Whats a girl to do?

A plate of chocolate chip cookies n Sex and the City Season One- that's where my life is at- again? Still?

"No one has breakfast at Tiffany's, and no one has affairs to remember"

Pinterest

I've finally joined Pinterest.  



My friend Kellie has been on Pinterest for a while, and invited me before, but I wasn't ready to undertake another social site to maintain at the time.  Now there is Google+ that I gotta figure out.  geesh 
What's ya'alls take on Google+ ?  I'm not sure how it is supposed to merge with blogger, but I don't want it to screw up my blog, I'm comfortable with my little space here, and don't really like the appearance of the Google+ bloggy page thingee.  i dunno, maybe in time.

Vintage rules!

I'm getting the system down now for my AristCG's ASOS Marketplace Collection.  Here's a couple pix of my model Chelsea who has always seemed like she walked out of the 60s to me.

A Girl Gotta Do What a Girl Gotta Do!

Oh haven't I said that a lot in my life time!

I can't spend a lot of time whining about the tragedies, hardships, injustices and other struggles in my life--though perhaps I should spend a little time describing some of the former, or how will people begin to comprehend or identify if I don't?  But, I can't.  I am so much like a Vietnam Vet.  It's painful to relive some of these things--near maddening.  So...onward I press!

I am currently without a job for a few months.  I have too much debt after my year with breast cancer and the snowball effect of car troubles that followed.  I have a prick of a brother who took control of all my father's assets, blah blah blah.  No family nor partner to support me.  So...onward I press!

I've always been industrious.  I'll say it again:

A GIRL GOTTA DO WHAT A GIRL GOTTA DO!

Shy of selling my body or drugs...I do what I can, when I can, with what energy I have to try to make a buck here and there.  I'm nickel and dime'n it through life.  I'm making little cactus/succulent gardens & terrariums--Lucky 7 Gardens--though the expense is higher than the return so far.  I'm trying to get my art out there--my photography book In the Bedroom is now available as an ebook!  And now...I'm trying to sell some clothes off my back (well, my closet) on a website based out of London.  It's proven to be extremely time consuming.  There was the time spent photographing my models, and then days of doing photo facials and other editing to the images.  Then, and entire day--yes, entire day--just to get one entire outfit posted on the site!  phew  I hope I can narrow down the time spent on this process as I go along.  I hope it pays off.

Here are a few images and a link to my collection at asos Marketplace:   ArtistCG's collection

A couple of the outfits I will have to reshoot :( because though I thought I read all there was to read about the requirements, I didn't see that you could only have one person per photo until I went to list the items.  Chasity & Que sure look adorable in the shots of them together, so they'll be happy to have them anyway--and I like them too!  :)

Bird Watching

This winter I have had some of my favorite birds visiting me regularly - dark eyed juncos. They are cute pudgy little gray birds with white bellies. I like the color gray - I've been wearing a lot if it this winter.

I put out peanuts in the shell on my bistro table for the blue jays to come grab- this excites the cats! They talk back to the blue jays when they make their cawing sound alerting that they've found food. Those blue jays are smart - they come from who knows how far away almost immediately after I set the peanuts out! So cool. My squirrel buddies will take peanuts from my hands - I love them!!!!

Bird watching is a fun activity for us all...here's Mickey Lou n Lil P sharing a seat and sharing the view

eventually pretty

I discovered this young girl's blog--eventually pretty--she's a wise little soul!  check it out, esp today's post February, and September's post On Toxic People.

Onto what just happened with me...someone said to me "Isn't that just paint thrown on a canvas?  I mean, couldn't I just do that?"  To all of you who think that way about any abstract art, I say "Prove it!"

Here's the paintings of mine the person was looking at:

In the Bedroom - now an ebook!

I currently have the softcover & hardcover with dust jacket set with standard paper to keep the cost at its minimum for the book I created of my series In the Bedroom.  The hardcover with image wrap has Premium Lustre paper--higher quality, heavy duty paper, for better color and protection from handling.  I ordered a sample pack of their paper choices, and I might upgrade these further, but this will bring the cost up.  I will probably leave the softcover as is, because I want it to be affordable, but still want to offer higher quality to those who care about it.  I now have it available as an ebook for just $10.99!!!!  So of course the color is superb on an iPad, and you can zoom up on the photos!  There are 152 color pages, so please understand why the real books are priced as they are -- though low compared to others on the market!  It is like having 2 books in one, because I included my Sucker Pix, which were images I shot of my models with me giving them a sucker after our photo shoot!  They are fun & sexy!

Please support diversity & buy at least the ebook!  I want to keep creating and give you more to look at than what you see on the magazine stands!  :)

In the Bedroom by Colette | Make Your Own Book