Laurie Mika Workshop

Last weekend I had the wonderful experience of taking a mosiac icon workshop with Laurie Mika.  I’ve been intrigued with Laurie’s work ever since I bought her book Mixed Media Mosaics.
 
Laurie’s mosiacs.
The workshop took place at Absolutely Everything in Topsfield, MA.  Karen, Judy and I made plans to attend together and make it a girls [...]

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Synergy Review Day Three-Design

On Saturday, our last day at Synergy, I woke up with a cold;  a scratchy throat and irritated sinuses.  Oh Yipee!  On the way to the convention center we detoured to Walgreens for Zicam, cough drops, and water.
The third and final day of Synergy focused on design, with a special emphasis on personal style.
My morning session was [...]

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Paper Doll Collage

Two weeks ago I started a six-week online workshop with Pamela Hastings.  The workshop, Transformational Art Dolls, is hosted by Joggles.  This is my first experience with a multi-week online course.  An advantage to this type of workshop is that you download one lesson per week and work at your own pace.
The first lesson focused [...]

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Imbolc

At the beginning of February, the Celts celebrate Imbolc (im’olk) or Candlemas, the Feast of Lights.  February 2 is often chosen as the day of celebration because it marks the cross-quarter day on the calendar, halfway between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox.  Locally, it may be celebrated around the time of the first [...]

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Prescription for Creativity

I was a bit under the weather toward the end of last week which put a damper on my endeavors to be creative everyday.  Feeling blah and not very motivated,  I wrote myself a prescription for creativity:

Following the requirements of the prescription, I bought some wild socks

Did some doodling (I think I have a thing for circles)

And tried my [...]

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Hope to Atone (What the Snow Melt Revealed) Postcard

For my second postcard for the WCA exhibit, I planned to collect some items found during a walk in the neighborhood and was going to title the postcard “What the Snow Melt Revealed.”
I collected bits of trash, including a crumpled newspaper page, candy wrappers, a straw and a crushed can.  It wasn’t until I started to wrap [...]

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The Energy Vampires

This week in the Great Big Dreams e-seminar we are discussing energy and those things that drain our energy.  I refer to them as “energy sucks.”  They are like little energy vampires that slowly drain you.
We all experience this at some time or another and sometimes several times a day.  These are the incidents, the [...]

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Quotable Monday

There is a movement going on. 
It may only be 25 or 30 percent of the population, but they’re getting to the point where they’re asking: What is important to me, and how can I create my future based on what is important to me rather than what I was told as a child should be [...]

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Why Are You Doing What You’re Doing?

One of our first assignments in the Great Big Dreams e-Seminar is to think about why we decided to take the course.  I admit to hating these types of questions.  It reminds me of being asked why you chose your particular career (Because it sounded interesting on the skills assessement?) , why you want a certain job [...]

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Let The Confusion In

Somewhere during October and November I begin to grow tired of my production art work.  I start to ask myself why I’m making these pieces.  I want to stop what I’m making and do something completely different.  New ideas flood my head that I can’t act upon until after orders are filled.
Waverly Fitzgerald, in her [...]

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