Well, I went ahead and did it. I just sent in my ad for the Summer issue of Faerie Magazine!

For some reason I'm just really nervous - and excited - but nervous!!

Part of me wonders if I should even bother, if I'm good enough at what I do to put it out there like that. But then I thought..."why not?"

So, I'm sort of bubbling around right now like a faerie that's had six shots of espresso.

I haven't been on here in a while! I just realized it's been almost a month and I really can't believe how fast time has flown by.

I've been working on a few projects for my upcoming show and trying to get my things in order a little bit. Plus, now that the weather is getting nicer I've been working out in the yard a lot.

I live in my grandmother's old house and my husband and I have been raking leaves and that kind of thing. We found hundreds of bulbs starting to sprout. I think my grandmother just dug random holes in the yard and dropped bulbs in. When my dad was alive and he took care of the yard, he just mowed over everything because there was no way to tell where grandma's flowers actually were. It's exciting to see the little sprouts popping up all over the place!

We have a little back patio that hasn't been used in years and we're trying to transform that into a little fairy garden where we can sit and look at all the birds and trees and whatever other creatures appear.

I just found out that I am going have a little one day show coming up in May! I don't want to give away too much since I don't know all the details, but I'm so excited!

I have so much to do between now and then. I have to get prints, postcards and the like. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. I would really like to buy a nice printer so that I can make the prints at home.

I'll post more when I know more. Thanks for reading this!

JGB

I have so many ideas in my head, but I can't seem to get them on to the paper!

I started sketching tonight and for some reason things just weren't going well at all. I haven't drawn or painted in quite a while, I admit. I took a big break from making art because I was getting frustrated with how things were going...or not going.

I guess that this is a normal process. Well, I HOPE it's a normal process!

Sometimes I paint and draw and get so much done and other times, like tonight it just seems to be a huge dry spell. I guess I want to express this because I start to feel sort of alone in the world when my artistic abilities sort of flutter away for a bit. I suppose they are still there, but lying dormant for the time being.

I'm hoping this "dry spell" lifts soon.

It's been a very hectic week and weekend for me!

Work was atrocious! I work for a small newspaper and my brand new computer broke, so that was anything but fun. So this weekend, I started going through a lot of old sketchbooks and drawing pads and found a lot of starter sketches that I forgot about! So, hopefully I can try to revive those and start painting again soon.

I'm starting to realize that I'm really bad at anatomy! Drawing people/figures is not my strong suit! So, I think I need to work on that some more, but for now I'm having fun just coming up with ideas and things.

As for my website, I haven't been able to update that in quite a while either. I really wish I could just take a month (or more!) off work and just paint, draw and do what I love to do. Maybe I could get better at human figures!

I hope whoever is reading this has a wonderful week! Thanks for looking at my little space on here.

Love and light ~ JGB