other peoples stuff

hi, due to an absence of stuff I have done I have been thinking aboout what it was I wanted to write about and then I remembered etsy and all the cool things I have been finding there. Starting with a new ‘hearts me’ which I checked out and loved her pictures. MizzDraconia has a cool photographic style, I love her images.

also a shop called Stargazer29609 who has the most delicious bead work I have seen for a while, she has this necklace here which I love and there is a bracelet I just saw which went on my favourites list also

and still on the bead trail, check this shop out, she has beaded necklaces but she also uses really yummy stones in her stuff. Forbesfarm

I adore Kathannah’s work, she is very witchypoo, all vague and sensitive and wonderfulness

who else.. for sheer wonderfulness of style, johnwgolden, he has a simplicity I find appealing and his work is so full of character, check this crafty fox out

an to stay on an animal theme, I remember the first time I had ever seen a wild boar, I was so excited. It was in the north of spain. Remember Asterix and Obelix? they were always chasing boars to eat them and the boars would always lead them to roman patrols to shake them off and the romans figured the gauls had trained the boars to find the romans. A shop called the bigheadedrobot.

I love this womans work also, KatherineDunn, this link is to her website, but she has an etsy store also. Its another fox. she draws a lot of animals. Her drawing style is so free. I am inspired to get out my messiest charcoals and oil pastels.

alright, reckon thats a lot to be going on with! cool stuff everywhere to be ferreted out and discovered!! happy happy joy joy……

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new year things

its amazing how words define concepts, give our minds a handle on which to hang the coat of understanding. Such a word is ‘procrastination’. I remember the first time ever seeing this word when I was young and not having the vaguest idea what it meant and then when someone explained it for me, I thought ‘oh! but I do that all the time!’

I try not to do this, or at least catch myself mid-procrastic (yes, I made that conjunction up) and start what ever it was I was avoiding doing. And so to the first official post of this blog.. Thinking to myself all sorts of excuses like I have to think about what I want to write or I haven’t done the shop properly yet or its (I’m) not ready to go yet. I was really excited about setting this blog up and only about a week ago it actually sunk in that I was going to be writing things for real people to read. Outside of my abstract world and into the real one or as Pooh bear says “Sometimes ideas that seem really thingy inside your head don’t seem quite so thingy after all when they are outside and everyone else is looking at them”.

But that is what other people are for really in this case, to bounce the ideas inside your head off and see do they stay ‘thingy’ when they are outside and everyone else is looking at them. We are all connected and we can all learn from each other.

So my new year wishes for this new baby blog are…

to speak the truth (as I know it) as much as I can and allow this blog to go where it wants to go and become what it wants to become.

share my art and ideas with more people and provide inspiration and tips on how they can make their own art or let their own creative voices flow.

and lastly, but not leastly, have fun doing it.

I will be posting two posts a week, though that could change as it goes. This is all new territory for me, I have soaked in seemingly endless bits of information on stats and feedburners and html and other stuff that will take time to sink in and become familiar. The most important thing though is what I write about and that can’t be learnt or studied or prepared but simply allowed to flow.

now make a wish for yourself, close your eyes right now and visualise something you would like to bring towards you in 2008.

xx cliodhna