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📸 Digital artist creating funky stuff from my original images 👩‍💼 Helping my fellow micropreneurs navigate the business jungle 📍Silver City, NM 🖼️ Artwork – https://art.valinreallife.com 💻 Biz blog – https://exposure.valinreallife.com

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Rieva @rieva.bsky.social · 3d

Coupons still work—58% of shoppers say discount codes are what convince them to buy.
Email + SMS reminders outperform influencer marketing this holiday season.
#MarketingTips #SmallBusiness #ShopSmall

How to Convince Customers to Shop Small

Last week, we discussed how consumers plan to spend more this holiday season. After conducting its survey, Intuit QuickBooks (and its sister company Mailchimp) shared several tips to help small business owners attract customers this holiday season.

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Val Weston NM @valwestonnm.bsky.social · 2d

You can see Vintage Suitcases, Abandoned Railcars, Flight of Strata, and Solar Wind there. Plus Autumn Reflections is in the gallery window for November.

Come by and say hi! And you can always learn more about these pieces on the site.

🔗https://art.valinreallife.com

Val Weston NM @valwestonnm.bsky.social · 2d

It's a new month and I like to keep things fresh so I gave my display at the Grant County Art Guild gallery a little makeover. (How is it November already?!?)

#ValWestonNM #PhotographicArt #GrantCountyArtGuild #SilverCityArtist #VisitSilverCity

Gallery display showing multiple pieces of wall art, greetings cards, and baskets with prints in them.

Autumn Reflections photographic art by Val Weston hanging on a wall.

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𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 @churchstreetimages.com · 3d

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday November 8, 2025
The theme is #Evening

Any art, any interpretation
Use both tags to be
included in our feed.
Multiple entries welcome

More details in the comments

#photography #drawing #painting #sketching #poetry

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Val Weston NM @valwestonnm.bsky.social · 5d

Ah the elusive leaf dragon! 😲🤩

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Island Girl (IG)🇨🇦 @tenoaks6.bsky.social · 5d

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."
- Henry Miller

#photography #nature #justbe #art #quotes #itsthelittlethings #lifeisbeautiful

Beneath the limbs of a wide spanning maple tree with a skinny, moss covered grey trunk. It is a frenzy of red overhead, branches reaching askew in many directions. The background is barren shrubbery and moss covered bedrock. A snippet of sky peeks through in soft grey/blue

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Val Weston NM @valwestonnm.bsky.social · 5d

Fantastic! 🤩

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Val Weston NM @valwestonnm.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Saturday, #BlueskyArtShow!

This is one of my favorite #Autumn images I've captured in my time in the Smokies.

📸 Great Smoky Mountains National Park (2012)

It wasn't fun and games getting it though. 😬
🔗https://valinreallife.com/postcards-from-real-life-autumn/

Full frame maple tree branches with glowing yellow and orange leaves

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𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 @churchstreetimages.com · 10d

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday November 1, 2025
The theme is #Autumn
Scary or pleasant, show us your fall favorites!

Any art, any interpretation
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included in our feed.
Multiple entries welcome

More details in the comments

#photography #drawing #painting #sketching #poetry

Photo of fallen autumn leaves with text over it reading:
Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday November 1, 2025
The theme is #Autumn
Any art. Any interpretation.
Use both tags to be
included in our feed.
Multiple entries welcome.

#writing #fiberart #weaving #pottery #sculpting #tattoos #murals #nature #landscape #halloween #spookyseason

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Val Weston NM @valwestonnm.bsky.social · 10d

Getting in the holiday spirit. 😅

👻Don't be spooked by websites or branding!
💯We'll be your spirit guides.
⏰Join us this Thursday for 🕸️ Websites for Beginners and ❓Branding Q&A.
🔗Link in comments and bio.
#ValWestonNM #SilverCityNM #EntrerpreneurLife #NewMexicoEntrepreneur

Halloween-themed graphic that reads Don't be spooked by websites and branding. We'll be your spirit guides. Join us for 2 great workshops in Silver City, NM October 30th with a URL Exposure.ValinRealLife.com.

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Southwest Art Towns @southwestarttowns.bsky.social · 12d

🥳 Happy International Artists Day from Southwest Art Towns!

💯 Shout out to all the creators out there making the world a better place.

