In my opinion, we artists should all do trading cards instead of business cards. I’m a collector by temperament and I think there is a large group of us (and our customers) are in the same category. I believe that having a trading card size business card allows people visiting our booths to start a collection of small artwork of the artists they like. And. It allows us artists to collect other artists cards as well.
Many years ago I spent some time generating Pinterest boards to identify my artistic interests and expand my visual landscape. I have always been fascinated by pattern. Lately, I have been trying to create textured pattern on my pinched ceramic forms. I feel terribly lacking.
This Sunday, July 12, 2026, I finally gave my distracted brain the time to rebuild my Joomla website. I had heard that people use AI to help with website development, so I worked with Google’s Gemini to guide me through what I once knew how to do manually: setting up a Joomla website and database.