Selina Fenech

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Photos of the week

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Curtains

Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay warm and safe out there!

Business as Usual

Orders are worked on, but not all of them got out. I am delivering several today, the rest I will finish tonight... along with the dozenish new ones that came in today and yesterday. Argh! Stop ordering already! (Not really...)

Some Torn World administration caught up on, and my inbox still at manageable levels.

Art and Authoring

I sat down and wrote last night, coughing up a 1300 word story that I quite like. Here's a clip:

Don't use the data, she'd been warned by the senior faculty. He's too important to lose - a genius! They wanted her to sweet talk him, to use motherly charms to persuade him to maintain at least a face of respectability until they could rush him through graduation and set him loose on real research. They assumed she had motherly charms, simply because she was a woman.

Home and Health

House still standing. Health still good.

Planning

Too many invitations for this weekend - I have to figure out what I can and want to do. I have many projects to work on. Never bored, am I.

First of all, thank you to all my visitors I've had during my first year of my online shop! It started last year October 25th of 2008. Today as I went to see my statistics, I've had 15 642 unique visits altogether during this year. Thank you all for coming!

A little reminder, anyone who plans to order something for X-mas, make sure you do it soon! Since I can't personally guarantee anything when it comes to the Finnish post office and holiday traffic, I suggest you get your orders in before next tuesday, 15th of December!

In the meantime, enjoy this festive season and all the pretty lights, cookies and mulled wine (or Glögi as we finns like to call it)!

Time to finish up a commission today! I have two left, and I'd like to see them out the door before 2010 hits! Hurry, hurry, hurry!!

My newest artwork Christmas Spirit of a little snow angel elf enjoying the spirit of christmas :)
Artwork completed for Fae's spirit show.



Fae's Spirits show is now on display
click to view all the artworks :)
http://www.faeforum.com/events/v/spiritualbeings/


merry christmas, happy holidays to all *hugs*
~Katerina~

Just to let you know I am sending out my Christmas cards end of this week! :)

THANK YOU and BIG HUG for all who already sent a card to me! Will be making photo of all of them later :)

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~Carrie Hawks
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I hath tweeted:

• 18:11 O's comic, for those of you who are curious: commissionedcomic.com #
• 21:09 I love it when I can just sit down and *write a story.* Yay! #

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I still need to do my Christmas shopping. I've gotten a couple of things bought, but I have lots more to do. And it's been REALLY cold here, and still is, but we haven't had any snow. I should be grateful that we also haven't had any freezing rain! Well, actually it DID snow the other day, but it was so warm the fragile little snowflakes melted away almost before they ever hit the ground, and now that it finally is cold enough for snow, all we have is clear skies.
But anyway,the real reason I'm writing this entry is I wanted to upload some more pictures of my cats. (And my sister's cat.)

First up is my youngest kitty, Butterscotch, aka Butterscotch Pudding. Yeah, its a silly name, I know :P

And this beauty is Taffy, aka Taffy Princess, she is the sister to Butterscotch and for some neat symmetry is owned by my sister. And for more useless information my cat Cassira's brother is owned by my other sister Jan-Annette.
But I digress, so now, I think I'm going to wander down to the kitchen and see if there is anything to eat....
'night!

So, I caved & finally created a Twitter account. I have no idea what I am doing there yet, but if anyone is over there, let me know & we can follow each other...cool?!

http://twitter.com/deannadavoli

Hi everyone!

I have a brand new BEAUTIFUL original painting today - a new Alice piece called "Alice in a Da Vinci Portrait". It is SO cool And it's on eBay for just ONE PENNY now! In addition, I have prints available right away! Not only that, you can even choose your own custom framing & matting, or even BIG print sizes up to 68"x52" in size (BIG prints start at just $13.80). This is a GORGEOUS painting!

