30 March 2018

Life of Art SitRep #424 Graduation Gifts and Invitations

Front end/back end/archiving/education: this week have covered a wide gamut.

I finally finished going through photographs I shot earlier this month. Culled 6 more and rated the rest.

Revised tags, titles, descriptions for 5 photographs in my Rocklawn Arts store.

I created some variations of my recent graduation invitations, thank you cards, guest books, party supplies, and gifts including my first invites and guest books with 3 photo templates.


Check out all of the graduation invitations, thank you cards, and guest books in this collection:

See all of the Customizable Graduation Party Supplies and Gifts here:

At Rocklawn Arts on Pinterest, I added new pins to the following boards: Marvel Comics and Movies, Home Decor Ideas, I Love The Beach, and created a new LGBTQ Pride Celebration Ideas board.

Watched a q&a and a Pinterest video. Learned a bit about Canva which seems like it might be easier than Photoshop for knocking out social media images.

How was your week?


11 years ago on TTaT: Talking 'bout the car wash

25 March 2018

How to Walk

How to Walk (Mindfulness Essentials, #4)6. How to Walk by Thich Nhat Hanh

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Another slim mindfulness volume, this one focused on walking meditation. Again just reading a couple pages at a time was meditative for me. I really enjoyed this one.


10 years ago on TTaT: Holy frijole!

23 March 2018

Life of Art SitRep #423 Revisions

I thought revising titles and tags on products was something I could bust through a good chunk of in the course of a week. It has gone much slower than anticipated and there were distractions. I only managed to get through my folder of Flower Photographs. Still, it's further along than I was. I will keep at it during breaks from creating new designs to help people find my products more easily.

Shot 29 photographs, culled 7. Culled 51 from previous shoots and rated two of them. More to go!

Made some adjustments to my auto-twitter feeds to accommodate Twitter's updated rules, so my Rocklawn Arts blog posts will no longer autofeed to my personal twitter.

To see them, follow me @RocklawnArts on Twitter where I also post new products and designs as I add them.

Created a Pretty Flowers and Buds Spring Photo Mother's Day Card. The flowers are Epimedium, also known as Fairy Wings or Horny Goat Weed among its crazy common names:

Created a few Happy Mother's Day Acrylic Photo Blocks to which you can add your own photo:

Also created Painted White Curves on Violet Abstract Pattern and White Scrolling Curves on Black Abstract Pattern leggings:

Created a new store banner. Stop by Rocklawn Arts to check it out.

Created a Graduation Invitations, Thank You Cards, Guestbooks collection and a Customizable Graduation Party Supplies and Gifts collection:

Rocklawn Arts blogged Getting Ready for Graduation. Look for it next Tuesday on the Rocklawn Arts blog.

Added new pins to the following boards: Easter Celebration
Black and White Party Ideas
Home Decor Ideas
Ways to Resist
and started Mother's Day Gift Ideas.

Check out Rocklawn Arts on Pinterest.

How was your week?


12 years ago on TTaT: Life through music

16 March 2018

Life of Art SitRep #422 Getting Ready For Graduates

A busy week with some photography, a bit of Easter designing, and lots of new products for graduation.

Shot 89 photographs and uploaded 38 from last week.

Created a mockup for Hand Drawn Fancy Easter Eggs Adult Coloring invitation set. You can see the mockup on Pinterest.

Created Hand Drawn Easter Eggs Line Drawing, Easter Party Paper Plates and Hand Drawn Easter Eggs, Happy Easter Brunch Party Paper Napkins:

Created a variety of graduation invitations, party supplies, thank you cards, t-shirts, guest books, and gifts:

Created Black and White Gingham Pattern with Monogram Thermal Tumbler, Light Blue and White Chevron Stripes with Monogram Thermal Tumbler:

Pinned to boards for Rocklawn Arts on Pinterest.

Changed store banner to Easter egg drawings for now.

How was your week?


10 years ago on TTaT: Ten for ten of thirty

09 March 2018

Life of Art SitRep #421 Graduation Invitations and Learning

Finishing out a snow-buried week, I shot some photographs of winter snow covered trees that I've yet to upload.

Created a variety of Graduation Invitations which you can customize with your event details for any type of graduate (high school, college, graduate school, law school, med school, trade school). Some also have a photograph you can replace with your own:

Created Hand Drawn Fancy Easter Eggs Adult Coloring Candy Tins (fill with Jelly Belly flavor of your choice, mints, or nothing) and Favor Bags:

Rocklawn Arts blogged The Easter Bunny is Coming: Are you ready? and created a mock up image for it that I'm proud of.

Pinned to several boards at Rocklawn Arts on Pinterest and added a showcase of boards to my main page.

Made Hand Drawn Fancy Easter Eggs Adult Coloring collection the featured one on home page.

Created some new category images for new designs in my store and added them.

Finished revising tags and titles for Fabrics and Resistance Starts Here.

Researched a variety of trends.

Read several articles about tagging and optimizing Pinterest.

Did end of month backups. Have you backed up lately?


9 years ago on TTaT: Grande due

02 March 2018

Life of Art SitRep #420 Hand Drawn Fancy Easter Eggs Adult Coloring

Started the week shooting 5 photographs of snow covered trees. Culled 1, rated the rest. Also culled 9 videos and 16 photos from the previous week and rated the remaining images of those.

Applied my Photoshop knowledge to some images and text to create elements to use on various designs.

Created a collection of Hand Drawn Fancy Easter Eggs Adult Coloring products including a coordinating invitation set, tote bags, fabric, mugs, cards, edible treats, stickers, a chocolate box, and coloring pages paper pads:

Check out the rest of the Hand Drawn Easter Eggs Invitation Set and Gifts.

Created a Black and White Gingham Pattern with Custom Monogram Throw Pillow:

Created a Trendy Violet Graduate Photo Graduation Invitation:

Click any item above to get more information and buy it.

Pinned to some boards at Rocklawn Arts on Pinterest and created an Easter Celebration board.

Rocklawn Arts blogged Popular Protest Gear: Join the Resistance, New Vintage Easter Bunny Illustration Reproduction, Black Panther Movie Posters Collection, New Black and White Gingham Plaid Wrapping Supplies Collection, New Hand Drawn Fancy Easter Eggs Adult Coloring design. The latter posts are coming up within the next week on the Rocklawn Arts blog.

How was your week?


12 years ago on TTaT: Storm rolls in (Not so different today.)