Warmest wishes of the seasons to all of the people who make this little business possible, whether you are an artist, an appreciator of the arts, a customer, or “just” a cheerleader. You mean the world to me, and I hope that your holidays are filled with love and cheer. You have all my gratitude.<\/p>\n
After the next Sketch Fest (New Year’s Eve weekend), I will be closing things up for about two months – I am doing a big shopping cart and webpage upgrade, and it will take a little while to mop all the various bits and get everything working smoothly and in sync. January and February are traditionally very slow months for sales anyway, and I don’t want to rush this job. (Also, I just signed a contract for an exciting and rather intimidating illustration job that is going to monopolize a lot of my time, and I have some writing projects on my plate as well! There will also be sledding with my daughter and binging Netflix with my husband.) <\/p>\n
During this time, you will be able to view and comment on Sketch Fest artwork<\/a>, but not purchase art. At Portrait Adoption<\/a>, you will be able to add portraits to your wishlist, but not make adoptions. Coloring books<\/a> and publications will be unavailable. You can read and enjoy the material at Torn World<\/a>, and even submit new, but I will be closing up subscriptions and anthology sales. <\/p>\n I plan to reopen at the end of February. I may post teasers and updates as I make progress, but I may also thumb my nose at social media for a while and ignore my email. It’s been a busy semester and I’m going to take some recharge time in here, too. Be sure to sign up for the Email Update List<\/a> to get all the updates and important news. <\/p>\n I’m excited by my plans, and hope you will agree that it’s worth the wait! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Warmest wishes of the seasons to all of the people who make this little business possible, whether you are an artist, an appreciator of the arts, a customer, or “just” a cheerleader. You mean the world to me, and I hope that your holidays are filled with love and cheer. You have all my gratitude. … Continue reading “From Ellen’s Desk: Holiday Closure!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}