Like that train in the children's book I read so many times, my business is chugging along, working hard, believing in what I am doing...
It all started when I began making note cards with my photographs. Back then I would sit in the corner of the living room and glue photos onto card stock and hand write the title, etc on the back of each card.....hour after hour of gluing and folding and writi
ng. I sold them at churches and craft shows for $2 each and displayed them in little wicker baskets. Eventually a logo evolved - a flying heart - which signified the love that goes flying out into the universe when we take the time to sit down and write (yeah, the old fashioned form of communication) a note to another, put it in an envelop, add a stamp and drop it into the mailbox down on the corner; then that little card would go from the postman's big bag, to the local office, into a truck, sorted into a box, put in another truck or on a plane and eventually another postman would put the card into someone's mailbox where those words you had written days before would be held in their hands and all that love would leap out of the envelop and they would smile. (or so my story goes)
Now I travel all over the Central US going to art shows where I can share (and sell) my artwork; the little corner of the living room has grown into a wonderful studio heated by a wood stove not far from the old 1930's log cabin that is my home. There I continue to create artwork that I hope "leaps out of the envelop" and makes you smile.
