HAPPY CUSTOMERS

Hi All :)

I hope your Thursday is off to a wonderful start :)

I wanted to pop in and share a photo I received from a recent customer :)

I get emails from a lot of my customers telling me that they are happy with my work, usually it is when they have had a photograph of mine framed and it fits in the space they placed it just how they had imagined it to be (very gratifying :)

And on occasion some customers like to send me photographs of my work in their homes. It really makes me feel so happy that people are enjoying my work :)

This project (image below) was a new venture for me. Originally the customer had purchased my "Colorful Fishing Floats" Throw Pillow Cover (cushion on the back of the chair in the photo) 
from my Etsy Shop :)

Then a couple of weeks later they contacted me to see if I could customize a yard of fabric with the same image on it so they could cover the seat of the rocking chair. At first I thought, "how am I going to do that?" but eventually I worked it out. There is a company called "Spoonflower" who have been around for about 10 years who have lots of beautiful fabrics created by lots of talented Artists. I have thought about put my work onto fabric before but you know how time is, it disappears and one thing leads to another and before you know it, it is another thing that is sitting on the backburner waiting for you to rethink it. So, it was a wonderful opportunity for me to revisit putting my work onto fabric. I was a bit nervous, I have to admit, but after exchanging emails with the company and getting some much needed advice I uploaded the image and drop shipped the fabric to the customer. Then it was nail biting time because I was watching the tracking to see when the fabric would arrive at the customers home.

About a week after I saw the fabric had been delivered I was getting nervous, these customers had been great communicators in the lead up time, so I was just about to send them an email and the photo of the finished Rocking Chair arrived with a lovely, lovely thank you from the Happy Customers :)

What is so awesome about this is now I know I can put my work onto fabric with confidence and am excited about a new avenue for my work but most of all I have Happy Customers who have a one of a kind chair, unique to them & their home :)

Every time I look at this photo it makes me smile and I think it really is a work of art, with the yellow accents too and the Artist in me is very, very Happy :)

(photo shared courtesy of my Happy Customers :)

Hope you enjoyed this little story & image :)

Happiness All Round :)

Have a wonderful Thursday :)

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.

SPRING GIVEAWAY

Hi All :)

I hope you are all doing well on this special Leap Year Day :)

So, getting back into blogging has made me realise I haven't done a Giveaway in FOREVER.........definitely time to rectify that :)

As we are starting to get some Spring like weather here in the Pac. Northwest and the Daffodils and Crocus are in bloom in my garden, I thought why not do a Spring Giveaway :)

Here it is;

Choose One Photograph from my Etsy Shop That's it! YAY!! (Depending on the image format you will receive either an 11" x 14" or 11" x 16" photo (Value $50.00 including shipping :) Giveaway is only open to U.S.A. residents at this time. One Entry per person. Giveaway will finish on March 4th 2016 at Midnight P.S.T. :)

(don't forget to leave a way for me to contact you should you win! :)

So, really simple, go to my Etsy Shop, 

PhotosByChipperfield

Choose the Photograph you would like to have if you win the Giveaway (doesn't have to be a Spring Blossom Photo :), leave the link to the photo from my Etsy Shop in the comments and tell me why you chose that image :)

Have Fun :)

Here are a few Spring Photos in my Etsy Shop you might like :)

"A MOMENT IN TIME"

"COOL BLOSSOMS"

"SPRING BLOSSOMS"

"COOL MAGNOLIAS"

"GLOWING MAGNOLIA"

Hope you enjoy browsing thru my Etsy Photography Shop :)

Don't forget to enter the Giveaway :)

Have a Lovely Day :)

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

BEING GRATEFUL

Hi All :)

I hope I find you all well and your Wednesday is going well :)

So, a few weeks ago in my blog post I started to tell you a bit about our failed move to San Diego. :( 
I thought I would hold off talking too much about it this week, as I can only handle so much of it, so I am sure you could possibly feel the same way. ;)

I will get back to it but I truly have to process it too ;(  I don't want to sound too whiny so...............................pausing for now :)

But if you read that week's blog post you know that my 2015 SUCKED!!!!!

