On Friday and Saturday, I will be joining about 10 other artists at the Three Rivers Arts Center for “The Perfect Gift Boutique”. There will be a jewelry maker, a candle maker/weaver, a furniture painter, a photographer, and I can’t remember who else. The hours are 10-4 both days. The Arts Center is in a nice little old craftsman style home that functions as a ballet studio, place for plays, art shows, and other artistic endeavors. (I used it once to teach a beginning drawing workshop.) The hope this week is to paint about 6 more paintings to take with me, along with putting prices on lots of reproduction prints and card packages. Thanksgiving? I’m too busy to think about that right now. Thankful, yes, very, for lots of things, for how wonderful my life as an artist is, how much fun it is to blog, for the rain coming tonight. Although I won’t be able to photograph my completed paintings in the diminished light tomorrow, I can see that having rain is much more important than my little plans! 
Meanwhile, enjoy a look at this door that I drew a few years ago. It is in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, where they decorate for Christmas using no electricity! Last year around this time, Michael and I had the wonderful privilege of visiting our friend Janey there and got to see this style of decorating in person. I was astonished by how much I loved the place! Californians don’t have much architecture with age, outside of our missions. Someday I will tell you the story of visiting Alexandria. Today (and tomorrow and the next, et cetera. . .) I am too busy. Thankful, but busy!
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Jana,
Being from Northern Virginia, I have gone to Old Town, Alexandria plenty of times, but never in the winter! I will have to make an effort to go down there this month to see the decorations — I did not know about their decorating with no lights.
We learn something new every day, even in our own back yard.
Becky Craun
Thank you, Sandi! All photos of my work start in iPhoto, the photo program on my iMac. I open them with an external editor, Photoshop Elements. In that program, I type my “watermark” on them. Then, I save them as a jpeg in another file that consists of photos for use on my blog. Lest anyone think I know about ‘puters, I paid 2 different people to teach me this stuff. My ‘puter knowledge is limited to only what is necessary to keep up my website and my blog because I’d rather be painting or knitting or splitting wood or walking!
I really like your blog and the pictures on it. Good idea to put your name on the pictures. How do you do that?
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