Multi-colored letters!

So, I've taken a tiny break (only lasted a couple of days!) from all of the special orders, to let a little of my own creativity show again-I've missed it although I do love painting for others, clearly!
What do you think? How do the multi-colored letters feel instead of all one color?  The 'fun' sign will be auctioned as a fundraiser for John M. Gandy
Elementary school in mid-April and 'vivacious' is currently on the wall at the Ashland Coffee and Tea, or at least it was when I was there on Sunday! Happy Spring!

Working, working, working!

After working to catch up on some special orders (and they're not all finished yet!), I figured I'd better work on some ideas of my own for the Sunnygirl Sign wall at Ashland Coffee and Tea.  It's been almost empty for far too long now-so I'm here in the studio on this beautiful sunny day, music playing and painting as fast as I can in hopes to hang at least a few on the wall before tonight's music begins.
If you have any thoughts or suggestions for new words, I'm always interested! Some new words on their way: vivacious, zany, lucky, melodic, industrious, debonair, dashing...send me some of yours, won't you?

Special Orders 2010

My first group of special orders for the new year  are done -terrific! I had almost forgotten the feeling of finishing a special order and then seeing my customer's reaction to it- their creation come to life-it's the most wonderful, the truest joy that comes from this little business.  It makes all of the late nights, blurry eyes, cold fingers and too many cups of coffee very worth it all. Oh yes, absolutely. So, tomorrow, I am super excited to continue on, to the eleven orders that are waiting.  I can't wait to see the next happily surprised face...

Hopefully,

it will be

very soon!

It's the New Year-back in the studio again!

How to begin this blog entry?  Wow-it's been too long, far too long since I've been in the studio much less updating this blog and as I write this, I realize how very much I've missed it!
At the beginning of December, a family emergency caused me to leave work, the studio and the routine of everyday life for almost three weeks-I'm just fine but now, catching up from being away has been more of a challenge that I could have imagined.  Time passes so quickly-
Nearly seventeen special orders on hold-an enormous thank-you to all of my very kind and understanding customers, some of you still waiting with only one cancelled order that couldn't be helped (to France-of course!). 
I am the luckiest girl on the planet.  Not to mention that the wall at Ashland Coffee and Tea looks very bare but...
Not to worry!  I'm back in the studio, painting furiously and wonderfully, trying my best to catch up.  
It feels amazing.

December is here already!

It was such an amazing long weekend-warmth in the studio, sun shining, lovely music and even open windows to paint beside.  Just perfect!  I spent most of the weekend finishing the first group of Christmas orders and then back to the barn to cut and sand the next big group of nineteen and only two weeks or so to finish those!  After bringing those in, I decided to photograph the signs I had just finished and learned a valuable lesson-take socks off prior to standing on a stool with camera-after a large crash and a large bump on my large noggin and few other scrapes-I did take my socks off... and got a few nice photos.  Dork status upgraded. That's good, right?!  Happy December!