Keds Shoes PLUS My Art

I'm not sure who decided it would be a good

idea to let ordinary folks like myself

apply their own art and design to a pair of Keds' Shoes

but I think it is 

brilliant!

I LOVE my Shoe designs on Zazzle

and plan on getting me a couple pair here soon.

I want to have them to wear during the upcoming

art and craft show season.

I really really need to spend, at least one whole day...

doing nothing but designing

Keds' shoes.

They're pricey...but soooo cool!

Some CMZ Art Pieces

I've been doing art

in some form or other...

pretty much as long as I can remember.

For a lot of years...most of my

art was distributed to family members

as gifts...

or

"just because".

Then..my husband and I started doing

the art shows...

they were lots of fun...

and a lot of long...often times Hot...hours.

I learned a lot at those shows.

Then...in 2004...

I listed a couple of my early pieces of art...

along some stuff we purchased at some estate sales...

the first thing to sell

in the very first week...

was one of my art pieces.

I don't think I got a whole lot for it..

it went at auction

on eBay...

I'm pretty sure it only got the one bid...

but I was 'hooked'.

Most of these pieces are from my

eBay days...

and I've offered so few of these

as prints...

until now.

I've got them over on

1000 Markets...

along with a small collection

of Rustic Goth pieces.

I wanted to see how these pieces

go, to decide where I want to take

CMZ Art from here.

From the ashes...

Like the Phoenix...

Saturdays are..for me...like 

'rising from the ashes'.

I do sooo need that one day a week that I do

"whatever I want to do".

It's so refreshing and revitalizing...

though I often find myself thinking I'm 

'forgetting' to do something.

Whilst I was 'away'...I discovered that

Aubrie

over at Flutey Words

presented me with a new 'award'.

I just need to name the 5

Sci-Fi/ Fantasy

Books or Movies that inspire me...

Well...I 'could' just name off 5 of the 7 Harry Potter books...

but I'll just group those in a collective and say...

1. ALL Harry Potter books and movies

2. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

3. E.T.

4. Star Trek...the newest movie (with Silar from Heroes as Spock)

5. The Blob (with Steve McQueen)

I'm sure if I had thought a little harder, I might have selected something different

for numbers 4 and 5...

but I did enjoy the last Star Trek movie...

and

I was definitely 'inspired' by The Blob...

it scared the heck out of me...and somehow seemed more

'possible'

than the Frankenstein and Dracula movies

I also LOVED watching.

It's June 18th

I'm A Little Bit 'Funny'...part 2

I read every one of my followers blogs...

unless it has a 'warning' on it...

I tend to not go into anything that 'warns' me that I

might be 'offended' if I enter.

I'm sure I've probably written an offensive

post or two..

but I do hope that...

for the most part...

I'm not offending anyone.

What I have discovered lately

is how many of my favorites haven't posted anything

in weeks or months.

To this I can only say...

I feel bad that I don't get the opportunity

to know more about you.

Perhaps you are a 'private' person

and don't want to reveal too much...

that's okay...it's certainly up to you.

A lot of times...it's just fun to go through

the pics of your arts...crafts...likes and dislikes...

little snippets of your life..

I know my daughter has said...

"I don't have many followers...and I'm not sure

anyone is reading my blog but you...

and I don't get many comments."

She is one that hasn't blogged

lately...

and she really does have so much

to 'reveal'... if she weren't so

worried about spelling...or

'sounding stupid'...

(though in her 'defense'...she's one of

the busiest people I know...a lot of times she's busier

than I am!)

One of the many times that my husband

was in the hospital,

during his last year...

we were having a hard time answering

some of the questions about

the 'particulars' of previous

visits.

So..I went to the waiting room...pulled up

our art group blog...

and answered everyone of the questions

that had been asked.

I had just started blogging...and felt the need

to keep our collectors up to date

on what was going on...

especially since he was also an artist

with the group.

I've found that I blog as much for me,

as I do for anyone who might want to read

what I write.

With everything that goes on in life..

it's so easy to 'forget'

the "who's..what's...when's..

why's and where's"

that happen.

So..I blog:)

Sunshine Award

I got this lovely

Sunshine Award

from the lovely Jo...formerly 'Jo Knows'

now "Thank U and Good Nite"

I love reading her blogs.

I'm not sure if I'm doing this right or not...

but the five followers I selected to pass this award to are:

Dyche Designs

The Rainy Day Wanderer

Paper Clippings of a Wandering Artist

Artistic Accents by Darla

Art by Kristie Silva

I do hope you will check out these wonderful blogs...

they are among my most favorite.

AnnaLeah Designs

You know...

my daughters and I get together

every so often...

(art and craft show season)...

and we make pendants.

We turn little miniature prints of our art..

into something wearable...

problem is...we lose about half of every pendant we make..

to the dreaded

air bubbles.

These little devils NEVER show up immediately...when the glue

is still wet and pliable..

they always turn up a day or two later.

Once that happens...we've lost the pendant.

Before Mother's Day I had gotten a special order for a pendant

and ring...with a pic of the Eiffel Tower on them...

turned out beautiful 

right after putting them together...

scheduled a time for the buyer to pick them up at my house...

had to contact him the day before he was to pick them up and say..

'no go'

Huge air bubbles appeared

right smack dab over the Tower.

We haven't attempted to make any new pendants since.

Very disheartening to put that much work into something

that just fizzles.

So...I'm pleased to 'introduce' you to another

lovely Shop that has been turning some of my images

into wonderful Pendants for going on two years.

AnnaLeah Designs.

I started collaborating with Betty back when I still

had my CMZ Art shop on Etsy..

so most of the images she has on her pendants,

are images that I had

in the CMZ Art shop.

(I moved the Resting and Blackbirds prints to my

Rustic Goth Shop...but all of the others

aren't available anywhere but these pendants.)

Check out AnnaLeah Designs...

she has some very nice pieces in her shop!

I've got a good schedule...

I write a blog post for this particular

blog about twice a week.

Since I'm not doing as much with my

CMZ Art Brand...at the moment...

I don't really have much news anyway.

At least not with my art...so I'm

pretty happy with it's current 'schedule'...

that way

if something that I think is 'interesting'

comes up...

I have plenty of space to post it here.

I'm A Little Bit 'Funny'...

There are only two kinds of blogs that I read...

the blogs of my followers..

(I figure if someone found my blog interesting enough to 

follow it...then we probably have 'something' in common)

and these are really and truly some

of my ALL-TIME favorite blogs!

Then there are a very small handful of

blogs that I have read for years...

I don't follow them..they don't follow me...

and I never comment on those blogs.

For one thing...I'm a little bit 'funny' 

because I won't leave a comment on a blog

that I think might be 'manned' by someone other

than the author

(heck..it might not even be written by the original 

author anymore for all I know).

A few years ago, I was reading one of the first

blogs I ever 'followed'...though not 'officially'...

and the author confessed that she

had gotten sooo busy

that she was now having her niece doing most

of her correspondence, 

monitoring the blog comments...

and even writing blog posts from time to time.

Maybe the niece was just 'taking dictation'

and writing what the artist was actually saying...

but

I stopped reading the blogs after that.

So when I run across a blog that

is so popular that they get 100s of comments

on each post...

I just don't comment...

no matter how interesting I might find the post.

I'm just 'funny' that way.