Farther to Go.

My goodness, it has been an awfully, awfully long time since I've updated. So sorry. But I do have some exciting news regarding Project 8256. I rather like lists, so here it is:

1. I am now selling originals in the shop. Well, currently it is "original" - singular - but hopefully more will emerge in the future. This one (pictured above) was quite fun to do. I painted the canvas orange with the intent of doing something completely different than what it ended up as, but am quite satisfied with the result. I will not be selling prints of this one, for various reasons, so once it's gone, it's gone.

2. Project 8256 has ventured even further into cyber-land and now has a MySpace. I know. I debated about this for a while, but decided that it could, potentially, be an excellent way of getting the word out. My hope is that people will not only by "friends" with Project 8256, but will include us among their "top friends" so that our exposure will be increased. I'm ignoring my own personal feelings about inviting someone to be your "friend" and crossing my fingers that this just might work. So if you have a MySpace, request us as a friend. It will be greatly appreciated.

3. Very exciting. Project 8256 has now reached 17 sales. Now, I realize that this is not an astonishing number. And I most certainly realize that we have many, many items that need to be sold in order to reach our goals. But these 17 items represent sales from Colorado, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, California, New York, Ohio and even the United Kingdom. Some purchases have been from family and friends and some have been from complete strangers. Every sale has brightened my day and has encouraged my entire family. So thank you all.

Hope everyone is doing well. Thanks again for all of the support.

xo,
Amy

pacific-mountain-central time....

"all of these homes
are lined up so straight
but here on the inside,
it's not that way

i gave you my life and more
from sadness to sunshine, i'm yours
i lost happiness
up in your los angeles sky"

-denison witmer (los angeles)...finding a song about los angeles that isn't completely jaded is a difficult undertaking




"How was your trip to the city of Los Angeles" you ask?

Well, it was lovely. Thank you ever so much for asking.

I really did have such a lovely little visit. Birthdays, Easter, what could be better? My vacation was filled with lots of laughs, great company, some splendid shopping and a little something called raw vegan food that had a surprisingly large impact on me. Now, mind you, I did just go to the grocery and came out with food that required cooking and not a handful of guava and a juicer, but I do think I might have some culinary adventures in the future. I know that everyone in the okc metroplex is so excited to hear this.

I am hoping this week to really sit down, put on some music and give myself some creative time. I haven't had much of that the last couple of weeks, so hopefully something will come from it. I did pick up a lovely little skeleton key stamp from oh-how-I-miss-you Paper Source while in Pasadena, so that could yield...something, I suppose.

I am very, very sleepy and droopy-eyed. Even though it really is only 8:00 in the pm in California. But it was quite a long day of traveling--and waiting--and so I am blaming it on that. Hope you all had lovely a lovely weekend.

xo,
amy

things to look forward to...

consuming my thoughts lately:

1. late night chats with such a lovely friend

2. good sushi - the kind that doesn't make you wonder just how long the fish took to arrive to my very much land-locked state.

3. "sunny"/smog filled days

4. celebrating Easter with someone who has had such an impact on me spiritually

5. an opportunity to actually acknowledge my resolution to take more photographs in 2007

6. oh so much more


I leave for California in a mere 4 days. Yay! As far as the shop goes, I came extremely close to posting a new print tonight, but was not completely satisfied and so opted out. We shall see if it happens before I leave town. Not entirely likely. But I am counting on coming back full of inspiration. We'll see.

xo,
Amy

deer and raindrops...

Listening to the rain and iTunes + packaging up an etsy purchase = a very nice evening indeed. Don't you think? Very lovely indeed.

Earlier today I was killing/wasting time, looking around one of my very favorites-- Velocity Art and Design--and came across this tray. After my mouth stopped salivating, I remembered that I had seen it before and, apparently, forgot about it--in what, as my sister so nicely put it, the exhaustion that is my mind. I'm staring at this tray thinking, how amazing would this look hanging in a kitchen? In a kitchen with bright, raspberry colored walls! No-turquoise! With other vintage plates hanging alongside it! And then reality hits and I think that perhaps a pink kitchen with wall decor that includes a deer tray may not be the best idea for, well, the gentlemen callers. You know, a sort of "You had me at hello, but lost me at the kitchen" sort of thing. Tragic.

Now, I am left staring blankly at the computer screen thinking "Surely, surely, I have something else of interest to share." But, no. I don't. No, just a deer tray (and perhaps the matching squirrel one as well?). Sorry for the lack of substance. But I do hope you have little things in your life that get you excited. Everyone needs a little bit of that.

Amy

fresh prints...

New. Fresh. Exciting.

Find it here.

I don't really have anything too terribly exciting to tell, and the treadmill is calling my name.

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend.

love,
amy

another list

Other lovelies making me happy...

1. It is officially, officially Spring. And I am promising to enjoy it for all it's worth before I am shaking my sweaty fist in anger at 105 degree days.

2. A lovely exchange with a child (A three-year-old name Reagan)---
Me: Is that your baby brother?
Reagan: That's Baby Reese. (pause) I think he's my brother.
Me: Oh. Excellent.
Grandma: Reese was adopted.

Love it. She'll figure it out eventually.

3. I downloaded a new-to-me artist yesterday. I can do that more now because I joined e-music, and it has guilt-free downloading. (They wooed me in the promise of 50 free downloads.) Anyway, I tend to pay very close attention to "people who downloaded this also downloaded_________." So should you not pay attention to that, and always wonder who does, well it's me. I am the target audience of the "people also bought" in really any form. Not in a conformist sort of way, just more out of curiosity and a desire to discover other artists. So I just downloaded Andrew Bird's "Armchair Apocrypha"-- and I am loving it. I listened to it on the way home from work today, and was really enjoying it. But when it got to track five and he used the lyrics "and I was a cartographer of tangles in your hair" and "awkward pause" in the same song, I thought "Sold." I also decided that I seem to be drawn to artists who make good use of glockenspiels and whistling. Among other things.


I think, perhaps, that I'll leave my list at three this time. I am hoping to add a new print to the shop in the near future. I have an idea that has been stirring around inside me for quite sometime, and I just seem to be having the hardest time getting it out on paper. But hopefully it will happen. We'll see.

Hope you can find some blessings too.
Amy

gift (I)deas.

I was perusing a magazine this afternoon, and came across this most excellent gift idea for mothers using formula. The short little product snippet talked about how having to mix formula while out and about could get quite messy, and so on. As my direct experience with infants is rather limited, this had not occurred to me. But with this new bottle, you fill the main part with water and then measure out the formula into the top compartment. When the wee little baby is hungry, you just twist the top and give it a shake, and then you have formula. Brilliant. I'll definitely be getting my sister one. And I think I might get one for myself. You know, perfect for baby/auntie days out. (Especially when said aunt will be much too preoccupied with her previously disclosed inexperience with infants to worry herself over such things as formula on such splendid days out.)

But enough about silly baby things...

If anyone reading this knows anything about computers (and I'm fairly confident my "audience" consists of about four people), I am having trouble with my keyboard. I have this big, fancy computer and, though our relationship got off to a rather rocky start, I really thought we had moved past all that. But then, all of a sudden, it decided that the capital "I" did not exist if I pressed the left shift key (which I normally do). lower case = i. right shift key = I. left shift key = . Nothing. Emptiness. Why is it doing this? And why only with "I"? And why does it have to be the one letter that is capitalized, especially in a blog written in my own voice, the most? Why not Q or Z? I hardly ever need to capitalize those. Thoughts? Ideas?

Hope you have a beautiful Wednesday. Sorry this entry is nothing but baby bottles and mischievious keyboards. What a bore.

xo,
amy