Andy opened our home to Airbnb last week. We are used to entertaining friends in our home, from just for an evening party to a few weeks at a time.

​Up until last week, we had some simple cardboard signs and blue painters tape for house signs like Bathroom, Trash, Recycle, etc. These are great for a few hours...but for months? Tacky and ugly.

Soooo, I designed some fun cartoony signs, based on our cat Simon. I’ll be showing them here as I finish, lol. Andy’s happily hung them around our home. Our guests, I think, are enjoying them, lol.

If you’d like some signs for your home, I’d be excited to help you. Send your pet or favorite animal photo and I can design the signs you want. My email is angeline@angelinemarie (dot) net and investment starts at $25 per sign.

Smiles, with paint on my hands,
Angeline

to see our Airbnb listings:
For South Africa Room

For Key West Room

May We Help Hang Catnip? 14 by 11 inches, acrylics on canvas, in a private collection

Dudley, Family Protector, 11 by 7 inches, acrylics on wood panel, in a private collection

The last few months, I've been working on a dream project. I've based a lot from our wedding, Andy & mine. We had six months to plan our wedding...and as I looked around the wedding market place, I couldn't find what I really wanted for us. With six months and no painting studio, it was even more difficult to imagine anything unique for us, made by us. We managed a few unique touches, like our invitations and our table names with photos we printed. Other than that, we had a very lovely and traditional wedding, lol.

I'm proposing a little idea of Your Story, Your Wedding, Your Memories. Featured here is an original painting I made for the center of canvas for our guests to sign like a book. 

It's definitely Our Story, It's definitely Our Memories.

If you'd like to learn more, please sign up for email updates, as I create them. 

I just did a quick Google search to look up publishers like F+W Media. I gave up - too many for me to research.

Why do you want to know that F+W Media filed bankruptcy? 

Because F+W MediaPublishing is

1. one of the largest that focuses on Making Things
2. what will become a major source for Making Things?
3. how much more difficult it will become to learn and/or discover things to Make Things?
4. what will happen to all their content, including WetCanvas.com? 

Below is from a blog that I follow called Making A Mark: 
Excerpt from article: 
I'm not surprised by the fact of the bankruptcy - except by the length of time they have managed to last....
It pains me to say this but I saw this coming a very long time ago when I realised that the owners failed to grasp the reality of the move of commerce to online and what the requirements are of a new type of business model. They seemed to have a vision of ecommerce which was was corporate and conglomerate and failed to realise how nimbler smaller operations would move faster to satisfy demand from its consumers.

To my mind, it was a lumbering giant in an ecommerce world full of micro-entrepreneurs.

My perspective is from someone who loves holding a real published book in my hands. I love to browse hardcopy books. My studio hardcopy library is full of books published by F+W Media. I love going to my shelves and browsing these books. 

I also have little patience when I want to learn something. I have a love-hate relationship with the internet. I completely agree with Making a Mark that F+W Media is being mismanaged...but giants are wonderful because they can be easily found and "reduced" to what you want. All those micro-entrepreneurs, I recognize that I am one, too. We get lost in masses, us micro-entrepreneurs. It's just not that easy to get content when you want it from a huge crowd of stuff - and decide if that content is even usable!  

I'll be watching what happens with F+W Media, closely. 

You can read the entire article by Making a Mark, published (ironically on mi Papa's 102nd birthday 3/14/19 if he were here) here:  https://makingamark.blogspot.com/2019/03/owner-of-artist-network-wet-canvas.html

Some of the books in my collection...some from F&W, some exhibit catalogs, some other stuff books. 

Sprinkles and Carousels with Aqua Girl with Yellow Circles, 22 x 8 inches, collage on paper ©2019 Angeline Marie Martinez