Only 24 hours left to enter the FREE giveaway – so make sure you go and check it out now – enter a comment in this post at this link and you are entered into the giveaway.  All you need to do is comment with a favorite item of mine … or retweet!! Easy as pie … well I never found making pies easy, just eating them!  Last time I will remind you – thanks for checking it out!

This is fun – I found another blog post about this giveaway!!  Here is the link at Etsy Giveaways!  I never knew about this blog – looks good!! Lists all sorts of Etsy giveaways.

You can win a FREE $20 gift certificate to any of 3 of my shops … with FREE shipping and handling. For those who like my art, I hope you will take advantage of this free giveaway!!  I am also willing to list another image if you win and your favorite isn’t there.

The Design Style Guide is a wonderful place that is bringing together thousands of items that are appropriate for Home Decor. Their main purpose is to promote the team and its members to Interior Designers (and like-minded consumers) through various promotions and advertising techniques.   This is part of the move to promote handmade items instead of mass produced things. Their focus is on marketing and branding “Handmade Home Decor” to professional Interior Designers.

Design Style Guide Giveaway #5

They are having a series of giveaways – the current one with Diane Clancy (yes, ME!!) at Etsy and 1000 Markets.  This is a free giveaway and I encourage you to join in and see if you can win!!  The Giveaway is through October 20 – so join in today!!  Here are the details about the giveaway on the Design Style Blog.  You know my art – I encourage to go join in the giveaway. Here are my shops Diane’s Etsy shop and Diane’s 1000 Markets Shop and Diane’s ArtFire Shop. This is a great opportunity and let’s hope one of you wins!

If you would like to join Design Style Guide, please click here:

Thanks for stopping by!

I am adding new things every day to my shops – I am getting back in the flow – so keep checking to see which one YOU want to take home!! Thank you!

~ Diane Clancy

You can win a FREE $20 gift certificate to any of 3 of my shops … with FREE shipping and handling. For those who like my art, I hope you will take advantage of this free giveaway!!  I am also willing to list another image if you win and your favorite isn’t there.

The Design Style Guide is a wonderful place that is bringing together thousands of items that are appropriate for Home Decor. Their main purpose is to promote the team and its members to Interior Designers (and like-minded consumers) through various promotions and advertising techniques.   This is part of the move to promote handmade items instead of mass produced things. Their focus is on marketing and branding “Handmade Home Decor” to professional Interior Designers.

Design Style Guide Giveaway #5

They are having a series of giveaways – the current one with Diane Clancy (yes, ME!!) at Etsy and 1000 Markets.  This is a free giveaway and I encourage you to join in and see if you can win!!  The Giveaway is through October 20 – so join in today!!  Here are the details about the giveaway on the Design Style Blog.  You know my art – I encourage to go join in the giveaway. Here are my shops Diane’s Etsy shop and Diane’s 1000 Markets Shop and Diane’s ArtFire Shop. This is a great opportunity and let’s hope one of you wins!

If you would like to join Design Style Guide, please click here:

Thanks for stopping by!

I am adding new things every day to my shops – I am getting back in the flow – so keep checking to see which one YOU want to take home!! Thank you!

~ Diane Clancy

Today is Blog Action Day 2009.  October 15th is the annual day for bloggers all over the world to unite together to spread the word about this important issue – of CLIMATE CHANGE!  Almost 10,000 bloggers from 150 countries have participated so far! Dealing with Climate Change is crucial to the survival of humankind.

Earth Day, Digital © Diane Clancy

This vibrant, colorful painting of Earth Day shows humankind taking the extraordinary leap that we need to take to make the changes we need.  All the personal things so many of us are doing – driving more slowly, turning down the heat, eating locally – are all important and we need to each continue our efforts!

BUT war wrecks total havoc on the environment.  Peace is much healthier for the earth – besides for “children and all other living things.”  The environmental impact of war is terrible!! The fighter jets, bombs, wreckage of buildings, transporting many troops and supplies … all take a large toll on the earth.  I KNOW it is terrible with the human cost – and I am so sorry for all of us who have been impacted with human loss by war (which includes most of us) … AND the toll of war on the earth is terrible also.

