SS - and nicotine!! plus Etsy springcleaning

Am posting this rather dire image from another fiverr gig, mainly to illustrate the "blissfully" nicotine-free state I have enjoyed lately.

I have written about this earlier, and what can I say, it has become an on-again, off-again project since about 2009, quitting smoking.

What I would like to know at this point is a rather informal survey:

what's worse, cigarette addiction or sugar addiction?

And the real problem is not how much I miss cigarettes - and many things about the smoking state gall me, both in action & in retrospect - but, for some reason, it seems, contrary to all indications, it's only a month or so after being clean that I start fiending for the stuff for reals. People love to say 'the stuff's out of your system in 3 days' - LIARS!!!

the other sad thing is living in western North Carolina - tobacco country - where smoking is practically an act of economic solidarity. IE --- hard to go into the topic of quitting pains with the 78 year old granny who's still happy puffing away, in spite of all dire prognoses re. said dirty habit

In addition, I find myself feeling icky & unwell through the obvious replacement: sugar. So then it seems - what's really worse-- icky bloaty feeling or icky smokey feeling? There's a third choice of course - detox from all of it. HAH! That will be the day... indeed...

speaking of DETOX, I am launching a 2 month Spring Cleaning of my Etsy store. I am selling all - I mean, ALL - in my Etsy store for 30% off + free shipping within continental U.S. Amongst some items are Epoxy creations, dreamy nature photography (digital or prints available), & some oil on wood pieces. Hoping to clear out inventory so as to add more. So if you know anybody....

Codes (can be used simultaneously as far as I can tell):
Free ship: SHIPSHAPE1
30% off: SPRINGKLEEN

thank you all & please visit Sophia at Sunday Sketches!!

PPF - more from Epic Painting Project

Needless to say, I have a lot more of these at the official site of this project, but here's an example of a recent one I did.

Wish I had more to say about this or any other matter - weather's interesting for early spring and some of us are wondering if it's a sign of ill things to come. All of life's default is to talk about the weather when other words fail us but at least in current time's it actually has become a subject worth considering!!

Oh- and I just ate a fly. I guess that's at least worth mentioning - it flew into my coffee and drowned. Didn't find it till the mass of it was in my mouth - spat it out - very disagreeable indeed! I wasn't even going to mention it save I can't get the awfulness out of my mind, even after having brushed my teeth, tossed the coffee, and all of that. Oh well! I'm sure it was sorrier than I am at how things turned out.

Hopping over to Paint Party Friday ASAP (might not be till MOnday at this rate) and hope all are having a lively time!

Creative Tuesdays - April Showers

I concur that a certain lack of rational weather has ocurred lately. There was no such thing as winter for us in Appalachia either! However, rain is more than definitely occurring. I've always liked the look of raindrops on leaves.

This is, then, the humble addition to today's Creative Tuesday! Please visit here for more cool ideas & drawings & designs.

Sunday Sketches - Cool house

Sunday Sketches and the cool Sophia crowd here!

Had a weird 3 weeks there, where not only did I have to visit a dentist, a doctor for weird infection (RESOLVED) and my huge painting project to contend with, but where, for some reason, I kept & kept getting these fiverr gigs which caused an even greater demand of my time. Now - I end up doing these highly elaborate drawings for what amounts to chump change, & though in general the experience is enjoyable, more fun arts training, etc, it is difficult not to become surly about the whole thing when you have so much else, of seeming higher priority, nipping at your heels at the same time.

Shortly after this I also got a lenghthy translation gig which WAS well-paying but - as it pushed the Epic Painting Project aside, it also cause a certain level of consternation and annoyance. Funny how doing nothing but painting has become priority #1! Especially since, on top of it all, I've been dilatory in fulfilling my Kickstarter rewards obligations and am not as far ahead in either blogging, promoting, or even finishing the painting project as I'd like. So... it's all very iinteresting in any event! IT's hard for me not to get upset when a sense of too much to do/too little time exists. Very difficult indeed. Esp. when some of it's health related!!!

I know there are some gentle souls out there who are so organized that they could do all these things - and more - and all I can say is... bless you. I want to be like you! As for me, I just keep trying....

so this is a house, in any event, made at around that time. It came out OK - I helped myself with a printed outline template allowimg me to capture the dimensions of walls, etc, so as to leave time for the real drawing - it's not sthg I usually do, but at the time I sorta felt I had little choice.

Temporary Blog Migration

For sake of current all-consuming art project, I may habitually or permanently post here at my blog documenting my 90 day painting process, whenever I link up to blog parties. At least this week this will be the case.

Thanks and see you on the other side!

Creative Tuesdays - Thumbprint

last minute entry!!

Been wanting to take a brief break from all else I've been doing (IE 93 Turner reproductions/reinterpretations on wood panels) to join up again with the fun folks at blogs.

Thumbprints! What can be a better accompaniment to thumbprints than... food coloring? So here it is. THe paper was rather thick and odd, though, so squished everything weirdly. In the end was satisfied to have these large scary flowers encroaching on the scowling old lady I'd drawn up in the commestible medium some weeks hence.

yay, Creative Tuesdays!