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NOVEMBER 4TH 2009 / THANKYOU TO THE WONDERFUL PERSON WHO BOUGHT A MATTED PRINT OF MY PAINTING YACHT REFLECTION. The original painting will be in a show at Mermaid Beach soon (december) will keep you posted for the details. / AND HARBOURING / AND BACK IN AUGUST…. / WOO HOO!! i MADE A SALE ON REDBUBBLE!!!!!! YAY!!!! GO ME!!!!! THANKS TO THE WONDERFUL PERSON WHO BOUGHT ONE OF MY BYRON BAY LIGHTHOUSE PAINTING T-SHIRTS!!!!! WOO HOO!!!! / / okay, I am calm now:) / phew…this t-shirt is a great souvenir of Byron Bay- it features one of my paintings of the lighthouse. / thanks for listening…:)

The unthinkable happened to me yesterday. My flash drive that holds ALL my images suddenly stopped working. Eeek!! I paniced for about 3 hours before I finally gave up. There’s nothing that I could do in 3 hours, so there’s probably not anything that I can do after this. I do have advice for you though. 1. Back up ALL information from portable media such as flash drives, memory sticks, floppy disks, and portable hard drives onto discs. Discs have a much, much lower failure rate than these do. 2. Don’t keep your ONLY copy of important documents on a flash drive, in fact, always save it two or thee times in different places. 3. Don’t panic if this does happen… I can’t tell you how to fix it yet, because I’m still working on it, but panicing doesn’t help. Also, I am open for advice if any of you know how to fix this.

In the spirit of living up to my promise, I am continuing on the quest to raise $10,000 for a charity through the sale of t-shirts, during the months off October, November, and December. Last year in 2008, as you may read on the Donating $10,000 To SurfAid journal entry… a stellar effort went down with a total of $155 being raised. You might like to also read the Thankyou From SurfAid International Can this year bring an even better result? I guess we’ll have to wait and see! The parameters are the same, with the goal being a total of 1,000 t-shirts to be sold during the months of October, November, and December. If that goal is reached, I will donate $10 per t-shirt sold, equalling a massive $10,000 to be donated to charity or charities of choice. If we fall short like last year, I will donate $5 per t-shirt sold… so as an example, if 999 t-shirts are sold, then the donation would equal $4,995. In either case, the challenge has been set once again! I am adding a twist to the challenge this year (2009), and am happy to do requests. So if you don’t like any off the designs in my collection, you may shoot me a message and I’ll whip up a design that you’d be proud to wear. To see what designs have been popular this year, I’d like to encourage you to stop by the What Tees Are People Buying In 2009 journal entry for ideas and inspiration. I haven’t decided what charity or humanitarian organization to support this time around, but I am considering the likes of Greenpeace and Kiva ... and on that note, let the bidding begin :)