Friday, March 6, 2009 from 7-10 p.m
4802 Gunn Highway
(in the Land & Sea Market plaza)
It's the opening gala for the current art show at the Jacey Gallery. I will be showing several of my pieces, including my BRAND, NEW, NEVER BEFORE REVEALED :) painting! This painting took me a YEAR to complete and I have to say, it is the most ambitious work I have ever done. So much so, that when I was done, I wrapped up my brushes and tucked them away!! This painting sucked my creative watercolor energies right into it!! Who knows when I will paint again???
Seriously, I am very proud of this painting and I am happy to have this opportunity. If you can't make it on the 6th, the show will hang until the end of April. Let me know if you're planning on being at the opening or if you go to the show afterwards. And please tell anyone who is looking for a cheap date night!!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Get Cookin' with a New Product from Heritage Makers!
The New Heritage Makers Cookbook is here. And to celebrate, we are having a big preview sale!
For four days only, (Monday, February 23 – Thursday, February 26, 2009) you can get 4 cookbooks for $59.95. That’s $15 for each Cookbook! What a HUGE savings! Normal retail price for this product is $24.95. You save $39.00!
Have you seen our new cook book? It's awesome! Check out this flyer for more information:http://support.heritagemakers.com/comm/promo/2009/cookbook/CookbookPresale09Flyer.pdf
Cookbook features:
-21 pages and can go up to 50 pages ($1/page for extra pages).
-Spiral bound and the front cover is a trifold that folds out!
-Size is about 7.5"x9.5"(portrait style)
-There will be some great templates in the Heritage Makers template gallery starting March 3rd (these templates are 100% editable so you an put as many recipes or pictures as you want on a page)- or you can completely design your own! You can even enter your design into our cookbook design contest and win free books!
This offer is ONLY available through ME and for FOUR days only! This is a GREAT time to buy for MOTHER'S DAY gifts or to plan for FAMILY REUNION COOKBOOKS this summer!
This design was intended for cookbooks but you could use it for so much more! Not only a cookbook but a . . .
Day planner
Address book
A class year book-which is a great ideas since the front cover opens up triple the normal size and it provides blank space for year book signings!
I am sure the ideas are endless, please send me yours!
EVERYONE will love them and they are SOOOOOO affordable! ORDER NOW! Contact me today and I'll help you get started.
For four days only, (Monday, February 23 – Thursday, February 26, 2009) you can get 4 cookbooks for $59.95. That’s $15 for each Cookbook! What a HUGE savings! Normal retail price for this product is $24.95. You save $39.00!
Have you seen our new cook book? It's awesome! Check out this flyer for more information:http://support.heritagemakers.com/comm/promo/2009/cookbook/CookbookPresale09Flyer.pdf
Cookbook features:
-21 pages and can go up to 50 pages ($1/page for extra pages).
-Spiral bound and the front cover is a trifold that folds out!
-Size is about 7.5"x9.5"(portrait style)
-There will be some great templates in the Heritage Makers template gallery starting March 3rd (these templates are 100% editable so you an put as many recipes or pictures as you want on a page)- or you can completely design your own! You can even enter your design into our cookbook design contest and win free books!
This offer is ONLY available through ME and for FOUR days only! This is a GREAT time to buy for MOTHER'S DAY gifts or to plan for FAMILY REUNION COOKBOOKS this summer!
This design was intended for cookbooks but you could use it for so much more! Not only a cookbook but a . . .
Day planner
Address book
A class year book-which is a great ideas since the front cover opens up triple the normal size and it provides blank space for year book signings!
I am sure the ideas are endless, please send me yours!
EVERYONE will love them and they are SOOOOOO affordable! ORDER NOW! Contact me today and I'll help you get started.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Organizing Your Photos
As promised in my monthly Heritage Makers e-mail message, I will start sharing my process for organizing my old photographs. My goal is to sort and scan all my old photos -- not just of me and Brian and the kids -- but going back into my childhood and my parents lives before I came to be, as well. It's an ambitious project, but I'm pretty confident that if I just keep plugging away at it, it will all get done. Hopefully before the end of the year!
The first thing I've done is to gather all my photos into one place. For me, it's Brian's office. Sorry, honey! I've got my shoe boxes filled with old photos, old scrapbooks, old magnetic albums, the kids school files from over the years... you name it, it's all in this room. For me, I can't begin to organize until I have a full scope of the project. I'm sure I'll find other photos tucked away in odd drawers over time, but for now, I'm putting everything I know I've got into one room.
