Mail, Mexico, (M)Rabbits

Hello Friends!

It's currently June 25, 2024. I wanted to take the time to make a couple of announcements regarding what the title refers to.

1. MEXICO: I won't be available to send out orders, commissions, etc for 06/29-07/14. I'm going to be headed out to Mexico City and will hopefully be publishing photos and sharing my little food reviews (You can't hide from me Barbacoa tacos...) and more here. As a big history nerd, I'm excited to go aggressively speed walk around and hopefully see as much as possible in a matter of two weeks (even though I recognize you can't just "see and learn everything" about Mexico City in two weeks..)

2. M(RABBITS): Okay- This one doesn't start with "M" but stick with me-

By August I'm hoping (perhaps hopping?) to have some new products available on my web store. Anyone who has to hear from me on a day-to-day basis knows I won't stop talking and sharing ideas about what has been brewing in my mind. These products are aligned with what I've always envisioned for my art and are hopefully just the beginning of branching out to doing more besides stickers and prints (which are still great and I hope to continue offering <3.)

3. MAIL: Finally- back to another "M" word.

My art is now officially offered in a store! This past week I took the opportunity to set up my art in Ship & Mail Xpress ( 2114 W Grant Rd, Tucson, AZ 85745 ) (Peep the greatness of the miniature trees with "apples" on them - and no you don't have to be sending mail to go pick up items in person!.)

This is the first store where I've been able to set up a range of my own products. Also a bit of a learning experience-

No, that green grass paper isn't longer in the tube and you should've known the tube was going to make it seem like there was more-

No, Those double-sided sticky velcro squares AREN'T going to work.

Being somewhat of an optimist made me realize,

hey, maybe test out the products before you have full faith they're going to work in the way you need them to work.

Despite all of the nonsense and fumbling around for a good 10 minutes and saying "ah geeeeez-" I was able to end up with a display, I was still excited about.

say it with me and the roll of tape keeping my display together:

ooooo...

....ahhhhhhhhh-

ONNNNNNEEEEE LAST THING-

Although I'll be using this page as a general blog, if you're interested in seeing behind-the-scenes work of my art, and supporting me as an artist consider visiting https://ko-fi.com/itsmaq# Kofi is what you could call "a digital tip jar." (if you donate once you'll be able to see a tier of posts where I show finished projects since I most likely will be slowly getting off Instagram due to AI, etc..

Im hoping to post little vlogs of what im working on and more progress pictures / behind-the-scenes stuff on the tier where there's a monthly subscription.)

(Heres the official Tier List of what I'll be posting:

- Updates

- Behind-the-scenes video/photo content

- Previews of products before launching on my website.

- Member Discounts

- 1-1 Art / Design Advice / Critique

- Art Calls / Art Grants listings )

Well readers- We've laughed, We've cried but most importantly we read this blog post ... i guess... Thank you for reading my first little blog post!