So, I wanted to share with you a simple process I go thru every day that makes getting out of bed in the morning a whole hell of a lot better (noticed I didn't say "bounce" out of bed, as I can't remember the last time I did that, except when I needed to go a pee urgently, lol :)

Anyway, lying in bed, after I wake, is a troubling time for me, as each part of my body wakes I become aware of the pains and challenges going on in my body and sigh, I think, well here we go again, another day of dragging thru life. It would be so much easier to just pull the covers up over my head and go F... it I ain't moving, I'm just going to lie here and feel sorry for myself all day. But that is just plain selfish (don't get me wrong, there have been plenty of days when I wasn't physically able to get out of bed, so that is where I stayed) but there are other people to consider not just me, so after a while I give myself a little pep talk in the form of Being Grateful. :)

 Of course it would be so much easier to stay in bed than getting up and pushing myself thru each day, so much easier to feel sorry for myself than to be grateful but I count this as a good exercise for my mind, it might not be earth shattering, but I do believe that there is a slight paradigm shift and a motivating message to my body that it is worth it to push thru and try and live as best a life as I can that day. :)

So, I tell myself 10 things I am grateful for, they don't have to be big things, they shouldn't be the same things as yesterday, although of course there is a constant theme to this. :)

My number One gratitude statement is; I am thankful I woke up this morning :)

Simple but so important, right?!?! :)

Followed closely by being exceptionally grateful for a loving family :)

Being grateful is not a new concept, I know, but being consistent with it, is what makes it worthwhile and strengthens my resolve. :)

I try not to be grateful for superficial things in my 10 morning Gratitude statements but I will include being incredibly grateful for a roof over my head, I never take that for granted.  

One of the things I am very grateful for is still being able to be creative and I love to share my photos/artwork for you to enjoy :)

Here is something I have been working on recently :)


My Children found this Feather one year while we were on vacation at the beach, they kindly presented it to me and it has been a part of my art space for a long time now. It has been used for drawing lessons, writing and even to move paint around a surface (notice there are a couple of tips that have ink on them :) A few Summers ago, I decided to work on an outdoor still life photography project, the Feather was a part of that :) This year I finally had some time to work on creating the images I wanted from that shoot :)

Hope you enjoy these :)


Click on photos to see larger images :)

Have a Lovely Wednesday :)

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

HAPPY (BELATED) NEW YEAR :)

Hi All :)

HAPPY BELATED NEW YEAR :)

Long time no see, sorry about that, I have missed so much in the blogging world but Life has been CRAZY, the kind of CRAZY, where I didn't even get to send Christmas cards out (which I have NEVER, EVER not done before in my whole life, even if I was down with bronchitis or a CFS/Fibro relapse leading up to a Christmas, NEVER!!!

The kind of CRAZY where I only managed to produce 4 blog posts in 2015, WHAT!!!!!

It's been the kind of CRAZY year that I am seriously thinking about leaving my Christmas tree in the corner where it is, all dressed up and just unplugging the lights, leaving the ornaments in place and putting a sheet over it until next year, before you all panic, it is an artificial tree, lol :)

But CRAZY nearly had me defeated at several points, not good :(

I'm not the kind of Girl to be down for the count for long and it has been a long, long time but I'm back to my beloved blog and my lovely Blogger Buddies :) 
Even if it is the beginning of February 2016 already, WHAT!!!!
(Not sure where January went) :(

 And if you are interested I will tell you the tale of my CRAZY 2015 - I will try not to bore you with too much of the dross and it will most probably be in parts (oh joy, I hear you all groan, lots of narrative, lol :)

I promise I will include some pretty photos to break the monotony of my bitching :)

If this was a Tardis (I know it is the wrong type of phone box, I am a Brit, after all, I should know, lol :) I would beam (I know, it's a different show too, lol :) myself to a land where I had a personal assistant or better still, a Fairy Godmother or both and could get on and do everything I would like to do, possibly creating artwork again, rather than the boring things I have to deal with right now :(

Now, where would that land be??? 

