{"id":7587,"date":"2011-10-14T02:38:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T09:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=7587"},"modified":"2011-10-14T02:38:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T09:38:52","slug":"arts-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/14\/arts-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Arts &#038; letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Letters first.<\/strong> The letters are (in a nice return to Friday routine) by &#8220;Jake MacGregor&#8221; &#8212; who this week brings hungry readers <a href=\"http:\/\/theadvisornovel.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/chapter-thirty-eight.html\" target=\"_blank\">chapter 38<\/a> through 40 of his novel <i>The Advisor<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Good to see you not only back but picking up steam, Jake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Then arts.<\/strong> Well, those are by me. I&#8217;ve been neglecting the lovely site that a friend set up for me to sell my jewelry. That&#8217;s because after the crash the jewelry market &#8212; at least the normal people&#8217;s end of it &#8212; pretty much went kablooey. I have one steady customer who buys necklaces for his lovely wife, bless his heart, and other friends make occasional purchases. Otherwise the site&#8217;s just been sitting there. I finally removed large swaths of it.<\/p>\n<p>But the site also has a gallery of artwork, and to my delight I&#8217;ve been doing more of that. So I updated the gallery page yesterday. <a href=\"http:\/\/serenityhillgems.com\/gallery-drawings.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here it is<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve already seen some of the pet portraits here at the blog, but there&#8217;s more, new and old. I don&#8217;t claim to be any genius artist, but having lost the ability to do art for decades and only regained it five years ago thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1585421472\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369&#038;creativeASIN=1585421472\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Artist&#8217;s Way<\/i><\/a>, every line on paper is a little miracle.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, one of the images there is a .pdf of the sexy &#8220;Gadsden Girl&#8221; poster you may remember from a few years back (with layout courtesy of L). It&#8217;s suitable for printing if you want a copy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letters first. The letters are (in a nice return to Friday routine) by &#8220;Jake MacGregor&#8221; &#8212; who this week brings hungry readers chapter 38 through 40 of his novel The Advisor. Good to see you not only back but picking up steam, Jake. &#8212;&#8211; Then arts. Well, those are by me. I&#8217;ve been neglecting the lovely site that a friend set up for me to sell my jewelry. That&#8217;s because after the crash the jewelry market &#8212; at least the normal people&#8217;s end of it &#8212; pretty much went kablooey. I have one steady customer who buys necklaces for his&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/14\/arts-letters\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arts &#038; letters<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-books-and-movies","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}