All right, the new original painting! This is the second in my sub-series called "Alice in Other Lands" which are paintings featuring Alice in a variety of unusual circumstances, often inspired by art history. Here we have my Alice in a portrait themed reminiscent of Leonardo da Vinci. You can see many da Vinci references in this painting - the Mona Lisa, Lady with an Ermine, landscape elements, Madonna of the Rocks, etc.. Alice is looking very mysterious with her Mona Lisa smile, and that Cheshire Cat of mine looks a bit too wily to sit for a portrait.... This is a painting celebrating my loves of Alice in Wonderland and renaissance art - no reason why the two shouldn't go together! I've always thought that Alice's adventures should continue into many other bizarre tales, and you can expect to see more from me in the future. My own lowbrow big eyed take da Vinci's work - a celebration of my love for Art History in general as well. This one is BIG - 24" high by 18" wide -- and it's all READY TO HANG too, Matt has already put the hanger on the back. This ORIGINAL acrylic painting is up on eBay starting at just ONE PENNY for a 7-day auction ending the evening of Wednesday, December 16th at 7:27 PM Central Time, and you can see her below:



"Alice in a Da Vinci Portrait" 18"x24" ORIGINAL PAINTING!

And as always, to see all of my other currently available original paintings, click below - I have some BEAUTIFUL originals up right now at great prices:

All Jasmine's Currently Available Original Paintings

Now, as I promised - trying something new - I'm making the "Alice in a Da Vinci Portrait" prints available NOW. If the original isn't in your budget, grab one of these! These are BIG prints - starting at just $13.80 - and guess what? You can add on custom mats, frames, glass, etc. however you want it. And you can choose the paper type - glossy, matte, canvas, poster, whatever. Small sizes are available as well as HUGE sizes - up to 68"x52" size (that is taller than I am!) Just use the options in the upper right hand corner of this page to choose the size you'd like - leave it plain as a poster print or add framing options. No need to wait any more!!

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"Alice in a Da Vinci Portrait" PRINTS are HERE!

Enjoy!

Until next time...
-Jasmine

Better late then never ;)

Business as usual

Orders are spooling off the printer and stacking up by the door now - I am on-call for work today! Woo!

I have also started a new mailing list just for ACEO/art card stuff and deleted the drawings-only list. (Haven't done a drawing in... how long??) http://ellenmilliongraphics.com/fantasyart/mlist.php

Finishing Mere's coloring book edits, and I made some teeny progress on the EMG-Zine anthology already, too.

Most astonishing of all, my inbox is down to 15. 15!! I do not think I have been down to 15 in more than a year and a half. Maybe longer. There were some OLD OLD messages in there. *shame*

Doing some planning over at Torn World. I will oh-so-subtly warn you now that there will be extra perks for folks who join before January. In case you've been sort of thinking about it.

Art and Authoring

Here! Some art!



Home and Health

Studio is still in in-between phases, but improving. I may spend a while today sorting art supplies.

Planning

My list is outrageous. You don't want to know.

Linking

Go pimp yourself here: http://xjenavivex.livejournal.com/412299.html

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some in-progress teaser pics of my 'Hajimari' solo show
coming up at Jonathan Levine Gallery in NY this coming Saturday.

will post full images of all pieces after opening night happens. ;)
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I realized I haven't posted for a while .. mostly because there isn't so much exciting to tell. The time before Christmas is always busy with shopping, social events and last minute commissions (not so many this time, oh well). I tend to participate in some of the sweepstakes floating around the net but never win anything and try to be a nicer person which usually doesn't work out either. (not that I'm so very horrible but its hard to stay calm and friendly in the cold and rush hour shopping)

The year leaves me pretty much broke .. so to even out my sparse christmas gifts I did my own christmas card at least - I just hope I'll get the prints in time..

I have to admit that christmas shopping for the kids in the family is really fun, though ;D

I hope all of you have a good time ..

There's a snow storm outside:) I'm loving it now but will regret it tomorrow:)

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~Carrie Hawks

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