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Cactus mania!


Hello September! Away we go- the busiest month of my life...I'm getting ready for the Fair!
I started by painting some "meditation paintings"- loose, fun, letting my creative spirit play and cut loose kinda work. I first  started those a few years back when I thought I was dying and was bedridden for what felt like a month..it was bronchitis, costochondritis, pleurisy and pneumonia all rolled up into a domino game...when one went away the other would hit...I could not get better and both lungs were affected.
I could not work. I could only lay there in agony trying to breathe. So I started the Meditation paintings in bed. They were small little color plays but people really liked them and I liked doing them. They made me feel useful again while I tried to recover.
Sometimes they are mostly abstract with little fun textures that remind you of crystals, bubbles, planty things, underwater things...but of late I've been doing a "theme" for a series- cactus!
Using my fun, bright colors of course and just exploring cactus and planty things in different arrangements. And much to my surprise....they have all Sold! Each one snatched up pretty much the same day they are painted.
So as Im trying to build a collection to sell for the Fair and Design District my stock disappears the moment its made.
A GOOD PROBLEM TO HAVE! 
The first cactus I did was in honor of my Dad. 
They all needed to be sold though because I needed to buy supplies to help me get ready for the Fair. My matting supplies and hanging supplies came in yesterday so today begins PRODUCTION! Getting prints matted and backing hangers put on, each piece gets photographed before it ships out and most importantly I PAINT LIKE CRAZY.
So that's my current life for the forseeable future- elf in the studio...producing, producing, producing! A select few people who have inquired about cactus paintings will get behind the scenes peeks at the stock but for now Im keeping them under wraps until event time then let the buying commence. I can't show up to the Fair with nothing to sell 😜 but it's a good problem to have!
Big thanks to everyone who have been buying, asking for and supporting my efforts-this is a Herculean task I've signed up for! 
Now to make the magic!

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