Wanna Start Playing With Mixed Media Painting? It's EASY-PEASY + INCREDIBLY FUN. Here's how I got started. 1. Watch and Learn. My Mixed Media foray began this past January. It was the dead of winter. I was bored with my acrylic painting work, and I needed a shift, a change. So, I hopped online to see what I could find that might inspire me. A quick google search later and I found myself on Kelly Rae Robert's home page (www.kellyraeroberts.com). A very commercially successful Mixed Media …
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Why Blackouts are Good for You
Recently, I spent 5 days on my grandparent's old farmstead in west central IL. My aunt owns the property now, and she's done amazing things to renovate the house so that all of us can still gather there as extended family. It's really quite magical. This is one of the first places on the earth I ever stepped foot, and 40 years later it's still one of the places I love to frequent for so many reasons. We had a fantastically simple and amazingly fun time. What did we do that made it so toe-tingly …
The Power of Quiet
My husband is currently reading a book called QUIET. It’s about the power of introverts in an extroverted world. When he first showed it to me, I laughed out loud, almost as if I was scoffing at him. I am extremely extroverted, and for a long time I believed that you HAVE TO BE that way if you’re going to “get ahead” in this world. After all, it’s the squeaky wheel that gets the oil, “it’s not what you know but who you know,” and it’s all about how to win friends and influence people, …
