Sharing moments of my day on Instagram is nothing new for me, but actually thinking of each image as part of my daily story as a whole is something I only thought of yesterday during a morning walk. That seems crazy to me, since I specialize in storytelling, but...
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There are two creative concepts that keep coming up for me lately: ritual and flow. They’re presenting themselves in the things that I read and in the podcasts that I listen to while I’m doing graphic design work. When I talk about creative ritual, I mean...
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I have some things that I can share with you. Finally! At the beginning of the month, I vowed that 2014 was my year to BE the artist. I’ve been diligently working on my creative side project – My Year of Amélie -, working on a big abstract painting for the...
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This week I read about an amazing photography project by Michelle Gardella on Artifact Uprising. “She lives with her husband and two children in a 25-foot airstream camper, traveling the US in search of stories that need to be told.” Wow, right? Michelle...
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Apparently, the holidays are right around the corner. What?! Seriously.When Nathaniel and I went to Fred Meyer there was an entire row of Christmas lights right beside the Halloween stuff! How insane is that?To celebrate, I’m going to make something a lot less...
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I wasn’t even going to write a blog post today. The task isn’t on my TeuxDeux list. There are plenty of other things on my list, but publishing a blog post isn’t one of them. Flipping through the latest issue of W Magazine wasn’t on the list...
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A lot of you guys know that I’m big on sharing stories. Providing helpful information and sharing art that I’m obsessed with is tons of fun too, but I’m pretty sure that some of you hang out here because you want to hear about the time that I poured...
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Want to learn how to inject more “you” into your writing? Are you in a blogging rut? Do you need some inspiration to help further your freelance writing career? Are you in a creative field and need to practice your writing skills so you can get better at...
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I can’t draw.At least that’s what I’ve always told myself. I can design things, as long as I have my computer and Adobe Creative Suite. I can write. I can take and edit photographs. I can even do mixed media artwork that I don’t hate from...
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It starts when we’re very young. We’re told to color inside the lines, regurgitate facts for tests, and follow a traditional trajectory to get to “what we want to be when we grow up.” We’re given boundaries. Many are useful and necessary...
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