Well, for now I "beamed" myself back to Oregon :)

This is what I posted about the start of the adventure in January 2015 :)

2015 was very challenging. :(

As I was in Oregon most of the organisational work on our house fell to me. I am a great planner and love to be organised :) I felt confident I could get the task done. So, with my notepad in hand I got planning, scheduling, calling people, etc., But there were definitely too many people involved in this move for it to go smoothly. 

To start with it was a corporate move; we were reassured that the assigned moving co. would work with us and it would all go smoothly and we had an ever so bubbly relocation "Expert" to help us navigate any problems, unfortunately, neither the Moving Co.'s go to person nor the bubbly relocation "Expert" had any idea of what our lives were like or how my health impacts our daily lives and how this was going to be a HUGE physical challenge for me, regardless of how much I tried to explain, they feigned understanding but it was just empty words. 

Anyway, based on how the real estate market seems to operate in our part of America, we decided to put our home on the market at the beginning of the "Selling" season which is Spring time. With the first week in April as our target time to list our home. Our real estate agent brought in a "Stager" to advise on how to "stage" our house for sale. Well, I spent nearly 2 hours going around our home and her telling me that I needed to paint everything neutral, I needed to neutralise the carpets, I needed to take down all the family photos, declutter areas, lose the personal items, basically turn our home into a show home. Seriously, I'm an Artist my walls are yellow & red & blue; I have red carpet & blue carpet in places, & tons of original artwork & photography on the walls, it all seemed like a load of nonsense to me. We LIVE in our house for goodness sake. But to sell a house in America that seems to be what it takes; it would have cost a fortune to do everything she and the realtor wanted us to do. Seriously, you would think that our house was a complete messy ramshackle hut the way they were talking :(

 1st clue  that we had the wrong realtor but did we realise it at the time, NOPE. :(  

Because my health is unpredictable, at best, I really do need to be extremely careful where I use my energy everyday. With so many people involved in our relocation, even my meticulous organising went out the window in a hurry.

People would show up unannounced to give me a bid on a job (oh we were in the area, GREAT (read "great" as sarcastically as you can), people would show up, out of the blue, to do work that couldn't be done that day because someone else had to do another job the next day BEFORE these peeps could do their work. You get the picture, like the guys who were scheduled to refinish the hardwood floors wanted to go hunting or something, so were going to put the final coat of varnish on the floor the next day, I told them we had agreed to get the job done that day and it needed to be done as the painters were coming in the next day, talk about an unhappy camper, (him not me) he grumpily agreed to finish the work that day but I watched as he and his buddy just slopped the last finishing coat on to the hardwood floors that were just sanded and no completely cleared of sawdust, yet again GREAT!!!!!. He also got the jab in that I should bring a check for the full amount with me when I came back to the house. (I was staying in a nearby hotel (sounds WAY more glamorous than it was) while these "workers" were doing the jobs on our Home. 

I'm just going to say here, that if I never have to organise people to work on my home ever again it will be too soon ;(

We had decided, because of the work that needed to be done to our house, that we would move everything into storage first. A word of advice to anyone thinking of selling a house, NEVER, EVER move everything out of your house to try and sell it, people will think you are desperate and will make low ball offers and that is exactly what happened to us. :(

But I digress................. I'm thinking you guys most probably have read enough so far, so here are a few new photos in my Etsy shop for you to enjoy :)

"SUMMER CALM"

"CATHEDRAL ARCHES"

"RED, RED AUTUMN"

"MYSTICAL BLUE WINTER"

