The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist: ARTFUL BLOGGING

Saturday, February 21, 2009

ARTFUL BLOGGING

Stampington & Company (http://www.stampington.com/) has the most wonderful magazines for the artist, stamper, quilter, dollmaker, blogger, scrapbooker, etc. The FEB/MAR/APR 2009 issue of Artful Blogging is the 3rd volume and I think it is the best so far. I read this issue from cover to cover in one sitting. It is filled with inspiration, blogger stories and helpful information for the beginner blogger. Tools to Get You Blogging, Blogging Etiquette and How to Take Great Photos of Your Art are just a few of the topics covered in this issue.
I still consider myself a beginner in the world of blogging. This magazine gives me the inspiration to become a better blogger and it is a joy to read about the featured bloggers, how they got started and what they are doing to make their blogs interesting ~ causing people to become followers and eager to read what they have to say and/or show what they are creating.
If you haven't read an issue of Artful Blogging yet, pick this one up. It is definitely a keeper!!
Since I have started to read and follow some blogs, I am finding that most bloggers out there have the same insecurities and we all want the same things ~ to share our interests and thoughts, show our creativity and learn from each other. And the fact that I am making friends through blogging is just one of the perks!!! There are many extremely talented people out there and I feel blessed that I can read their words or see their art just with the click of my mouse.

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For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!

I AM A "SEARCHER"

"I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves."

~ James Kavanaugh

I am THE LOVERS Tarot Card

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse. THE LOVERS represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made. Originally, this card was just called LOVE. And that's acually more apt than "LOVERS." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that you have or will come across a person, a career, challenge, or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.