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Great Article on Creativity Jump Starting

Here's a great blog article on kick-starting your creativity... by fiber artist Marcia Harmsen Young. I enjoyed it and think you might, too. I feel good that I do at least a few of the things that she mentions. We should all try to include creativity in our lives more often and as much as we can!
http://www.valleyfiberlife.com/2009/04/textile-and-fiber-arts-how-to-sustain.html

Birthday Present

Check out this super cool (such a poor descriptive word, really) book that my friend, Sharon, made just for me for my birthday! She has such great ideas and imagination... words can't express how touched I always am by her handmade gifts. They have touches of our friendship embedded all through them and reflect how deeply she knows and understands me. I especially love the specific references to silly life events, like my recent visit from a bat... she includes with such humor... I will always remember that now when I see the book!

Birthday Card

My birthday card from Sharon this year. Very moody and mysterious... reminiscent of the eerie computer games we like to play together when I visit her. We really enjoy the puzzle, adventure, mystery games like Myst, Crystal Key, Rhem and Nancy Drew, to name a few. We both have our strengths and weaknesses that generally compliment eachother... I know I couldn't do most of the puzzles on my own without her help! I get really stumped on the math-related puzzles in particular! She does great with scenic stamping, which I haven't mastered yet. Many of her stamps are from Stampscapes.com you should check it out if you like this card...their stamps are really great!

Extreme Sheep LED Art

This is so amazing! Since Mona Lisa is in there I guess it qualifies for my art blog, right? Definitely worth the look!

What a cute Bunny!

This is the cute bunny that I learned
to make in a felting class this past
Saturday at Knitter's Mercantile. It
wasn't as hard as I thought initially,
though at home I was having no
luck at all... the class seemed to
really help me focus and the foam
worked well to poke the needle into
and I hadn't done it that way before.
I think he turned out pretty cute.
You can't tell it but his tail is a little
off-center, but he's charming all the
same I think.

Making Art = Making a Mess!

Spent the last few days on a mini-trip to see
my friend, Sharon, again and we crafted and
made art (our favorite pasttime, next to
playing computer games). This was my work
space to give you an idea of how I "work." Grab
this, grab that... you gotta have pretty much
everything at your fingertips! My space at home
is even worse usually as things grow out of
control. Fortunately for Sharon I had to pack
up and go home so I had to clean up my mess!
But it was great fun. If I can remember to bring
in my stuff I made to scan it, I will post that here
soon as well! Generally I'm reluctant to share
photos of my work space as it is usually in state
of chaos like this... but here you go, me - letting it
all hang out, so to speak!

I'm a Winner!

What a great way to start off a cold and snowy Monday morning! I see that I won a contest that TangoKDesigns was having on her blog! I won these GORGEOUS Korean Jade & emerald earrings! How thrilling! You MUST go visit her site and see her other lovely works! Visit her at: http://tangok.blogspot.com/ She makes gorgeous jewelry!

More Journal Pages at Sharon's

Created more art at Sharon's today.... we are having such fun! More pages for the altered book are shown here. I kinda started on the cover, still not sure what I want to do with it though. Stay tuned for more to come! This has been a great creative retreat for me. I haven't done this much art for a long time!

New Journal Pages

My friend, Sharon, and I have been working and working on journal pages and having a great time! First I created lots of background pages in an altered book I decided to work on. Then I added pages as ideas came to me. Several ideas came from Visual Chronicles book by LInda Woods & Karne DInino. We have a lot of reference books on journaling. Another one I like is by Lynn Perrella, Artists Journals & Sketchbooks. I'm really happy with my results so far. We still have a few more days to play so it will be fun to see what we come up with!

Castle Tiornan Scotland

Pam McClungGraphic Designer, OSU Libraries600 Ackerman Rd. room 5804Columbus, OH 43202614-292-7089mcclung.26@osu.eduCastle Tiornan Scotland

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Happy New Year - almost!

Finally some new art! I had been working over the holidays, but couldn't post anything that was to become a present in case the recipient might be looking!

One of the things I got for Christmas was a new journal! Yay! So last night I started in it and I share the results with you.

This first one in black and white is about creating. It's rubber stamps and journaling. Just something quick that popped into my head. I like stuff in black and white sometimes. Shape and form take more importance that way.
















The second one evolved from an idea from a book True Vision: Authentic Art Journaling by LK Ludwig
http://tinyurl.com/9zhzyy
the idea is to tear a scrap from something like the phone book and build from that... which I did. As I started to paint over it I noticed that both Washington state and Ohio were right there on the page... and a very good friend of mine recently moved back to Ohio from Washington state (pleasing me greatly) so I decided that was what I meant to journal about on this page... so off I went. The bingo card was already there, but seemed appropriate: "Bingo!" and I added arrows and stamps and writing plus two tags with the two locations as well as my own location. The colors are oil pastels that were a present from this friend - so it really ties it all together. It's a bit looser than my typical work, which I have been striving to do, so that made me happy.

I do propose to do more art journaling and blogging this year (nice to have a FUN new year's resolution!) so please come back to see if I am keeping that resolution!

What Type of Blog Do You Have?

I read an article on how to "type" your blog using the Myers-Briggs test that businesses often use as a personality indicator. If you don't know about it here's some info about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers_briggs
Anyway on this site you simply type in your blog's address and it figures out your Myers Briggs result. It's kind of fun (if you enjoy that sort of thing) to see what comes up. Mine seemed somewhat accurate, though it didn't match how my tests usually come up for me (usually an ENFJ for those who understand the terms). I believe that stands for Extrovert, iNtuitive, Feeling and Judgemental if memory serves.
I'm not sure if the test (for the blogs) is purely random or what, the actual test is based on a load of questions you answer about yourself and is pretty scientific in nature. So here's the link if you want to have a go at it:
http://www.typealyzer.com/
Here's how mine came up for Dieverdog's Art Blog: http://www.typealyzer.com/index.php?lang=enI guess you can judge for yourself if you think it fits!

More Holiday Cards

Stay tuned for more cards coming soon.... (now that I've got the scanner working again!)

Holiday Cards are Here

Ok, gotta luv 'em...

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