Latest and Greatest:  Jewelry is up!

I know you’ve been waiting for this – I know I have, too!  My jewelry gallery is now up and ready for your viewing both by color category (start here for Spring with blues and greens) and a dollar category for all the rest of you Fashionistas (start here) .

Women, Art, Life:

Weaving It All Together:  A blog for creatives

It can be hard being a creative.  Not only must you create (and create and create and face that blank canvas or blank page or unshaped blob of clay), but you must also be your own cheer leader, have at least a smattering of accounting, be a secretary and administrative assistant, and usually take the dogs out every now and then too.

You aren’t alone!  I’m right there with you and write about it twice weekly.

Sign up to receive my twice weekly blog on the subscription line, just under my photo.  Alas, signing up for the coloring book (in the box above my photo) does not automatically bring the blog along with it (yet – I’m working on it).  So you can sign up for that too and bring out your crayons and your inner child when it all gets to be too much.

The Wylde Women Award

 Like blog awards?   Why not join the sisterhood of Wylde Women bloggers - and send it along to your favorites.  Be sure to leave a comment on the Wylde Women page so others can find you, and go browse your sisters’ links yourself – find some creatively awesome blogs to read!  Just click on the Award to go learn more.

Art Workshops

Workshops are being listed as they are scheduled.  Click on the “Workshops” navigation button above and see what we have to offer!

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Note: You know how it is, drop-ins are always wonderful, and sometimes they catch the house with dust bunnies and dog fur, dishes in the sink, and the tea not quite hot.  But if you’re like me, you’re more about the visit  – so come on in, poke around, and excuse the excavations, rennovations and empty spaces while we get up to speed.

Chanda Martin

 

Dear Tammy,

I think your most recent words of wisdom combined with words you shared with me many years ago will best sum up how you have influenced my life/creativity.  When we were at Goddard and going to readings, I asked you what makes a good writer.  You told me to write the way I see things.  To think about the visual details.  Then recently when I asked you how do you get the courage and believe in yourself enough to think that people will want to buy your art.  You reminded me that art is called.  It’s in you and it’s something you have to do, it’s not a choice.  It’s not about who wants to buy your art, it’s about making the art.  Art really is about “following the energy and trusting the process.”  I don’t always remember to stop and listen.  But it seems when I find myself wondering off in the wrong direction, all I have to do is write you and you remind me to stop, listen, and feel, to reconnect with the inside.  Thank you my friend.

love,

Chanda