Plemon Art Skills: All from Jan/Weekly Roundup

photo credit: garryknight

Our daughter Jaime hosted the Grand Opening of her Monarch Art Studio on New Year’s Eve.

She was thrilled with a great turnout and I am happy for her. Jaime is a senior in Art Education. Our son Jeremy is a graduate artist employed as the store artist for Whole Foods, St Louis. Our son Josh manages “Attitude Designs”, a store which will design and manufacture T-shirts, business cards, vinyl signs, embroidery items, etc. Jonathan, our youngest, can look at a house and visualize how it would look after being renovated. He is therefore great at buying and fixing up houses. All four of these kids are obviously artistic. My wife is a painter, jewelry creator and seamstress, operating her Etsy store from home.

Me? Well, when our kids were young we played “the drawing game” in which someone would name something to draw, anything from “Ren and Stempy” to a giraffe to a cowboy riding a horse. There was much anticipation before I unveiled my drawing and much laughter afterward. For me, all animals I drew ended up looking sort of like dogs. The artistic bent, fortunately, was passed down from my wife to my kids.

Back to Jaime: Congratulations on your successful Monarch Studio Opening!

Some posts I have enjoyed reading this week:

When Peter at Bible Money Matters gives advice about successful blogging, I listen. By anyone’s standards, Bible Money Matters is very successful. He has written two posts this week that give great tips on blogging; the first is Blueprint For How To Make Money With A Blog: Laying A Solid Foundation – Setting Up Your Site and the second is Blueprint For How To Make Money With A Blog: Creating Content, Optimizing SEO And Promoting Your Site. Thanks, Pete, for sharing your expertise!

Most of us know that delaying our investments can cost us money. But did you know how much? Read “Delaying Roth IRA Contributions One Year Could Cost You $74,000” at Frugal Dad.

Want to be motivated to give this year all you’ve got? Check out “I’m Gonna Kick Some Major Ass This Year” at Man vs Debt. If you are not familiar with Baker and his adventures, read a few other posts while you are there. You will laugh, be amazed and totally challenged to live life to the fullest.

I realize that we are into the second week of the new year already, but if you haven’t set any financial goals yet, check “Most Important Financial Goals for 2010” at Cash Money Life. Patrick gives straight to the point, easily understood goals…just what I like.

My son Josh quipped the other day that Google will some day rule the world. Maybe, maybe not…but they are releasing their own cell phone. Read about “Google’s Nexus One Coming to Verizon (spring 2010)” at Christian PF