For the past week I have battled a nasty respiratory infection. I’ve had no energy or desire to do anything crafty or otherwise. I am feeling better today but still have very little energy. To get back into the grove of daily life though I must do something and blogging is about the easiest thing I can come up with. That means my friends that you are about to hear all about what I did with my lazy self while I wasn’t spending time crafting, cooking, or doing housework. That is, if you choose to stick around after that inviting introduction.
Web surfing is sometimes the most inspiring and thought provoking activities I do. I visit my favorite sites and make notes, create lists, Pin some awesome pictures, share my finds with my friends, get lost by clicking links, and just basically get cyberspace overloaded. It’s a blast and I would love to share with you some of the wonderfulness
I’ve discovered this past week.
Nathalie has created an inspirational kick off to 2012 with the help of many of her talented friends. Through the use of videos, Nathalie has brought admired and well respected artist right to your home to share with you their secrets for finding artistic inspiration. This is a free series and I highly recommend it.
at Julie Fei-Fan Balzer I found
This event shared tons of tips and ideas from many artist on how to create storage, rearrange, restructure, and make a variety of low cost storage containers as well as great ways to set up our studios to make them more user friendly.
While I was catching up on a week’s worth of unread mail in my Google Reader, I came across this gem from
Michelle hosts the
The current challenge,
is all about making
Ta-Da Lists.
It’s her alternative to making and breaking resolutions. With the Ta-Da, we can look back on our accomplishments instead of frowning over our failed resolutions. I LOVE this. I have added the Ta-Da to my To-Do. I encourage you to check out the site. Michelle has the lists already designed and ready for downloading and printing along with ideas for creating journals using your lists. She suggests working backward but I’m not one for looking to the past. I’m starting mine and working forward.
I also found this extremely fun site where you can create your own Subway type signage.
Just type the words you want to use, adjust the layout to your liking, pick a font, select your colors, and WOW! Your creation can be printed out for whatever use you choose or added to your website or blog.
Look what I made. Using the list of “Labels” from my blog. I simply copied and pasted them in at the site and did my tweaking and TA-DA, (oh, that’s the other site).
I found a free pattern and instructions for making a dress form pin cushion from
My Craft Channel’s
I’ve downloaded my pattern and can’t wait to make my own pin cushion for my stick pins.
And lastly but certainly not least is
I love this site. It’s great for holding all my ideas, finding “pins” and sharing the “pins” I found. If you don’t have a Pinterest, you’ve got to get one and if you have one and haven’t used it in a while, go revisit some of the things you pinned. You might find some ideas to recharge
your batteries or get your creative juices following.
I hope I haven’t bored you too much and that you’ve picked up some ideas and projects to work on or just some new sites to visit.
Thanks for stopping by today. I’ve missed you.
Happy Creating.
Susan
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Oh Susan - thanks for the links - love doing blog hopping (especially when someone provides the greatest links)
ReplyDeletePS> Thanks for the comment on my post "Not my usual Post"
Cathy