Patricia L. Ballard

Well, I’m in beautiful New Mexico with a NASTY COLD! It’s the story of my life. Just wanted to with everyone a happy New Year’s.

Pat

Ok, it’s the holidays here in the US. The Thanksgiving/Christmas combination packs a double punch. I knew that I’d been letting my online life slide a bit, but I had no idea that it had been eleven days since I’d caught up on my comments.

Have a merry Christmas everyone! If you don’t celebrate Christmas have happy day anyway.

Pat

Hey Guys!
Just got back from Santa Fe last night. After over 13 hours of travel yesterday, I’m exhausted. The Photoshop workshop was amazing, but it was ten to twelve hours per day with homework! We akso had a sprinkler head blow in our yard. For those of you who have never lived in the desert, this is a major problem! $$$$$ add up quickly. I’ll be checking on your work a little at a time over…

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Thank you to stephaniek for buying my Rainbow Star T-shirt. It was a lovely surprise in a really great week.

Pat Ballard

Being creative has been hard for me this week. Maybe it’s being at back home after a trip to Florida last week. Maybe it’s feeling overwhelmed by everything that I want to get accomplished and the intrusion of the trivia of daily life. Whatever it is has led to a feeling of limbo that nothing seems to shake.

Finally yesterday, it hit me. I’m waiting for the presidential election here in the…

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I’m back from 5 days in Orlando, Florida. The next few days will be spent looking at all the new art. Can’t make myself skip anything as I would feel like I might be missing someone’s masterpiece! Soooo give me some time.

Pat

Lately, I’ve gotten into logo and business card design. It hasn’t made me any money yet. I seem to have developed a talent for getting into things that won’t sell in a horrible economy. On the plus side, the site that I’m using is PrintBusinessCards.com, and the design process is a ton of fun. To add to the package that I’m offering, I’ve been designing logo tees and putting them up on RB with …

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Hey Everyone, I’ve been off in New Mexico for he last 10 days. The first 5 I had some sort of flu. Then 3 childhood friends from Kansas came for a look at New Mexico. Today, I’m back in North Carolina and will be looking at all of the art that I’ve missed. It will take me some time to catch up, but the posted art looks wonderful!

Hope that I haven’t been spamming everyone with all of the images that I’ve posted today. The truth is that out daughter came home for a long weekend from college last week and brought a nasty bug with her. She was fine when got on the plane and sick when it landed. I’ve been in bed with it for the last two days. As luck would have it, I have a new graphics software package to learn. I decided …

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Julia Child and Paul Newman. It’s odd as many wonderful people die everyday unnoticed. But these two celebrities have been a part of my life since I was little. Both have contributed some amazing work to our culture.

My family watched the French Chef from the beginning. Julia was not a natural in front of the camera, but she was smart and learned quickly. Part of my love of cooking comes fr…

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