christytomlinson

Mugs, Iphone covers, lamps and more! They are in my store! wahoo!

Okay friends! Totally unexpected but guess what??

A lot of my product came this week for my etsy store!
wahoo!

I am still missing one mouse pad, a couple of art bags, and then my products from Carson (which includes some of the mugs, JOURNALS, etc..those will be in NEXT week)

BUT I just listed a TON of fun things!

AND because we need to celebrate that..

 use this code SHE12 

when you check out in etsy and receive 10% off!!

A note on Shipping: okay so because honestly I have no idea what these are going to take to ship.. I had to put prices high enough that it I could make sure to cover the shipping cost. HOWEVER when I go to actually ship your order, if it is under what you were charged, I will definitly refund you the money. If I had listed these in my Scarlet Lime store.. they would automatically know shipping because USPS figures that out for me based on weight.. BUT etsy unfortunatly doesn't :(.. so don't be alarmed at shipping cost.. like I said.. whatever actual shipping is.. that is what you will be charged and refunded the difference! :)

 

So.. want to see what came today? these are just a few.. not all

 

Iphone Covers

 

Mugs

 

Plaque/Ornaments/Desk sitters..

These cute ornaments.. can either hang.. from a door, wall, on a swat.. a tree. OR they have a fun little metal stand, so they can sit just about anywhere! Great gifts for Christmas!

 

Lamps of course (I have all of them :).. just showing one!

Assorted Frames with metal accents

 

Resin Coaster.. (three different styles!)

Wood Plaques (9"x9" in size.. with my printed artwork on them.. and includes a metal embellishment!) 3 different styles!

One shown below

And so much more! I also have and Aprong, Magnets, Magnet Boards

 

So much fun! So come on over to my etsy store!!  again.. now through tuesday (my birthday!)  10% off you entire order! use coupon code SHE12

AND good news! I fixed my video editing! yeah!! so we will have some fun stuff next week!

happy friday!
Christy

 

 

 

 

I want to frolic...

okay, starting to feel the weight of not having a current video editor.. having 4 workshops that start within 4 months of each other, trying to adding 100's of new products into the Scarlet Lime store.. trying to get ready to move into a new studio.. AND dealing with this dang fibro admist all these storms for fall. Yea.. so my blog is lacking. Sorry it sucks right now. lol

Monday.. if my hopes work that way I want them too, i will have a video for you on the October Mixed Media kit! wahoo!

So today.. this is what is on my mind..

this quote

 

LOVE this.. I found this quote on Pinterest (which I also love)...

 

that's want to do.. so I am going to put on my big girl panties and do it :)

I wish I had some fabulous new thing to share with you today (though I am proud of myself for creating something new (that isn't for one of my classes, that I can't share on here)..

do you realize that? do you know that in the last three months I have created over 40 new pieces of artwork? lol isn't that sad? but most of it's for my online workshops.. so I can't always share it here. I show snippets..but not full on pictures.

sad sad.. we are going to have to change that :)
Well okay I do have something to share today.. I listed some new Originals in my etsy shop! I can share those with you!! :)  and some new prints too!

AND guess what else?  Just came to my house??  NEW PHONE Covers and NEW mouse pads I had ordered.. going to get those listed too and share with you those on friday.. how about that :)  

 

yep.. okay.. this week is getting better and better already :)
here we go.. lol

 

She seeks truth...

 

Choose to Fly

 

wide open Spaces

 

Believe in the Possiblity

 

these are just a few..

also listed some new prints..

 

She felt blessed

 

Buttefly Collage

You make life sweet

She did what mattered most.

So that's it! new prints.. new originals.. and now back into the studio.. today I am painting a cute little Reindeer for the Whimiscal Winter Workshop next month :)

oh how I love painting animals right now.. thanks to Juliette Crane and Mindy Lacefield. :) thank you sweet girls.

well have a happy wednesday friends! GO FROLIC!!! please please.. do :)
love you.

She was created... a new she art girl..

hey friends! it's friday.. I was going to do this post yesterday and gosh darn it all to heck.. I am having MAJOR problems with my video editing software! It all of a sudden has chose NOT to work. Annoying.. and so after much frustration.. I decided to just post this fun she art girl without the video (sorry :( but when I get it done.. I will SURLEY share it! )

I wanted to give you a quick update. I posted this week about my new line with Carson and Midwest. If you are a retailer and want to carry their products, email me and I will send you their address! As for those of you just wanting to purchase something for yourself.. I have a huge order coming in the next two weeks.. that will include; mugs, magnet boards, the lamps, aprons, wood boards,
magnets, resin girls, clocks, art bags (for brushes or other art studio products), IPHONE covers and mouse pads! I know I am forgetting something.. but there will be a lot of stuff! so I can't wait to share! It will be listed in my etsy store and should be listed by end of next week!