This is yet another reason we need to strive to create peace – for all of us and also  the home we call earth!!

Thank you for stopping by!

The Design Style Guide is a wonderful place that is bringing together thousands of items that are appropriate for Home Decor. Their main purpose is to promote the team and its members to Interior Designers (and like-minded consumers) through various promotions and advertising techniques.   This is part of the move to promote handmade items instead of mass produced things. Their focus is on marketing and branding “Handmade Home Decor” to professional Interior Designers.

Design Style Guide Giveaway #4

They are having a series of giveaways – the current one with Joan of TheGiftHutch at Etsy.  This is a free giveaway and I encourage you to join in and see if you can win!!  The deadline is September 2 – so join in today!!  Here are the details about the giveaway on the Design Style Blog.  Joan creates beautiful pillows, sachets and other gifts and I encourage to go join in the giveaway and also look at her Etsy shop. This is a great opportunity and let’s hope one of us wins!

If you would like to join Design Style Guide, please click here:

Thanks for stopping by!

~ Diane Clancy

The Design Style Guide is a wonderful place that is bringing together thousands of items that are appropriate for Home Decor. Their main purpose is to promote the team and its members to Interior Designers (and like-minded consumers) through various promotions and advertising techniques.   This is part of the move to promote handmade items instead of mass produced things. Their focus is on marketing and branding “Handmade Home Decor” to professional Interior Designers.

Design Style Guide Giveaway #3

They are having a series of giveaways – the current one with Felicia Kramer.  This is a free giveaway and I encourage you to join in and see if you can win!!  The deadline is August 5 – so join in today!!  Here are the details about the giveaway on the Design Style Blog.  Felicia Kramer is a fantastic artist and I encourage to go join in the giveaway and also look at her Etsy shop. This is a great opportunity and let’s hope one of us wins!

If you would like to join Design Style Guide, please click here:

Thanks for stopping by!

~ Diane Clancy

Sue O’Kieffe of Sacred Circle Mandalas (http://sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com) has a wonderful giveaway!!  Here is the post with the details.  It is very simple to enter and she creates FANTASTIC mandalas!!  Don’t know what they are?  Go check out her blog!

Sue’s Mandalas Giveaway

Sue has started selling her lovely mandalas!!  Check it out!! Sue has a great newsletter she just started too.  It is easy to sign up for it when you enter (if you like – no pressure).  Thank you for checking Sue’s giveway and mandala’s out!! How are you doing? Thank you for stopping by!

~ Diane Clancy

Today I was featured in a Spot Light on Made By Hand. The site is Made By Hand – and another time I will share more about it. Recently I have been accepted by the ACEO Market on 1000 Markets … and someone there made this Spot Light and included me. I think it looks pretty cool. They also have a script that you can use to insert the Spot Light into your site or blog. I had never heard of this site before today but I made a profile and shop there and I will share these links sometime soon. (There is more about 1000 Markets below.)

Powered by byhand.me. Selected by Linda Donnelly

Spot Light of ACEO Market

1000 Markets is a shop for people selling unique items. Part of what they say is “Our merchants are small, independent, artisan businesses built by people who love their craft. They make and sell unique products, based on their own vision, personality and story.” Unlike many of the other online shops, you have to be accepted by them to open a shop. Anyone can join, look, comment and buy … If you want to open a shop, you create a shop with at least 5 items and ask them to approve you. Here is my shop if you would to peek at it … Diane’s 1000 Markets (http://dianeclancy.1000markets.com). You can see lots of my vibrant, colorful paintings there!

