is it asking too much to have a glass or two or five before we leave?

just trust
Look what I bought today – the Sept/Oct 2009 issue of Somerset Studio, aka the Vintage Halloween issue.

So I was paging through, and I have to admit I was feeling a bit jealous and despairing. My thoughts went something like, no wonder my work hasn’t been accepted yet, look at the stuff that’s in here, it’s amazing, even better than last year, my work isn’t this good, it may never be this good.

Then I came to page 109…

I didn’t even notice at first. I was busy looking at the skeleton and pumpkin puppet theaters, admiring how adorable they are.

Then I looked at the top of the page. Gasp! What?! My tags. In Somerset Studio? In the Vintage Halloween issue? I had to sit down for a moment.

(Universe, please feel free to smack me for my previous bad attitude.)

I’ve dreamed of having my work in Somerset Studio -the creme de la creme of collage and mixed media. And the funny thing is I didn’t think my Halloween tags were good enough. I thought I went too far with them and added too much stuff. But there they are. In the big league. With the real art.

So cool! I’m so happy and excited to be in Somerset Studio. It is such a fabulous magazine, and I can’t even say what it means to me that someone there thought my work was good enough to be included.

I had no idea they were going to include my tags, but what a delightful surprise. I was thinking that, since I hadn’t heard anything regarding my “aubergine” projects, they hadn’t been accepted, but perhaps that’s not correct. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see when that issue comes out.

In the meantime I’m grateful to the powers that be for such wonderful opportunities and for blessing me with this gift of creativity.

~hangin’ with the scary ladies~