Still here

Well, I knew it would happen. That art fair season would begin and iCal would beep at me 3 times a week, 3 times each of those days letting me know that I need to keep up on my promise to blog. And what happened? I ignored it. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm busy! I know I need to blog!"

But I didn't really have much to write about, didn't want to blab on and on about nothing except for "I'm busy, what else is new?". 

So, here I am, at the first art fair of the season (thank you wifi!) blogging about my lack of blogging.

I'm using my new invoicing system, USB Swiper, and so far it's pretty good. Me writing things out is a LITTLE easier, but this will catalog things much better. And, once I get the credit card swiper and don't have to nervously type card numbers out by hand, it'll be super slick. Working with new things is always slow at first, but I anticipate things will get faster as I get better.

So far, things are going pretty well sales wise, so my hope for the art fair season has grown! Excited for the upcoming year!

An unexpected good thing

I knew today I was going to get the notification for the Telluride Festival of the Arts in Colorado. I have been applying to out of state shows here and there and have so far been rejected from all of them. I expected another rejection and was preparing myself for it. I hadn't gotten the email all day and just thought I'd take a look at the Zapplication site to see if they had put the notice up on my applied shows page. I check the page and there it was. "Invited". I was laying down for a quick rest at the time and jumped up and shouted "NO WAY!!". I couldn't believe it. It had to be a mistake. But soon after I got the email giving me congratulations on my acceptance. I'm still a little surprised and wonder if this show is that good. I mean they accepted me, how great can it be?

Ok...gotta give myself a LITTLE credit. I'm good at what I do, but like most artists, I have doubt. I'd probably be annoying as all get out if I walked around patting myself on the back all day long, so I take my talent with a grain of salt.

Shortly after that email, I got another accepting me to the Edina Art Fair. 

I don't know if I mentioned, but I was also accepted into the Wayzata Art Experience, replacing the Rivertown Art Festival on my usual art fair schedule.

The art fair year is shaping up well!

New things coming up

Today I received the acceptance to Arts at the Oval at the John Rose Oval. It will take place March 28-29. I'll post the art fair to my website schedule soon.

I'm applying to an art fair in Beverly Hills in May. I applied to the show last year and was rejected so maybe things will come through this year. I'm not 100% happy with my booth photo of my "other" art (I wouldn't bring my Minnesota collages to Beverly Hills) so if I did get rejected again I wouldn't be surprised. I'm going to be applying for quite a few out of state shows this year but don't have much hope of getting in to any of them. I know positive thinking is important, but my location collage work is so much more popular than my other collage work that it's just hard for me to keep my hopes up.

Hoping to continue working on new collages and as I said in a previous blog, I want to get down to Chicago sometime very soon. I'll keep the blog posted!