Lancer Marketplace, here I come

I'm super excited to say that after a bit of deliberation I have decided to enter into Lafayette High School's Lancer Marketplace, Dec. 5th and 6th, after all. Here is some information on it in PDF form as they do not have a good website for it. It's in Rockwood School District so the possibility is good that there will be art collectors there that know and appreciate the value of original art. I also plan on making about 300 blank greeting cards with my images on them, most of them being on black square cards. In addition to individual cards, I will have about 25 sets of 5 cards in a nice clear gift box that includes a pen and possibly custom postage. They really do look sharp and hopefully they will stand out from other vendors.

Here is a photo of some of the cards I make and sell. To the left are 3 sets that I previously had in sleeves and next to that are pictures of what is included in the set. To the right are other images on individual cards. This represents a total of 25 cards. I now have to multiply that effort by 12, wish me luck!

 

A close up of one of the sets.

Also want to mention that my very good friend Elisia Press Dunn, of Brentwood High School, will be exhibiting and selling prints of her beautiful photography at the Lindbergh High School Craft Fair this weekend, November 21st & 22nd. This is her debut and she's super excited (and a lil nervous - this is huge). The amazing prints she will have for sale still astound me since she has been keeping her talent a secret all these years.

In other news, I have chosen not to speak about my son online much at all and trust me, it's not because I don't want to. It's just that I'm fairly protective of his privacy and he doesn't have a profile page anywhere so I don't generally post many pictures of him. Especially as he is still a minor (for one more week anyway), I don't like to put his pictures out into the world wide web for safety reason. But this, I just can't resist. Nicki paid for him to go up in a single engine open cockpit plane (think Joe Cool or Red Baron) a week and a half ago as his birthday present. He was really stoked because he wants to be a pilot and who wouldn't love that?

  Here he is before the flight, trying to remain cool and collected and not show any emotion. Most parents of teenagers will recognize this pose as the "WTH, stop taking my picture and trying to capture me looking happy" face.

Now getting strapped in, the face is beginning to crack and a smile is forming despite his effort otherwise.

 

Post flight and he has accepted his fate that this is a happy and joyous moment, expressed only to Nicki, of course. I, the perpetually annoying mother, am not allowed to speak lest it ruin the moment. It was a great afternoon and I'm glad he got to experience it, Thank you Nicki!