Christmas Is Almost Here

I can't believe the year is nearly over and Christmas is once again just around the corner. If you have been wanting to give the gift of precious memories this year and haven't ordered your custom Memory Art work, time is running out to place your orders. We will continue to accept orders until Dec 1st for delivery of artwork by December 21. After December first we can not promise your artwork will arrive before Christmas.  

Looking for other gift ideas or fun things to put in those stockings? Visit our gift shop where we have something for everyone.  Here are four of our main categories:

Our Fun Stuff Section includes products with designs in the following categories: humorous, love N romance, Gag Gifts or Jewelry. Personalization is available on some designs.

Our Seasonal section has a large selection of Christmas ornaments as well as Christmas themed products great to stuff stockings.

Check out the Art and Photography section for products featuring beautiful art and scenic photography. Or check out our new section full of Calendars and matching accessories.

Share the joy and power of inspirational art with prints and products from our Motivational section. 

This That and the Other Thing

Looking through the images I have complied to use here on Artistic Composition it occurred to me that my creativity isn't necessarily dormant but rather it is all over the board. So here it is a rather random post of my unfocused creativity over the last month.

We start by putting the camera away and pulling out the sewing machine to create this Sailor Moon costume for my granddaughter to wear on Halloween.

Next while trying to come up with a design to wish a young woman who likes the Harry Potter stories  a Happy Birthday on her Facebook page I came up with the above design and was inspired to create the motivational print below as well.

This next photo is actually a composite photo created for my Father-in-law.  At the end of October I went to visit him and my Mother-in-law in northern Arizona and they took me to see the Grand Canyon. He asked if I could get a good portrait shot of him as he has not had his portrait taken in some time. He is 6'8" so without a ladder to take the shot most of them wound up with more sky than canyon in the background. While he liked them we both decided a composite with the canyon in the background would be just right.

With so many beautiful shots of my trip to Arizona I have been working on creating some new inspirational print designs to add to our gift shop.

Of course it occurred to me that a new year will soon be here so the past couple of weeks I have been working on various designs for scenic and inspirational calendars which I am now adding to our gift shop. The design below is from a photograph of a statue of Merlin the Magician that stands in a shopping center in Sadona, Arizona and can be found in the Arizona calendar collection.

Do you ever find that your creativity becomes unfocused?

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Father's Day Dilemma Solved

Every year I used to go nuts trying to figure out the perfect gift to get my husband for Father's Day. Sure I could get the usual tools, jewelry, clothing or maybe even some goofy gift that would make him laugh. But I am one of those people that when I give a gift I want to give something that will be really special to the person I am giving it to. Then one year I created a memory art piece for my husband of our children using some of his favorite photographs of the kids. He loved it so much. He proudly displayed that photo on his desk, pointing it out any time there was a visitor. So of course each year I try do a new one with current photographs. Dilemma Solved!
From this I learned that fathers love to show off photos of their children as much as mothers do. So, in the last few years I have begun giving memory photo's to my son and son-in-law in honor of fathers day. My son-in-law is in the Navy and was deployed last month so this year he will be half way across the world on Father's Day. I know this is going to be very hard for him as he is very devoted to his family, so I decided to make him a Locker Photo that he can hang in his rack on the ship. Locker Memory Photos are Memory Art Prints that have been laminated for protection and have Velcro fasteners on the back to make then easy to mount inside a locker or on wall where hanging frames is not possible. Because he mentioned back in December how he thought it would be cool for our company to make some type of special calendar that could be hung in a sailor's rack, I decided to make his Locker Memory photo a deployment calendar. Here is what it looks like. Have you figured out yet what to get the Fathers in your life?