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Friday, March 9, 2012

THURSAY'S GRACE NOTES: PLEASE READ! This is the most important Grace Notes that I have ever written.

THURSDAY'S GRACE NOTES. PLEASE READ! This is the most important Grace Notes that I have ever written

After falling out of my wheel chair on Monday left with even more wounds and a damaged and wounded left eye I was given the facts of my diagnosis for the rest of my life due to my chronic wounds. I can not go to large populated events ever. My main heart breaker is church. In my powered wheel chair I can go to a large store, like Publix as long as I do not get close to many other people at the time. No body can visit me at my home if they are sick or have a family member that is sick. I will be losing my house and, my car has been repossessed. But this is when the weird thing comes in. I am still "inappropriately happy" and still look forward to the next fun day. I still have my art , music, and marketing "job" and totally "work" from home.and I still have people (yes even you) and Jesus will never ever leave my side. The most "horrible" things that I go through the more I can help others because I have gone through them myself.

I no longer celebrate the day I celebrate each minute.

So let's go out there and let's rock our world!

I love you all.

Nancy

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Saturday, March 3, 2012

Asbellarts: Saturday's Grace Notes

Having the privilege to empty my dishwasher even if only from my wheelchair to empty my dishwasher, hey Steve, your fig plants, orchids, bottlebrush bushes and astromaris are blooming! The cleaning team that I've had for years cleaning my house in high gear over an hour that I paid for in shear kindness. They actually lost $ on me that day. Just knew that I needed help, the lushnessnes of a fresh peach and a slice of pineapple, with my eyes closed the wind in the tall pine trees almost sound like the wind at the beach and having about 20 ducks fly over my head in my neighborhood and wondering why all of the busy people don't even notice,

Nancy Asbell: Chronic Illness

Because of the increased severity of my rheumatism I cannot hold or grasp many things. Everything ends up on the floor usually broken. I take time to nicely talk to myself "it's okay Nancy... it really is okay. And I go around the house several times a day with a reacher and calmly pick it all up, again.

Nancy Asbell: Chronic Illness

Note to self;

If you need to do self directed rehab again do not begin in second grade level when you are really still in Kindergarten. I'm just sayin'.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Asbellarts: Marketing Tip Of The Day

Asbellarts: Marketing 101 Tip Of The Day

Plan a showing or an event as far in advance as possible to promote and budget for it.

Make it a well anticipated party, the place to be not to be missed.

Celebrate the day!

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Asbellarts: Marketing 101

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Thursday's Grace Notes

Seeing things in a different light, be very careful with what you for... God just may be listening again, all of my guardian angels , my new courier service... affordable, professional and insured, (I'm back!), many years ago Glenn and I had the privilege of being the Jax. Lupus Facilitators. My doctors would schedule new Lupus patients before and after my appts to gently hold their hands and support them while my doctor smiled and kept giving me the "thumbs up sign" behind their back, cute,. I don't know where that Nancy is but I think that I can find her AND being so absorbed in my work yesterday that I didn't know that my watch was upside down until 5:00 in the afternoon. I love my life!

Celebrate the day!

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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Asbellarts: Marketing 101 Tip Of The Day

Always include an image of your work and/or performance example with every press release or media connection but keep it simple. After a short three minutes you may have lost their interest must images stay in the minds eye.

Angels Unaware

After my Eight long years of having seizures and Epilepsy we had a woman's retreat at "my" church where I was the music minister. At the very beginning we all, mostly "strangers", all of the ladies held hands for Jesus to "take away my Epilepsy". Oh didn't they know? I didn't have Epilepsy, it had me. It was who I was.

Two weeks later at 103 pounds I was admitted into the Hospital neurology department for two weeks in Las Angeles.and it was decided that I didn't have Epilepsy after all but complicated migraines that presented themselves as seizures but were TIA's (mini strokes) and brain inflammation.

Here is the neat part ( I am now a Lupus advocate and my symble is butterflies) once home my church family gave me a beautiful stained glass of a butterfly symbolizing "new beginnings".

Oh ye of little faith.

Wednesday's Grace Notes

If you are a Christian, you are welcome here, Atheist, "Father Mother God", or just "hanging out" you are welcome here and we all can learn from each other, hanging out with "half baked Christians... no wait that's me! LOL, being a trained facilitator since I was 23... yes I have always been weird, so much healthier but Doctors and nurses are still calling me to "check in", turning a gossip into a "but bless her heart, let's pray for her" is still a gossip, if I'm going to do something, make it fun! and cleaning teams that work extra hours just to truly take care of me and to get down to the nitty gritty are really not gaining a great profit but they are making God's day.

Celebrate the day

I am so happy I can barely stand it!

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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Asbellarts: Marketing 101

Asbellarts:Marketing 101. This course develops the 60/40% approach to selling your work and treating it as a business. It does not give you a free fish. It teaches YOU how to throw out your nets. The cost is from $20 t0 $100.00 per month. This is only for the artist that already has a body of work. Examples of our goals are "I'd Rather Be In My Studio", "the Artist Way", and "Talent Is Never Enough" . These are required readings for this very affordable course at your pace, NOT suggestions. I will not sell or represent your work. I am teaching YOU how to do that. What I legally can"t do for you I will send you to ones who can. If you are ready to commit I can"t wait to meet you.

Why am I doing this?

I have a life expectency of day to day. My doctors say that the only thing that is keeping me alive is my faith in God and awesome attitude. I am unclenching my fists and tossing out the candy as fast as I can.

Social Marketing 60/40% approach

Newsletter Ideas

New Business Websites and Blogs

Artist Reading Materials

Self Promotion

New Galleries

Art Bloggs, Twitter, Facebook... and that is only the tip of the iceburg

Art Associations

Finding An Supporting a Passion/Charity

Scheduling, Time Management and Organizing your Studio

I will teach you how to do most of this for free... really

I consider you all as my "new friends'.

Tuesday's Grace Notes

"I can't I can't... oh yes you can! Sometimes our setbacks teach us lessons more valuable than gold, Teaching early morning voice lessons w/out an ounce of make up then brazenly heading to Publix for the first time in weeks due to illness and being told that my "face just glowed", very sick in bed the next day to "pay" for it but sometimes when you have a chronic illness that's just part of the game....and worth every penny and wondering "can life get any better than this?

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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Asbellarts Marketing 101

Hey performing artists! Need to find a gig? Get over your sweet self. Start small. Face book it, Youtube it, volunteer... if you're good soon you will be choosing which opportunities to decline from.

Sounds like good advice, huh?

That is unless you are a ceramic artist.

Don't waste your time

Invest in your career, not someone elses.

Asbellarts Marketing 101

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Asbellarts Marketing Tip

Today I recieved one more marketing client, sold a painting, and another new vioce student.

Good luck you say? Talent? No.... a lot of hard work and social marketing.

Want to play along on the cheap?

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Thursday's Grace Notes

Enjoying food again, waking up feeling strong and better so that so many people can stop worrying about me.. including myself, once I become stronger I can be stronger for others as well,, the fact that all of my students and clients end up eventually being my friends, opening my fridge and not hearing the song "Blinded by the light",happy crows and old dogs chasing squirrels, fun is always there to be had, we just have to remember to plug into it and Praising God that it is February and you and I are hear to enjoy it.

Celebrate the day!

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Wednesday's Grace Notes

Waking up and finding that the sun beat me to it! Forgiving myself for not meeting my own demands, allowing myself that second mug of coffee, only being able to eat 1/2 my food, making my homemade soups... realizing that all along God has been supplying all of my needs and I was the biggest roadblock and now I am waving my white flag. Dramatically increasing my steroids, beginning a very minor antidepressent and, this is the big thing.... I began having sezuires once I turned 21 followed by a life of illness. Last night for the very first time in my entire life changing my bandages and asked God "Lord! Why me? What have I done to deserve this?"

Do I place myself above Christ? Even He cried to His father in Heaven "My God my God why have you forsaken me?

Now it's my turn to praise Him and say

"My God my God! Why have you blessed me?".

It all comes down to Grace.

Celebrate the day!

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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Asbellarts Marketing

What does social media mean to you?

Enter your name, business, links, blogs, support groups... are you out there? And I don't mean like Pluto. Check on "the web" and "images". Do it at least weekly. It really becomes kind of fun.... and like it or not visual/performing artist this will become your new "bread and butter"... or your prime rib. That's where YOU and I come in.

Let's work together on this... life is always more fun with an experienced friend to send you in the right direction.

Celebrate the day!

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Tuesday's Grace Notes

God is not standing there with his arms across His chest expecting my next mistake, no His arms are open wide to take me back in, sometimes taking the easy way out IS the right way out, remembering how it felt to enter my children's rooms in bare feet then discovering the army of plastic Lego's all over the floor, knowing that someday I would cherish this, I have never been this sick living by myself before... and have never felt this loved, and , well, listening to my doctors and greatly increasing my steroids tomorrow. It should be a much better day. I have a love/hate relationship with my many meds.

Celebrate the day!

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Monday, February 20, 2012

Angels Unaware

Anybody out there and have 5 kids and have said "What was I thinking?" Hello. How about being 50 yrs old with 5 rockin' kids? Hello! This is a posting about my big Sister Michele and my brother in love Chip. They are a true witnesses to what parenting and love has the potential to be. I was a very good mother, the best of the best and I never had a clue. Did I mention that my beautiful sister has MS? They have so much to teach, so much to share and so many people to encourage.

Please help them to continue to encourage others if nothing more than sharing this post?

Oh and by the way. Michele is a powerhouse. You rarely see her without a smile on her face and seems to always find the funny side in everything.

I want to be like her someday when I grow up.

They call themselves the "Rainbow Clannad"

While I "celebrate the day"

Her motto is "Living the dream.

Artist Marketing 101

Don't dream about your dreams.... live it.

Nancy Asbell

Visual/performing Arts Marketing

I have the experience, you have the talent.

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Monday's Grace Notes

I now declare that I only have a bad chest cold, Today I took a real long look at myself in the mirror. I have been sick for several weeks. Once I recognized who I was and the shock began to wear off, I took two hours to slightly recaim my "girly girl". Is it too soon to say "celebrate the day"? Waking up to a messy house that I can still live in, hey! who turned on the birdsong again? I have not been able to ride my blessed power chair down to Publix in several weeks. It's not about the groceries. I am well taken care of, it's the baking manager that offers me not a free cookie but wants to give me a $14.00 torte just to make me happy. I blush, stammer, give thanks and roll to the produce section. There the produce manager takes me aside and says "our God is not on our schedule but he wants me to tell you that you are not alone. They know nothing about me... many of you are also in the dark as it should be. They know nothing. But they have seen me become weaker. People who are strangers to me come up and say "you don't know me but you are such an inspiration to me... you rock!" I don't deserve any of this but if God wants to give it to me then I will try to pass on my Grace Notes for one more day.

Okay now can I say it?

Celebrate the day?

Celebrate!

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