My Barn Burned Down

I think it’s been three months since I really spent any time at my easel. Instead I’ve been creative in another endeavor: learning how to do e-commerce. Thought it would be easy. It’s not. Like painting, it requires daily work and lots of TLC for every creation (website) and while I am enjoying learning it, will probably love it more when I actually begin to earn some money from all my work! That’s kind of like painting, too, come to think of it!  I’m in a coaching program because over the last year the one thing I definitely learned is that you have to find an ethical coach and community to learn from. So many ‘get rich quick’ schemes all over the internet and they teach you barely the basics and aren’t there for continued education. Through much investigation and asking around I found a great team who are the real deal and have themselves built a hugely successful business the old-fashioned way: hard and consistent work.

But that has taken all my time (aside from working) and so my easel’ s been gathering dust and the only painting I’ve done is when I’ve babysat the grandkids and we’ve had one of our painting parties. GREAT fun! I’ll have to remember to post some of their pix here soon.

In the last few weeks have been feeling the NEED to paint, the hunger to spread color on a board, to mix hues….so am playing around today getting my creative juices going again. I built my Etsy Shop to put my feet to the fire and plan to be more proactive about building my pet portrait business.  The customers I have had had been pleased so I think I’m over the fear of really putting myself out there.

So that’s about it for an update. You probably thought I’d fallen in a hole it’s been so long!

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