artsychick
Daughter, Wife, Mother, Friend, artist, vintage loving, law enforcement officer, Southern Californian, God and country loving girl who loves to meet like minded creative people, share life with new and old friends. Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. ~André Gide
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Handmade Holidays Blog Hop 2014 – Day 2
Welcome to the 4th Annual Handmade Holidays Blog Hop! A few years ago we were looking online for handmade gift ideas and thought it would be great if there was a resource dedicated JUST to handmade gift ideas. Enter the Handmade Holidays hop! We’ve gathered over 100 of our creative blogger friends in the craft industry as well as some of our fellow product manufacturers to bring you a plethora of inspiring gift ideas you can make now to give to your friends, family, and colleagues. Pin and bookmark these ideas for this holiday season and to use throughout the year! Each day of the hop features approximately 30 gift projects and you can “hop”…
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Handmade Holidays Blog Hop 2014 – Gift for the Artist
I am thrilled once again to be a part of an incredible on-line event, the 4th Annual Handmade Holidays Blog Hop. Organized by Jennifer Priest from Hydrangea Hippo, with the assistance of others, it’s an inspiring event brimming with unique gift ideas for the Holidays. You don’t want to miss this line up of inspiration and artistic bliss. A few years ago we were looking online for handmade gift ideas and thought it would be great if there was a resource dedicated JUST to handmade gift ideas. Enter the Handmade Holidays hop! We’ve gathered over 100 of our creative blogger friends in the craft industry as well as some of our fellow…
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Handmade Holidays 2014
I’m sure as you’re traveling about town you’re starting to see Christmas decorations adorning shops. While it’s not yet Thanksgiving . . . so much to be thankful for . . . it’s good to be ahead of the game for Christmas especially if you are creating your own gifts. Looking for inspiration? I’m thrilled to be a part once again this year of a wonderful event called Handmade Holidays. It’s a blog hop filled with over 100 creative bloggers in the craft industry. You won’t want to miss this Friday through Sunday (November 7th through the 9th), for a fun journey jam packed with Holiday gift ideas. I’ll personally will be sharing…
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Fall Back (and Falling Forward)
Tomorrow is November 1st and time for most Americans to turn back our clocks tonight. We gain an hour of sleep. I have been thinking about falling back and falling forward in a different sense. I started thinking about when we fall back . . . when the bottom of things falls out as we know them; when things are turned so upside down we don’t know which way is up; when something so shocking slaps you down and you are completely stunned as you never saw it coming; when your heart is so broken you don’t know if you can find all the pieces. This is the time to fall forward…
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Throwback Thursday – Window of the Soul Art Journal Tour
A while back for Throwback Thursday I shared a little video tour of the Window of the Soul Art Journal Tag Tour. Today for Throwback Thursday, I’d like to simply share an art journal tour based on the study of a book called just that, “Windows of the Soul” by Ken Gire. I hope you enjoy. Just a relaxed little peek. Are you working on an art journal? Are you documenting a particular event? I’d love to know. Where are you sharing your documentation? Warmest creative wishes,
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Tis’ the Candy Cane Season – Logan’s Annual Candy Cane Tour
Greetings all. Can you believe it . . . Christmas is nearing? Once again, I’m organizing the Logan’s Candy Cane Tour. Our friends at Logan’s are wonderful people and we love to support them. Their candy is like no other made with love and includes a message of hope! I know many of you have attended the tour and each year our group grows bigger. Our group is limited so the first to sign up here I’ll list. I need to know a count of how many adults and how many kids by October 30th. Then the fee for the kids you can mail to me asap. That will reserve our spots. Please…
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A Little R and R at the Hall of Fame
Hello all, I’m headed to Canton, Ohio to visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame and dear family. So proud of my uncle David who is President and Executive Director of the NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame. I’m proud of how hard he works, how intelligent he is and all that he accomplishes but above all and most of all . . . I am proud of just who he is. He is an amazing kind, loving, generous wonderful man and I can’t wait to be hugged by this 6’9″ gentle man. He moved from California to Ohio in January. Miss him so much. While my husband and daughter…
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Throwback Thursday – Window of the Soul Art Journal Tags Tour
It’s Throwback Thursday of a different kind. I’m adding content I previously lost . . . of some oldies (videos, tutorials, projects). ADD PHOTOS OF TAGS This one here . . . several years ago I taught a different kind of book club class. We would read a chapter or two of this awesome book by Ken Gire called Windows on the Soul, convene together, talk about what we learned, I’d teach a technique on a tag and then we’d each create an art journal page with portions of the book that spoke to us. This is a little tour of the tags I created for the class/techniques I…
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Right Now Mondays – Do not Doubt
Greetings, It’s another ‘Right Now Monday‘ and are you ready to share? Ready to art journal? If you missed the last ‘Right Now Monday‘ post , or wondering what Right Now Monday is about . . . . here it is . . . Right Now Monday Initial Post. Right Now I want . . . This could be something you desire to have (maybe not a need but a want – a house, a new job) or maybe this is a goal? For me . . . Right Now and Today I want and desire for . . . my daughter, my husband, my mother, my friends, my family,…
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Right Now Monday, Love Will (The Power of Love)
Right Now, this Monday . . . I feel the Power of Love. The Power of Love is an incredible thing. I recently was thinking about all the ways people have loved us through our challenges the last couple years. I was pondering and asking how I’ve loved others. Then I began to think about the ‘Power of Love‘. Yes, those of you in my generation probably hear Huey Lewis singing the words . . . the Power of Love. As seen on YouTube here. But seriously, I was thinking about how someone knowing they are truly loved, it can change a life. An action, (not just words), can move someone…
