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Away they go

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My postcards arrived. I’m very pleased with the job GotPrint did on them.

While waiting… I’ve been updating my mailing list, so… batta boom, batta bing…. they are out the door and headed to their prospective clients.

As always, they were mailed with the usual good luck mojo send off dance at the post office and a fond farewell to these postcards….. wadda ya mean …”it’s not usual?” ;)

Anyway, goodbye postcards. I’ll keep my fingers and toes crossed… and that’s one to check off the list of goals!

 

Cheerio!

Roberta

Setting Goals

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It stands to reason that if you are taking care of a sick kid….eventually you’re going to get it too! So I’m taking it kind of slow today. I’ve been doing some sketches and thinking about goals.  Soon summer will be here and the kid will take up a lot of time… so here’s a list I’ve been thinking about for May.

1. Still looking for an agent. I would love to work as a team with some one out there.  I know you’re out there I just haven’t met you yet.  :)

2. Send that dummy book out. You know where you’d like send it, so what’s holding you back?  Kicks self in the butt! ;)

3.Those promotional postcards should arrive this week… get them back out ASAP!

4. Keep up those daily sketches…. work it!

What are your goals? Do you set a date or are they open ended?

Jump

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Playing Royal Leap Frog was always a little traumatic for the other players.  Artemis Amphibia, an avid Mel Brooks fan, simply shrugged and said…

“It’s good to be the King!”

Waiting

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So what to do while you’re waiting?  Maybe you’re waiting for that next assignment, that next conference, or contest?

Well,  I’m going back and practicing all the stuff that sometimes gets overlooked when we’re on a tight deadline or have gotten a little rusty, or maybe just too close to see it. Ya know what I mean?  I believe that you’re never to old or experienced to learn something, all over again.  It’s being creative with your time and nurturing your art.  So go create something while you wait!

“Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit.” ~ “Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill.”  ~ Cicero.

Puzzled

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 “And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?
It came without ribbons. It came without tags.
It came without packages,boxes or bags.

 

 

 And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store?

 

 

 What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?”

 

The idea here was to take a master, like the animators that drew the Grinch and make him look dimensional, and textured. I really liked Jim Carey’s version of the Grinch but the old hand drawn version will always be my favorite.