New Year 2012...

Well, I went on vacation to PR and it was definitely NOT calm. Plenty of activity: flying kites, parrandas (Puerto Rican caroling), parties, getting together with family & friends...
I did sell cards at the Room Service store and I mailed flyers to the WBU stores and one responded so far. I sold almost 100 Tweet&Flora cards at the Heights Floral Shoppe last year.
What is next?
Finishing my Tweet catalogue to mail out to one store, while approaching more stores.
Creating a HNY & promo postcard (almost done) to send out as a reminder to the WBU stores & previous clients.
Here is Jim and Jorge, the creator of my website.

MADE in the 216 Holiday Store--cards available

Yesterday I dropped off TWEET&FLORA & Pinguink cards
to the Room Service store on West 25th St and Lorain in the West side of CLE.
They hold a holiday shop for artists living in the 216 & 440 zip codes.
If you go shopping at the West Side Market, stop by & check us artists out.

A Shaker Store selling my cards

My cards from Tweet&Flora and Pingquik are being sold here too. 

http://lakeerieartists.com/default.aspx

Allow to sell my cards to WBU franchises!!

Today I got a letter of approval from Wild Birds Unlimited headquarters to sell my Tweet&Flora and Pingquik cards. I now have to send out postcards to offer my products and see who of all those franchises will be interested in selling them. Oh, my I am soo excited, but I really need to get very organized and start figuring out the logistics!!! There are 270 stores nationwide! Yikes!

Tweet cards in stores now-----more later on in holiday shows.

Tweet & Flora cards are now available at 

the Heights Floral Shoppe on Fairmount Blvd. in Cleveland Heights; 

at Lake Erie Artists store in Shaker Square; and 

at Wild Birds Unlimited on Mayfield Road in Mayfield Heights.

This was one of my first funny Tweet Christmas cards. I will be offering this one as a single card. One Tweet got into Santa's Bag, another one is trying to get him out while the big Tweet just rolls his eyes.

Claymation class at Cleveland Institute of Art

This was a fun class that taught us how to make clay figures with stop motion and morphing them into other creatures. The other students were Floy Juszli (Lobster), James Wiles Swan creature, I did the parrot (Pingquik) and Mary Elizabeth Norman (light bulb). Our teacher was Adri Wichert.

New iMac ...

My yahoo account & Facebook were hacked by a Nigerian (organization) sending  a scam that I needed Euros because I was mugged in Spain. I am not really using that yahoo email & Facebook is now giving me trouble that I am logging into an insecure website. PINTA.
Now I have a Mac ProBook so I can be more mobile & be able to show my work to places. I have to transfer files into the new one. So many things to do.
Going to show my cards for a Holiday Bazaar soon. Hopefully I can sell them there.
Back to doing stuff.