Yes, more about greeting cards. Why all of a sudden, greeting cards?
1. First of all, it’s not “all of a sudden”. I’ve been creating and selling greeting cards, artist trading cards, color wall prints and calendars for decades, starting back in 1954 when I made potato-stamp and linoleum-cut cards for my school projects and Christmas Fairs.
2. Secondly, whaddaya mean by “more”??? I haven’t even hardly begun on the subject.
3. Thirdly, greeting cards are a terrific combination of work exercises, and making a decent and honorable livelihood, than anything else on the market.
4. And what’s more, they pay for themselves and even give you extra so you can afford to fly out here for workshops, seminars, clinics, retreats and much, much more.
You have to ask about these things if you want to participate in them. Self-initiation means literally, “self-starting”, and that’s what you’re expected to do. It’s the first big step in getting out of the box.
One major conversion-play here; instead of selling your own cards for your own benefit, you’re fundraising with cards from, by and for, the children’s craft village.
By the way, you can’t just decide to raise money for a charity in the name of your favorite charity, without checking with them first and getting from them their official fundraising packet, whatever form it may take.
Chocolates, wine, cheese, crackers, greeting cards, flowers. What have I left out?
We’re starting to put together packages of these items for seasonal gifting. I’ve got a fairly good sense of how to make this work.
If anyone in our circle wants to create a bunch of jobs for folks, and has some extra cash to plunk into a very tiny retail store — about $1000 a month for a three-year lease — we now have the personnel to run it.
Oh, I should mention that I ran the black sand that the folks brought back from the claim. Each participant now has a credit of $46.10 toward any purchase from the bookstore, or I’ll send you a small locket with a piece of gold. Always process your black sand; it’s worth more than you’d think. You guys did a whole lot better than you figured, right???
Okay, I’m back to work producing new lines of greeting cards with a variety of images, mostly my “not for sale” works, about 300 of them; watercolors, acrylics, oil paintings, linoleum and wood cuts, ink and wash, graphite, encaustic wax, mixed media and possibly sculpture.
Most of my bronze sculptures were sold out the day they were cast, so they simply never made it up onto the web.
I have a one-story stressed-metal sculpture for sale for $85,000. It took one year to make it, and it’s now in the atrium of the main house. Because of the way it was engineered, you don’t need to reinforce the floor to hold it; the huge architectural sculpture can be installed even in a NYC apartment or a wood-frame building, without additional reinforcement. I came up with this after having sold a huge sculpture that then could not be installed without adding $150,000 to the cost for installation & reinforcement. My most recent architectural sculptures no longer require this.
I want to remind you that the movements will be given personally by me at the Labor Day Festival, along with several sessions of rhythmics.
Rotational and Relaxed Breathing Techniques will be given for the purpose of performing the movements in public performance venues.
Movement costumes will be shown and special dance performance costume patterns will be available only to participants.
Special drums will be presented, demonstrated, and sold at the bookstore. You can carry it home, or we’ll ship it to your specified address.
If you’re unable to attend, you might want to indicate that you’d like the DVD version, which will be a two-hour “highlights-only” coverage of the workshop, and will be available when folks can get around to it. The work-load here is on the heavy side at the moment.
Well, as Charley Weaver says, “that’s all the news from Mount Idy”.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby