Well that didn't go as well as I'd have liked...
Only had one person even offered to buy prints, and even that hasn't come to fruition. Guess my art sucks

Anyway...went to find a new place to live. Having a dog seriously complicates things.

My birthday is next week and I'm finding it hard to be excited.
My best friend is throwing a huge Grecian themed party and it should be a blast...my birthdays are usually just coupled with so much negativity, I don't typically welcome them.

Anyway...
I hope that you are all doing well.
XOXO
Dia

Thank you to all of you for your sweet words of encouragement! They were all VERY appreciated.

I'm doing a preliminary run at prints.
On top of the prints I am showing here, you can always request a print from any of the shots from:
Bathing Beauty
Lady by the Lake
No Swimming
Ivory Indian

I will be offering the prints in a standard, 8 x 10's, but special requests will ALWAYS be entertained.
I'm going to charge $25 for one or $40 for two. I'll charge a standard $6 shipping, and won't request an additional fee should you order more than one print. I prefer all payments to be done through paypal.

In addition to these prints I am considering selling a coffee table book I made. It's approximately 75 pages and it features my graphic art shots (8.5" x 11") accompanied by my own original words and a page that compliments the piece. It cost me well over $200 to make it, not to mention over 100+ hours to assemble it. Therefore, I will only let it go for a steep price. Figured I'd throw it out there, none the less. So...make me an offer!

I will featuring a few prints (to be disclosed later) that will be, one time only, releases. They will be 11" x 17" and (along with all of the other pieces) will be signed. Keep an eye out for those...they are some of my personal favorites

I thank you from the BOTTOM of my heart for even looking at my offerings. I am in a very unhealthy environment here and have to get out. As you know, the recent death of my car's engine, has burdened me with a very sizable debt...If you can't help, I love you just the same. To those that can and will help...I am indebted to you! I promise that once I get to Oregon, lose some weight (to get back to where I was before the stress commenced to epoch levels) I'll find a photographer and shoot some GORGEOUS sets

Peace and LOVE to all of you!
XOXO
Dia

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Oregon...here we DON'T come.

What an, 'INTERESTING' weekend.
Everyday, things have gone from bad to worse. We took two wrong turns (one more drastic than the other). Anyway...two hours after we thought we were on the right direction I start saying, "I don't remember seeing all these trees. Where are we?" Turns out we were on 82 and I comment that we need to be on 84. I look down at my speedometer and several lights go on...the engine totally cuts out...I'm going 70 and trying to pass a semi...then I am stranded on the side of the road.

So...we were stuck in Yakima...a town that has three statewide tournaments: girls' softball, boys' baseball and volleyball. So...it's 9:00pm, the ONLY room left in the whole town is in a seedy little hotel that rents by the hour and it's a holiday weekend so we don't know who can work on the car. Thankfully the undercover cop got us an awesome towing company that has their own in house mechanic.

In the morning we find out it was the timing chain.
When it busted, because I was going so fast, it warped all the heads of the engine.
Means new engine

Due to the fact that it's the 1.8 Turbo VW engine, it's extremely hard to get. Read: there's only one in the whole state and it's $2,800. HOLY SHIT! So we opted out of that route. Rather, they're going to rebuild the heads and we'll go from there (which is still going to be right around $3,000, once it's all said and done). Remember the town is packed, so it was nearly impossible to find a rental car and there were NONE that would do a one way rental. Of course. Now how the hell do we get HOME!?

Thankfully, the owner of the tow truck company lent us one of their cars at $30/day and (with a few minor set backs) we were on our way home, as we were out too much money, we didn't want to venture on to our new home

So...needless to say...I'm going to be putting together as much of my art, photography and sets to sell prints of. PLEASE keep an eye out for that and help a DESPERATE girl out, who's in much need.

I hope all of YOU had better Memorial Day weekends than I.

OREGON HERE WE COME.
Again

I was just there about a month and a half ago and we're going again, in order to nail down an apartment and all of that stuff.

AWESOME.
I hope you all have a safe and fun Memorial Day too! Hope it's not flooding in epic levels, like it is here.

XOOX

Limewire and I are working on updating my iPod.
What are your recommendations?



On a separate note...is it July yet?
That's our move date.

We're going next weekend (Memorial Day) to look at the town and have fun

New pictures...





So...we're not selling the house.
Instead we're keeping it as a rental.

We'll be in Eugene as of the first.
WORST case scenario will put us there as of July 1st.

Anyone from Eugene reading this?
Let's play...I'll 'let' you show me the town

So...we're selling the house.
It goes on the market as of Monday.

Then, as soon as it sells, we're off to Eugene.
You're some of the very first to know. I've told two friends...not even my family yet. I am SO excited to embark on a new adventure and try something new.

Maybe there'll be more photographers there and I'll FINALLY be able to get a set to go live

I've still got to upload my pictures from the coast.
***EDIT***
I've enclosed one of my brother and I and one with him, my man and I



As far as the rest...I just don't have time to edit and resize them. But I'm getting to it. As soon as the house is on the market, things will simmer.

Ahh...it's so nice to feel GOOD again!

Well kids, you can see my set now
I even went through and reorganized it so that it flows the way it was meant to go. Keep in mind this is a totally raw set so you'll see all my blemishes...don't be too mean

Let me know what you think about.
Comment it regularly...maybe we'll be able to get it to go up for a SecondChanceSunday!

Thanks for all of the support!
Having such loving people around me, such as all of you, is the only think still keeping me here and keeping me adding and shooting more sets

Well....ANOTHER one bites the dust.
Highly unfortunate.

But at least they congratulated me that it's been 'accepted for member review'.
Bullshit.

I love this set...regardless of the fact that they don't think it's good enough...I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do.

To the Oregon coast, I am going.
I'll be there for four days.

Thank god.

I sent in my Indian Set today...
We'll see what happens. I'm praying. I love this set more and more and more, everytime I look at it.

Have an awesome weekend and have my set in your thoughts!

XOXOXO