Monthly Archives: June 2010

Creative Workspace – From cleaning to creating…

Happy Thursday to everyone! Just wanted to give you a peek at my creative workspace today…and don’t forget to check out all the great creative spaces on kootoyoo as well. I’ve been trying to clean up my room, but as I go through stuff I get ideas and start creating. I also seem to create [...] See the full post »

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The Diary Project

Have you heard of the Diary Project? It’s a great opportunity to get your artwork out there in front of people’s eyes, so I signed up to design page. Since it’s all black and white I decided to do a line drawing, here’s my test print out… I happen to draw little elf-like girls a [...] See the full post »

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Art Journal With Me – Gloomy to Sunny and Update on my zine…

This morning started as a rainy, gloomy day so my art journal page began with a little girl under the clouds. She wasn’t so happy about it all. The weather so drastically affects my mood, it has a bit too much control over me I think! However, as lunchtime rolled around the skies cleared and [...] See the full post »

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Inspiration from Crayola colors…

I just discovered this lovely song and music video, “Crayola Doesn’t Make A Color For Your Eyes” by Kristin Andreassen and totally loving it. A great inspirational start for my Monday morning! I really love the kids in the video – happy times, grooving to the beat and doodling with crayons. What could be more [...] See the full post »

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Where Do You Put The Fear?

I really think you should read a great post by Seth Godin, Fear of shipping. His writing is usually very short and digestible because it’s super concise and packed with the point. No surprise he has so many followers and readers. I highly recommend you subscribe to his blog if you don’t already. While reading [...] See the full post »

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Creative Workspace – Lots of Little Projects

Another Thursday and another peek into my creative workspace. Here are some photos of all the little projects I have going on…little experiments, prototypes and works in progress. I am realizing that it’s a lot more fun to always have many projects going on at the same time. You can jump to whatever sparks the [...] See the full post »

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Printable Suns or Flowers?

Happy Wednesday to everyone! Today I was playing around with drawing a sun for the cover of a mini scrapbook project and ended up with a bunch of versions. I think that it’s always a good creative exercise to do multiple versions of something. It’s my way of experimenting with multiple options and seeing how [...] See the full post »

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Art Journal With Me – Got to get going

Happy Tuesday to you! The sun is shining brightly and the weather is super hot here in the Tuscan hills. Although most people complain about being uncomfortable and sweating too much – I on the other hand completely love it! Is it bizarre that a Fall baby like me loves the super hot version of [...] See the full post »

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Travel Inspiration

Happy Monday to all and hello to everyone again as I’m back from my little vacation! I had a great time and thank you all for your well wishes. My husband and I took a road trip to the East coast of Italy and it was great to see new places and difference things. The [...] See the full post »

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