Illustration Friday Challenge: Winter

This is my kitten, Angela, during one of her more quiet moments. Usually she's what we affectionaly call "Superconductor Kitty"

Right now she sits quietly on the window sill and waits, waits, waits. It's as if she's asking, "What time does the show start?" Answer? Not until she stops sitting there!

This print, with two others are available for sale as blank note cards in my Etsy shop, at

http://www.etsy.com/listing/57529310/6-blank-note-cards-cats

www.JudyAGoddard.Etsy.com

www.finishthis.etsy.com

www.JudyAGoddardArtisan.blogspot.com

Blank Note Cards for sale

Each of these sets of blank note cards are availble for purchase;

$12.00

or, if you are a shop owner, you can purchase them for $6.00, with a minimum purchase of $18.00

If you'd like to purchase any of these pre packaged card sets, please go to my Esty shop;

www.JudyAGoddard.Etsy.com

Consignment , Spreading my wings

I am proud to announce that I have written a small article for "Quilts Galore and More" blog. It's just a little first hand account of how I got started knitting and how it became my obsession.

The link is http://www.quiltsgaloreandmore.blogspot.com

Yesterday's big event was taking a supply of my hand painted tiles and blank note cards to an adorable little floral shop called, Skye Design Florist. They are also a gift boutique and have put the items I brought to them on display, on consignment. The terms are very go

od, 20/80! Skye Design Florist is located at

1208 Fischer Blvd.

, Toms River, NJ.

And you can visit them on line at;

http://www.skyedesign.us

Here are some photos from the great little shop:

Until 3 years ago, this little clapboard cottage was a bait and tackle shop. It sits on a busy thoroughfare, right close by the marinas.

Fishermen would walk from the marina side to buy their moss bunker for the "chum" pots, used as bait.

Well, my friend Becky bought the shop and started doo-dahing it up. But the fishermen came back, after the winter season, and were so dissapointed that the bait shop was gone, that she decided to install a freezer at the back of the shop and keeps it filled with bunker, spearing, shrimp and squid!

Now the fishermen are happy! And she's happy, and I'm happy!

We're just all so galdurned happy!

"Quit Your Day Job"

Now that I have a new computer, since January, anyway, and now that I have wyfy in my house I can participate in Etsy Virtual Labs! Last night I sat in on my second "Quit Your Day Job" live chat.

For those not in the know, After signing in to Etsy, click on Community and then on Virtual Labs. You"ll see a number of colorful boxes with names and times of labs listed in each one.

When you enter a lab room it looks just like stadium seating and when you click on an empty square seat

your avatar will appear there.

Then you can type in questions and the host of the lab will answer as many as she/he can in the hour allotted.

But here's my very tine beef; both of the sessions I sat in on

were hosted by jewelry makers. am not a jewelry maker and, although by jewelry makers. I am not a jewelry maker and although I was able glean lots of ideas, I did

not feel particularly connected to the host.

I hope that in the future the "Quit Your Day Job" lab will be hosted by a range of artists. As a matter of fact, I will go in the forums and post a request to Etsy Admin. today.

www.JudyAGoddard.Etsy.com

www.finishthis.etsy.com

www.JudyGoddard.Homestead.com

Where Do I Go From Here?

Where do I go from here? For the past ten months I've had a wonderful time designing and knitting my baskets, setting up an Etsy shop, doing shows and marketing the best way I knew how. But they just won't move. So now it's time to sit back, examine my process and strike out in a different direction.

I made an impulse buy this past fall. (Actually it was several impulse buys!) I purchased 443 pink plastic barrettes at my local dollar store for an insanely low price and will now fiddle around with them and see what I can come up with. Fiber continues to be my main focus, so I see a lot of felt in fun, colorful shapes!

I'll also be doing a little more exploring into the world of fine art, doing more painting and maybe printing out note cards and prints.

I really do think, though, that my main problem seems to be poor marketing.

As a left handed, right brained thinker, I have a really hard time focusing on technical things. Etsy has been a wealth of information but I've had a rough time compartmentalizing.

I will continue to market my Incredibly Cute Canvas Growth Charts. They are just too precious not to keep trying!

Next year I'll be focusing more on local craft shows. Living "Down the Shore" provides me with a solid higher end clientele. I just have to find the right shows. There's plenty of help for me to draw on. After all, I'm not new to craft shows. I put myself through college selling batik tee shirts!

http://www.judyagoddard.etsy.com/
http://www.measureformeasuregrowthcharts.com/
http://www.judygoddard.homestead.com/