So let me tell you about my week.. last week Ben's wonderful parents come to visit. They were here a FULL week and while they were here, Granny Annie (Ben's mom) organized and cleaned and dejunked my entire art studio! The one in my garage! It was the biggest blessing ever! I didn't ask her too and when she first got here she said" now Christy I know you will say no.. but I would
love to organize and clean your studio for you.. I know you hate letting people do stuff for you, but I love organizing, so can I please do it for you? " I sat for moment and wanted to say no..because I truly have issues with letting people serve me.. it's more because I feel dumb than anything. But in my HEART i knew I needed the help. I knew in a couple of weeks that I would be moving into my new studio.. and would need my current studio organized enough that I could easily move it. And let me tell you it was a MESS! lol. Does that surprise you? probably not.

So I let her... and can I tell you.. she did the MOST AMAZING job!!! I mean she sorted everything! and put them in their own baskets or boxes.. perfect ready for me to move into the new studio where I have lots of furniture with lots and lots of organized drawers for everything to have it's place!

Well later in the week she came and asked me if she could have one of the she art originals I had in my studio.. and unfortunately it was one I had already made for someone else.. and had actually borrowed it back and needed to return it! lol

So I said.. why don't you let me make you one JUST for you? And I was so glad when she said yes! So we decided to do a portrait of her! She is in her 70's and has the most gorgeous gray/silver hair.. she is really tall and lean. (opposite of me.. but totally where my husband Ben and my daughter allie get their height and long legs from). We walked about her colors, and where the canvas would go. We
talked about her life and what she wanted it to say and words she had in mind. She even picked out some of the papers I used. Then she said in a chair and watched as I went to work on her very own She Art girl. I can't tell you HOW humbling and fun that experience was! It was a little nervous.. because I wanted it to be perfect for her.. but I truly enjoyed the process. So I wanted to share with you the canvas I created for her!

but before I do.. I wanted share something else with you!

So.. after this process, i started thinking about how fun it was to just create something for custom for someone. I have never done a custom piece before, where they had input on the girl.. as I said.. and while I was super nervous.. I ended up loving the process! I thought to myself.. how fun it would be to
offer this to my own friends, customers and blog readers! Soo.. Just to let you know.. i have added NEW originals to my etsy store again.. just a few this time.. BUT also have listed a custom She ARt girl original for anyone who wants me to paint one especially for them.

This custom canvas would also include a skype or phone call sesion with me.. as I would LOVe to get to know you and the reason I am creating the peice for you! I want to learn about your story and your heart.. things that move you.. colors you love. Words or phrases or scriptures that inspire you. I want this to be a TRULY custom piece! So if you are interested in that! Check out my etsy store!!

and also check out all the new originals I Just listed!

My Etsy STore

 

so without further wait.. her is the She Art girl I created just for Granny Annie.. silver hair and all. what a beautiful lady she is!

 

Well that's it! Thanks again for letting me share! I hope you have a wonderful day!! and remember.. Bless this mess online workshop starts in just a few days! Hope you join me and Junelle for Wild Art no. 2!!

have a wonderful weekend!

well hello! i finally DID IT!

Well hello sweet friends! We are BACK!! What a fun and relaxing time we had. We pretty much did nothing on the cruise. and it was PERFECT! We kinda skipped all the excursions this time around.. and we didn't miss them a bit (not to mention we didn't miss the $$$ cost involved either lol)

So guess what? We are REALLY bad.. we forgot our video camera and our regular camera and my phone died the first day and I left my charger in my car.. didn't think I would need it and WE DIDN'T TAKE ONE PICTURE!!!!!  Actually I think Allie took ONE.. just one.. but it's on her phone and she's not really sure how to share it. lol

I can't believe it! I am like the picture taking freak! oh well.. we still have the memories right? I will have to write down in a journal everything we did.

and speaking of things we did.. guess what I DID?? I decided at the last minute to take my portable easel, paints and some canvas so I could do some art on the ship! and I actually did! I even created some stuff in my art journal on the plane ride too. It was fun. I NEVER take my art supplies on family trips. The fun part was my kids got involved and one morning, we had a painting session in my room. We had towels spread out all over the floor and we just painted. I only brought my acrylics, my water soluable pastels, my golden fluids, and my Neo Color Crayons.. so it truly was just painting.. but it was fun. I worked on one of my class projects from a workshop I was taking from Mindy Lacefield. It's a mini workshop called  (you can sign up here)

I am really into animals latley.. so I thought this would be fun and it WAS!

okay.. so did you happen to notice my header? YEP! that's right.. I changed it.. decided I Needed a facelift of some sort. I also added all of my workshops to the right sidebar over there.. so you could find them more easily. I am going to be changing some of my sidebar things very soon.. excited to update this old blog..

