Hi, I’m Angelia! Artist, Crafter, Gamer, and Girl Boss.

Hand Painted Roses

I love painting roses. For many years I painted roses on anything that would sit still. My husband would tease me that he was afraid to nap when I was painting that he would wake up covered in roses. At Christmas time I paint ornaments with roses, and I gave my best friend one. She wanted to know where I got the sticker. That’s when I knew that I was too perfect at it and I needed to work on making them look more hand painted and not machine made LOL

Digital Art

I always hated a Mac computer. But my kids (Son and Daughter in law) Talked me into getting an Apple iPad. This was when I was at my sickest and I couldn’t really paint. I fell in love with digital art! I do a lot of art that I have printed on T-shirts, mouse pad, tennis shoes, wrapping paper, and various other things. My husband and I also print our own mugs and sell them at a local market owned by a friend.

I sell on various print on demand markets. You can find my items at the stores below:

achyartist.com – This is my main store. The products on this store are printed, produced, and shipped by fourthwall.com. I’ve been with this company for almost two years now and haven’t had one issue to this point. I love that I can sell tennis shoes and bathing suits with my designs on them. I hope you can find something exciting in this store.

The Achy Artist – Zazzle Shop – I’ve been on Zazzle forever it seems like. But I actually started in 2022. I enjoy making wrapping paper and they have a great selection of paper sizes. They also have playing cards that a lot of print on demand markets do not. You might find something unique that you wouldn’t expect!

Designs by The Achy Artist – Spoonflower – I have a real passion for designing fabric. I love the challenge of making the design fit like puzzle pieces in all directions to make yards of fabric. Fabric designs must be repeatable to work to make larger pieces of fabric and it takes a lot if trial and error sometimes to get it to work. If you love creating with fabric or looking for some home decor from custom fabric this is the shop to check out!

The Achy Artist – TeePublic – I started with TeePublic because my son loved the quality of their Tee-shirts. Once I got started with them, I found that I too like the quality. I also like their stickers. They are a nice quality. I really need to work on this market a lot more. I have a number of Alzheimer awareness designs, but I could expand on this collection.

Genealogy

I am what is called a second-generation child. My siblings are 16, 18, and 20 years older than me. So, I didn’t know many of my grandparents. When my son was born, I was trying to fill in my baby book and realized how much I didn’t know about my history. By this time, June 1988, my father had already passed when I was 10, and my mother had had a cerebral hemorrhage.

This started my trip down or should that be up my family tree. Over the years since them I have traveled many paths and found many family members along the way. I have traced my husband’s family and one of my greatest accomplishments is The Bellah/Bellar Family Register Revisited which covers 12 generations of one line of my husband’s family. I was given the original The Bellah Family Register by the Author with the mandate to update the book to the best of my ability. I gave my word that I would, and I believe between me and a few other cousins that helped supple me with all their records we have a book to be proud of. You should check it out, you never know, we may be related!!!!

Writing

I love to write but I’m not necessarily good at it. Being from the south I tend to type with a southern accent! Or so I’ve been told on more than one occasion.

The first book that I ever had published was Looking Up Your Family Tree. I was working on America Online at the time in the Business Know-How area. I would sometimes give chats and on one particular day the chat was over, and we were just chit chatting and there was a publisher from Texas in the chat. The conversation turned to Genealogy, and I was explaining how to get started and what you needed. The next day I had a message from the publisher offering me an advance to write a book. I thought it was a joke until he showed up in my next chat and talked serious to me. End the end it wasn’t a block buster, but it was a decent seller.

Over the years I produced other genealogy books on various lines of my family and my husband’s family. Presently I am working on my daughter in laws family.

My love of art took me out of the writing arena, but I still ended up publishing some of my art in book form. I love coloring to unwind. I hit a point that I couldn’t find anything that I wanted to color. So, I decided to design my own coloring books.

You can find them below:

100 Mandalas – Adult ART Coloring Book

_{101 Floral Designs – Adult ART Coloring Book}

_{Cactus Design Adult ART Coloring Book}

_{Preschool Christmas Activity Book}