First Night Design | Sale! Goose and Frog’s Easter Journey Stickers

Goose and Frog’s Easter Journey Stickers at Redbubble

All ‘Goose and Frog’s Easter Journey’ products at Redbubble

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First Night Design | Sale! Made for Walking Scarf

Made for Walking Scarf at Redbubble

All ‘Made for Walking’ products at Redbubble

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First Night Design | Vintage St Patrick’s Greeting Cards — Sold!

Vintage St Patrick’s Greeting Card

Ten greeting cards sold for St Patrick’s Day.

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First Night Design | The Art of Happiness #Cushions #Sales!

Somebody needs to close my mouth before my jaw locks into place. I’ve just sold three of these Thanksgiving Cushions on Redbubble!

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Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. Booth Tarkington

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First Night Design | Vintage Eye Salve for Modern Cataract

Vintage Eye Salve Advertisement © Sarah Vernon

Well, my dear friends and followers and anyone who’s along for the ride, my cataract operation is done but not quite dusted. I have multifarious drops — or salves, if you like — that have to be administered every two to three hours and every eight hours, and only discovered at my first outpatient appointment on Tuesday that there are stitches to be taken out in a month or two. What? Stitches? Why did no one mention that before? No, they’re not the kind that can dissolve. Of course not. Why would I be that lucky?

And that’s not all. I have double vision which is going to take a while to settle. It’s marginally better but my endurance is wearing thin.

In a bit of synchronicity, I sold this Vintage Eye Salve Advertisement last week while I was in the hospital. When I originally posted about it, some of you were a little freaked out. There is a market for it! Perhaps it’s been bought as a ‘get well’ card for somebody else who’s just had a cataract operation.

Talking of drops…

A little scene from a Scrapbook made for me as a child. © Sarah Vernon

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First Night Design | A Cherub is as a Cherub Does! #Christmas

A Cherub, Detail of the Sistine Madonna – Raphael Greeting Cards

What could be more restorative when I’ve been feeling rather peevish this week than to learn that I’ve sold 50 greeting cards of this detail of Raphael’s Sistine Madonna! Well, it sure bucked my spirits up considerably.

And I’ve just created my first Christmas stocking with the same image.

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First Night Design | ‘Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive…’

I have sold two more cushions — very heaven!

The White Rabbit Pillow

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‘Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive
But to be young was very heaven.’
William Wordsworth, The Prelude

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Romantic Meeting Throw Pillows

Click here for the original Romantic Meeting post.

Romantic Meeting is available on other products at the following galleries:
Redbubble
Crated
Fine Art America
Fine Art England
Zazzle US
Zazzle UK

White Rabbit is available on other products at the following galleries:
Zazzle US
Zazzle UK

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First Night Design | I Love Selling Cushions!

Burlap Simple Chocolate Brown Throw Pillow

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First Night Design | Flying Turkeys #Art #Sales

Flying Turkeys © Sarah Vernon

I’m delighted to tell you that while I was hamstrung by lack of bandwidth over Thursday and Friday, I sold 10 copies of this greeting card, Flying Turkeys, on Greeting Card Universe. Ostensibly for Thanksgiving, there is nothing to say it can’t be used for any occasion under the sun.

I see that my note beneath the card says:

‘The shadows of flying turkeys trying, perhaps, not to be caught and end up on the Thanksgiving table!’

I don’t often mention GCU as I stopped uploading onto the site very early on because it was such a bore; every card has to be approved and that can take days and days, and then they want the sort of changes that makes any creation pointless. What I see as charm, they see as mistakes. Since the same creations sell on Zazzle, Redbubble and Fine Art America, they can go hang because I’m not compromising when it comes to my art (do you see the high horse?).  Am I cutting off my nose to spite my face? Probably. Am I missing out on sales? Probably. Do I care? Not really — life’s too short.

Flying Turkeys Two-Tone Coffee Mugs from Zazzle

Flying Turkeys Long Aprons from Zazzle.

Flying Turkeys iPhone 5 Covers from Zazzle

Available at the following galleries:
Zazzle US
Zazzle UK
Greeting Card Universe

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First Night Design | The Lure of the Archive — Miss Vesta Tilley

I’ve run out of bandwidth so I’m having to squeeze out a quick post that I prepared at Christmas when I sold 25 postcards of the male impersonator Miss Vesta Tilley, about whom you can read here. It was the best Christmas present!

Miss Vesta Tilley Post Cards

This is the original postcard from my theatre collection:

Miss Vesta Tilley (1864-1952)

As you can tell, and as is my wont, I gave her a new look with a different background, though I do intend to sell copies of the original when I get round to it. Hah! I wonder when that will be.

I trust you are all having a diverting May Day weekend! I’m spending it reading the first novel of Beguiling Hollywood’s inimitable Vicki Lester, It’s In His Kiss.

Take care and keep laughing!