Hello Cupcake!!’s Neighborhood

well, not exactly 24 hours but tomorrow is the drawing so critique me while there's still time :o) ! (read post below)

Those of you who already have, thank you for your insight, your compliments and your suggestions as well as taking the time to view my work. It's something personal, yet needs to be shared.

You all kick ass!!

Comic Con 4 days passes have completely sold out. I didn't even get a chance to buy one!!

So now, I have to stalk the site so I can get 4 single day passes but depending how much those total up, I might not even go. This is getting ridiculous!

4 months after Comic Con 2009 and they sell out??!! My god!!

Maybe we can Volunteer again.....?

Just realized that I have never sent a post to my neighbors prior to this.I did today in hope for your feedback, thoughts, critiques, ideas, etc.

Today is the submission for the Winter Juried Art Exhibition. Each artist can submit up to three works in any medium. I selected and submitted these three photos (8X10 matted & framed) - with the advice/counsel/assistance of a couple of important people.

Delicate Balance:

Sunflower_rearview

Part-Time:

Part time

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Broken Home:

Pigeonwindows

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Although they are now in the hands of the juror..I want to know what you all think. I'm not fishing for compliments here...that's not what it's about. I am intrigued by people's perceptions. This came up in conversation last night while trying to choose which ones to enter...

So...if you'd be so inclined tell me your thoughts. They by no means have to be 'good' and no I won't hold it against you or stop reading your posts. :) Everyone interprets art differently and I understand and respect that. In order to improve my work, I want to know what other's see when they look at it.

some questions to think about... 

which one do you favor, if any? why?

what do these images evoke?

is there one or more that you wouldn't have submitted? which and why? 

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU? A prize of course. All you awesome neighbors who leave feedback will be entered into a little drawing to win an 8x10 copy of one of the above photos (the winner chooses the photo they want). Drawing will take place on Tuesday. 

=) 

from the mouth of my therapist:

"what we make something mean determines how we feel about it"

I hold onto this when I begin to react to something too quickly or too emotionally. It's difficult to step back and re-examine situations that you feel strongly about before the knee jerk reactions set in...but it's much more beneficial and wastes less energy if one can do so. I'm working on it.

In other terribly sad news, I got a phone call last night from one of Tay's friend's parents - letting me know that her son, Tay's good friend, had passed away over the weekend. He was only 17. He had chronic lung disease and other medical issues and apparently lapsed into a coma. I had to break the news to Tay and she was in complete shock. She just sat there staring off. She said she had just spoke with him last week and things were ok. Gotta call her school counselor this morning to see if she can see her.

It was too soon for him to go. He was such a sweet, sweet spirit.

lovin'

-the amazing weather we've had over the past several days...clear skies, cool, sunny..perfect.

-we're about to go see a performance of Macbeth that Love has worked very hard on with his students

-T has someone special in her life which makes her less moody and much sweeter. I'll take it.

-the droplets of strength that come when I least expect

-Leenda's suggestion of taking Cymbalta at night...thank you, no more nausea! 

-the deaf dalmation mix that is up for adoption...I would love to give it a home but we have no room

-being non-depressed for the past 24 hours now. yay. small portions...but good.

loathe's

-waking every morning at 2am or so and having trouble getting to sleep again...must be the meds somehow. Need a tranquilizer.

-a client no-showing

-loud, disruptive neighbors

-the sound of my alarm - must get something else, it literally hurts my ears...it's not loud it's just extremely annoying

-the $$$$ these appointments and meds are costing!

-a lump of scar tissue under my C-section scar that is becoming extremely painful at various times throughout the day

(seeing a Dr. Monday for this=more $)

Ok, i know, it´s still some time to christmas but as stores have christmasdecorations, christmas chocolates and santa clauses on sale already since the beginning of october.... i just jumped on the waggon ,)

Want your Petits get dressed up properly for christmas season too?
I made two adorable little dresses for the smallest family members.

*petit jingle bells

*petit jingle bells

now available at my etsy store:  It´s a Tafetta Day*

love,
*Tea

music: Coeur de Pirate - Comme des enfants (There are many pretty christmas songs out there, but i didn´t want to push it too far )

Coeur de pirate || Comme des enfants

Ugh, I forgot to check Comic Con site and just found out that 4 days passes with preview night are sold out!

Meh.

I'm going to buy my 4 day ticket with my next paycheck from the Academy. Oh, this sucks! But I guess it saves me an extra day on Hotel...?

Scratch that, pick up for badges with no preview night can only be done starting Thursday. I'm flying in Wednesday.

Now to wait for the stupid hotel lottery.

Meh.

A lot of Blythe people are doing their dolls' favorite fifteen items on Flickr. I decided to do a photo for Plum! She has so many favorite things... It was difficult to fit even just fifteen of them into one shot. o_O

And actually, all the items in this photo are Plum's favorite clothes and accessories, not just the fifteen that are tagged on my Flickr. I cheated a little! But I only tagged fifteen of the items, haha. ^__^

I can't wait to take more photos of Plum in the outfit she's wearing right now. She's totally dressed for autumn and winter. I dressed her and Jinkies the other day and they look so cute next to each other. It's been super cloudy and rainy every day this week so there haven't really been any opportunities for me to go outside and get good lighting for photos. I was lucky I got a chance to jump outside for this quick photo today. In fact, I almost didn't get any shots in because the tiny dresses started getting blown away. x_____x Shawn stood outside with me and made sure it all stayed in order, tee hee.

Halloween and that is a happy thing. In my search for a little color I found this:

Pumpkinheads

. I thought it was rather fitting.

Last night we went, on a whim to see a play here at the local community theatre. Some pros and cons involved:

pro's:

-changing up the pace

-realizing it was the theatre's 45th anniversary

-the production, 7 Keys (had it's high's and low's...ran a little too long and was slow at times but overall I enjoyed it.)

-date with Love

con's:

-the two women behind us who bitched, sighed and ate throughout the entire show - it's a tiny place so I'm sure we weren't the only ones who were nearly pushed over the edge by these two  

-feeling slightly ill while there due to the meds side effects.

Other stuff randomly:

today it is heavenly outside

tomorrow i go to a wedding

today one of us will carve the pumpkin but we might have to buy more because I think we all want to do it. who would've thought pumpkin carving would be so inviting...it's like it becomes my friend after I carve it or something.

most parents of small children take the good candy from their bags when they aren't looking

this year I just bought a huge bag of the good candy since T doesn't trick or treat anymore...the Whoppers are the only ones left.

been waking up at 3 or 4 am for the past several days for no good reason and toss around till the alarm goes off

need to select photographs for the call for entries next weekend - this always results in a dramatic display of my indecisiveness

sometimes no punctuation is good

I like how the sentences just lay free

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