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Glamour Magazine Website Feature

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Yellow Bow Girl

Happy Holidays everybody! I hope everyone has been having a great holiday season! I don’t know about you but I am ready for 2012.

2011 has been a great year for me and my little art business! ;) I am super grateful to be able to make a living as an artist. I am encouraged and inspired by my fans. Without them, none of this could have been possible. If I could share any words of advice or inspiration to you if you’re thinking about doing something with your own talents it would be to write down your goals. (Great way to start the New Year). Visualize your desires and dreams. I believe those things give you a good chance at succeeding. One of my favorite quotes from Andy Warhol kinda sums up my belief system for the year.

I have always felt that if I focus on my art, and my art alone that people will see that. I don’t want to get wrapped up in anything else. So while others are deciding if they like my art…I will keep making more art. And you can apply this to anything you’re doing in life. Stay true to what you love, and don’t let the world around you change what you are creating or wanting to create.

So while I was creating and working my booty off for holiday sales and shipments, I was sooo pleasantly surprised when I received an email from a customer saying she saw my work on Glamour Magazine’s Tumblr. I couldn’t have pulled up their page faster! I was so happy to see that the Fashion Editors’ at Glamour Magazine had not only shared one of my fashion illustrations (The Yellow Bow) on their Tumblr but also had included it on their website for a last minute holiday gift guide and on their Facebook page! I could not have been more flattered, surprised and extremely elated! I did a few little dances around my apartment to celebrate!

You can find the Glamour Magazine Article on their website here: http://www.glamour.com/fashion/blogs/slaves-to-fashion/2011/12/megan-gustashaw-tackles-all-th.html?mbid=tumblr

Their Tumblr Page is found here: http://glamour.tumblr.com/

And you can follow them on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/glamour

Here’s to 2012 and loads more artwork! Thank you to everyone for your encouragement and support. I truly appreciate everything that has happened this year!

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Relaxing in Santa Fe

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For my birthday week this year I wanted to travel to a new place and do something nontraditional. Now my birthday week is always the week of Thanksgiving, so it can makes things a bit tricky. As much as I love being with my family and eating the turkey my husband and I were craving a bit of relaxation for just the two of us.

When I mentioned that Santa Fe could be an option we quickly looked up the flight loads and saw that it could totally work out for us to get there. (My husband works for the airlines so we can travel on stand-by for free). So we packed our bags, made arrangements and headed to Albuquerque  Thanksgiving day.

Santa Fe Railway

From Albuquerque we rented a car and drove about an hour North West to arrive in Santa Fe. It was quiet, beautiful and we even found a restaurant serving a Thanksgiving Feast.

My favorite aspect of deserts (I’ve lived in Las Vegas, Phoenix and Southern Utah-all beautiful deserts) are the gorgeous sunsets. We caught some great photos as the sun was setting on Thanksgiving.

Gorgeous sunset! The colder the weather the better the sunset I think.

 

It was a ghost town on Thanksgiving. So quiet. I loved that, and we came across this train station.

One of the main reasons I wanted to go to Santa Fe was to see the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. We took a great tour of the museum and really learned a lot about Georgia’s life. The thing I find most striking about Georgia was that she was a successful woman artist from her 20′s until her death at 96. Not many artists can have that kind of success in their lifetime. Let alone a woman. She really is one of the first American Woman artists of the 20th century to have critical and commercial success.

 

All in all, the trip was fantastic. We had some great New Mexican cuisine. I found a great turquoise necklace and enjoyed browsing all the local shops. Sometimes you just need a few days away from your reality to give yourself a much needed dose of inspiration and invigoration.

 

 

 

 

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