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Art + Writing = Magic
I’m often asked about my process as an artist. Ditto as a writer. So today I’ll discuss how they intertwined in one of my books, Sprinkling Faerie Dust on Breakfast. Parents had told me about their...
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Creativity and Trust
Trusting the creative process, with all its starts and halts, confusions and contusions, is challenging. But it is needed to make visions come true. We embody that trust by going with the flow; it...
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Centered!
Finding the Spiritual Center of My Art AKA I’m Giving Up Fabric Painting The past four years have been an amazing journey for me as an artist. It’s been a time of exploration and finding the spiritual...
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Patience with Wet Felting
Patience with Wet Felting And the Oddities of an Artist’s Life Here are two felt vessels made in 2015: The small one especially pleased me, because my pieces were too often falling short of my visions,...
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Magic Top Hat
Magic Top Hat DIY Felting The crowning glories that are hats, tiaras, barrettes, bows, hair ties, scarves, wreathes, and other head adorments! I love ’em. Of all mainstream accessories, the hat has an...
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Finding Creative Joy
Finding Creative Joy: Nine Tips for Doing Textile Arts Despite Disabilities This post can also help anyone—including able-bodied individuals—tap into their creativity. Check out tips 3, 6, 7, 8, &...
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We Are All Goddesses and Gods
It’s lovely how we sometimes affirm ourselves as deities accidentally … or perhaps it’s instinctive. We are all goddesses, women and men both, and we each have a lot of different goddesses within us....
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Not Postponing Joy
Enjoying the Gods’ Gifts to Me: Not Postponing Joy Whether building a life or a piece of art, sometimes it’s only in the process of creation that we discover exactly what we want to make, what we find...
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Surrender Creates Victory
Roadblocks, Accidents, and Synchronicity: Surrender Creates Victory in the Creative Process and the Rest of Life After lucking out by acquiring gorgeous, large, old turquoise beads, I decided to make...
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Invisibility, Connectivity, and Draconian Adornment
Invisibility, Connectivity, and Draconian Adornment Mysticism and isolation don’t need to go hand-in-hand. Much of a person is invisible because it’s otherworldly or for another reason. Conveying these...
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