This Monday was sicking. The stock market continues to go down and my personal well being is being greatly diminished. This is even more reason to push forward with my work. I have not learned how to successfully blog and cannot even see who could give a care; however, everything I read and all the print on demand companies stress the need to blog the things you would want to sell.

I am focusing now on Christmas as it is the time of year that business make from 60% to 80% of their entire year’s profit. It was that way with my licensing also. I made more from Christmas images by Mary Parker than all the other stuff. Too, the gas prices are bursting the top out of everyone’s finances, so it is likely that more people will stay home and perhaps, just maybe, they will shop the internet. I do regularly. But then when you find yourself on the side of a mountain you tend to do that if you want to have anything. So high hopes.










These are three new works which I edited today from cards images. I removed the angels from the card and cleaned them in MaskPro and then repainted them in Photoshop CS3. That was for both of the angel images. The motifs are them used alone for t-shirts and as shown above as images which can be used on tote bag and other products. The Santa was a simpler job. I just reduced him and cloned the sides in to reshape the size. It did take all day.

Now here is a situation. When I was licensing my work, it was not considered good taste to put angel motifs on rugs because you walked on them. I will be building Christmas shoes and I don’t think I will put angels or religious icons on the shoes. Putting them on t-shirts is much different. When in doubt — don’t. So I won’t.

Tags: Christmas work "angels on shoes", "Stock market plunge"