Secret of Vintage Jewelry

Dear readers

Don’t miss my review of “Dominate your Market with Twitter”, on my Librarything widget below. Whilst in a Twitter vein, I will say that I have gone against the advice in the book and followed quite a few people in order to get followers, but I hope that I will in time get people following me on my own merit. The most useful Twitter application I’ve found so far is Tweetdeck. This free download brings up every tweet in a little box on the top right of your screen, then fades them away again after a few seconds. I have just downloaded Twitter Local, and hope that will be useful in finding other local businesses. Have any of you tried it? I’m also now on Linked In, but haven’t yet found anyone else on it.
At art group, I’ve completed my second Venice painting and put it onto Flickr as “Venice 2”, so you can compare it with the first one. Both are in the Water set. I’ve made a start on my second industrial picture, using the oil pastels I bought recently. They are only cheap ones, and do not show up that well against the black background, They are OK for trying new ideas out, but I’ll try and get some pastel paper or better oil pastels when our group go to the “Patchings” festival in June. Meantime, chalk pastel pencils seemed to stay put reasonably well, even on smooth black card. “Patchings” is the biggest art and craft fair locally, and is held near Nottingham. We like to visit stock up on our art requisites and watch the demonstrations. Sue can only buy her favourite Chroma colour paints from there.

I’ve joined “Blog Frog”, a listing site, and am hoping to get some new readers for my blog. I like to look at other people’s blogs sometimes, but really would like more readers without having to plough through too many. To that end, I’ve had my blog made into an e-book, “Arty Adventures of Jewel”. I wanted something that began with an “A” in the hope that made it easier to find, and “Jewel” is my blogging name. I reviewed someone else’s book on Blog Catalog (on Back Pain) and am hoping he will do the same for me. His book costs $10, but mine is free, and can be found at the Myebook.com site. I have illustrated it with some of my artwork and photos and welcome reviews.