{"id":2349,"date":"2015-11-30T04:34:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T12:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2023-11-21T23:26:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T07:26:29","slug":"so-far-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=2349","title":{"rendered":"So far, so good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the first five completed paintings! I&#8217;m on a roll. November is such a good month for painting. Now that my baby is almost 10 months old, I realize I will have to go back to work soon. I&#8217;m glad to be at a stage where I can feel motivated to paint and enjoy this time.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/inst-series-group-of-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2337 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/inst-series-group-of-5.jpg\" alt=\"INST SERIES group of 5\" width=\"1908\" height=\"1074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/inst-series-group-of-5.jpg 1908w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/inst-series-group-of-5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/inst-series-group-of-5-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1908px) 100vw, 1908px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>I am definitely sleep deprived! Some how I can keep going, despite the multiple night wake ups and household demands. [It probably has something to do with the great espresso machine and the freshly roasted coffee beans&#8211;my husband roasts our coffee a couple times a week in the garage]. My husband is a student right now, so I do quite a bit of cooking and child-wrangling with three kids. But I am enjoying it! I don&#8217;t have time to do all the things that I want to do, so I have let go of some of my ideas (like making things to sell, such as baby toys\/bibs etc.) so that instead I can really focus on creating the art.<\/p>\n<p>Some things on my long list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>update art website &#8211; I don&#8217;t have a web gallery anymore showcasing my work<\/li>\n<li>make prints of my art to sell on etsy (this has about a million steps).<\/li>\n<li>make photo albums from the past 7 years of our family&#8217;s life, since we stopped printing photos.<\/li>\n<li>knit my daughter a scarf<\/li>\n<li>make prototype of baby toys (I might just make a few to give as gifts instead of trying to sell them).<\/li>\n<li>find calls for artists so I can find somewhere to exhibit this series!<\/li>\n<li>work on my other painting styles &#8211; I really want to illustrate books and want to work on painting people, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Work on my genealogy blog<\/li>\n<li>Oh, and of course, write that novel.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/insta-art-table.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2338 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/insta-art-table.jpg\" alt=\"insta art table\" width=\"1329\" height=\"852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/insta-art-table.jpg 1329w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/insta-art-table-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/insta-art-table-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/insta-art-table-80x50.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1329px) 100vw, 1329px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the first five completed paintings! I&#8217;m on a roll. November is such a good month for painting. Now that my baby is almost 10 months old, I realize I will have to go back to work soon. I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=2349\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29,36],"tags":[99,105,109,232,487,857,1022],"class_list":["post-2349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-creative-2","category-parenting-2","tag-art","tag-art-exhibit","tag-art-goals","tag-call-for-artists","tag-goals","tag-selling-art","tag-work-life-balance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5084,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions\/5084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}