🩵 Let's share the love. Drop a link to your favorite artists in the comments.

#SouthwestArtTowns #ConnectionCommunityCollaboration #InternationalArtistsDay

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Val Weston NM @valwestonnm.bsky.social · 11d

Many thanks! They're so rich, aren't they? Hardly barren. 😉

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Team Fotomanufaktur @teamfotomanufaktur.bsky.social · 12d

Portal to adventure or just a shortcut to coffee?
#BlueSkyArtShow #inside #UrbanGaze #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Art #BlackAndWhite #ClassicMono #monochrome #PhotoOfTheDay #lightandshadow

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sarcasticritch @sarcasticritch.bsky.social · 12d

#BlueSkyArtShow #Inside #art #bee #bumblebee #flower #nature #naturephotography #photography #pollen #wildlife #wildlifephotography

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Val Weston NM @valwestonnm.bsky.social · 12d

Happy Saturday, #BlueskyArtShow!

Here's a katydid hiding #Inside a Gerbera Daisy.

📸 Suwanee, Georgia (2011)

🤩 And some more about the joy of exploring the intricate details of our world.
🔗 valinreallife.com/postcards-fr...

Close up of katydid peering out from the inside of an orange Gerbera Daisy.

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𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 @churchstreetimages.com · 16d

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday October 25, 2025
The theme is #Inside

Any art, any interpretation
Use both tags to be
included in our feed.
Multiple entries welcome

More details in the comments

#photography #drawing #painting #sketching #writing #poetry #watercolor

Photo of the inside of an old Chevy truck with text over it reading:
Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday October 25, 2025
The theme is #Inside
Any art, any interpretation.
Use both tags to be included in our feed.
Multiple entries welcome

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Val Weston NM @valwestonnm.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you for the kind words! 🥰

Val Weston NM @valwestonnm.bsky.social · 19d

Whoa, trippy! 💯🤯

Val Weston NM @valwestonnm.bsky.social · 19d

Happy Saturday, #BlueskyArtShow! Here's a ladybug friend in a sea of #vertical plants.

📸 Great Smoky Mountains National Park (2016)

I'm still going strong blogging about the images I've been sharing. (We'll see how long that lasts. 😅)
🔗https://valinreallife.com/postcards-from-real-life-vertical/

A dew-covered ladybug perches near the top of a tall plant stalk surrounded by blades of grass and fog.

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Southwest Art Towns @southwestarttowns.bsky.social · 23d

Hi, friends! In case we haven't met you yet in our travels talking about this project, we're Val & J.—founders of Southwest Art Towns. We're based in Silver City, NM and we're looking forward to getting to know all of the great art communities and creators in the southwest through this adventure.

Man and woman wearing baseball caps and motorcycling gear with desert and mountains in the background.

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Southwest Art Towns @southwestarttowns.bsky.social · 28d

A few weeks ago we swung by the #EspañolaValleyFiberArtsCenter. What a tremendous resource for fiber artists. And the mural is simply gorgeous!

Be sure to check out everything they have to offer–supplies, tools, classes, and more.

#SouthwestArtTowns #ConnectionCommunityCollaboration #EspanolaNM

Mural on the Española Valley Fiber Arts Center in Española, New Mexico depicting women spinning yarn and decorated with butterflies and flowers.

Looms and spinning wheels at the Española Valley Fiber Arts Center in Española, New Mexico.

Val Weston and J. Brandon in front of Española Valley Fiber Arts Center in Española, New Mexico.

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𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 @churchstreetimages.com · 24d

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday October 18, 2025
The theme is #Vertical

Any art, any interpretation
Use both tags to be
included in our feed.
Multiple entries welcome

More details in the comments

#photography #drawing #painting #sketching #writing #poetry #watercolor

Photo of a seagull on a post with text over it reading
Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday October 18, 2025
The theme is #Vertical
Any Art
Any interpretation
Use both tags to be included in our feed.
Multiple entries welcome

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Corry Anne Photography 🦋 @corryanne.com · 26d

Something a little different today.. 🦋

#blueskyartshow
#glow
#photographersofbluesky
#butterfly #butterflies
#nature
#swallowtails

A brightly coloured teal silhouette of a swallowtail butterfly on a lavender spear.

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Val Weston NM @valwestonnm.bsky.social · 26d

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