Shopping Cart!!!!!

Hello all,

I am SO flipping excited to share with you that I FINALLY have a Paypal Shopping Cart on my website! *angels sing somewhere* So please, check out my store at www.clairenoblesart.com -- and click on the Gallery tab to purchase prints!  or just -click here- If you experience any trouble accessing these links, try refreshing the page.

Also, while you're there, you may notice a few site changes, namely the crazy pink background is gone due to my eyes bleeding. However the American Heart Association donation at my shop is still going on until February 29th. I have changed the website's colors to green, my favorite color and in honor of March! I even painted my nails green, but that's beside the point.

I couldn't be happier to be making changes to my own site on the go whenever I please-- it is seriously awesome. I still have quite a few new additions in store so stay tuned!

Hunting Girl Scouts

If you have been reading my blogs from the beginning, you will know that every year right around this time, I make it my life's work (if I remember) to hunt down a Girl Scout or five for some delicious Samoas! Yes, it's cookie season again!

Every year my family and friends bring home Girl Scout cookies and every year they forget that Samoas are the superior cookie (and my favorite) and so I go hungry (for samoas).

Funny story-- I was a Girl Scout. Seriously. I started in 4th grade and went all the way up to Senior in High School, and then they gave me the Adult Girl Scout plaque for some reason, so technically I still am a registered Girl Scout! I even earned my Silver and Gold Awards, Gold being the Eagle equivalent in Boy Scouts.

And somehow after all that, during cookie season, I go without Samoas?!?! What travesty is this? I figured the Girl Scout Mafia would get me a hook up (yeah, they exist, I'm a member).

So if you happen to be a Girl Scout or know a Girl Scout, send her my way coz you don't want to see what happens if I have to wait a two years between getting my Samoas.... (imagine your scariest horror film)

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On a completely separate note (the point of writing a blog today): My big computer which handles all the uploading, printing, etc has decided to go on strike and stop working until he gets higher ram or gigahurtz or some computer lingo I don't understand.... So My Valentine has actually told me that my belated Valentine's Day gift will be a new computer! Until then, probably no uploading paintings of any kind can take place... And I actually have two that still need to go up... So thanks for your patience!

Last item, remember to make a purchase at my Etsy shop so that $1 of each item goes to the American Heart Association. It's still going til the end of February!

On the Catwalk

I hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day, I know I did at Go Red Strut! As I mentioned in my last blog (which you can read by clicking here) I was going to be one of the Strutters for Go Red Strut-- a FUNraiser to raise awareness of Heart Health! I had a blast and somehow didn't fall down even though my heels were four inches.

All the Strutters were so great! There had to be at least 100 of them. There were Strutters on bikes, in balloon dresses, can-can girls, poodles, boxing cardiologists, and more... It was like the costumes changes of Lady Gaga! It was seriously epic! Every Strutter did their part to make the event SO MUCH FUN and to help raise awareness of the importance of heart health!

 On the Catwalk... Yeah on the Catwalk...

Here is where the emcee told the audience that I was a survivor of heart defects, so I pulled out my guns to show my tough side! Rawrrr!! I made sure to wear a dress that showed off my surgery scar, because I wear it proudly.

If you would like to donate to the American Heart Association, please visit www.heart.org

Also you can donate by purchasing some fairy art for that special weirdo in your life, and $1 of every product goes to the AHA. Visit www.etsy.com/shop/ClaireNoblesArt

Now for more pictures!!!!

 Before it started....

 Big Red Boa!!

I told you there was a poodle! (or maltese, not sure what breed)

These two were the boxing Cardiologists, figuratively "fighting" heart disease, doing push ups -- they were hilarious!

And the crazy people bicycling on the catwalk!!! (they were all telling me before they went up that they were afraid they'd bike off the stage! And they were thankful to be wearing sneakers instead of my shoes...)

Striking a pose!

 I think I meant to punch heart disease in the FACE!

Hope you all enjoyed the little slideshow, I might post more pics somewhere.... I'll link it if I do!

Thanks everyone who came to Go Red Strut! You made my Valentine's Day!!

STRUT!

Pleas join us for this FREE event!!

In celebration of Heart Month, the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women and Macy's invite you to GO RED STRUT

on February 14th, 2012

11:30am-1pm

Macy's Union Square, San Francisco, Ca!!!

This is the surprise I was waiting to share with you all-- I will be one of the "Strutters" for Go Red Strut. That means I get to wear my red sparkly dress and heels and walk a catwalk in front of tons of people. Just a bit of pressure. It's nothing I have ever done before and I just hope I don't bite it on the catwalk.

I am participating this event to spread awareness of the AHA. As many of you know, I was born with severe heart defects. My defects include ventricular septal defect, atrial septal defect, pulmonary stenosis and transposition of the greater arteries. I’ve had five surgeries, at ages 2 months, one and a half years, 4 years, 7 years, and 15 years old. Two of them were open heart, the major repair being at age four. I try to be stay active, and eat right, and I lead a pretty normal life aside from having several surgery scars. As long as I continue to be healthy, I won’t need another surgery for years to come. Otherwise, if my health is in jeopardy, I may have to have another surgery much sooner.

Thanks to research done by the American Heart Association, I am alive today. I am so excited to be supporting them and help spread awareness!

February is American Heart Month (and the month of Love!) This event will be amazing and I am so happy to participate in it! I hope that if you can come, that you will-- it would be so great to see your shining faces there to support the AHA and the fact that though I can't walk in high heels, I will be trying my best....


For all the details on this fab event, click here!
For more on the AHA, click here.
And check out their facebook page!

Slightly Insane Comics

I started a "Sketch-a-Day" journal recently, and for today's sketch I drew a really weird comic... Keep in mind that it was done without any preparation or planning (except for the last two panels). It's called "Stressed Out Claire" Click the first picture and just use the arrow key to view in order so it makes sense (and even then, it might not make any sense...) Also keep in mind that this whole comic is drawn in a 4x6 inch space and the pics were taken with my cell phone... I'm sorry.

This was an actual conversation I had with James. I like to label things in comics btw. And the sweatshirt I'm wearing says "SFSU." 

Jasper does this occasionally...

This is me as ClaireZilla. And it has been my mood unfortunately for the past couple of days...

Hope you enjoyed yourself-- or maybe are even more confused with your life... In which case I do apologize for any therapy you will be needing after viewing this...

PSP Tubes and Giant Aligators

Hello all, and Happy February!!

Last week I posted on my Facebook page about some super secret happenings and apparently nobody likes it when secrets... But I can finally share it with you! I just got officially licensed with PSP Tubestop so now you can purchase my art as tubes!

In case you're not sure, PSP Art Tubes are like digital scrapbooking images that you can piece together and make eCards and the like.

The site is run by an amazing woman named Lisa Cree. She is also the head of the Enchanted Visions Project and paints her own art-- so she is a busy lady! Check out and like Lisa's Facebook page!

As of right now, the website is being eaten by a giant alligator... I'm not even joking... There's a weird page-load error. But hopefully when it comes back, you can fully view the site! In the mean time, the Facebook page is fully viewable and filled with beautiful artists' work. Right now my "Love is Blind" Tube is available for Valentine's Day and soon to be much more!


Just a reminder-- this whole month at my Etsy Shop, I shall be donating $1 from each product you purchase to the American Heart Association! Spread the word!