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Adorn Me! in Houston

No, that's not a command. It should be, though, huh? Adorn Me, vassals!

Or "Adore me! Please?" In which I'd get all Sally Fields on you.

But no. It's the name of a brand-spanking-new art jewelry retreat in Houston, Texas (isn't adding "Texas" to that kind of silly, like people might not ever have heard of Houston and be laboring under the illusion that it's up in Maine somewhere?).

And I'm so excited: not only do we get to attend an art retreat without having to leave the state (although...

It's Almost Time for Art & Soul Las Vegas!

We've been to Art & Soul in Portland, several years ago when Living the Creative Life first came out. It was fun, even though 1) we had to fly, which one of us loves beyond all reasoning and the other of us loathes with a mad, desperate misery. You guess.

And 2) it was cold. What IS it with The Pacific Northwest? Does it never, never, ever get warm up there? How do You People stand it? Every time we've gone (I think that's 5 times, if you're not counting Northern California but only...

Creative Time & Space Signing at Frenzy Stamper in Scottsdale

I've been hearing great things about Frenzy Stamper, in Scottsdale, Arizona, for years. Kelly Kilmer teaches there all the time, and she LOVES going there. So when she suggested a signing there, I was all over it.

And indeed, they do want to come along on our Magical Mystery Book Tour 2010. We'll be stopping by on our way to Art & Soul in Las Vegas, so if you're anywhere near Phoenix, we'd love to see you! My Lovely Editor, Tonia, is going to be there, as well. And who knows who else might...

Creative Time & Space Signing in El Paso

Creative Time & Space: Making Room for Making Art

Book signing: Thursday, February 18th

6-8 pm

Sunland Park Barnes & Noble
El Paso, Texas

 

If you live anywhere in far West Texas or southern New Mexico or anywhere in New Mexico or in Juarez or anywhere in the Southwest or anywhere on the planet EARTH, really, what could be more fun than a road trip to a bookstore? To hang out with me?

We'll talk, we'll laugh, we'll try to score some cookies from the cafe. If they have a cafe—I...

And Now For Some Book Signings

Whew. Just got through updating my website, something I do much, much too infrequently. I added information about the first two book signings along the way in the Magical Mystery Tour—which, come to think of it, deserves a page all its own.

But never mind that. That will have to come another day. Because here it is, almost 3 pm, and I'm still in my pajamas and need to go take a shower. I've gotten a ton of work done today, but you wouldn't know it from looking at me. I look like someone who...

Where You Can Find My Work for November

Ok, I said I'd try to remember to post where you can find my work each month, so here're the magazines that came out the first of November

Art Doll Quarterly, which has my profile of the fabulous Judy Wise, who's also in my book.  

Belle Armoire, with my profile of Suzi Click:

And Somerset Studio, with Rebecca Sower:

Happy reading!

XO

 

Podcast with The Fabulous Roz Stendahl

Oh, my, this was fun! I adore Roz, and today we talked for almost an hour. As usual, she made me laugh. A lot. And as usual, she made me think.

For those of you who don't know Roz, she's a painter, bookbinder, journal-keeper, dog-tracker, beader, basket weaver, jewelry maker, bread baker—and a bunch of other things. Her day job is as a graphic designer and illustrator, often for textbooks. She's brilliant and hilariously funny. She's my age, roughly, and says she feels like she's about...

Procrastination & Self-Discipline, Desire & Determination, Craft & Art

On the LiveChat with Susan Sorrell on Sunday, we talked a little about procrastination. Someone asked me about how I handle it, and I had no good answer. How do I deal with procrastination? I don't. I'm not a procrastinator. I'm an anal-retentive plodder through and through.

[Except, it turns out, when it comes to sewing on the machine. I do not like to do machine sewing, so anything that involves it is not something I look forward to. Like this stack of cut-out pajama pants that need to...

Podcast with Quilt Artist Pam RuBert

Pam RuBert is one of the contributing artists for my book, Creative Time and Space, and her ideas about using your whole brain, rather than just part of it, and getting both sides of your brain chugging along at the same time—those ideas were invaluable. She's done some thinking about this, and she's really generous in sharing what she's discovered.

Pam and I had a wonderful conversation this morning about art, creativity, quilting, blogging, how designing a website is a lot like...

LiveChat with Susan Sorrell

If you missed yesterday's chat, you can still read it here.