Diane’s 1000 Markets

1000 Markets is a marketplace that has Markets (instead of teams as Etsy does). So there are individual merchants and then markets … which are merchants who come together with a common purpose .. geography, type product, method of making items or styles of art. The ACEO Market, which recently accepted me, is a market that showcases … guess what … ACEOs … Art Cards (2 1/2 x 3 1/2″) that are a fantastic, affordable way to collect an artist’s artwork. I highly recommend them. At the ACEO Market (http://www.1000markets.com/groups/aceos) you can see lots of different, unique ACEOS!! Please stop by!

ACEO Market

If you are a customer, this a great way to see more art, If you are a seller, I recommend 1000 Markets as a useful place to sell! I hope you enjoyed hearing about these places and maybe even got some ideas for yourself! Thank you for coming by!

I have mentioned the VAST group (Visual Artists Street Team) that I belong to at Etsy. Here is the VAST Blog if you would like to know more. We also help each other market-our art work – we are an online, international group that is creative, loves art, creates original art and has an Etsy Shop.

Etsy has a very cool thing called a Treasury – someone puts together 12 items of people’s work with some common theme. There are 2 treasuries and they both rock!!! Each treasury has a theme. Here is the Main Treasury and here is Treasury West. I am so so excited because I am in these treasuries. Dancing up and down with joy!!! I bet regular readers of this blog will identify my vibrant, colorful paintings without reading my name. Thank you to the wonderful shop keepers who make treasuries!!!

Art Gallery Treasury, Etsy

T West Treasury, Etsy

The Design Style Guide at Etsy is another team I belong to. This is a group who work to make your home and office look beautiful with lovely items!! Here is the Design Style Guide Blog. The motto is “Where Networking Work Pays Off.” They also network on other sites that offer products besides Etsy. Here is the website of Design Style Guide.

DesignStyleGuide is a website that is a valuable resource to all Handmade sellers who create items that can be listed in any of the Home Décor categories, from Furniture & Wall Art to Home Accessories, Pottery & Glass, Pillows & Quilts, and more.  There is a small fee for listings items so that buyers can go then go directly to your other shops to buy directly from you … so no other fees! Click on the image below to join!

I also belong to BBEST – Boomers and Beyond Etsy Street Team. This is a very active group who work hard at marketing and being visible. Here is the BBEST Blog … The Boomers are 40 and over … lots of fun!

I am also part of the ACEO Street Team group (ACETSY) at Etsy. Here is the ACETSY Blog if you would like to know more. Here is an Etsy Blog where anyone with an Etsy Shop can join … so there is a great variety of items.

The Western Mass Team at Etsy (I belong to that too) … also has a blog – this is a team of shops from my region. And one last team I am on … the Etsy Greetings Team – a team that sells greeting cards.  They also have a blog.

I hope you enjoy finding out about these wonderful shopping opportunities! Thank you for looking at my being showcased!! Here is my Etsy Shop.

~ Diane Clancy

Mel Avila Alarilla featured me on his blog  Literatti – An Artistic Blog.  Mel has been featuring “Upcoming Contemporary Artists” and I am thrilled that he includes me in this category!!  Here is part of what Mel says “Her artworks are not only vibrant potential masterpieces but they are also outlets of her soul’s different longings and expressions. You can almost feel and hear life echoing in every artwork she makes. They are so scintilating and magnificent in color and their sheer volume and variety are simply astonishing.”

Please check it out! Mel Avila Alarilla’s blog is here and here is the post that I am included in! Oh yes … there is another of picture of me for those of you who want to see what I look like … so enjoy!  There are over 10 of my paintings and quite a lot of text – I bet most people will find something they haven’t seen or known before. Please check it out!  Thank you, Mel!

Featured at Literatti – An Artistic Blog

The paintings from this featured article are available as prints, Art Cards/ACEOs, tiles, totes, postage, mugs and more.  You can find them at Diane’s Etsy Shop (http://DianeClancy.etsy.com), CafePress Shop (http://cafepress.com/DianeClancy) and Zazzle Shop (http://zazzle.com/DianeClancyArt).  Just ask for other merchandise or sizes, including matted and framed!

Thank you for stopping by.  Thank you for being part of my life!!

~ Diane Clancy