers, something I still enjoy, it is a form of art, is it not?...but I need to focus on my encaustic art, and that leads me to wonder if I should continue being a florist.

Or...I should start doing encaustics paintings of flowers.  Would that satisfy me?

IEA

Ta da.
Happy to have had one of my encaustic pieces chosen for the IEA Conference that concluded this last weekend.

I was a wreck getting it shipped, such a silly procrastinator!  But it arrived, and a couple dear friends posted my art hanging on the wall of the gallery.  That feels FANTASTIC!
I didn't win any awards, though am still wondering if my piece sold?...

Up and away I go, again

Once again it's time for the trek to Seattle to earn enough money to buy dog treats for my doodles.  I will miss them all so much, Lilybutter will hold down the fort, Larry will stress about what to have for dinner (I have made his favorite, it should last a week, then he's on his own) and the doodles will destroy the house playing.  I usually chat about the flowers, and the job, but this time all I can think about is missing my family.  My wonderful, goofy, loving family...

Tomorrow is a big day.

Tomorrow is Feast Walla Walla.  I hadn't heard about it until this year.  And this year I will be showing my encaustic art at Feast.  I am all a-twitter and nervous as can be, but oh, so excited! 
I'll post tomorrow with pictures of the space...now to sleep, to dream of wax.