Erikie, I hope you had a wonderful birthday yesterday!

The new printer arrived yesterday and I spent a good chunk of time setting it up and preparing a few prints to ship out on Monday. My Print Auctions end tomorrow so I am waiting for those to finish to get everything printed. Now the folks who purchase these prints will be getting not just a print, but Giclee’s since the new printer has pigment based archival and waterproof inks, so this is the last time my prints will be offered at this price. I have to go up a smidge in price to not only cover the cost of the inks, but also because they are the best quality available and will last forever! 🙂

I did get to speak to Mark this morning for a little bit. Things are much more calm there now, which is great news. Hopefully I will be able to talk to him more regularly soon, there were apparently some problems with his connection which bummed me out all week since I have some very cool photos to share with him. And now I wait. sigh.

I walked over 3 miles today!! This week has been phenomenal as far as exercise goes. I’ve walked over 2 miles every day, most days 2.5 or more, and today I really pushed it increasing speed and time. So the drop for the week has been 5 pounds, and I’m now only 2 lbs. away from my goal for the month of April. 😀

The other cool news is that Erica Richards and I will be collaborating on a custom pet portrait contest/giveaway for the month of May. I will host the contest here, each of us will be GIVING AWAY a custom pet portrait (we’re still figuring out what size), hers will be an acrylic painting, mine in oils, both on chunky gallery wrap canvas. I will start preparing the contest entry pages, etc. this week and we’ll kick it off on May 1, it’ll run through May 31. Her work is fabulous, you can click the leopard to visit her website. She’s only got a couple of things available on eBay now, and she’ll set up an exclusive animal gallery for the entrants to see samples of her work. But here’s a sample of her wildlife artwork anyhoo! GREAT STUFF!

Leopard (by Erica Richards)
Click the Leopard to visit Erica’s Website!

I have to add one more thing. This is amazing, if you have a few minutes to view it please do, and you may want to have a kleenex handy. WeSupportU

That’s all the news I have at the moment. Have a great evening!
xoxo