The Artful Bird

Jul 13, 11 The Artful Bird

Posted by in Art & Craft, Blog

This is both a small review, and a share of a completed art project of late. ‘The Artful Bird‘ is a crafty book written by Abigail Patner Glassenberg. The book gives patterns, instructions and ideas for the creation of several sculptured sewn birds. From these ideas, my daughter and I have just completed one particular...

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Current Creative Challenges & Classes

I’ve not been much creatively (for myself) lately. It’s winter school holidays over here in New South Wales, and most of my days are taken up with holiday activities for my daughter, writing activities for my daughter (her blog is looking good, if mine isn’t), crafting activities for my daughter, swim and violin and bicycle...

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The End of the Blogathon – Where to from here?

Today, being the last day of May, is also the last day for participating in the Wordcount Blogathon 2011 challenge. This post is the last for that challenge, and a summary of what I found from working through it, and what I’m about to commence. Wordcount Blogathon 2011 The Wordcount Blogathon 2011 challenge to blog every day...

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Top 5 Sites for Sketchers and Artists

May 26, 11 Top 5 Sites for Sketchers and Artists

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This is another post in my Top 5 Sites for … series this month. Having previously covered crafters, bloggers,  mixed media artists, DIYers and Upcyclers, this post concentrates on my own favourite sites for Sketchers and Artists. I don’t have a great lot of website links for this category, although many art journal and...

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Artella ARTsignments in Action: Free Teleseminar

If you could use a little jump-start for your creativity, or for your LIFE, then you may be interested in coming to a fabulous free event next week called ARTsignments in Action: A Creative Romp in the ARTbundance Sandbox, presented by Marney Makridakis from ArtellaLand.com, the creator of the ARTbundance approach to achieving...

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