"ST. JOHN'S BRIDGE"

"CRATER LAKE"

I Hope everyone has a wonderful Weekend :)

Here's to reconnecting :)

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

Blogiversary Number 5 YAY!!!!! :)

Hi All :)

I hope your week is off to a great start :)

Well, I have been so busy that this one nearly got away from me this year - how is that even possible?!?! LOL!!!! :)

A couple of days ago my little blog turned 5 :)

Oh it is all grown up and almost ready to go off to school, lol :)

Not much has changed on my blog over that time and I keep thinking I may give it a little makeover but, well, I just like it the way it is right now so why mess with it? :)

 I wanted to say a BIG "THANK YOU" to Everyone who has been so generous with their support, caring advice, friendship and all the wonderful comments that have kept us connected over the years, I truly appreciate you all :)

So, on this special occasion I wanted to hold a Giveaway to show just how much I appreciate the LOVE :)

You know I do not like to give away just one item, so here goes :)

First, I will be giving away this lovely iphone 4/4s case with one of my Ocean Waves images on it :)

Value $42.00 :)


Then, I just starting selling these lovely greeting cards in my Etsy shop and thought a set of these would make a great Gift :)

A set of 5 cards (one of each) 

Value $16.25 :)

You can see these (description) in my Etsy Shop HERE :)

I'm sure you are dying to know how you can win one of these lovely Gifts right?!?!?!

It is simple :)

Just leave me a comment and tell me what you like about my little Blog :)

It is that easy, I'm not going to have you go off and "Fav" things in my Etsy shop, go to my facebook page or share this anywhere, unless you want to that is, lol :)

There will be just one entry for each person :)
(Must be a follower of this blog to qualify for entry in the Giveaway :)

This Giveaway will run until Midnight (PST) Saturday 31st May 2014 :)

Can't wait to read your comments :)

Thanks again for 5 wonderful years of Blogging :)

Happy Monday to you all :)

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

New Clocks, Pillow Covers and Cards in my Etsy Shop :)

Hi All :)

I hope your week is going well :)

I just wanted to share with you some of the new items I have in my Etsy Photography Shop, right now. :)

Here is a NEW LINE of Wall Clocks with my Photography on the Face of the Clock :)

 I love the way they look and with the options to have Black, White or Natural Frames and the options of Black or White Hands, there are lots of fun looks to choose from :)

Take a Look :)

Click on Photo for larger image :)

"SUMMER CALM" WALL CLOCK :)

"LADY" WALL CLOCK :)

"PRETTY PURPLE CROCUS" WALL CLOCK :)

"OCEAN WAVES" WALL CLOCK :)

"PIRATE SHIP" WALL CLOCK :)

I also added a few NEW Pretty Spring Pillow Covers to my Collection; they are also in my Etsy Photography Shop, right now :)

"STILL PRETTY" PILLOW COVER :)

"PINK GIRLS" PILLOW COVER :)

"TRANQUIL BLOSSOMS" PILLOW COVER :)

AND, not to leave out the GUYS, I added those 2 Pillow Covers for them ('Cuz they want to be cosy too! :)

"PIRATE SHIP" PILLOW COVER :)

"WHITE ROLLER" PILLOW COVER :)

Lastly, I wanted to share with you my NEW LINE of Greeting Cards with my Photography on them. I have been wanting to do this for a long time and am so happy with the results. I LOVE the quality of the card stock and that each cards comes with an envelope too :)

Here are the one's I have listed in a MIX AND MATCH posting, you can buy one or more or MIX AND MATCH :)

I created Floral one's first and then realized they would be perfect for Mother's Day :)

(HINT! HINT! LOL!!!! :) 

ENJOY! :)

To buy "LADY" or any of the other cards below, check them out HERE! :)

I Hope you enjoyed viewing all the NEW products and additions to my Etsy Shop :)

JUST ONE MORE THING :)

You know I LOVE all of you for being so supportive and sticking with me thru the years :) So, I am offering a special coupon code in my Etsy Photography Shop just for my Blogger Buddies for 20% off any Pillow Cover (coupon will not expire, so you can use it whenever you choose, now or even over the Xmas Holiday Season (unless there is another Sale going on at the time, lol :)

Coupon code is BLOGGERBUDDIES14 Of Course :)

Have a Wonderful Weekend :)

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T. 

