A FEW ITEMS I HAVE SOLD RECENTLY IN MY ETSY PHOTO SHOP :)

Hi All :)

I hope your Weekend is going well :)

I just wanted to pop in here and share some of the items I have sold in my Etsy Photography Shop recently :)

I feel truly grateful that people appreciate and buy my work :)

2016 has started off really well for me and it feels like a blessing as all the hard work over the past few years might be starting to pay off :)



click on photos to see larger images :)

"St. John's Bridge" - B. & W. - 20" x 30"

"Pretty Peony" - B. & W. - 12" x 18"

"Whispers of Spring" - B. & W. - 8" x 10"

"Blossoms Drops" - B. & W. - 8" x 10"

"Pretty Peony" - B. & W. - 8" x 10"

The 3 photos above were a customized special ordered set - it is always fun to personalize my work to customers special requests :)

"Flowers At Midnight" - Wall Tapestry - 88" x 104"

And the customer was so happy with this Wall Tapestry she sent me a photo of it on her bedroom wall, so sweet :)

"Journey" - Wall Tapestry - 68" x 80"

"Colorful Fishing Floats" - Throw Pillow Cover - 18" x 18"

These customers were so excited with the Pillow Cover (above) that they asked me to customize a yard of fabric for them to cover a chair, I don't usually do this but they have been so sweet and it was a new venture for me :)

So these are some of the items I have sold in my Etsy Shop in the passed month, YAY!!!!! 

I am selling pretty well in my Society 6 Shop as well, YAY!!! there too :)

Thanks to the wonderful customers and all the support from the lovely people who encourage me everyday :)

Have a Wonderful Weekend :)

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

HURRICANE WARNING ON THE OREGON COAST

Hi All :)

I hope Spring (Autumn for our S. Hemi Peeps) finds you well :)

2 weeks ago, I went to the Oregon Coast with my two Sons. We stayed in an amazing house on a sand dune right above the beach & looking out at the amazing vastness of the Pacific Ocean :)

We have stayed in this house before and knew it had awesome views with lots of windows facing the West for amazing Sunsets & Ocean viewing :)

What we didn't know was how bad the weather was going to be, rain had been forecast, hey, this is early March in Oregon so no surprises there, but we did not expect the Hurricane Warnings that started to show up the day after we arrived, oops! These are basically unheard of in Oregon. It definitely made for an interesting experience; I have experienced some strong winds in my life but for about 18 hours this was crazy and the rain, just pouring down like tomorrow was going out of fashion and the winds whipped the waves into a frenzy, the windows of the house were literally shaking (thankfully they were not glass) and we were happy to be indoors with a gas fire to keep us warm.

You can read about the Hurricane Winds Here; 

I went outside onto an upstairs balcony, a couple of times, very briefly, to take some photos of the very high waves but nearly got blown away; trying to hold my camera steady with a zoom lens was challenging but I tried :)

So, as fuzzy as some of these images are I wanted to share them with you because they have their own beauty. :)

The following day the waves were still high but lovely blue skies appeared; there was some flooding and some of the local coastal rivers were close to or at flood stage, we drove thru a few big pools of standing water along some coastal roads. Still not really quite believing what we had experienced.

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The Pacific Ocean, by early afternoon (1pm) the winds had picked up and the High Tide was churning - the sky was grey and the drizzle turned to rain. (Next 3 photos are early afternoon too)

I couldn't resist adding a little colour to this photo (and a few following ones) to see if I could show the brewing storm in a different light.

The Pacific Ocean at 3pm - The sky was so dark it was hard to see the horizon - the waves were powerful and swirling, it was amazing to hear their thunderous crashing.

1pm March 9th

1pm March 10th - 

It was amazing the transformation within those 24 hours

Same shot (Above and Below) 24 hrs. apart - Mother Nature is so awesome.

Again pretty much the same shot taken 24 hrs apart - the Ocean is beautiful, majestic, frightening and reassuring all at the same time. (High Tide both shots)

Looking out at the calmer Ocean at High Tide and the Blue Sky, if we hadn't lived it we would not have believed it had been so incredibly rainy and gale force winds less than 6 hours before and howling ALL night.

But as the camera was pointed South, there were still glimmers of those rain clouds moving inland towards the coastal range.

