Check this out!

Last year I took Jennifer Lee's e-course "The Right-Brain Business Plan" as a way to help me move forward with my goal to become a full time artist and workshop instructor.

Recently, I was approached to do a Spotlight for Jennifer's website. I was thrilled and honored!

Here's a link the site...you can see my spotlight if you scroll down or if you go to the Spotlight button.

LINK

Be sure to check out the rest of Jenn's site too. Her class is a great help to anyone trying to pull together a plan or trying to figure out how to move ahead with a business idea.

Doodles...

Well, it's been a whirlwind around here. There's time to breathe between the gusts though so I've been continuing to doodle in my little journal.

Back to playing with Harper, working, doodling and dusting (I have dusted and vacuumed more in the last two months than in my whole life. Oh wait, that's not really saying much considering my previous history for dusting and vacuuming. Well, it's still A LOT. The remodeling is coming along, but we probably still have a month of dust - er, I mean work - left.)

Motivation

So sometimes what motivates me isn't a success, it's a failure.  You see, I made the art journal above and the journal box for a workshop class proposal.  It was my second take on the journal in a box idea (the first one didn't make the art retreat workshop cut either), so I was a bit disheartened when I found out that I wouldn't be teaching this class.  So how does that motivate me?  Well, now I'm determined to use the dickens out of this sweet little journal.  All of the recent doodles I've posted have been in this little journal, and I love it more and more.  I guess this is another one of my "find your happy place" moments... I don't like for a good thing to go sour because of something out of my control, so I try to find a way to make it happy (or at least happier) so I can feel better about it.

Goals

I'm still adding goals, but this is what I have for now.  Last year's mid-year goal setting after Artfest certainly helped me to stay motivated and on track.  Announcing to the world, "Hey, here's what I'm going to do!" helped keep me accountable.  I didn't meet all of those goals, but I don't really think that's the point.  I had a target, and hit the bullseye from my point of view.

Back to our regular programming...

I've been working on this off and on since Thanksgiving or so, and I finally finished it last night. It's my entry for the Cloth Paper Scissors 2012 "On the street where I live" themed calendar contest. Keep your fingers crossed... I really want to win!

And Finally!

Almost there!