growing and growing and growing

So, speaking of all things growing...

Oh. my. gosh.

my workload is GROWING. I'm daily adding to commissions, art shows, art classes, and demonstrations.

I am so very excited about it all, but it is starting to crush me!

Just today I have arranged two new pastel demonstrations: one at Forstall Art Center and one at the Hoover Public Library.
I still feel so funny that people are asking ME to do these things, paying ME to teach pastels! It is mind-boggling.

Today I hung my largest painting yet at Mountain Brook Presbyterian Church/Preschool and felt so warm as I saw how much everyone liked it.

I have several challenging commissions on my plate, where its even down to the desired expressions on the people's faces that I have to create for my clients.

I am so very overwhelmed that I am actually getting to do this for a career...that it is working...that it is so fulfilling and is so marvelous to be able to create things that draw out feelings, express emotions, capture thoughts.

How did I get so lucky!

I still feel like just a kid!