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I believe that there is some sort of luck that is floating around out there in the universe. I have known people in my life who often win things way more than the average person should --such as sweepstakes, social media giveaways, and radio call-in contests. These are the lucky ones. I, for one, don't think I'm one of these inherently lucky people (To clarify, I do think I am very blessed, but I don't have a knack for winning random giveaways). I often see giveaways happening on social media, and I rarely enter because it's just a waste of time and hope. I never win. Except then I did win. Last week. I entered a giveaway put on by Laura C George, mainly because it was so easy to enter (I didn't have to follow a bunch of new people or repost anything or answer any sort of question). And I won! (Perhaps our names being the same increased my luck.) The prize: a subscription to ArtRooms, which is an app where you can easily make mock-ups for your artwork. You just plug in your art, and boom -- you have a lovely professional mock-up. Here are a few I've created so far.    So nice, right? My only complaint so far is that most of their "rooms" accommodate to larger scale pieces, such as this.  You can see that kind of space doesn't really work for my little drawings. I'll give them some feedback. I'm pretty excited, though, to fill my Etsy shop with lots of lovely rooms!
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Last week my little family and I took a vacation to the magical island of Kauai, the ‘Garden Isle’. We had a lovely time exploring, eating, and playing on the beach (though my 3 year old has an enduring fear of the ocean. It is pretty powerful and I suppose he’s wise to respect it. He still enjoyed watching it from afar and playing in the sand). It wasn’t all paradise of course, there were still mosquitoes and rain and I lost my phone to the ocean (but that was more my fault, not the island’s fault).  Overall we had a very sweet time together.  We also saw a lot of these guys.  If you’ve been following me on social media, you’ll know that’s the state bird of Hawaii, the Nene. It’s apparently endangered, though you wouldn’t guess it when you’re there because they seem to be all over the place. I drew it awhile back.  I find after I draw something, I feel a kinship to it. Since I spent a considerable amount of time studying the Nene — I took it in with my eye where it went through to my brain and down my arm and regurgitated back out through a pen — I feel like I really know it now. This not a super logical feeling; I was only drawing from a photo I found on Pinterest, but I still felt a special connection to all the Nene’s in Hawaii because of it. I guess that’s a teeny tiny hint of how our maker feels about us and the rest of the world he created.
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