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I happened to notice a few people doing #saturdaysketchbook on Twitter. If I can remember to do Follow Friday (and I usually do but some Fridays I am in town and away from the computer), and spend Music Monday at Blip.fm (I am trying to limit that since it seems to suck up our bandwidth here and then they shut us down to slower than dial up for the rest of the week – love you Wild Blue and your arcane BW limiting system that makes no sense to anyone including your operators) then I should be able to manage sketchbooksaturday. I can at least try. Easier for me right now than Daily Art, unless you count the fact that I am really trying to add about one coloring page per day (or do several in one day and sprinkle them out to you). Anyhow – here is what is in my sketchbook – see now and then I do something that would pass for fine art by hand.

Now, I am going to piddle with my widgets some and give you the RSS feeds to my short story and coloring page blogs which I have not done for some reason.

I am stripping every possible reference to the Anthony Morrison late night informercial AffilliatesSystem.us folks – they are scammers. Sorry. I got fucked out of my $20 investment, but at least I didn’t fall for their constant upsales. I’m sure they would say I failed because I did not pay someone $197 to sign me up for a Google Adsense account (I already have one, thanks), nor do I have a $5000 credit line to spend on ads that MIGHT make me $100 a month if I’m lucky. ROFLMAO. Thank goodness! The only person making money on this is Anthony Morrison and his cohorts.

Sigh. Live and learn. He’s got a GREAT scam. Instead of saying you will make bazillions on the Internet – which so many of us now know is not true – he says “well you might make a $100 or so, and wouldn’t that help if you are struggling to make the house payment?”. Sure it would – if I didn’t have to SPEND $500 to MAKE $100. ROFLMAO. That is assuming they even credit you with your sales (which they do not – or at least they skim them, something porn masters made into an artform).

Oh enjoy the artwork. I’m working on a little short story, then I’m going to go play SEO expert for a friend. I’ve got housework and some sewing on the menu, too. Taking Sunday off, I think, and Monday have a Dr.s appointment for hubby that will probably eat most of the day one way and another. So have a great weekend!

Summer Fey Foovay

Oh – I hereby release the artwork above into the public domain. I’d rather not mess with the karma of theives who steal whatever they like – if I give it away no one can steal it.

Life is good. Isn’t this beautiful? Scenes like this are why we won’t be moving to the city – and a big reason why we decided to live here in New Mexico.

Yesterday was a rainy day in the desert. We had to drive to the city and go from one Dr. to another all day for poor hubby. However, we did treat ourselves to a delicious east Indian dinner, too. And did a little shopping. Wow, I can’t believe it is already time for Valentine’s Day. Hubby and I have been married for twenty years – so Valentine’s Day isn’t necessarily that big a deal to us. Here’s our usual plan for the holiday.

However, I know other people do celebrate and so I’ll be drawing some Valentine’s Day coloring pages and writing a few blog articles about some of the fun goodies sold at my sex toy and video shop for the holiday.

My big exciting news for today is that I finally got everything worked out to sell the downloadable coloring books on PDF created from the coloring pages at Color-Your-Own.com. So you can go download all the birds, or all the horses at once – or the big coloring book which has all 360+ images in it. Then it’s on your harddrive – print it once, print it a hundred times, print it all, print just the coloring pages you want to use, and print your favorite coloring page as many times as you want. Yeah – I think Yes, it’s true, I think e coloring books are very cool.

I’m going to bore and torture everyone to death today promoting the new Coloring Book store because I get it free for a week, then have to decide if it is worth paying a monthly fee to keep.

Then I’ll draw some Valentine coloring pages. Really. I swear. (UCK)

When I’m not out taking awesome photos like this one:

And sharing them with my dear friend Robert Sloan so he can bring his awesome talent to recreate them as paintings.

Blessedbe

Summer Fey Foovay

@Rivethead Rasta – one of my favorite Twitter pals – shared this link to the 20 Scifi Movies We’re Most Excited to see in 2010. I don’t know about you, but I think I’m just going to print it out and check them off as I get them

I was even more excited, however, to see that they are making John Carter, Warlord of Mars into a movie. I am a serious Edgar Rice Burroughs fan, and although he is best known for Tarzan – my personal favorite of his series was John Carter of Mars. I am also a huge Pixar fan, and it does seem just too perfect as the medium for four armed ten foot tall Martians to be brought to life.

Meanwhile, I’ve gotten the ,a href=”http://color-your-own.com”>coloring books organized and sent off to the magic software man who also happens to run eBook Connections, an ebook store. I am eagerly anticipating their return and also trying to figure out how I’m going to be selling them.

Here at home we’ve had some rather distressing news about my hubby’s health. We are still pending more information before any big decisions or changes can be made but it seems likely that there will be some changes. We are trying to look at it all in a positive light and it just might turn out that way. Who knows? We don’t yet – not until next week.

I’m off to do some dishes and then settle in to the tedious job of updating the coloring pages site one page at a time. HoHum.

O – I added a new original short fairy tale at Demented-pixie.com as well as another of the Victorian age short stories over at Foovay’s Floozies. As life settles into a more humdrum routine again after the holidays, I’m sure I’ll start getting more of the fiction blogs going properly.

