Blog: Other Art

When You Just Show Up

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Procrastination. I have to admit, I am so freaking guilty of procrastinating in a big way when it comes to making art. Seriously? I love art. WTH am I doing? Why do chose to do laundry over getting into the studio I love, sitting with an obscene amount of great yarn...

Pricing Your Work Part 2: Getting Paid

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Alright Fiberista's so, last week I shared with you the basic formula for finding the number that will support your work. And I spent a lot of time making the case for why you should charge according to that number even if you do not think you need the money or are...

Pricing Your Work Part 1: the nitty gritty of running the numbers

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It is a question I get asked a lot: How do I price my work? I get it it is so very hard to know how to place value on art work in general. But as far as pricing hand knits and crochet, hand made yarns and fibers it can seem so much more confusing. I mean heck, you can...

Making bad art on purpose

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I am in a place of making a lot of mistakes with my ceramics. I joke that I am actually making a bunch of very large test tiles that holds large quantities of coffee. One of the teachers in the studio suggested I make actual tiles to test techniques and glazes. And...

Using Mercury Retrograde to Make Better Art

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Mercury Retrograde is real y'all. And it went into effect Sunday. I am not gonna lie...I actually LOVE Mercury Retrograde these days. But that was not always the case. What the retrograde is, as Mercury is winding its way around the sun the view of this on earth puts...

Studio day

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Today’s art meditation

Art Journaling for fiber artists., Creative woo, everyday life | 0 Comments

Usually I sit down to journal with nothing more than some washi tape and maybe a good thin sharpie pen. Today I am adding some props and a little soul work. I didn't realize I was feeling so anxious, but today found myself officially on anxiety meds. So working some...

Making Fiber Art: It is all in the details

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Check this out. This is my most recent yarn... It was made from this fiber I dyed a couple of weeks ago. The first in the new dye space. So this fiber was a miss mash of mill ends, farm wool, angora from my late great bunnies, and sole roving ends. I could not tell...

100 day project

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I know this is totally last minute, but do I dare to make the blog my 100 day project? It certainly would stretch my comfort zone. But then again it would totally fullfill one of my big fat business goals-- blog more. I mean a part of me wanted to fold the...

The 5 Keys to Making Art You Love

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For the longest time, the idea of making a body of work and really embracing the idea of being an artist was just overwhelming for me. I have always done creative stuff. Not just little crafts. I would take art classes and learn some intensive techniques like...

My Creative Emergency Toolkit

Creative Inspiration, Essential Oils, How to think like an artist, The Business of being an artist | 8 Comments

I have been avoiding my weaving. Really. I have scheduled so many weaving days in the last month and just don't do them. It is not that I am losing the weaving love...in fact I am really excited about the stuff I have made so far. It is really more like I am feeling a...

Getting back to the art journals

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Confession time....I have fallen hard off the art journaling. While I would like to be able to say I am one of those people who can not live without her paper brain, lately that just has not been the case. I have always admired the sketchbooks of artists who are...