I have a QUESTION for YOU ...

I have a QUESTION for ALL my ARTIST friends ! 

HOW do you reach your customers, fans AND art buyers when you offer NEW creations or have a SALE ? I post here on FB and on my FB ART page, on my BLOG, on PINTEREST and on INSTAGRAM ... YET, I reach ONLY about 25% of them and some are disappointed to have MISSED the opportunities to PURCHASE a new piece or take advantage of SPECIAL prices ... 

ANY advices ? I need your HELP ! ANY tricks ? 

And what about you ART buyers and collectors and fans ? How would you like to be NOTIFIED ? WHAT works or would work for YOU ?

I think LIFE watches us CLOSELY ...

I think LIFE watches us CLOSELY ... Giving us a NUDGE or a NOOGIE when we NEED it ... A little PUSH when we are SLOWING down ... A WHACK on the head when we need to WAKE up ... And sometimes, LIFE winks AND laughs at us ... 

I found this OBJECT in a thrift shop for $1.00 today ... Isn't this a PERFECTLY synchronized GIFT ? 

I STRONGLY believe it was INTENTIONALLY placed THERE on a shelf JUST for me ... To make ME, and YOU, smile ... A GUY shoveling SNOW ... For a GAL shoveling SNOW ... And everybody ELSE ...

Even CAT girls ...

Even CAT girls 
get the post-holiday BLUES ...

BOOKS, books, BEAUTIFUL books !

BOOKS, books, BEAUTIFUL books ! 

HALF a DOZEN of them ! Each of them SO perfectly CHOSEN just for ME ... 

A belated CHRISTMAS gift hidden in a BIG cardboard BOX that had been LOST in the mail during the HOLIDAYS rush ... A delightful SURPRISE brought to me by my friend HECTOR the postman ... 

My FAVORITE kind of present ... To Me ... From Me ... 

This year, I TREATED myself with a BUNCH of books I had been COVETING for a while ... All PURCHASED with the SPARE change accumulated in my PIGGY bank during the PAST 12 MONTHS ... 

My REWARD for NOT loosing it TOO MUCH in 2017 ...

JANUARY started with a big BANG !

JANUARY started with a big BANG ! 

MINUS 24 degrees F and NO electricity yesterday ... So VERY thankful for the TWO roaring woodstoves WARMING our house and the SPRING coming DOWN the mountain for drinking WATER ... POLAR temperatures mean TROPICAL-looking SUN shining ...

PERFECT conditions to get finally get BACK to CREATING in my STUDIO ... 

Please meet the DIVINE deity WHO just appeared by MAGIC on my work table ... The GODDESS of GOOD-will-happen-in-2018 ! MISS Ruler of this NEW YEAR and provider of GOOD LUCK to anyone who DARES to stare at her straight in the EYES ... There is a BUTTON on the BACK and when you PRESS it, she GIGGLES and COOS ... 

Her very own way of TELLING what the FUTURE hold for YOU and her SECRETS to be HAPPY!

I WOULD if I COULD ...

I WOULD if I COULD ...

Invite EACH and EVERY one of you ... To watch the SUN set on the WOODEN walls of my HOUSE while PACO is snoring ... To toast to PEACE, love and HEALTH with a nice glass of homemade PEAR liqueur ... To have a BOWL of vegetable SOUP simmering on the stove with a SLICE of freshly baked BREAD ... To HOLD your HAND and say THANK YOU for this AND that AND everything in BETWEEN ... And to watch the SUPER MOON through the FROSTED window ...

On this RECORD cold day, my HEART is warmer than WOOLEN mittens and my HEAD as merry as COLORFUL string lights ... 

BONNE ANNÉE, mes amis ...