Room with a Brew new wall display.
Hung all new work at Room with a Brew and hung out until the festivities were due to start for First Friday. Wandered over to Heron’s Way Gallery where co-owner Mary Ida is selling some of her private art collection: Matisse, Picasso, Peter Max, Dali: prints and bronze….tell me where else in all of Southern Maryland could you come see a full wall of art like this? It’s as good as spending 1.5 hours one way driving to DC to see art – I didn’t think to take a picture (shame, shame – but if you click over to their page you can see some). Spent the rest of the evening there enjoying the company of all the folks who wandered through. Great turnout!
Yesterday it was my intent to wander down to Colonial Beach, Virginia and check out their 40th annual arts and crafts show – see what it looked like, was it worth joining in on next year. This morning I feel very lazy. And it’s Husband’s birthday. And I must take him out to breakfast to celebrate (along with buying him a motorcycle windshield and carrier rack – he ordered. I’m paying). Happy birthday to all you "New Year’s" babies out there (do the math).
I have been doing research on freelance writing thanks to Devon at Ink In My Coffee who generously shared her source list info, Anne Wayman’s About Freelance Writing, for one. There are all kinds of things listed there. Here’s an easy one. All I have to do is tell you to check out Gadget Addict. It won’t make me rich but it will pay for 1/4 tank of gas. Devon does real writing full time – as in writing articles. There were a few things on Anne Wayman’s list that I sent queries to. Being new at this I assume there is a learning curve, but I write this every day, and can write formally too, so why not bring in a little extra? Goodness knows I spend enough time sitting in front of this computer!
And for myself and my art, I’m going to start concentrating today, journaling, on "what I want." Oh, you say, that’s easy. But it really isn’t. I met Husband by getting clear on what I really wanted in a relationship (being in a very bad one at the time), and journaling every day for 2 years and then he appeared. I figure my art is worth that kind of focus, and, as I’ve said in the last few posts, I’m ready to focus. My new mantra: focus!
thought for the day: The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask. Thomas Kuhn
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you got another click from me too for the gadget link!
i too am interested in multiple streams…best wishes for your search on what works for you!
~sue O'kieffe
well i clicked on the gadget link 4u.
Tammy: Thanks for the tips on earning money by writing! The last round of teaching was so exhausting, but my budget without it doesn't cover travel……..so I'm thinking about alternative ways to earn.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…
This summer, my big achievement is calming down………….realizing how filling my days has so often kept me from really hearing my inner voice. ….So many aspects of my life are getting clearer. It IS, for one thing, getting really clear how my born-in-Holland Dutch father really had imbibed the Dutch culture I see here in the born-and-die here folks. Happily, he DID think….but he was very judgmental and believed in working, working, working!!!!!
Love seeing your page, even when I don't write.
Sara
title: How about "Second Saturday" ? I know . . . too obvious.
Good idea to make a journal. I started one about a year and a half ago. Not the kind that so many artists make with pictures, drawings, etc. but just something that I do on the computer — basically a 'letter' to myself each day. I decided early on to try to limit it to my art (not family news, not stuff like that). Its been good. First of all it lets me put down ideas as soon as they come to me and secondly I've been able to go back and look at where I was a year or so ago, where I've been, where I am now. Its especially interesting to see that many of the same subjects and thoughts come up over and over (sort of shows me what's important to me). I highly recommend it.