Oh man has it ever been a long day. Hell it’s been a long week so far and I have so much to share!

First things first though: I found out yesterday that I did not get into Touched By Fire, the remedial art show and even though I RSVP’d, since I’m not in the show and don’t know anyone in the show, I’m not gonna bother going. Am I disappointed that I didn’t get in? Well I was for a second, but honestly, I had a feeling I wouldn’t get in this year because with how the show was last year, with a huge emphasis on the ups and downs of mood disorders, I kinda knew that the paintings I submitted wouldn’t be accepted. I submitted “Sparkle“, “Shimmer“, “Shine“, “Binary Ballerina“, “Flower Girl “and “Five O’Clock Abortion“. With “Five O’Clock Abortion” being the exception, almost all of my paintings were shiny and happy and they don’t really fit in with the vibe of Touched By Fire. Part of me is like, “pardon me for getting BETTER, I mean isn’t that the whole point of the Mood Disorders Association of Ontario?” but mostly I’m just “meh”. To be perfectly honest, the deadline for submissions caught me off guard and if I’d given it half a thought maybe a few weeks or months prior to the call to entries I would have finished the painting I’m working on now, which is about being bipolar, or come up with something more fitting of the show.

Also, while I had a great experience last year, I didn’t sell any of my pieces. (I had 3 in the show.) I did get a $100 cash bonus from a guy named Bob who wanted to encourage me to keep creating, which was cool, and the food was good and there was a free bar (I don’t drink though, especially in social settings). This year’s show seems to be very different from last year and the more I found out about it, the more I really wasn’t into it. The show is being held at The Royal Ontario Museum, which is VERY VERY cool and it would have been nice to be able to say that my work has hung there, but the event is only one night and it appears to be open to anyone, unlike last year where they had the gala event for artists and special guests and then the show was open for an entire weekend. That probably means there will be minimal catering and probably not a free bar and I probably wouldn’t have sold anything again. Plus, getting my work down there last year was a huge pain in the ass (Blake had to take a day off work and drive them down because postage was unthinkable) and when they returned my paintings, one was badly in need of repair because all they did was wrap it in brown paper and they didn’t even write “this end up” on it, so it was delivered upside down. Not good for an assemblage piece and it really pissed me off.

Anyway, I’m okay with not being in the show. I’m actually kind of relieved because we won’t have to deal with everything that comes with it and not being in the show means I can sell my pieces on my terms on my own site and actually maybe sell them rather than take a loss like last year.

So, that brings me to the one major change I made to my site today: I redid The Shop. Now small items like my “Bitch Barometers” will be in The Shop and paintings will get their own pages beneath it. That way I don’t have to fight with PayPal code every time I have to add or delete another painting. (For some reason every time I added a new painting and PayPal button, all of my formatting would screw up and the pre-existing PayPal buttons would stop working. I’d end up having to make all new PayPal buttons for each painting every time I added something new and it was a total pain in the ass.)

Since I didn’t get into Touched By Fire, all of the paintings I’d submitted to the show are now for sale on this site if anyone’s interested.

Another addition to the site, that Blake so patiently coded, is that I now have threaded comments. They’re kind of in beta though, because we don’t know how they’ll behave if there are a lot of comments (not that I get a lot of comments).

Along with fixing up The Shop and threaded comments, I added a new page to the site, Beliefs & Philosophies, as well as updating my Webcam page with current camming info and my About Me page. Over the next little while there are going to be more changes to the site as far as design and I’ve registered the domain SunnylandStudio.com, which is going to be the new name of the site. (Although SunnyCrittenden.com will still point here as well.)

So many new things! Check ‘em out!

Other than all that, as per usual I’ve been very busy with Camwhores and Buttercup and various domestic duties that are boring and ordinary.

And with that, I think I’m gonna go find some food and get some sleep because I’ve got another busy day tomorrow. Peace out, homies.