It’s Calendar Time…

Hello there! I’ve finally got back to the website after a good few months - in the end I decided to put the blog on hold because, as we say here in France I had “other cats to whip” (lol “other fish to fry” in English) but the website has popped up again because I’ve got myself all in a fizz about print on demand and it looks like I need a shop somewhere so I’m going to start here.

Right from the outset I knew that I wasn’t interested in selling prints but that was at a time when I thought I had to print them out myself and deal with postage etc. I still have that capacity if I want to do signed numbered prints but in the mean time for the part of the art market that chooses price over collectability and rareness I have decided that a select number of my works will be available for purchase on a Print on Demand basis. As I understand it that means that you buy here on the site and a Print on Demand company takes care of the rest - result!

I have to admit that I haven’t set up or chosen who I want to do my prints for Print on Demand so that’ll be something to come later. What I do have is a wall calendar for 2025!, I have received a test order and find the print quality excellent, the packaging secure and delivery time excellent so, all I need to do now is work out how to hook up the website to Gelato (the print on demand company that I found that does calendars).

There’ll be a bit of jiggling around of the shop so that I separate out the originals from what I shall refer to as “merchandise”. No doubt I’ll have to put the calendar somewhere else like Etsy if I want more than a few sales but baby steps, Tracy, baby steps and at least I can point people here if they need a calendar sent somewhere in the world. Aha the world is indeed my lobster Rodney!

I’ll put the blurb about the calendar in the shop I’ll just say here that I’m very proud of it, there are 13 of my paintings from 2023 and 2024, its A4 size opening up to 42cm x 29,7cm with a little hole to hang it up - not sure what the price is yet - you’ll see that in the shop I think. English and French bank holidays, new and full moons, French school holidays and January 2026 to boot.

I’m off to do some fiddling on the Website - see you soon

Lots of love

Tracyxx

Needles and Haystacks

So, I know that I do want to do a blog for my lovely website - but - well I’m getting well and truly fed up.  It just seems to go on and on! Prep of pictures, uploading writing descriptions - and all I want to do is something simple with the plan that I’ll embellish as I go along.

To make matters worse I can’t do this at home because the recent storm Ciaran has wiped out my phone line and internet so, here I am dutifully bashing away at my computer in the local cafe.  Lol although its just occurred to me that I could write this at home and then copy paste it into the website - if that’s how the blog bit of the site works.

Keep your eye on the prize Tracy, you want people to see your art and this is the price to pay!  For the moment I’m only offering prints for sale here and I’ll have to remember to put something somewhere to say that the originals are available but that you’ll have to email me for those while I decide if I want that to be a “variant” - haven’t decided how many signed copies I’m going to do either.  Sitting here at the beginning of my artistic journey 25 signed copies seems like a lot but I think I need to think bigger than that.  And what on earth is an SKU?  Yes that’s right this is my first proper shop - although I did have a brief flirtation with Etsy.

Needles and haystacks hey? If you’re reading this you are a miracle!!! How on earth did you find me?  Haha I probably gave you the link to the website - hello Mum!!.

Still from little acorns great oaks do grow and I think I’m just going to “publish and be damned” after this there’s no SEO to speak of, not sure if the shop’s set up properly but I’m pretty sure that I have plenty of time before someone wants to buy something and my pictures look nice so I’m going to stop sweating it - hit the publish button and get back to my Dog!!!

Thank you for getting this far and I promise the next blog post will be more interesting.

Lots of love

Tracy