Q: Hello, hello! What’s your favorite color to wear these days?
A: red.
Q: favorite icecream topping?
A:
Q: what is your dream vacation?
A: I want to visit my friend Sarah in Austin & also see Daniel Johnston.
Q: puppies? or kitties?
A: puppy!
but i think these kittens are beautifulllll!
Q: favorite toy growing up?
A: omggggg! i love these. why do i not have a very large collection of them right now? i don’t know.
Q: When will there be a little elsie and jeremy running around?
A: ha!
Q: What is your favorite thing to get at the food court at the mall?
A: these questions are awesomely random! i sometimes get Starbucks at the mall… or sushi because i’m afraid that if i don’t eat there it will go out of business (as food court vendors often do..) actually, i haven’t been there in a few months.. it may have already gone out of business, but i hope not.
Q: what’s your favourite flower?
peonies.
Q: Hi elsie! Um, you’re my girlcrush. Question…who’s yours?
A: Jenny Lewis.
Q: When coming up with a new painting, do you sketch it alot before putting it to canvas??
A: No. I usually don’t do any sketches at all. If I mess up, I paint over it.
Q: My question is, as a business woman AND artist, how do you manage your time and organize yourself?
A: It’s incredibly challenging to handle both sides of an artistic business. Fortunately, I have a wonderful team of people here who understand that my first priority needs to be creative work in order for our business to grow & evolve. I could never do all of this without the entire RVA family. Everyones role here is so important and I am constantly aware that other people are making sacrifices so that I’ll be able to make art. That’s very inspiring to me. I am naturally very relentless about my art and creative process. I can never get enough, but that unbalanced nature is a part of a bigger picture because people with others strengths are working with me to create something that works.
Q: My question is….What is next for Miss Elsie?
A: This year I would like to finish one art book and one children’s book and develop a line of toys. Those are my biggest goals for the future. Owning RVA is very satisfying and I plan on doing this for a long long time.
Q: How did you and Rachel meet?
A: I met Rachel’s husband (then crush) Brett in India in 2001. He and I became friends instantly and I couldn’t wait to meet Rachel. We were close long-distance friends for about six years until they moved to Springfield last year and made my life a MILLION times better. love them.
Q:What is your BIGGEST dream? and why you always have a positive energy..? what’s the secret 😉
A: My biggest dream right now is to make my illustrated characters into different products. I want them to be books, cartoons, toys, ect…. I would also really love to grow as a painter.
Positive energy… i can’t give some cliche formula for happiness, i just think that living your life the way you really like to is important. for me that means making a lot of stuff and having a lot of goals. i think if i wasn’t doing those things every day, my life would be a little bit sad.
“We must create what we most need to find.” -Sabrina Ward Harrison
XO. elsie (off to choose more winners!)
Thank you so much for being involved here today. It was really fun and magical to connect.
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Thank you so much for all your hard work today!
loved reading all your fun answers and you such an inspiration!!! thanks for such a wonderful day, you soooo rock!!!
seriously!
thank you SO much for taking time out of your day to do such a neat thing! i have truly had a BLAST today ! friends go involved and inspired and oh yeah we ate WAY too many red velvet cupcakes in honor of this shin dig!!
<3
adrienne K.
I love reading these 🙂
And thanks…now I’m craving sushi AND reeses pieces! Both of which will have to wait until tomorrow! 😛
That was awesome! And I love peonies!!!!!
You can rest easy Elsie – I was at the mall Saturday and the sushi place is still there!!
You have such wonderful goals, and it’s very inspiring. I, too, hope to create a book some day… I would love to write childrens!
oh elsie!! thanks so much for doing this! totally inspiring. Did you really stay up for a full 24 hours???
Thanks so much for throwing this blog par-tay for my birthday today. 😉 hehehe
It was a great day! Thanks so much for all your time and all the wonderful inspiration!!! xoxo
Thank you so much, Elsie! You have been wonderful to share your amazing talent and inspirations with us. I have been SUPER inspired all day long and was anxiously awaiting each post! 🙂
Have a good rest of the night and get some sleep, lovely!
i <3 sabrina ward harrison.
Love the Q+A and can’t wait for a new book of yours!
no, thank you! this has been so inspiring!
oh by the way, not sure if you know this already, but paper source sells gocco ink: http://www.paper-source.com/cgi-bin/paper/kits/gocco.html
thank youuuuuu!
elsie & rva team, this has been the greatest day!!!
i sewed all day, and would check back every hour!
it was amazing!
xoxoxo
have a super long & restful sleep tonight!!!
thank you so much!
this has been awesome!
what a beautiful day! thank you for all the inspiration and hangin’ out! i’ve missed you!!!!
xo!
thanks for a super fantastic party!
i love your q&a’s. 🙂
If I could take parts of your mind and sew them together, it would make one ginormous; fun; gorgeous and very warm quilt!
I love everything about you!
You are pure inspiration!
Thank you soo much for answering my question =D..ooh i love this blog party so much..hope you will do this next time in the future =D..lots of love for u
No, thank YOU so much Elsie, it’s been a blast!! I’m so thankful for the goodies I won today!!! YOU ROCK!!
So sad that I missed this. I totally forgot. Looks like everyone had fun! Love this last picture on your post. You’re a-dor-able, Elsie! My question would have been are you planning for another online craft class, and if so, do you know when that will be?! XO
LOVING the Jenny Lewis girl crush.
Mine is totally Natasha Khan from Bat for Lashes…lovely.
And I am SAD I missed seeing your moms art up for grabs. Her work is gorgeous!!!!
sigh…jenny lewis. We’re lucky enough to catch her in our town this month (two weeks from today!). We missed when Rilo Kiley was here but we’ll take just jenny any day!
(we’re over the bridge in Lawrence, KS)
Oh Jenny Lewis… be still my heart.
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can’t wait to learn more about the online class!!!!
cute french bulldog puppy!
but i like my frankie better… hihi
xoxo
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