I have to admit I was just so excited to be by the Ocean again; it has been the longest time ever for me between trips to the Ocean, I had missed it so much. I'm a Water Girl, I need to see the Ocean and be by it on a regular basis or I dry up, lol :)

Well, I guess I got more water than I had bargained for but it was thrilling to be at the coast to experience this storm, call me crazy but I felt a kind of refreshed sense of renewal after it but I am also the kind of girl who likes to open the windows and breathe in deeply during a thunderstorm :)

Hope you enjoy my photos :)

Happy Wednesday :)

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

WINNER OF BLOG GIVEAWAY

Hi All :)

Happy Saturday :)

I just wanted to say a BIG "THANK YOU" to all the lovelies who took time to browse thru my Etsy Shop and enter my Blog Giveaway :)

The winner is; Meeling from The Hairy Peach Blog

Congrats to you Meeling (I will be in touch soon :)

I truly appreciate everyone who entered and the lovely things you say about my work, it truly makes a Girl Very Happy and that makes it so awesome to be back blogging :)

I just wanted to share the photograph I have been working on this week :)

Will be in my Etsy Shop soon :)

Thanks again :)

Happy Weekend :)

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

A Few Items I Recently SOLD in my Etsy Shop :)

Hi All :)

I hope you are all doing well and having fun in the Summer Sunshine :)

WOW!!!!! I really can't believe how long it has been since I blogged :(  But I guess given everything that has been going on in my life it isn't really much of a shock that I haven't been around. I apologize for not commenting as regularly as I have in the past :( Hopefully, life will sort itself out here soon and I will be able to get back to some of the more fun things in life like blogging more regularly, YAY!!!! :)

Briefly, My Hubby and I are in the middle of a transition from Oregon to California, I would call it a move but.............well.............I think I will have to come back when I feel up to it and fill you in on all the details............................

So, in the meantime, I thought I would share with you a few of the items I have sold in my Etsy Shop recently :)

"POPPY" Throw Pillow 

"WINTER BEAUTY" Throw Pillow

"SURFER BOYS" Throw Pillow

"CALIFORNIA COAST" Throw Pillow

"TRAIN YARD" Throw Pillow

"LOVE LOCKED" This is a custom order from this listing :)

"LADY" 

I Hope you enjoyed the collection :) 

I am truly grateful that people like my work and buy it :)

I Hope your Week is off to a Great Start :)

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

A Dear Jane Letter to my Computer and Flip Phone :(

Hi All :)

Gosh Me!!! It has been a while since I have been here :(

Well, I have been "Computer Challenged" recently, my computer is 10 years old (congrats to her for making it this far, Oh Where does the time go???) but unlike her Human counterparts she is going into early demise and needs constant life support, constantly crashing and recently, I was "Blue Screened" too!!! So I haven't been able to use her much or be on the internet or work on photos and FB is way too much for her and she just gives up. I am really grateful that she has gotten me this far but it is time (shh, I don't want her to hear) - whispering - "it is time to let her go" :(

My "Old" Desk Top Computer :)

I also have had a flip phone (camera - less too) for the past 9+ years, which of course in cell phone years means she is close to pre-historic. It is definitely challenging when anyone wants to hear me on the phone and when I have to text (she is so old, you know how it is, you have to pressed the button 3 times to get to "C" right) it is just too exhausting!!! 

The other day my Son and I had to go to the airport to pick up his car, he called me and then texted me to say he had his car and was leaving the parking garage and my phone didn't make a sound, No, it wasn't on silent or off :( Thankfully I was waiting for the call and kept looking at my phone (I was at the designated cell phone waiting location - well, actually I was "plane spotting" with my binoculars, lol, but I digress...... :) I should have heard something but not a beep, nothing, so that was that, I decided even though I do not use my cell phone too often it was time to get a phone that worked and my Hubby wouldn't keep saying "I can't hear you very well, Darling" when I did use it.

My old Samsung Flip Phone - look it is so old it has Cingular on it, remember that, AT &T bought them out way back when........ You can tell how many times that poor phone has been dropped by all the scratches on it :(  

So to bid them farewell I decided I would write them a Dear Jane Letter ;

To my Dearest Computer and Cell Phone, 

"for the past 10 years or so we have been together and you both have served me well but of late you have both started to let me down, first it was in small ways like not being available and alert when I needed you and then things got worse and more challenging. I am exhausted, cajoling, nurturing and egging along you slow coaches but we have grown up together in this "techie" world but one of us is letting the team down and it isn't me :(  It breaks my heart to have to write this but I'm afraid it has become apparent to me of late that we need to part ways. What we have experienced together can never be replaced but it is time for me to move on and into the 21st century. That being said please don't be jealous of the new smart phone or the faster computer with more memory, just try and think of them as helping me move on to reaching my potential.  You know I will always remember you both fondly, love T.xxx"

