I teach duck painting on cruise ships.
Fir the kids on board … we will be working with markers instead of paint and brushes. I proved these ducks look fabulous too!! I’m obsessed!
Join me next Aug 9 Symphony of the Sea and Ruby Princess September 17 Hawaii baby!
This is the hards stuff to let go of, when you’re preparing to go live about the world one day.
Truly truly a say to you … NO one cares about YOUR stuff.
And it’s this stuff that keeps you tethered in place. Like a weight.
So Bye Bye. Awards. I earned tons of you in my lifetime. I’m proud of my achievements and I’m certain that NO ONE can take my memories. (lol) Until Alzheimer’s sets in and by then I truly won’t care.
Cd’s backups of all my commercial art work. Bye.
Im going to miss Princess in Galveston. How about you?
Wanna have my energy?
Be sure to eat the sun. Sun rise, noon and sun set. Rex’sarge your battery
Thank you my doctor #DrBen
Sarah AKA Prof. Cruise ties my name to Regal Princess in her resent blog about her cruise Feb 23, 2025.
She cannot possibly know how much this means to me. I’m in tears. I have to thank her followers, who reached out and told me that she was on my cruise and that it was her birthday.
They told me how nice she seems and that I just had to meet her.
So when I learned that Giuseppe Moschella, Cruise Director – Head of Entertainment requested that I speak on the Wake Show I took this opportunity to shout her out. Check it.
It seemed the entire ship watches the Wake show – but Sarah had missed it.
I was sad at her lack of response. I thought perhaps I had outed her, that she travel incognito so that she could do her job, writing cruise review without being noticed. I was sick I felt I messed up.
But I prayed on it. It took a days of prayers and almost the entire trip before I finally spotted her – working on her review blog. I got up the nerve to go apologize. And to my surprise she just had not been aware of the gift. And her kindness took my breath away.
I was so pleased I was able to present her with the duck I made and I invite her to attend my class. I was so pleased when she come.
I was shocked to learn that her followers had also told her … about me. ?!? What a cool deal! Unreal.
Thank you Prof. Cruise. You made my year!
Meet me Thursday at the 602 Brewing Co. Main Street Bastrop Tx. From 4 to 8 pm.
Let’s paint butterflies honoring our loved ones.
Let’s raising money for folks who are hungry.
Who’s with me this week? First 602 brew on the house.
Can’t attend? Let me paint for you. Just message me – You choose your donation amount. I’ll paint and include your honor butterfly in our community art installation.
Benefiting the #BastropEmergencyFoodPantry
Hope to see you there! This is a healing event for all involved.
Your money delivered to the food bank on Friday and Your butteries installed before the next Thursday into our community art installation located at #EdenEastFarm – Bastrop Tx.
Attn: artists – I hope this post gives you hope. Because here’s the truth.
All art … even mine … starts out shitty. The only way it stays that way is if you give up.
Solution?
Never give up.
Every cruise I go on I make 50 ducks to give away. I do it in hopes that my art makes it to every continent in the world and boy I’m close.
My hope is to have 100 ducks complete for this cruise since it’s a 16 day trip instead of the 7 day ones I usually take, but with only a few days left to create … I’m not so sure. But like my husband says “Jana just focus on one duck at a time.”
That is an excellent way to live life.
If you focus on all that you have to do, it will overwhelm you, and that make you wanna give up. So here’s to one foot in front of other.
Let’s go!
Well it starts here:
I’ve been absent on WordPress for a while, opting to speak my thoughts on Facebook.
But I met an interesting gal. She’s an influencer about any and everything travel. She’s word really hard and it shows. She was on my last cruise, Regal Princess – Feb 23, 2025.
I got to teach my duck painting class and she attended. She painted a beautiful duck, by-the-way. Check it!
Anyway, She was so kind to talking to me. She explained to me that if someone is search for what I’m saying, Google will not search for content on Facebook. Oops … my bad. hehe
She also told me, that I’m an influencer ?! huh
I never labeled myself that … But after hearing that, I think she could be right.
So let’s go! I’ll start by making sure folks can search for my content, which Sarah, Prof. Cruise said what I have was a niche. Humm
So I’ll write here then I share what I wrote here, to other places like face book etc.
This is my home now. It feels lonely out here. lol I’m sure I’ll get use to it.
So something that took my breath away. Touched me very deeply, that I’m still in tears over it today:
Of course getting to teach at sea is a hoot but this time … we’ll just check it.
April Schneider Command Sergeant Major awards Jana with her Coin of Excellence.
Folks leave their homes for months. I started a Amazon wish list. I’ll deliver the supplies.
https://youtu.be/I88WwmUpZEo?si=JCUy_ly81pCX8xON
Amazon wish list:
Art supplies for hard workers who are also artists – Amazon Gift List – https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/3NRCWE1OGG2FY