Summer Time!

So much is possible when time is available to you. I so enjoy the numerous opportunities which present themselves. I love to make changes while enjoying time spent in my home and garden. I love to rearrange my home and get more organized and add new plants to learn about in the garden. Sometimes this prompts purging the old to make room for the new. Boxes get packed for a future garage or tag sale. Other options of attending classes and training, reading books, writing, and getting more organized. I enjoy attending classes each week at the APPLE store to learn more about the many new applications. My classes cover Adobe's InDesign, Keynote, and IMovie and Garageband to name a few. Learning how to use these to offer more things in my virtual art room online will be exciting. It is nice being the student after having been the teacher for over three decades. Training to become a trainer of teachers who are becoming mentors to new first year teachers and training to be a mentor in my hometown district was a great way of being around other educators for four days.
My web site has changed and been updated to get products ready and available to my subscribers. Who would expect 14 days of setting up a merchant account and another week to add SSL security on the server. Having a vision of what you want and then finding others aligned in their thinking so that they can assist in creating it takes more patience than I can sometimes muster. The monthly bonuses each month have yet to be available as we determine the best way to make that happen. The opportunity to send e-cards is on hold as we are still looking for the Mac software.
The ArtWorkBook Series is finally in the art catalogue and available in ebooks which can be downloaded at any hour of the day or night. The books are also available in print on demand,( when someone orders, they are printed and shipped) this one company is a little costly and won't print one book at a time. So I am looking into other companies.My other blog was customized and when we changed the theme, it lost all that customization. It is now being updated. About to attend a family reunion at Lake Texoma and look forward to time in nature.
Also scheduled to meet up with internet marketers: Pat O'Bryan, Dr. Joe Vitale, Craig Perine, Bill Hibbler and others in San Antonio at Unseminar 5 in July. The assistance in providing clarity on what's next in the development of my site will be welcome and appreciated. Two of my mastermind group are attending and it will be nice to see them in person as we meet on the phone each week from all parts of the world.Well, time is of the essence although there seems to be more of it on these long summer days, I think I will walk in my garden before getting into my next daunting task. This afternoon a nice dip in the pool will be refreshing. How are you spending your summer days? I would love to hear.

" You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however." Richard Bach

Spring Comes!

How perfect that on the day of the SPRING Equinox that many great ideas were planted like seeds in fertile soil. My day was spent with incredibly generous people sharing both their time and talents. Two graphic designers shared with me ways to get my books and products online as offerings to art educators and their students. We discussed POD ( print-on- demand) so that art teachers could order a hard copy of my books, the company would print and ship the books to those who order and numerous other options. We discussed my Flash Card deck, calendars, paper portfolio packs, and more.
Another meeting with my mastermind group had us talking about the many details that each of us are involved in to get our web sites launched with the unique offerings for which we each feel a great amount of passion. The learning curve is phenomenal. Last of all, research at the book store with another friend had us learning about how others ( successful women) went about marketing their sites so that people could find them.
Think about it,the internet with the millions of sites makes finding your site kind of like searching for a needle in a haystack. I feel confident with such dedicated people surrounding me that we will work together to succeed. I expect positive outcomes!
I am so grateful for all of these people in my life. A very talented copywriter just re-wrote the copy for both of my sites. Next my web designer will be back to work on launching a new look to the art work on the web site.
I absolutely believe that when a lot of energy is spent on something that will be good for the world. The rewards will follow. It is back to the analogy of having planted a seed,in fact many seeds, and with the right soil, light and nutrients, the seed must as they say," Bloom where it is planted!"
I very much look forward to the day when all of these tasks are done and the communication will be frequent between art educators and art students.The sites will have taken on a life of their own. I will rejoice with a heart filled with gratitude for a dream realized, somewhere quiet, smiling face upturned to the warm sun.
"Sitting Silently,Doing nothing,Spring comes,and the grass grows by itself." Osho