Selling Art! Spending $ to Make Money

That's how it works. I've now invested hundreds in setting up my portable store. At least I don't have to rent a venue to sell, but I have thus far purchased a portable table, a stool, a folding handcart, matte frames, art sleeves, prints, clips, art business cards, and so on, and I am ready to go. Tomorrow will mark my first day of selling my art out for the day! Look out for me on Bedford Ave. in Williamsburg. I'll be in the vicinity of N. 3rd St.

Or, you can buy from me online.


I'm finally really setting out to make real money pursuing what I love!

Art In the Making!

So I checked out Brooklyn Flea this weekend in Williamsburg and met a potential vendor to sell with. I liked her, and she is interested in selling her own stuff with me! She thinks our art is complementary. And she is more experienced at selling in person (which is true of anyone who's sold their art/craft in person) and is going to make/procure a table/stand for us as well. I've only just applied to sell at Brooklyn Flea a few days ago, so we'll see. But I'm not losing any sleep over it. I may as well try selling on Bedford Ave, Union Square, Highline Park and/or Central Park for free first. Thank goodness for freedom of speech for allowing "expressive matter" vendors to sell license-free in New York!

Now I just have to go to the art store and find frames/covers to present my art, and to wait for prints and postcards of my art to arrive.  I've also been updating my Imagekind site lately and opened up a Cafepress store the other day. Here's to pursuing the dream in NYC!

Post T-Day Haze

Always nice to get away from NYC for a few days, and at the same time, returning makes me appreciate it all that much more. 

Post family-Thanksgiving fun, I am still in a bit of a food coma.

 I had my fair share of this turkey!

 Yet sometimes I just crave a good slice of pizza.

Thank you, Anna Maria's, the lovely pizza place right by the Bedford Ave. L stop.

I was even craving their pizza so badly one night that I made up a rhyme: "My name's Maria Rosaria, and all I really want is a slice of pizza from Anna Maria's pizzeria." If you haven't tried pizza from this place, I recommend it. The staff's humor is an added bonus.

"You Need Poems"

So in between the madness of my Friday night -- between the two different shows I saw -- I stopped to get a free poem written.


The poetess, above, on Beford Ave, asked me for a word to work around.

"Culture," I said

"And your name?" she asked.

"Rachel," I responded.

And the results:

culture for rachel

epicenter of life
is in the living of the
multiplicitous exchange
of counter crossed sub

hub pub hop to drop and dance

across any distance

the infusion of all
in all for all

we are the culture of culture.

(Typewritten on the back of a photograph of a world map)

by poemshopnyc.com

Bedford Ave Shopping Mall?!

I just thought it kind of amusing that now Bedford Ave. is closed of to cars on Saturdays to become a pedestrian shopping mall. How quasi-European for a neighborhood once so down-and-out!