new years resolutions

Happy New Year Everyone !!

The holiday season of 2014 just flew by and here we are! 2015 !

As always , I will be working to increase my blog posts here 🙂 I will be upgrading to a new blog theme shortly. Like a new outfit, this blog will be looking marvelous. 🙂

This coming year will bring new items, more diaper bags and iPhone 6 + 6 Plus sized wristlets and purses, new tote, purse, & wallet designs, and lots ( !!) of new fabrics for SibStudioSewing. At my SibStudio painting shop, I will posting new paintings and artwork (!!) as well as lots of painted glass. I have several paintings in work and a set of glasses almost ready to be listed. It is going to be a great new year!!

July 3, 2012

Kathy

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New Years Resolutions……?

Posted in Peeking Behind the Easel

So how about those New Years Resolutions?…… Oh yea, forgot about those! : ) Anyone remember what yours were?…. I’ve forgotten mine….

Ok so now that I cheated and looked up to see what they were…. Blog more often, oh yea….. that one needs some work. And the one that says paint one new painting a week needs more work too. The last one that about getting more organized is actually one that I’ve had quite a bit of success. Yea!

Opening a second shop this spring derailed the first two. Should have made that a resolution! I forgot how much time it takes to open a shop, all the writing that goes into a shop – policies, profile, descriptions for new items….making items and starting from scratch promoting the shop. But it’s all come together and I’ve even made my first sale! So as we are half way through the year, I will resolve to blog more, paint more, and sew! Hope you have had better success with your resolutions…. if you remember what they were!

January 6, 2012

Kathy

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Fresh, Clean and Ready To Paint

Posted in Organization, and Peeking Behind the Easel

I'm finishing up the yearly major clean up of my studio. It's always amazing what has been lost behind canvases, what has been misplaced, and what I forgot I have. I started the end of the year clean up when I was doing a large amount of custom painting for private clients. The push to finish orders from September into December always turned my workspace into a hot mess by the end of the holiday season.

I like having a clean, well organized workspace to start off the beginning of the year. It's a chance to do an inventory check for taxes as well. Everything in the studio gets cleaned, dusted, vacuumed, wiped down from top to bottom. Old paint brushes get donated to children art classes, almost empty paint containers get placed in front to be used up first, canvases and paper get sorted by sizes and placed in their labeled spaces. Photos and reference materials are an ongoing challenge but they at least get placed on their shelves and photo cards near the computer. It's a jump start on one of my new year resolutions and a great way to start the year.

Photo credit: allthingsstylish.tumblr.com via Lindsey at Pinterest

I'm excited to be picking up my paintbrushes and getting started on painting. I'll have new paintings to share starting next week!

January 1, 2012

Kathy

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Happy New Year!

Posted in Organization

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!

Photo credit: Squidoo via Amanda at Pinterest

As I have been doing the annual end-of- the-holiday-season-super-clean-up of my studio, I've been thinking about business resolutions or goals for the shiny, fresh, new year. Here's my modest list 2012 goals/resolutions:

1. Post on this blog more regularly.

2. Paint at least one new item a week. I love the daily painters, but alas, that's not realistic for me. I can finish one item or painting a week.

3. Continue to work on organization. …the bane of my existence. Reference photos, photos on the computer, the camera cards, tax paperwork, shipping material, pieces of paper with scrawled painting ideas that I jot down before I forget, time management, paints, brushes, canvases etc, etc, etc. It's an ongoing goal. : )

This adorable photo came from Etsy Shop Happy Town USA . How about you? What kind of resolutions have you chosen?

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Happy 2015!

New Years Resolutions……?

Fresh, Clean and Ready To Paint

Happy New Year!