I am particpating in "The Sketchbook Project"

I found out about this a month or two ago and I have been sitting on the fence trying to decide on a theme to choose and today I picked one and signed up for "The Sketchbook Project" which will tour the U.S. in 2011.

The theme list has changed a couple times as some spaces were filled, but new ones have been added and today a new one SCREAMED "PICK ME!!!"

Adhere to me {ooh this is a good one}

I have until Christmas to fill my journal with all of my nocturnal visions. I can't wait to get my Journal and see where it takes my creative muse...Sb

My Desktop Mess

All of the wee hours web crawling has resulted in this disaster on my laptop's desktop. A cluttered mess of downloads, screen captures, bookmarks and photos....oh my! One day I'm going to have to organize this...no today : ) Sb

Fabulous find while blog crawling...

I have been doing much research online this month to fulfill the challenge of posting Christmas in July every day in July for my SalonD'Arte studio blog. Wow, this was so much more work than I bargained for...and now 16 days in...I have gotten just rewards...

I purchased this on the description alone - and it was quite lengthly, but I was INSPIRED!!!

When I woke up, it was to find myself washed up on a beautiful, but empty beach. What was I suppose to do with myself until a rescue party came?! Because I KNEW they would come. I didn't have long to think, because just then a glint of something in a mass of seaweed caught me eye. I scurried over like a crab, to take a closer look.

It was a corked bottle! Was I dreaming? But no. It was real. Real cork and a fancy seal to protect the contents and catch the eye of a magpie artist like myself. The bottle was plastic so it wouldn't break on its long journey. How thoughtful! My dire situation suddenly forgotten, I went about opening the bottle to get at its amazing contents...

I was so inspired I was clicking buy before reading it fully. I came across rubyfloy [whose art was published in the latest issue of Somerset Studio Gallery (Summer 2010)] by way of another blog Alice and Camilla, a fantastic blog journal of art collage and all things altered - MY NEW FAVORITE artist! So inspirational...I will be reading every last post and visting your blogroll, too.

It is very interesting to read about other artists, their creative journey, and see who inspires them...the internet is weaving a new fabric joining artists literally everywhere.