Blog Along – Day #9 – Someone Had Seen Me – Part Two
I wish I could tell you that the end of yesterday's story was the end of my aversion to mirrors, that a miraculous transformation took place, and I suddenly knew my worth. I can't. That's how things happen in the movies, but in real life, these things are shed in...
Blog Along – Day #8 – Someone Had Seen Me
I'm thinking about mirrors. It started yesterday, with a memory of being in a club of sorts in junior high school in Montreal. It was an extra-curricular thing where a bunch of us auditioned for a program run by Multiculturalism Canada (our school was rife with...
Blog Along With Effy – Day #7 – There are poems in this, but mostly just what’s true.
I come to you this morning with nothing, which is how I often come to the page. I begin in the old way I used to, by noticing. There is a bottle of fizzy water to my right, made in a Sodastream, which was a birthday gift from my ex. I am addicted to carbonated water,...
Blog Along With Effy – Day #6 – A Word About Journal52 (And a sale!)
Hello, lovelies! It has come to my attention that there are lots of you out there who participated in last year's Journal52 who are now wondering where the heck it went. Well, I shifted it into a paid program. It's been free for several years, but with a group of just...
Blog Along With Effy – Day #5 – And then my bones will remember.
There's a beautiful song by Alanis Morrissette called "Unsent" that I am absolutely in love with. I don't know what brought it up for me. Maybe it was the painting I did recently that featured lyrics from her other astoundingly beautiful song "Thank You", but whatever...
Blog Along With Effy Day #4 – You Are The Storm
Today, I want to offer you up some writing I did for Moonshine for the month of April. It feels good to be writing the way I've been writing for this program, and all feedback I've gotten has been super positive. I hear it over and over again, every time a new monthly...
Blog Along Day #3 – What’s Inspiring Me Lately
This will have to be a quick one since my Tax rep is making heavy demands on me today (do I LOOK LIKE A BOOK KEEPER? Sheesh! *Goes batshit and crosseyed while looking at numbers*) So, anyway, as you probably know, I am an eternal student, and I can't function happily...
Blog Along Day #2 – BuJo + BuJo Bin
I bought this super cool art bin a few month's ago while out for lunch with my friend, Sal. She and I hit up Curry's, as we often do, and this bin called my name. I thought I might do some kind of traveler's kit with it so that I could indulge in some 'out of the...
Blog Along Day #1 – Hi hi hi!
Every day in April, I will blog. That's the short and sweet version of this intro post. The longer version is that I love blogging. but running a creative business means that unless I'm all disciplined about it, it just doesn't happen (as you can clearly see when you...
Artfully Wild Blog Along Is Back!
Last year in September, my blogging friends and I blogged every day in September and lived to tell the tale. I did some of my best writing during that thirty days, and got clear on a lot of what was going on inside and around me. It was incredibly therapeutic....
Emergence
So, it's been a long minute since last we typed. Work has pretty much taken over my entire life, with paperwork being a major thing, along with accidentally writing two books (both Moonshine and Journal52 have become major writing projects without my intending for...
Journal52 – Week #52 – Desire
This is our last card + prompt for 2017! Can you believe it?!?! Ready for 2018? Get Journal52 two ways! CLICK FOR DETAILS! ONWARD!! Every week in 2017, you will receive a new prompt card from Effy Wild. Designed to jump start your next art journal spread, these cards...
Journal52 – Week #51 – Release + A Year End Freebie
Ready for 2018? Get Journal52 two ways! CLICK FOR DETAILS! ONWARD!! Every week in 2017, you will receive a new prompt card from Effy Wild. Designed to jump start your next art journal spread, these cards are printable for your future use as well, so you can expect to...
Love Bomb for Life Book!
Good Morning, Loves! I just wanted to pop in this morning to remind you that the early bird pricing for Life Book 2018 ends on December 31st! If you already know what Life Book is about, you can go ahead and click here to sign up. Use LOVEBOMB2018 to get your...
Journal52 – Week #50 – Peace + Journal52 2018!
Ready for 2018? Get Journal52 two ways! CLICK FOR DETAILS! Those of you on the announcements list, check your email! xo ONWARD!! Every week in 2017, you will receive a new prompt card from Effy Wild. Designed to jump start your next art journal spread, these cards are...
Journal52 – Week #49 – Reflect + An Awesome Offer!
Journal52 is member supported! Please tip generously! FIRST, A NOTE ON 2018 Journal52 will continue in 2018, but I will be offering it a little bit differently. I am planning two different delivery methods – one will be monthly subscription based, and the other will...
Blog Hop & Giveaway! WINNER ANNOUNCED!
Hello artsy clan o' mine! I am so excited about this, y'all!! Tamara Laporte from Willowing Arts has written a book called 'Create Your Life Book: Mixed-Media Art Projects for Expanding Creativity and Encouraging Personal Growth' and a) I'm IN THIS BOOK and b) I get...
Journal52 – Week #48 – Shine
Journal52 is member supported! Please tip generously! FIRST, A NOTE ON 2018 The last two years with Journal52 have been stellar, but they have also been a bit out of my personal comfort zone. It can be a truly daunting task to run a group of over 11 000, especially...
The Business of Art – Free!
One of the things that helped me the most when I was first starting my creative business was learning from my peers. Any time an artist or teacher that I admired released a blog post or program about how they do what they do, I jumped on it. I probably spent in the...
Journal52 – Week #47 – Touch
Journal52 is member supported! Please tip generously! FIRST, A NOTE ON 2018 The last two years with Journal52 have been stellar, but they have also been a bit out of my personal comfort zone. It can be a truly daunting task to run a group of over 11 000, especially...