Pinking Thoughts of Gratitude

Have I mentioned lately how grateful I am to get to do what I do? Thanks Amazing Pink Light Artists! Thanks fun clients to work for! Thanks family and friends for supporting me! I'm getting so excited for the new year!

Artist Highlight-Angela Nickeas

I'm excited to share another new artist, Angela Nickeas! Angela's designs are spot on for Pink Light as they are fun, bright, and full of happiness! Angela is one of our newest artists and we have just recently licensed one of her newest collections for scrapbooking. More details to come! Stay tuned!

When I asked Angela about the top five things that make her happiest in life, she replied:

1. My wonderful husband and daughter-who are a constant source of laughter.

2. Interior design

3. Beautiful butterflies

4. Good food and good restaurants

5. A cup of tea (or 10)!

And a few of Angela's designs for Pink Light...Enjoy!

Artist Highlight-Diana Skylacos

I am excited to announce one of our newest artists, Diana Skylacos. She studied Illustration at The College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan. Since graduating in 2008, Diana has been working for a paper goods company, advertising agency and greeting card company. Her work has appeared on greeting cards, packaging, party products, magazine covers and advertising. Drawing and patterning are Diana's favorite things besides playing softball. She also likes cream soda, pizza, and shoes, and has a pet tortoise named Boris.

When I asked Diana the top things that make her happiest in life and as an artist, her reply was:

Patterns

Cream Soda

Fun Tights

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Thai Food

Traveling

Ruffles not the chips

Drawing with Brush Pens

The Zoo

and a few of Diana's pieces for Pink Light. Enjoy!

Pink Happy Thought for the day

"The world is alive with all kinds of challenges. Pick a particularly difficult and meaningful one, creatively work your way through it, and bring new prosperity to yourself and others". -Ralph Marston

Pink Happy Lessons

I've been thinking today about a few lessons I've learned lately...

1. Sometimes taking a little break is the best thing to do.

2. Mistakes are the big lessons. Learn from them. Come up with a solution so that you don't repeat them.

3. Get your sleep so that your pink light can shine!

4. Don't worry about getting too much sleep because your business (your art) is your passion. Your passion makes your light shine!

5. Know the difference and balance between numbers 3 and 4. :)

6. Have a vision board. Constantly update it. Keep it in a place you see every day. It works!

7. Be grateful. For everything. Even if things don't seem to be going your way. If you stop being grateful, return to number 1. Take a break until you find your gratitude again. :)

Thank you to everyone who has supported Pink Light in the last 1.75 years! It has been such an adventure! I'm getting excited for 2011 and I can't wait to share all of the great artwork that our artists have been creating!

Job Shadow at PLD

Hailey spent the day job shadowing me at PLD--I thought it might be boring for her to watch me email and draw. Hence, I decided to take her to The Seattle Design Center to look for fabric swatches for the studio design, do some "notebook" market research and to of course...stop by Nordstrom to try on some pretty shoes...

At the design center...

looking at pretty wallpaper designs..

And the pretty red shoes at Nordstrom...

Our favorite find of the day was this wallpaper design by The Designer's Guild. I'm thinking this will look BEAUTIFUL on one wall in the studio.

PLD for Design Design Green Line

These are a few of our greeting cards that have been licensed to our wonderful client Design Design. Designs are by Jane Dixon, Kim Anthony and Mary Beth Freet.

above: designed by Jane Dixon

above: designed by Kim Anthony

above: designed by Mary Beth Freet

Just being a kid at the Getty Museum

I had so much FUN this day drawing with an erasable marker in the kids section of The Getty Museum! More pix from The Getty trip to come soon!