Society 6 :)

Hi All :)

I hope you have all had a great week :)

I recently started listing my Photography work on a new (to me) website; Society 6 :)

I thought I would try it out, as I can put my Photography on lots of  fun items like, I - Phone cases, Throw Pillows, cards, Laptop covers and so much more :)

I only have a few images on there right now but I wanted to share with you what I have done so far :)

Go HERE to view my SOCIETY 6 SHOP :)

Here are a few items :)

"Sail Boats and Sunset Reflection" (Framed Art Print)

"Pink Cherry Blossoms" (I - Phone Case)

"PORTLAND SIGN" (I - Phone Skin)

"Pelicans Flying" (Laptop Skin/15"MACBOOK Pro Retina)

"Monet Memories" ( I - Pad Case)

"Gorgeous Orange Dahlia" (Throw Pillow)

"Last Glow of Fall" (Laptop/ I - Pad Skin)

I would love to hear what you think of these :)


Also, If you haven't already entered my Blogiversary Giveaway then there is still plenty of time :)

Check it out HERE :)

You could win a 16 x 20 or 16 x 24 Photo (of your Choice from my ETSY SHOP :)

I hope everyone has a lovely Weekend :)

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

Blogiversary number 4 YAY!!! :)

Hi All :)

Happy Thursday to you all :)

I hope you are doing well and enjoying life wherever you are :)

Well, today, my little old Blog turns 4, YAY!!! :)

I can't quite believe it. One, that I lasted this long (admittedly there have been a few brief breaks, lol, :) and Two, that the years have gone by so quickly. (If this was a child they would be prepping for their second year in preschool already, lol :) and Three, that I have such wonderful loyal followers who are respectful, caring, encouraging, loving and funny in their comments; it really makes a girl very Happy  :)

So, as with any B.Day celebration there has to be gifts, right!!! :)

So, I am going to have a lovely Giveaway for you all :)

I never like to just give away One gift, if I can give more and that is just what I am going to do :)

The main gift will be a 16 x 20 or 16 x 24 photo (depending on original photo chosen :)  from my Etsy Shop; 

PhotosByChipperfield

Go to my Etsy Shop and see all the wonderful choices you have to decorate your home or give as a gift to a friend :)

Maybe one of these???

Let's not forget those Dads (Father's Day isn't that far away and every Dad should have a Train or a Roller, He! He! :)

and a GIRL always LOVES FLOWERS :)

So, Once you have decided which photo you would like (from my ETSY SHOP ) if you WIN the Giveaway, come back and comment on my blog and let me know which one you would choose :)

(Value on that is $85.00, yep you read that right, lol :)

NOW, 

to the other little Giveaway :)

Here is a cute collection of matching Bags :)

Largest is approx. 7" x 9" and the littlest approx. 3.5" x 5.5"


So, what I would love you to do is share this CELEBRATION AND GIVEAWAYS wherever you can and come back and tell me with another comment and there will be another entry in the GIVEAWAY for you, every time you come back with a shared link it's another entry in the GIVEAWAYS, let's spread the LOVE  :)

These GIVEAWAYS will run until Midnight (PST) Friday May 31st 2013. (So, you have plenty of time to look, share and comment :)
(TWO SEPARATE GIVEAWAYS, TWO SEPARATE WINNERS)

HAVE FUN!!!

So, my Dear Blogger Buddies, thanks so much for 4 awesome years  in Bloggerville :)

Have a lovely Day :)

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.