Thank you for visiting my art blog! I am an artist in southern California, and this blog is about my journey into art. My art is mixed media original art, and very often my vehicle for sharing is a greeting card. I paint and ink and stamp and rip and shred and glue and emboss, but no designer paper is harmed in the making of my collages. It all starts with blank paper.

May 25, 2012

G'day, Mate!

I got my first international order!  Woohoo!  All the way from New South Wales, Australia.  It is so amazing to think that my art is traveling halfway around the world to the southern hemisphere to make someone's mother happy on her birthday.  Talk about spreading the joy far and wide.

I hadn't mailed anything international in awhile, so I expected a little more fanfare at the post office.  The clerk asked what it was, and then she took it, done.  I'm thinking, "But don't you need me to fill out a customs form, or do a rain dance, or pay $1000?"  Nope, easy peasy.  (I might hike my international shipping rates a teeny bit, but otherwise it might as well have been going across town.)

So now I am an internationally recognized artist.  Cue applause.  I could even hear my customer's Aussie accent in her email: "Thanks heaps!"

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