Yoga

So, art has been put on hold for the weekend (even though I got another 2 orders yesterday for crates with a one week deadline - eek!). I've been immersed in a Yoga Teacher Training for children this weekend with Little Flower Yoga in NYC. Twenty-five hours of yoga, kids, then more yoga, and more kids. I love it! I've always had a love for children, and my love for yoga has grown stronger and stronger over the past 4 years that I've been practicing with the Yoga & Healing Center. What better way to combine the two then to teach kids yoga? I have very little early education background (my 2nd major in college) and no adult yoga teacher training, so I'm really going into this blindly. It's quite intimidating at times, but I'm adjusting and learning that people come to this practice from all walks of life. I also learnt that apparently you can combine some art therapy (my 1st major in college) into a child's yoga practice as well - how sweet for me! I'm very excited about this. Honestly, I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but of course I'm going to follow through with Level 2 and 3 of the training (2009). I'm a free spirit and wherever it takes me, so be it! It is, however, giving me tons of ideas for children's yoga books!

Mmm Hershey's

The Personalized Candy Bar business is booming! Two hundred candy bars advertising the Hilton's Wedding package were delivered today and received warmly! They loved them and will be using them for their upcoming Bridal Show! They are now thinking about ordering them for all sorts of events. I'm ready for the business!

Next on my list is Great Uncle Stanley's 90th Birthday Party. He looks like such a sweet old guy. I hopes he likes the chocolate bar with his face on it!!

Who doesn't love a painted crate??

How adorable is this kid? Who is he? He's just another satisfied customer! I received his picture as a 'Thank You' for his Jungle Themed Baby Crate that cleverly matches his bedding. Doesn't he look happy holding his crate?

As many of you know, I've been taking orders for hand painted wooden crates themed to the liking of the customer. Baby crates are the most popular for Baby Showers. It's a great way to throw a bunch of small baby items into one container for a great presentation. I personalize the majority of them with the baby's name on them. Recently I've been getting orders for the older kids - I've done Napoleon Dynamite, the Little Miss Characters, High School Musical. You can see most of them featured in the shop section of my website! Get your order in now for the holidays!!

NYC Windows

As you're walking around the city this Christmas admiring the tree at Rockefeller Center, the Santas on every corner, the horse drawn carriages around Central Park, the department store windows...remember to stop by a very special window at the Girl Scouts of America. This year, it will be designed by...ME! I just got a freelance job to design the 2 windows that belong to the Girl Scouts of America building on 5th Ave. One window is on 37th St. and the other is on 38th. I'm so excited! I'll let you know when it's done so you can check it out!

SWH

I'm dying to go to a Sabrina Ward Harrison Workshop! If you have not heard of this talented young woman, you need to look her up right now - http://www.sabrinawardharrison.com/
I first discovered her while working in B&N when her first book came out. Sabrina is the creator of four published books of her journals the first one being published at the age of 23 : Spilling Open; The Art of Becoming Yourself , Brave on the Rocks; If you don’t Go You Don’t See, Messy Thrilling Life; the Art of Figuring out How to Live and The True And the Questions; a journal which is based on the teaching of The Art of Becoming Yourself. She then went on to create a course in 1996 with a belief that she holds strong to, that “we must create what we most need to find.” She lives bi coastal, but is mainly based in California where most of her workshops are. I've been waiting and waiting for her to come back east, but it's taking forever!!!! Now, I just checked her website and I see that she is scheduling workshops in Australia and Ireland. I'll never get to meet her at this rate....

What's In and Who's Got It

You know what's in?

Dallas Shaw Tee Shirts!

You know who's got one? I do!

You can too. Visit dallasshaw.com.

Read more about Dallas here: www.dillydallas.blogspot.com

Yay!

The new cards are in courtesy of moo.com! Since I've been dying to put my "You're a nut." Squirrel on a card, and I wasn't happy with the last printing from a site that shall remain nameless...Moo was a great find (Thanks, Dal!). Yay!

SOLD 3!

Barnes & Noble - Back to School 2009!

They're thinking file folders and a possible binder.

Who doesn't love dots and stars?

The Heart of it All

I'm currently working on some collage pieces for myself. Here's the first one, "The Heart of it All":
It doesn't look much like a collage, but I painted each layer separately and then layered them on Photoshop. I'm proud of this one because it's the first thing I've done for myself in awhile. I was getting in a lot of "me time" in my painting class before it was unexpectedly cancelled. (Where are you Nadine???) So I really haven't sat down to enjoy my art in awhile. Luckily after I bolted out of the office on Half Day Friday, I found some time to paint it up. Of course, I probably should've been painting more crates for the October Craft Fair, or working on the dots image for B&N's Back to School line 2009, but I needed this time for myself. Way to go me.
I also must share some great inspirational tunage...who's heard of Kaki King?? You must listen. She is an experimental guitarist and indie singer/songwriter "famous for a unique slap and tap method". Her Bari Improv is my favorite. It helped me through this painting.

Beauty is...

A friend of mine sent me this video and I had to share it. Sometimes these words mean so much more when they come from the mouth of a 4 year old.