A pretty full week planned.

Now that the Holidays have passed and the New Year has arrived...

I will be concentrating heavily on getting new

paintings and prints in my

Shops.

I will be listing, at least, 20 new items in my

FairytalezNFantasiez Etsy Shop,

including some Valentines and Valentine themed art.

Subway art prints will be my latest items

listed in my

SugarNSnails ArtFire Shop...as well as

some Valentine art.

And...as soon as I have the newest items listed on

Etsy...

I will be having a Print Special...

buy two prints and get the third print Free.

Just 'favorite' my shops or check back often

to see the new items listed...

I'm very excited!!

Happy Holidays

I want to take a moment to

wish everyone

a

Very Merry Christmas

and a

Joyous New Year!

Thank you!

New art for 2013

I am working on so much new art for 2013....

and I am starting with...

"old" art.

These pictures are pictures I did in 1987.

I did a collection of about 10 and have decided

 that I want to

re-do them.

I still have the original paintings...as I painted them

to hang in the rooms of my own children...

but now

I want to update them

and make them 'new' again.

FairytaleZ 'N FantasieZ is now open.

Before all of the craziness on Etsy...in October

I had begun to put together a new shop...

mainly art for kids' rooms and nurseries.

FairytalezNFantasiez.

I thought...wisely, I might add...I would wait

to see what was going on at Etsy

before I put anything 'live' in the new shop.

Instead...I decided to open

SugarNSnails

on Artfire.

Let's face it though...even with all the changes on Etsy...

which I might add that I'm not exactly

fond of...

it still seems to get more traffic

than the other sites I am trying

at least for my 

Rustic Goth shops.

But...to be fair to the other sites...

I've had five years to build a following on Etsy...

back before all the changes...

and the traffic may be coming from the folks'

who favorited my Shop there.

At any rate...I wanted to open similar shops on Etsy

and Artfire...since it now comes down to

SEO rather than renews and relists...

and I am promoting both shops...equally.

Now...we'll see what happens...

but for anyone who is interested in some

'happy' art...

I do have a coupon code for my Etsy Shop...

it is

MNS2012.

Use it at check out and receive 25% off your entire order.

I will be listing new items Every Day for the next few weeks.

TopHatter Auctions and CMZ Art

I recently joined TopHatter

having learned about it through Artfire

and sold my 'Alice in Wonderland - Encore' print set in the

"Thanksgiving with Artfire"

auction at Tophatter on Thanksgiving morning.

Because I am new to TopHatter

and will have to establish myself through sales and feedback,

I am only able to schedule one or two auctions per week and

I have already reached my limit.

I will, however, be posting auctions for three Original Small Works of Art,

little acrylic paintings on 140# Watercolor Paper,

as soon as I am able.

The first auction will be for the above painting,

"Poppy".

The next will be for

"Sunflower"

And the finally,

"Friends"

I will be posting the auction schedules on my

Pinterest

'TopHatter Auction Items - Mine'

Board

as they are scheduled, which will link directly

to the auctions in which they are scheduled.

Once these paintings are sold, I will make the prints available

in my 'Sugar 'N Snails' 

CMZart 

Artfire Shop.

CMZ Art Announces "Sugar N Snails"

I have spent the past Five years 'branding' my

Rustic Goth Art.

Branding and 'getting the word out' about

one's art, shop(s)  is

NO easy task...and it really consumed most of my time.

Now I have 'expanded' the art that I am creating to be

more uplifting and 'cute'...

creating a lot of new pieces especially as

Wall Art Decor

for Nurseries and Childrens' Rooms.

My newest shop is

CMZ Art's - "Sugar N Snails"

on

ArtFire.

I currently have only a few items listed

but I will be adding brand new

Fairytale Art,

Nursery Rhyme Art,

Nursery Room Art,

Kids' Room Art

and

Bath Room Art

over the course of the next few days and weeks.

 

My Tribute to Whitney

In spite of what appears to be

a tragic detour in her life...

I have always liked

Whitney Houston.

It's not for me to judge her life

or her death...

suffice it to say..

I think she contributed so much

to the lives of most anyone who has listened to popular

music the past thirty years...

and with that in mind...

I created an image...

my version...

of Whitney.

I had originally posted the image on several Zazzle
products...but it seems I am
not allowed to post anything 'resembling' Whitney
as it infringes on celebrity status...or something.