I also created a new Squidoo lens that I hope will save bloggers, crafters, artists, webdesigners and other folks like me a lot of wasted time Public Domain Clipart has all my personal favorite sources for public domain clipart that you can use.

That pretty well catches us up!

I really want your input. I’ve got the images together to create the coloring books from Color-Your-Own.com. Several subjects have just 10 – 20 pages, others like dogs and horses have almost 100. I went and looked at PayPal and they charge 30 cents per transaction. I would have to charge at least $1 even for small coloring books of 20 pages or so. Would you buy that? Or would you rather just have the big one with all the images for $5 or so. After all, it’s digital, you could just print out the pages you wanted. But if you only WANTED birds, maybe you’d rather pay $1 and only have the birds?

I can’t decide. You tell me what you want. Please?

My first big job of they day was to download the entire Color-Your-Own.com coloring pages website in preparation for two more big jobs. Lets call them A and B under 1.

A is a major change in advertising and/or how I make a bit of money from that website. You can read a nice, long thoughtful post about that on the coloring pages blog here – and if you are interested in making money on the internet with your creative work or with affilliate marketing you might find it a bit educational. All my personal experience and YMMV of course.

B)A very nice man named Jim who runs eBook Connections.com emailed me to offer his help. He has written software that can resize and convert images into ebooks. I sent him ten images and he sent back the ebook. I printed it out. I did happy dances at how beautifully it turned out. We are now working things out to have the drawings at Color-Your-Own.com converted to ebooks divided up by subject that you can download for a nominal fee.

So – before doing either of those massive projects, I wanted to download a complete copy of the website before the big changes. This is going on as we speak. Blog. Read. Whatever.

This task has NOT been simplified by the unexplained fact that electricity at the ranch is going on and off today. I can’t begin to express, in fact, what a royal PITA this has been on several levels – not the least of which is that it is about 40 degrees outside with a north wind and the heat keeps going off and staying off…

So during an electricless period (is that a word?) I started another project here at the house. Last week we brought home my piles of art, craft, jewelry making and sewing supplies to go with the art, jewelry, and sewing supplies I got for winter solstice. There is now a vast unorganized pile of the aforementioned supplies in the living room. I have one shelf area in our bedroom devoted more or less to that sort of thing and it, too, is very unorganized and messy. So I emptied the shelf and made categorized piles (at least). They are now scattered across the bed courtesy of Ms. Pearl who is now contently asleep in the middle of them. Sometime today – probably while I am without electricity – I will attempt to put all of the supplies on the shelves in some sort of organized manner so that I can gaily make things this winter.

I made a few things last night – wanna see?

Betta Fish Coloring Page

Well, okay, first I sat back with my great new lap desk and colored with colored pencil one of the freshly printed out coloring pages – a Betta Fish.

Hematite spiral pendant

This is a hematite with a spiral pendant on a long cord. Sorry the photo is so unfocused. I wear a lot of hematite for grounding. I probably ought to be wearing this one now

man's choker necklace

I created this choker for my roommate. No telling if he will wear it. If not, I’ll probably sell it somewhere. It has a turquoise pendant and another stone I can’t remember the name of now – but the reasoning is it will bring good luck to a male wearer.

Lepidolite pendant

Sorry for the bad focus again – this lepidolite pendant with a coyote and a moon and star was meant for me. I want to put it on a choker so it can lay on my skin right below my throat, but don’t currently have the right materials and findings for that. An odd thing happened when I put it on a long chain – it began acting like a pendulum. Lepidolite is supposed to help counteract depression and I’ve used them for years. This is my last big piece. Hope I can find some more. Meanwhile, I’m not sure if this will get to be a choker or a pendulum for magic or oracular type work.

And last but hardly least – here is a photo of the snow on the Sierra Mountains at sunset a few days ago. This is the view out my back window. No wonder I love it here.

Snow on the Sierra Mountains at sunset

And now for the laughter. As you may imagine I have been a little impatient and grouchy this morning. However, while trying to be patient as the website downloads I did some blog reading and ran onto this post about a mini-drama going on over at Amazon. The comments are really the part you got to read. They are hilarious. I laughed my head off at the ones about the book’s title being a good name for a fancy show dog – because it’s so true. I feel for the author in question – but there are times when you should just walk away from Internet wars. And that time comes before you offer to sic the FBI on people who disagree with you.

So that’s what I am doing today. Hope you are still enjoying a fantastic holiday.

Oh wait – one more thing. When I’m done here I think I’m going to put up a new story and pic at Foovay’s Floozies. If you love Victoriana, or my adult fiction, or are just curious – check it out

Blessedbe

I just got finished creating a new Squidoo lens – The Coloring Book Shop. I wanted to create a one stop list of all of my coloring book lenses. Whenever I add new coloring book lenses, I will also add them at the shop.

Tomorrow – I think I’ll do another one for all the coloring pages lenses. Meanwhile, if you are interested in keeping up with my Squidoo lenses, there is My Ten Newest Lenses and also my Lensography which hopefully lists them all. I’ve been making new lenses so fast lately, I am afraid I probably missed a few.

Now I feel a bit more like I probably accomplished something today.

Coloring Books for Adults and older children