Where Have I Been? Art­ing it Up!

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I have neglected my blog the past 10 days and not just because of our Amer­i­can Thanks­giv­ing hol­i­day — I have been hav­ing hot flashes of cre­ativ­ity. My writ­ing cave has become an art stu­dio lately with me in the grip of col­lage fever.

Some­times peo­ple ask if my art is for sale. I have sold a few pieces over the years, but it’s usu­ally by hap­pen­stance. Like many cre­ative peo­ple, I am more inter­ested in the cre­ative process than in attempts at mar­ket­ing.
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I started doing col­lage art about 5 years ago. Slowly but surely my own style and pre­ferred tech­niques and col­ors have emerged so that many of the cards and walk hang­ings I make receive complements.

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It is a con­stant strug­gle for me with cre­ative endeav­ors and time man­age­ment. Heaven for me is going to be a time­less place for cre­ativ­ity in the com­pany of friends, fam­ily and the Creator!

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Mak­ing art is good for my soul, though I do miss the cama­raderie of blog­ging. Why can’t I man­age to do it all and have it all?! Any­one know the secret to that?

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What about you? Cre­at­ing col­lage art is good for my soul. What’s good for yours?

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Where Have I Been? Art­ing it Up! — 3 Comments

  1. I love cre­at­ing an dI have my own room for cre­ativ­ity and reflec­tion. Some­thing in the child comes alive when I use glit­ter! It’s the small things in life that count!

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  2. Clouds. Being with friends. Silence. Lift­ing the bur­dens off my shoul­ders for a while. Math­e­mat­ics. Music. Writ­ing. Sto­ries. My hus­band. My lit­tle one’s laugh. What a bless­ing to have a child who wakes up smil­ing every morn­ing! If I could bot­tle it, I’d be a mil­lion­aire… know­ing that money isn’t the mean­ing of life is also good for the soul. Being kind, serv­ing oth­ers is balm to my soul. God’s always back-​​to-​​front about how His king­dom works.

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    • @Sandy, love how you describe what is good for your soul. Your child’s laugh, clouds… Serv­ing oth­ers balm for your soul. So good. Doing art feels like prayer to me some­times. There is a med­i­ta­tive qual­ity to soon art, a qui­et­ing of the chat­ter and a loos­en­ing of the grip. The sweet spot of sur­ren­der is where I soar when mak­ing art. Free to express, uncen­sored and uninhibited.

      Thanks for pop­ping by. Always good to see your lovely self mean­der­ing the blog!

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