Salve Yourself: How to DIY the Ultimate Beeswax Balm – Lifestyle – GOOD.
Being creative includes making other stuff besides art. I am eager to return to making my own beauty products. I found this article on the website GOOD, a great place to be inspired and informed. Once I get my hands on some supplies, I will try it out and report back to you. If you get to it before I do, PLEASE comment your results.
When I hear a superb song with lasting lyrics, I am inspired to create.
For about two weeks now, I have not been inspired to create anything. I recently came home from a business trip. I was creating weekly – nearly daily – before this trip, but when I got home I have not been able to create a thing. But after seeing a video from one of my favorite shows with such a wonderful song, my creativity has been reignited. Check out what inspired me:
For this week’s Product Review, I am critiquing the magazine Artful Blogging, one of many beautiful magazines by Stampington & Company. This is one of the few magazines that I have collected in which I have nearly every single issue (I am missing just one!).
If you have never seen a Stampington & Company magazine, then you are missing out on some of the most beautiful magazines on the shelves. When you pick up a Stampington & Company magazine, you can feel the quality of the magazine by its heft, its thick cardstock-like pages, and amazing, colorful photos. It is also not overrun by adverts – although there are some in there but mostly of its own products.
Artful Blogging is a magazine about blogging by bloggers who are artists. Beautiful photos and art dispersed amongst poignant passages about why they blog and how to blog. It is inspiring not just for bloggers but for artists as well. However, I do find myself just flipping through the magazine just to examine all the photos. It really is such a pretty magazine.
If I can impress upon you about anything, this is one of the most entertaining magazines that Stampington & Company publishes. You can read it for its entertaining posts. You can browse it for its pretty pages. You can study it to learn how to blog, why to blog, and what to blog. It is certainly not like some of their other magazines that are filled with how-tos on craft projects or details on how to produce the next-big-art style. It is pure infotainment – a lot of learning disguised within amazing art.
Go pick up a copy at your local bookseller or craft store. The Spring 2012 edition is currently out. Its blue-based cover is my favorite so far.
It is the Year of the Dragon, according to Chinese culture who celebrates their new year on the 2nd new moon after the Winter Solstice. We celebrate the Gregorian new year like most Americans. We also celebrate a sort-of new year on your birthday. But I like how the Chinese celebrate the new year. It is usually a two-week celebration and family reunion. If only we could have a two-week hiatus from work to hang with family and friends for two weeks.
For this new year, I have moved my site over to a hosting company and changed blogging platforms. I have been roaming the art sites as of late and it seems most use WordPress as their blogging program. I have some experience with WordPress and this blogging application comes with my hosting package, so I decided to make the change. For all of you, you should not see much difference except I have a new website address (actually it is an old address but that is a long story).
I hope to excite you with all of the artsy goals that I have for myself this year. I am currently participating in two art workshops and should be blogging about those later this week. I plan on participating on many, many workshops this year to work on the art-side of my journaling. I will keep you up-to-date on my progress.
Until then, have a wonderful New Year!