A Wake Up Story

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Spalenka/ArtistAsBrand Winner!

As mentioned in the Artist Feature & Giveaway there are two winners. The first is for their choice of either Musing the Goddess set #1 or #2. The second winner gets FREE admission to an ArtistAsBrand Workshop during 2010.

Much gratitude to dear Greg for being our featured Artist this month and contributing fantastic prizes for the draw. The lucky winner was chosen by my daughter using the card deck methodology. I had my daughter choose four cards, the first for prize #1, the second for the workshop winner. The other two are just in case the first two winners are incognito, which in this case, I think not. The first card that was chosen was the Nine of Diamonds from the Red deck, which was assigned to GruvKitty and the second was the six of Spades which was assigned to Kym. Congrats to both of you!

The best place to hear more details about Greg's art is at his website, for his upcoming workshops stay tuned at his new web blog. For more info he has a Facebook fan page for ArtistAsBrand. To order you own Goddess Card set find them at his shop on Etsy.

Thank you to each and everyone of you who stopped by the feature and giveaway. Visit us again next month for another Artist feature and giveaway.

LotusFaeries Image ©Greg Spalenka

Love Notes 2010

In February of last year I created special little Valentines for a few individuals within my sphere. For the most part the individuals were those who had shown quite a bit of support through out the year, mostly composed of those glorious patrons we artists adore.

The intention was triple fold: 1. Promote. 2. Take advantage of the holiday to create a special one of a kind item for specific folk. 3. Get creative and do some painting.

While in the large studio one day I discovered a little gift I had created for Greg while he was working in Texas. The box was a simple heart shaped, cardboard shaped box picked up at the craft store. I painted it with my acrylics adding a few decoupage items and then filling with caramels, one of his favorite candies. This gift was made out of love and longing. He worked in Texas for 16 months, both of us flying back and forth for short little visits.

I came upon the box rather auspiciously while I was mentioning to Greg that as an illustrator I would use the holidays to do special promotions and thought it would be good to do the same my perfumes. As I was talking I caught site of the box. Ah-hah! I could re-create these boxes and fill them with a few little pots of solid perfumes!


So I did. In the process, the idea to create the chocolate natural perfumes was birthed. Albeit I had no idea what a challenge that would be both from a packaging and fragrance aspect. A year later, here they are. Samplers were sent to a small, exclusive group, including some of the same sweethearts as last year.

In the works are more, to fill the large heart box with eleven chocolate delights and body butter to slather all over oneself or perhaps ones lover.