Let's Tangle

Good Thursday Morning, All~

I was catching up on some blogs on Creating The Hive site this morning and came a cross a post on Zentangles- A form of doodling and meditating at the same time. I love them~ I started doing them awhile ago and it can be so addicting. You just get "in the the zone". When you are finished your mind is refreshed.

I like to start with a quote that I enjoy like this one by Monet~

 "People discuss my art and pretend to understand it,

 as if it were necessary to understand,

when it is simply nnecessary to love it."

Claude Monet

Here is a site I came across that explains them a little better and shows you how to get started.

If you haven't tried them, grab a pen, (no erasing!), and some paper and start tangling away!

http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-zentangle

*remember, life is what you make it, so make it fun!

Michigan Artist Treasury

Cool

Just a "little" something we have been putting together~  Now they are available in my Etsy shop. So Darn Cute!

I have been trying to play around with the designing of my blog so be patient with me during this learning process.

Eye Popping~

Good Morning~
I thought I would try to help you wake up this morning ~
See the full treasury on  Etsy
 
       
 
     

Embracing Creativity

I have been thinking a lot about creativity, lately. I think what made me start pondering what it means to be creative is my daughter had to do write a paper at school on where they come from. Let me share a few of the lines...

Where I'm From

I am from paintbrushes,

From smelly oils and acrylics,

I am from saw dust.

from a pounding hammer,

I am from a family who does everything by hand....

I tell you I cried when I read this. It is so true. Her father and I are very creative~

Anyway, back to my thought on creativity, when people use to tell me "You are so creative" or "I love that. How did you do it?" I would always just shy away. Now I am learning that creativity comes from within us, our roots, our family genes. We need to be proud of it! It is what makes us, us! Smile really big when someone says your work is great. Say, "Thank You. I really enjoyed doing it". The more pride you take in your work the better it will become. You will have more confidence in yourself and let's face it, we all love to be complimented.

And as for my daughter, she is 13 and as she is getting older she is beginning to find where her true creativness lies. Yes, I tried to pursue her in certain directions of things I enjoy but making a pendant will spark her enthusiasm for about a minute and the she will be off writing and doodling in her sketch journal. She loves to draw and write. I can't draw nothing, but her Dad can. I love to write, her Dad can't. The two combined, (sketch journal), makes her, her.

For the creative ones out there ~Embrace it! Enjoy it! Love it! Best of All, Share it!

~the rest of the Punkey's assignment:

...I'm from cold sprinklers in the summer

From snow days in the winter.

I'm from knowing your right, even when you're wrong

I'm from "Nute Nacks" (fruit snacks) and peanut-butter bananas.

I am from a big backyard, that gets smaller every year,

I am from a town, that I eventually found out wasn't so big.

I am from a bundle of memories,

Big and small, new and old.

I am from memories that will last forever.

"Fury" A painting of mine and I LOVE IT!

Finally Done! Now on to the fun stuff!

Finally! I finished listing all my pendants, last night. I am learning a little bit more every time I do a listing. Tags and keywords stump me sometime. I have found that just looking through other great sites on Etsy really help a lot... I also found that I am very tempted to buy instead of list when I do this. 
Good day today. I got to go spend some paypal money at Joann's. Stocked up on swarovski crystals, sterling silver clasps, platinum plated jump rings, sterling silver tiny ball chains, (they are so cute! ♥ them!) and more swarovski crystals. I don't know what it is with me and shiny things because for some reason I ended up by the Martha Stewart glitter!
I am now a proud member of some great Etsy teams, Aspiring Metalsmiths , BESTeam - Boosting Etsy Shops Team and Michigan's Trolls of Etsy  More on these teams to come!
Here is a quick peek at a couple of pendants I posted~

Now the fun begins again... I get to go make some more! yea!