From there, I'm taking each item, piece by piece. I started with my old albums. Most are already chronological in order, so this was an easy way to begin. I'm taking each photo out of it's sleeve and putting it in a pile according to the year it was taken. I have little post-its to mark each pile with the year. I'm methodically doing this with all of the albums. When I get a bit bored, I go back into each "year" pile and start sorting by month. I'm not trying to be perfect, and as the kids have gotten older, the exact months don't matter quite as much as they did when they were babies and were growing so quickly. But I am trying to get as close as possible. Even if I break a year down into quarters, I'm doing pretty good at narrowing the photos down to their perspective places in history.
When I'm done with the albums, I'll start in on the shoe boxes. I've organized my photos in so many different ways over the years, that in my shoe boxes, my photos tend to be organized by categories, like "vacations," "Christmas," "Cousins," etc. I'll take the photos out of the boxes and start adding them to the "year" piles I've started. I'm not so worried about the categories right now, because once they are all scanned into my computer by date, I can tag them with categories.
As I'm going through my photos, there are certainly those that I'm not quite sure what year, let alone month, they were taken. I'm putting them to the side for now. I'm finding that as I go, I come across a photo that has already been marked with a date and I know that I can connect it to one of the photos in my "unknown" pile. At the end, I'm hoping this "unknown" pile shrinks down and I can then spend the time to ask other people if they happen to know when some of these photos were taken.
All the time I'm doing this, I'm getting rid of dead weight. You know what I'm talking about. Those pictures that we hold onto for no apparent reason. The blurry ones. The duplicates. The ones that make you look bad and hate looking at anyways! Now is the time to file them in the trash can and never look back. It can be tough to let go of some of them, but trust me, you'll feel better when you do!
That's about where I am right now in my own process. When I'm bored with it, I sometimes switch to organizing my digital photos on my computer. I'll save how I'm doing that for a future post.
The first thing I've done is to gather all my photos into one place. For me, it's Brian's office. Sorry, honey! I've got my shoe boxes filled with old photos, old scrapbooks, old magnetic albums, the kids school files from over the years... you name it, it's all in this room. For me, I can't begin to organize until I have a full scope of the project. I'm sure I'll find other photos tucked away in odd drawers over time, but for now, I'm putting everything I know I've got into one room.
From there, I'm taking each item, piece by piece. I started with my old albums. Most are already chronological in order, so this was an easy way to begin. I'm taking each photo out of it's sleeve and putting it in a pile according to the year it was taken. I have little post-its to mark each pile with the year. I'm methodically doing this with all of the albums. When I get a bit bored, I go back into each "year" pile and start sorting by month. I'm not trying to be perfect, and as the kids have gotten older, the exact months don't matter quite as much as they did when they were babies and were growing so quickly. But I am trying to get as close as possible. Even if I break a year down into quarters, I'm doing pretty good at narrowing the photos down to their perspective places in history.
When I'm done with the albums, I'll start in on the shoe boxes. I've organized my photos in so many different ways over the years, that in my shoe boxes, my photos tend to be organized by categories, like "vacations," "Christmas," "Cousins," etc. I'll take the photos out of the boxes and start adding them to the "year" piles I've started. I'm not so worried about the categories right now, because once they are all scanned into my computer by date, I can tag them with categories.
As I'm going through my photos, there are certainly those that I'm not quite sure what year, let alone month, they were taken. I'm putting them to the side for now. I'm finding that as I go, I come across a photo that has already been marked with a date and I know that I can connect it to one of the photos in my "unknown" pile. At the end, I'm hoping this "unknown" pile shrinks down and I can then spend the time to ask other people if they happen to know when some of these photos were taken.
All the time I'm doing this, I'm getting rid of dead weight. You know what I'm talking about. Those pictures that we hold onto for no apparent reason. The blurry ones. The duplicates. The ones that make you look bad and hate looking at anyways! Now is the time to file them in the trash can and never look back. It can be tough to let go of some of them, but trust me, you'll feel better when you do!
That's about where I am right now in my own process. When I'm bored with it, I sometimes switch to organizing my digital photos on my computer. I'll save how I'm doing that for a future post.
Mark Your Calendars for March 6
That's the date of the opening reception for a new art display at the Jacey Gallery. I will have my latest painting there, being shown for the very first time. (It's the third one in from the left on the postcard.) It took me a year to paint and I'm so happy that it's done!! I've hung up my paintbrushes for awhile, so this will be my last gallery show until who knows when? I hope you can join me at the opening. Please post a comment here if you plan on attending.
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