My submission for Illustration Friday's "Confined" category. It feels great to finally submit - participating in Illustration Friday* has been on my To Do List for oh, about 2 years now. And I'm only a day late. New routines are a good thing :)
* Illustration Friday is a weekly illustration challenge. A topic is posted every Friday and then participants have all week to come up with their own interpretation.(from Illustration Friday's web site)
Had to share, this was so awesome seeing The Little Black Boxes' response to my submission *BIG GRIN*
Next thing (after TerBear's order and some new art) is to figure out how to operate my new camera and start getting some amazing pictures up on my Etsy sites!!
Also, the Fitness Group (9 members in all) will start reporting progress soon. Let's cheer them (and me) on!! I'm really, really ready this time. With two of our four kids away at college, it's amazing how much more 'free' time there is to spend working out and eating better. Am back up to 2 miles on the treadmill and finally began weight training again the other day :)
Hope you're all having a great night - the weather here is just glorious. Hard to believe we'll be looking at our first frost in the next week or two!!
I'm very excited (and tired) after preparing and shipping 42 of the sweetest little promos I've ever assembled to The Little Black Boxes, a special place for Indie Retailers to showcase their wares. 
Artists participate by sending in an assortment of their goodies. They are then packaged up each
month, and the LBBs (Little Black Boxes) are sent out to the media,
and are also made available to the public for purchase. It's a great price
for a treasure box full of Indie goodness - and you can get yours starting next week (and there's a greater than 1 in 4 chance that one of these little BeeDazzles combo boxes will be in your shipment)! 
I included an assortment of pendants (Owls, Dogs and Kitties, and the ever popular trees - Autumn Tree, Tranquility and Whimsical Tree) along with a set of coordinating mini notes in a fun little package. Kind of a trial run for a much larger offering during the holidays.
As you can see, it was a lot of work ~ but a lot of fun!
The paperwork is done, this media mailing is done, and now I have one more big wholesale order to go before getting to some NEW artwork. . . will be previewing it here at Bee's Buzzings before it shows up in the shops.
Hope everyone is having a wonderful and relaxing weekend!
Sometime last week I actually admitted to using 'cheater glasses' when doing some of the finer detail work while crafting.
I'd actually almost needed them years earlier, but had Lasik surgery in 2003 (to correct vision that was about 20/600) and they suggested a 'mono vision' option since I was just starting to have difficulty seeing up close. When the procedure was over, one eye was corrected to 20/20, and the other to 20/15. It was incredible! But fully warned, I knew it would only buy me a few years, and my near vision would again start fuzzing up (needed to clarify the 'near' vision only is fuzzing because of that lovely thing we know as 'aging' lol - I can still see 20/20 distance) :)
Lucky me - Katie works at Michaels and texted me one day to say she'd bring home some fun glasses I could use (but could I transfer the money into he
r account? lol) . . . and look at how CUTE they are! And they each come with their very own matching cases =)
Just thought I'd share these with you. Hope you have a great weekend!! And don't forget to comment below (in fact, on all March posts until Sunday) to be automatically entered in the giveaway to be awarded on Monday!
Happy Easter!!