BUT did you notice my newest addition to my header? My new link?  My "etsy" shop? Yep! That is RIGHT!! I have opened a NEW etsy shop!! FINALLY! after a year of wanting too.. needing to I guess.. i  finally did it.

 

Christy Tomlinson Designs

Let me tell you why it took me so long though.. this is really personal.. so bare with me.

so you may or may not know that I don't sell any of my original artwork. I actually have only given away a handful of prints. All to really close friends and ONE I donated to an auction for another close friend. AND last year.. I took the plunge and did sell one of my original artwork pieces to a dear friend I had met through my classes.. she emailed me (love you laura) and she pursauded me with a very dear story about how one of my pieces had touched her heart.. I had such a HARD time letting it go.. but after hearing her story and knowing her funny and sweet personality through my classes.. I KNEW it was right and it would be going to a good home. So I sold my first piece of art.  Its funny because I teach my art.. I license my artwork, I have sold prints at some of my events before.. but NEVER my originals.

The reason being that they are so dear to my heart! I start to get this ancy feeling in my stomach about letting something I Love so much and that has a story behind it go.. and also selling it to someone I don't know. But latley as I have been organizing my studio to move to my new studio.. I realized I really can't just take all of it because I don't have the space for it. And right now it just sits in piles on shelves. SO then I thought.. well I COULD sell it.. and then again.. had a freak out moment.. of seperation from my art, and someone not loving it as much as I did. SO I stop and cast that idea aside.

Well a couple of weeks ago a friend of mine texted me about a piece of art she had seen on my blog.. she said she really wanted to buy it and told me the reason why. She said she had been going through a really rough time (which I had known about) and that this particular piece when she saw it, helped her to see things in a new light. It brought this ray of sunshine into her life and she really really wanted to purchase it to have as a reminder each day that there is hope and life is beautiful. After talking back and forth I decided to go ahead and sell her the piece. But it got me thinking.. this friend I mentioned was ANOTHER beautiful women I had met through my online classes.. someone who had taken my courses and through them I had found friendship. Then i started thinking.. you know I have found SO many friends through my workshops.. thousands of new friends.. women and even some men and children.. who have never done art before.. who have taken my online classes and other classes and through these have found themselves as artist.. I have countless emails of people finding thier voice and their joy through ART.. and it makes me SO happy!  These people are truly people who I care about and consider friends. All of you are friends. So that's when I decided to just go for it.. open up my etsy shop and start selling some of my original pieces.. KNOWING that while they have very special meaning to me.. whoever decided to purchase  them will love them just as much. I know because I have started collecting art from some of my favorite artists.. original pieces.. and they are VERy dear to me... and the speak to me and they have special meaning to me. LOVE collecting art from other people. So I have taken the leap and swallowed my anxiety about letting them go.. and realizing that they will be going to wonderful caring homes.. you might laugh at my anxiety over it.. but it's seroiusly a big issue with me.. lol. I'm a dork. I know :)

 

SO I am starting out small. Just listing a few originals each Week.. or every other week.  Right now I only have originals in my store. BUT in the next couple of weeks I will be listing prints as well. Anyhow.. so today is the first day of my shop being open! Yeah!!

I have listed 7 of my originals.. here are just a few of the ones I have chosen for this week.. (eek! I am SO nervous!!)

WHen you go to my etsy shop, i write a little bit of each of the paintings I have listed.. the story behind whey they were created. so you know a little bit more about me :)

 

Some of these you may have never seen before as they created and shared only in my workshops.. or some of them just for me..

 

 and probably my most favorite one  of the bunch.. one that I shared on my blog as a free print in THIS blog post.. and had a LOT of meaning to it..

so there you go! eek! this is exciting and scarry at the same time! lol.. who knows.. maybe that won't even sell.. but at least I am finally cutting some apron strings and letting some of these go.. and realize that through sharing these.. I am also growing myself!

I will let you know when I add new things to the shop! My prints will be coming soon. and will post about it here when they do!

Wednesday I have some fun things to share! So stay tuned!

Happy Tuesday!