 I have ordered a new computer which will be faster, way more reliable and with LOTS of memory. :)

I also bit the bullet and bought a new smart phone, scary when your phone is smarter than you, lol :)

I really can't believe how much of my life is spent on the computer these days. :(

So, now the problem will be a HUGE learning curve for the next few weeks because I have to learn how to use a new computer. Although, it might take me longer to work out how to use my new phone, lol :) Thankfully I have great in-house computer tech support and phone support, YAY for nerdy males, lol, gotta love 'em :)

This is my new Smart Phone with one of my own designs on the cell phone cover from Society 6 :)

You can check out my Smart Phone Cases on S.6. HERE :)

Of course the first thing I thought about was making it pretty, not how I was going to use it, ever the Artist, lol :)

Hopefully, it won't be too long before I am fully functional in the computer world again :)

Hope everyone has a wonderful Weekend. :)

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

My New Artwork :)

Hi All :)

I hope your week is going well :)

As some of you may remember I had to pack up my Art Studio space well over a year ago as we were planning to remodel our kitchen (where my art studio was a part of) but (because of other life plans) that never happened completely and so I have been slowly dragging things back (from all corners of the house) to my Art space but it just doesn't have the same feeling anymore and I am reluctant to unpack everything or even hang up much of my stuff back on the newly painted walls (at least we got that part done) or splash them 'cuz if you saw me painting, well, let's just say I'm pretty messy when I paint, lol :)

So, I had been working on smaller art pieces (ones that will fit on the table top) and that has been a challenge for me as I like to paint BIG! 
Well, I got tired of that and bought some larger canvases, the Girl really has to have a larger surface to paint on, that's all there is to it, lol :)

My poor easel, has done a major tour of the house multiple times  (depending on who was home or what rooms were needed for people visiting at the time) but just before Xmas I decided "She" needed to be back in my Art Space, well, you know how Xmas is, always so busy and crazy, so no painting got done at all. With one thing and another I didn't get a larger canvas onto my easel until March :)

But, look what happened, I am so excited :)

It feels like I have my ART MOJO back, YAY!!!! :)

I Hope you enjoy my new artwork :)
and yes, most of them are larger canvases, lol :)

click on photos to see larger images:)

"Northwest Spring" 30" x 40" Acrylic on Canvas

"Ocean" 30" x 40" Acrylic on Canvas

"An Evening Walk" 24" x 36" Acrylic on Canvas

"Rain Drops" 30" x 40" Acrylic on Canvas

'Awaken" 20" x 20" Acrylic on Canvas

"A Rainy Morning"  30" x 40" Acrylic on Canvas

"Flying High" 12" x 12" Acrylic on Canvas

"Dizzy" 30" x 40" Acrylic on Canvas

So, these were all created in the past few months and now I have managed to get them photographed I need to start entering them into some local juried shows. Wish me luck :)

Hope you enjoyed these, let me know what you think :)

Have a wonderful Tuesday :)

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

Recent items I've sold in my Etsy Photography Shop :)

Hi All :)

I hope your week is going well :)

So, I thought I would share with you a few of the items I have sold in my Etsy Shop recently; I am so excited every time someone "likes" my work and when they buy, well..................I am just even more excited :)

Here are some of the Lovelies, I hope you enjoy them :)

Pretty Tulips iphone 4 case :)

"Reflections and Ripples" 

"St. John's Bridge" 

( I have sold a few of these now, I am so glad the locals (et al) like my image :)

"Gorgeous Orange Dahlia"

"Glowing Red Maple Leaves"

(sold 4 to this customer, YAY!! So amazing and So appreciative, I have always LOVED this shot :)

"Flying Pelicans"

This one went to a New Nursery, so excited :)

"Furry Friend"

"Ocean Waves"

It is exciting that a lot of people are buying my pillow covers in pairs :)

"Gorgeous Orange Dahlia"

I have sold multiples of this shot (as well as the pillow covers and an iphone case); it is the most viewed and "faved" item in my shop with nearly 1000 Favs, I am blown away by the Love :)

"Pirate Ship"

San Francisco Here I Come 

I have sold a few of these now and also given a few away in Giveaways, I am so happy in the way this photo turned out :)

Wine Sign

Happy Koi

Cool Magnolias

Soft and Gentle

I hope you all have a wonderful Tuesday :)

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.