Tah Dah.

It's done. (I'm guessing around 85 hours put into it) It's submitted.

It's going up for silent auction. 

%50 goes to the cause and %50 goes to me.

Min. bid I started way lower than my normal pricing to get interest.

Who knows how it will go? It might not even sell. It's always up in the air with things like this. 

Show doesn't open until May. 

Its been on FB getting lots of love. It's been chosen by our local paper to promote the show.

It will be in print and on the racks this next Monday.

It's already gotten good response.

It feels good.

On to thinking about my next piece. I'm not going to bore you with the steps of that one though. I'm entering my colleges student show in the next week with some recent paintings and painting towards upcoming shows in June and in October. Hopefully I will find some others that I want to be involved in also. 

Marriage Equality Painting Day 9

I didn't get much done yesterday as I knew I wouldn't. I did some on the panels on the back and they still need more work. My painting friends came over yesterday. I made a quinoa salad, one friend brought wine and carmel popcorn and another one brought an apple pie. It was a beautiful day to paint outside with awesome people and have good fun food.

On a funny and oh so wonderful note. Found out one of the gal friends a former makeup artist used to do her magic on female parts for Larry Flint during shoots. It became hilariously funny conversation as you can imagine. Evidently he wanted to make sure all vajayjay's looked like moist flowers.
She said any bi-sexual fantasies that she had went out the door after dealing with all the different types of boxes she'd experienced. It was pretty funny to hear about.

Bad Flashbacks

My friends have been telling me, "you need to get on Facebook". It just hasn't interested me and I feel like I already spend too much time here.

Hubby and I checked it out and he ended up signing up. I have not. I wanted to ponder it a bit.

Seeing how everyone from your past comes flying back to you in an instant doesn't wow me. It is actually quite disturbing. I felt myself being sucked in and down like a drain. My younger years were filled with deaths, operations, leg braces, back brace, being teased, not being able to do what others did, all while just trying to grow up. I had a mother that loved me deeply, but because of her own issues of her upbringing didn't know how to deal with any of it. I floundered to deal with life, and not many helped and some made it worse. Facebook for me just flooded back those hard times and I didn't like that feeling. I don't know if it is the people as much as the time frame. Little bit of the people and a lot of the time frame, I suppose.

I have come such a long way in acceptance of myself. Right know this is where I feel empowered and in control.