I can’t tell you how glad I was to see that my palette of artwork and supplies made it to the Javtis Center safe and sound. It was there waiting for me when I arrived to set up on the Friday before the show. I had done a ton of preparation but still was a [...]
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My Surtex Experience- 1st Time Exhibiting
Posted in art licensing, illustration, Surtex, The Business Side of Things, Trade Shows, tagged art licensing, design, freelance, illustration, learnings, positive thinking, projecting positive energry, surtex, trade show on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Surtex Twitter Chatter
Posted in art licensing, Surtex, Tweet Tweet, tagged art licensing, chatter, freelance, greeting card categories, illustration, small business, surtex, tweet, twitter on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Diagram of some Surtex Twitter Chatter. Follow Some of these Gals! @ArtistTaraReed @HOLLiCONGER @ellencrimitrent @lotsapresence @SurfaceDivine @jessgonacha @matirose
Get Your Tweet On: CREATIVE LADIES IN THE HOUSE
Posted in art licensing, illustration, Tweet Tweet, tagged abstract expressionist, art, art licensing, coach, creative, creative dream, creative ladies, educator, Entrepreneurs, freelance, greeting card categories, illustration, inspiring, media geekette, mompreneur, musepreneur, personal consumption, sassy, teach, twitter, whimsical on May 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Happy Follow Friday! Over the next few weeks I will be putting together a list of my 100 or so favorite illustration & design-related Tweeters. It’s just to give you a peek at a few folks who I enjoy following and reading about. In no way will this a full-blown list, and I apologize in [...]
Tidbits of advice from the CHA Show
Posted in art licensing, Trade Shows, tagged art, art licensing, buyers, catalogue rack, cats, CHA, Christmas, color, costal, dogs, flowers, freelance, halloween, illustration, kittens, licensing, palette, Valentine on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few tidbits of advice I received from my art licensing meeting. One of our members, Joan Beiriger attended the CHA Show and was nice enough to give us a download. Here are the 8 things that I took away. (Of course this is always subjective. So please take it all with a grain of [...]
Exit Strategy
Posted in Making it, tagged art licensing, artfire, change, etsy, Exit Strategy, freelance, illustration, launch, living expenses, money, passive income, royalty, saving, small business on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Everyone needs one. The problem is figuring out what mine is. Folks seem to recommend you save anywhere from 3-6 months of living expenses before making the switch. Time to start crunching the numbers. It’s really unfortunate that I live in such an expensive part of the country. For 3 months worth of savings I [...]









