My first damn sale!

Yes I finally had a sale today. On my etsy site I had a custom order, and on the ekcetera shop I sold 3 different cards. Oh it's so exciting, I just love it! It's such a relief, I kept staring at the screen whispering to myself, "come on, buy something". And now it happened. Yippie! More designs to come!

Prints

So I've been itching to put some art work up on etsy that I did in college. My last semester I started experimenting with traditional illustration and photoshop. My inspiration for all of it was the book Illustration Now.

It is the best book ever for inspiration. I could look at it 500 million times. I've only been able to check it out from the library or peek at it in Barnes and Noble, but one of these days I"m going to save the money to buy it.

Fun Couple.

I met such a FUN couple today at the store. They came in and were very excited about the store. We ended up talking for about an hour. It's so great to talk to people who are into the same things you are. Paper, design, macs, internet, the topics went on. I enjoyed it. I hope to see them around again. They said they'd spread the word to all their friends about the store. :)

Mr. Golden Sun.

I was so happy to see the sun finally out today! It was such a great feeling to wake up to the sun on a Saturday morning.
I heard on the news that out of the 17 days it's been raining 15. Ick. Defiantly motivated to do a few designs. Then it's off to work I go this afternoon.

I'm on Etsy!

So I decided to put my stationery designs to sell online. It's quite exciting. I'm a newbee with all of this stuff.
For now I just have holiday items on there, but I hope to develop more designs in my spare time. I hope to improve the images.

Check it out: http://vanessakimball.etsy.com/

Merry Christmas

Here's some designs I cooked up for the holiday season. Look for them at Ekcetera this holiday season.

Comming Soon!

Comming soon a sneak peak of my Christmas card line.

I'm a Winner!

Last week Thursday I went to a Business After Hours expo for the Saint Paul Chamber of Commerce. Ekcetera had a booth and I was walking around and networking. Various booths have drawings, one booth, Corporate Technologies had a drawing for an ipod, just drop off your business card. Monday morning I get a call, I WON IT!! And I was thinking to myself, oh, it's an old version, and ipod shuffle, something to that extent. No it's a brand new ipod nano, one with the bigger screen and new features. I just can't believe it. It's so fantastic!!!! I'm so lucky.



Then today I receive and email saying I won a $10 gift certificate to Buca's. I'm on a roll.