Hi Everyone
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Wow, this thread has gotten a lot of posts lately
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and I haven't been getting the notifications for a while for some reason!
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I'd love to sit down and respond to everyone here in more detail, but I've been extremely busy, plus my computer died a week ago
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, and my new one won't arrive until at least next week, so I'm using Ron's computer in the middle of the night while he's asleep!
I'm excited to say that after 7 months of selling art on eBay, each in our own separate stores, Ron and I were both invited about a week ago to join a much bigger eBay store/art gallery that sells folk art and is currently selling the art of 21 different artists or so - this place is the 15th largest art seller on eBay, and the number 1 eBay art seller for folk art in particular, and they get
huge traffic,
much higher visibility than our own little eBay stores, so we're thrilled!
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Technically we're still in the "trying it out on an experimental basis" stage, but it's looking so far like it'll probably be a lasting thing!
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We're been hugely busy all week removing all our listings from our own eBay stores and getting them submitted so they can be listed in the new venue.
At any rate, during the very same week, there was a huge rain-and-wind storm (which started out as a tsunami in Japan
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), the sinks backed up :mad: and we had to call the plumber, and then my computer got knocked out by a power surge
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(as if a "death and rebirth" of some sort was necessary in order to move up to this next level, and also, this was all perhaps an indication of the resistances we are still working through where successfully making a living from our art is concerned
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But we just keep overcoming them and allowing more and more, one step at a time!
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)! It's really lucky I had backed up all my 300 or more art images a couple weeks beforehand, so nearly all of them were recoverable, at least!
In this new store, they tend to sell lots of bigger art in addition to the ACEOs we've been making, so I dug out my old easel and am going to start painting larger pieces in acrylic on canvas as well! Lots of fun!
I only had time to glance very briefly at the (many) latest posts so far -- I hope to come back and read them in more detail soon, but wanted to chime in anyway. I do recall some discussion of cats in the recent past on this thread, one of my favorite topics since I have always loved cats too!
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We aren't allowed to have any pets where we're living right now, but in the last few weeks, a good-natured long-haired white stray cat with grey patches showed up here, and the landlady upstairs started feeding him and named him Vernon, so he's now kind of the "resident cat" of our building, since he mostly just lives outside, and he comes downstairs to visit us often.
Many of you probably remember my stories of when we lived on the hill in the redwoods at birds' eye level a year or two back, when I would paint different kinds of birds, and then they'd show up near our back porch within the next day or two afterwards, and it felt like my focusing on them and visualizing them by painting them was attracting them. Well, ever since we moved here, about 80% of all the art I've been doing is of cats, so I like to think I helped attract Vernon here too!
Last night when we were eating dinner, Vernon was lying down outside where he could see us, just being near us and watching us, just like he probably would if he were in the house with us, and we were acknowledging him and waving to him, and we both definitely felt we were communing with him mind-to-mind as well, and that he was aware of it and was communing back with us too -- I love the way the Universe brought us a way to have a cat companion without violating the terms of our rental agreement!
Well, I'd better sign out for now, while it's still only 2am or so here; I had stayed up until 4am or so for several nights in a row getting all my art images together and such, and I even pulled an all-nighter one night
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, so I'm now trying to curb my night-owlish tendencies and catch up on my sleep!
Love you all
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AquaDeb