I am so lucky to be able to set up my booth at one of several local Art/Craft Fairs in my hometown each year. I get to talk to lots of people about my art, sometimes they buy something, often they don’t, but I get lots of compliments and every once in a while, somebody really clicks with my work! As you can well imagine, this is totally awesome, and one of the main reasons I keep making my Everyday Art! Julie is one of those people. She purchased a note taker from me a year or so ago, and then a couple of going green totes (some as presents I believe…) and she was SO EXCITED to finally order a custom messenger from me! Of course, this was in the craziness before Christmas, and then I had those 2 commission quilts with had and fast deadlines, so here it’s February already – I hope it was worth the wait!
The idea is to share a connected stream of blogger posts on “what inspires us the most” on our individual blogs, but link back & forward to the other blogs participating, a bit like a chain letter (but, as Victoria says, hopefully a lot less annoying!). Click on the image or the link above to learn more about it.
As you may know, I find inspiration endlessly fascinating, so I’m in! She’s had 300 bloggers sign up and had to close it there. I can’t wait to see how this progresses. There are so many blogs out there, I’ll never have time to see them all, but this is a great way to take a look at some new blogs! I’ll keep you updated as it goes live next Wednesday.
Interesting note: Twitter is forever! I had a little glitch on my website this week (resulting in this post on Blog it Forward being deleted very soon after I published it, so you RSS readers may wonder why I’m re-publishing this – it’s because it was gone). ANYWAY, I was having a private “direct message” conversation on Twitter about said problem, and she said something that so surprised me that I typed a phrase containing an expletive I try not to use in public, FORGETTING to add the “d” that makes it a private message. Within 10 seconds I’d had a reply from someone else about said phrase, and I’d deleted the tweet 10 seconds later. “Phew” I thought, that was close! hah! Not so much! There are little bots that troll twitter just waiting to retweet certain phrases (there’s a cute one that tweets you back whenever you tweet “note to self”). This other bot I do NOT think is cute, but what’re you gonna do? Twittter is a stream, the expletive soon disappeared, and I’m pretty sure that everyone on twitter has heard said expletive before (it was the dreaded F-dash-dash-dash)
Oh – and my little mishap was only a little mishap because I had just backed up my website database! Do this often!
This is a question I struggle with often. A tweet led me to this Tanya Davis song: “Art”. And it reminded me of several ways art has meaning for me – perhaps it’ll point out some way art has meaning for you too!
I’ve gotten 26 responses to my “Getting to know you” survey that I posted about yesterday. (Phew, I’m not a dork, people are taking my survey!) I’ll let it run for a few days, and report back on the results (remember, I’m a scientist by training – I LOVE data)!
I am so lucky to be able to set up my booth at one of several local Art/Craft Fairs in my hometown each year. I get to talk to lots of people about my art, sometimes they buy something, often they don’t, but I get lots of compliments and every once in a while, somebody really clicks with my work! As you can well imagine, this is totally awesome, and one of the main reasons I keep making my Everyday Art! Julie is one of those people. She purchased a note taker from me a year or so ago, and then a couple of going green totes (some as presents I believe…) and she was SO EXCITED to finally order a custom messenger from me! Of course, this was in the craziness before Christmas, and then I had those 2 commission quilts with had and fast deadlines, so here it’s February already – I hope it was worth the wait!
