{"id":60,"date":"2007-02-01T01:46:53","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T09:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheldodge.net\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2007-02-01T01:46:53","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T09:46:53","slug":"featured-etsy-shop-paulam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/2007\/02\/01\/featured-etsy-shop-paulam\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Etsy Shop: PaulaM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/view_listing.php?listing_id=5290668\"><img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Today&#8217;s featured Etsy shop is PaulaM<\/b>, a shop featuring primarily art prints and originals. PaulaM also offers painted boxes, screenprints, photography, and custom matting and framing.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;I have ADD, so I get bored easily. This leads to many different creations.&#8221; -Paula Manning-Lewis <\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>How did you get started making your art?<\/b><br \/>\nArt has been my passion all of my life. I took every art class available in high school and dropped out my senior year, partly because there were no more art classes to take! I always knew I wanted to be an artist but I didn&#8217;t start to take my art seriously until after the birth of my middle son in 1990. I wanted to be a stay at home mom and hoped for a part time income. I started by selling post cards of my work and graduated to full size prints after many requests.<\/p>\n<p><b>What inspires you in your work?<\/b><br \/>\nOddly enough, the depressing side of life inspires me. My art is a meditation. When I&#8217;m making art, I&#8217;m free and happy. I used to work in a realistic style but a couple of years ago I let go and started creating abstract art. I love using color and shapes to create happiness in the form of paintings.<\/p>\n<p><b>What other jobs have you worked?<\/b><br \/>\nI have done many things, like I said, I get bored easily! I served in the US Army for two years. Worked as a picture framer for several years. I even worked as a substitute teacher for two years. My college degree is in computer drafting, but drafting was too rigid and I did that for only two years before coming back to my art.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/view_listing.php?listing_id=5103507\"><img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>PaulaM&#8217;s work is available for sale in her eBay store, her Etsy shop <a href=\"http:\/\/paulam.etsy.com\">http:\/\/paulam.etsy.com<\/a>, the New Mexico State Fair, and local outdoor markets. She also has a gallery show coming up in March at the House of Lyndon gallery in Gallup, NM.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/view_listing.php?listing_id=5055858\"><img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s featured Etsy shop is PaulaM, a shop featuring primarily art prints and originals. PaulaM also offers painted boxes, screenprints, photography, and custom matting and framing. &#8220;I have ADD, so I get bored easily. This leads to many different creations.&#8221; -Paula Manning-Lewis How did you get started making your art? Art has been my passion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}