Hello my friends and fellow artists! I have missed you so.
School has been a bear! I truly have a greater appreciation for the young ones still in school. We are headed into the holidays which means so many good things but it also means, here come the finals!

DeviantART has taken such a backseat to my priorities and that makes me sad. I am still shooting though and I have my first "offline" gallery show this weekend. I am quite nervous. I haven't been in the public eye in a very long time.

I have a few books in the works and my school courses have aided me in getting them going.

So my art hasn't taken a backseat just the wonderful times I spend here. I do a lot of checking in daily on my FB account with family and friends.

What I miss most about dA is delving into everyone's galleries and seeing all the new art. I tell people about it everyday and was excited to see my school (Academy of Art University, SF) promoting it!

Personal Notes:
Children are doing awesome! All are busy in school. We are taking them to Canada (B.C.) for the Holidays.
Canada for the Holidays


We have a friend Josh who with his lovely wife is with us as he prepares for a double lung transplant at Stanford (can you say ewww?)

The anniversary of my sister's death was last week. The week prior I was a mess anticipating the anniversary but all in all the lesson was that I didn't have to go through the actual death again, just a deep longing for her and mourning the lack of her presence. It looks like there are great benefits of therapy!

Thank you so much for your love and support. Now, back to this gallery opening. How much am I supposed to charge for my photographs?? HAHA You would think I would know that before I got the gig huh? I have a few more lined up also and I have NO idea what I am doing.

Wish me well and throw out to me any and all advice, helps, tips, prayers (giggle) that you can.

School will be out someday, then I can move back home to dA

I hope your life, art and dreams are being fulfilled, outmatched and unhindered. Blessings,
shell

Well, School has started again! The children are doing great. I am glad they had a week or so before I started, it helped to adjust.

I was so excited to see that on the entrance of the web site at AAU there was a link for all the artists to share their work, and yep.. it was to HERE! YAYA dA

This semester is challenging to say the least! Last semester I took advertising classes, something I am familiar with and could use some of my Photoshop skills with. This semester I have to do some sketching! Yikes, you know I will be posting lol I also have CS4 classes, and it's amazing how different it is with the merging with Macromedia..well, at least it is for me. I have a composition class and I think I will enjoy it.

I have been enjoying my family and friends on Facebook and I am glad that now I can use Facebook AND dA. I created a new "group" there for my photography. It is nice to have people from all over the world look at my art, and not many of them artists.

The best place to social network for me is still here where I get help, critique and loads of love. dA will always be part of me. Now my school and Facebook have chimed in and joined forces with dA That makes me happy.
Some ART that makes me happy!

Hello Friends!

I have done it again. I disappeared from my dA friends. I once again ask you to understand and be forgiving.

I have been swimming some, trying very hard to get healthier. It has been a challenge but I am making headway.

I have been moving and zooming trying to make ends meet however I can, voice overs, writing, ad jobs, anything really. This financial crisis has hit us hard.

I have been running around like a mad woman getting my photography/photo-cards sold, both online and in local shops. I am blessed because I live in a touristy coastal area that thrives on souvenirs.

I have been neck deep in creating a new web page and now I need your help. I need you to check it out http://pottershands.com/photography.htm I added a Java photo album and a shopping cart. What do you think? More? Less? Prices? Am I insane?

I need another thing, yes, I know I am asking a lot, and, well, I need your help. I created a page on Facebook shell's Photography here and it would really help me out if you became a "fan" I know it is hard for artists to buy other artists work, but perhaps someone in your network would be interested.

Thank you very much. I knew I could come to you.
shell

Footnote: I am Michele-Littlejohn-Luccketta on Facebook

Cathi--


Kelly (RIP) Cathi (RIP) and shell


My little sister.. what did she offer this earth? Why was her time so short? Why did she no longer want to be here? There was so much greatness in her. Sadly so much was focused on the hurts, hangups, and hell that she lived with for so many years. She had such a problem with reality, with truth, most times she made it all up... much of it as she went along. Reality can hurt, life can take serious bites from our hearts and souls, I saw that greatly in my sister's life. I begged her to celebrate.

We took her to Grand Canyon, praying she could see the wonders of this world without the cares of the world blaring in her ears via TV, radio, Internet etc.. devastatingly her sadness would engulf her.

We would take her to the beach and watch the waves crash in and out with the colors of the rainbow riding the crest.. she couldn't see past the blackness of some veil that was cast before her eyes.

She loved God, beyond measure, so much so she wanted to be closer to Him and as far from his world as she could get. The anger, the pain, the wars, rumors of wars, poverty, abuses against animals and mankind were all so much for her.

That is all the ugly veil that shrouded her being but she was so much more!!I so wanted her to know it, to see it, to embrace it, to celebrate it.. as her birthday draws near (July 23rd) I feel the ugly veil trying to cover me in a bleak sadness and longing. Stupid world, why couldn't you be nicer?

Well DAMN YOU darkness!! I shall celebrate my sister this 23rd of July! Albeit through this huge veil of tears.. blast you and your unkind ways. My God is bigger than your bullshit! Love can conquer the darkness and I can celebrate all the incredible things that my sister was and still is , in my heart, memories and soul.

Cathi wrote lovely poems, articles and other assorted literary works.

Cathi was a wonderful artist. I wish I had her pieces to present. I give you these to represent her loveliness, created by assorted deviants.

Celebrate



heehee had too

I miss her so, I celebrate her, I will try and make a living amends for all the pain she ever felt by loving everyone my life can touch. My prayer is she has found peace, and a joy we can not even imagine.

Celebrate life, hug as many people as you can this week. I know I asked this at the beginning of the month when I celebrated my sobriety, but this is an on going process.

Cathi my little sister

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