The ruminations of an artist on art & life...art quilts, beading, knitting, drawing, painting, printmaking, bookmaking are all my passions, I love to explore creating....
whew! nothing like a vacation to set you back in your "real" life! I promised to post the WINNER of my BLOG ANNIVERSARY drawing yesterday--sorry!
here it is....(drumroll)..the winner is T. M.! Please e-mail me your snail mail address at:
aurora at morningstarbooks dot com
and I will send the inchie brooch/pin off to you pronto! Congrats!
and thanks to all of you for participating.
For more about fabric inchies and inchie plus---click here.
CREATIVE EVERY DAY
Such a busy month! I just sailed right on by the second blog anniversary--which was Feb 6th! Yep! 2 years now, and I must say I am gratified to see that my daily "hits" have grown since those first blog posts....
So, to celebrate this blog's 2nd anniversary--I want to have a "give-away"---by now you probably know the drill---leave a comment after this post, and I will put your name into the hat for the drawing to win this hand made (by me) fabric INCHIE Mandala pin (or brooch!) If you don't have a blog--be sure and leave me your e-mail or some way to contact you! or else I won't be able to get the brooch to you if you do win....and do check back here because I will post the winner on March 5th!
This inchie is actually an "inchie plus"--yeah, it looks huge here--but it actually measures 1.5" x 1.5" (thus the term inchie plus)---it is embellished with a lovely vintage button and seed beads, and a pinback sewn onto the back.
I sure hope some of you who are regular readers and comment often enter this drawing!
CONGRATS TO ME!
According to my records--today I have been blogging here 1 (yes, one!) whole year! I want to thank all of you who have left comments, e-mailed me or signed up on my "Buddy Map" (scroll down to the bottom for this goodie). Happy Valentines Day to you all! I am pleased to be participating in this world-wide craft and art bloggers community. Art is alive in well all over the globe---and the internet allows us to connect with fellow artists more and more. Is this a wonder of our century?
For instance, I recently visited family in Portland, Oregon---while there I also "met up" with 2 fellow art quilt bloggers, who I met online. We would not have had this meeting face to face without the connection via the Art Quilts List and blogs online; without the net I may never have known they existed, and missed the enjoyable afternoon we spent getting acquainted.
Yesterday, I mailed off my first internet SWAP---thanks to Mandi at the Bead Circle I swapped beads with 11 other beaders--all set up and managed via the web. Here's how it worked: She sent a few tubes of seed beads and a few plastic bags with some other types of beads (fringe beads/fire polish beads, stone donut/pendant etc.) to the first participant on the list. Each beader then took what they wanted out of the stash and refilled it with something else, then mailed the package on to the next person. We had one week to decide before we mailed the package to the next person. Everyone agreed to using their best judgement for swapping and make "fair trades." I am very pleased with the beads I kept from this SWAP---would this have been possible without those net connections? ah, another wonder!
As I mention in the previous post, I knit a square for an internet knit-a-long while traveling --- we are all so net connected now that I had no trouble finding a computer to check the site sponsoring the knit-a-long, and knit the square (in train stations and airports mostly), and send it off in the nick of time. At the same time, I found computers everywhere (even the lobby of the Seattle hotel where we stayed had one) so I could read my favorite knitting blogs : Yarnstorm, and Yarn Harlot. The third wonder of this net century--blog anywhere, anytime.
So, hugs to me for figuring out how to blog , and hugs to everyone who visits here and reads my blog--we are all wonders of the 21st century!
A note on comments: if you visit my blog and want to comment, please do! I love hearing from you and try to answer all comments that I can. I see that over 240 folks have looked at the Buddy Map (scroll down)--but only 39 people so far have added themselves to the map--I think it is fun to see where folks are from, and it only takes a minute to sign up--- no promotions or anything will be sent to you if you do put yourself on the map, so map yourself today!
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