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Gwen Magee's new Creativity Journey blog that covers all sorts of helpful information that can help one become the best artist one can be. The latest post covers tips for photographing your own work professionally. Put this one in your RSS feeds so you don't forget to check on it!

To push yourself to higher ground you need an attitude. The
attitude is both achievable and hard won. It's possible to be
deceived that this attitude is the result of natural causes.
Further, it's easy to give credit to what seems to be inborn
talent or irregular creative genius. Digging deeper, the better
artists often have many "eureka" moments when the way forward
is seen to be clearer. Eureka can happen by simply looking at
your hands and realizing that you have everything you need to
overcome. "Genius," said Thomas Edison, "is one percent
inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Perspiring
is part of the attitude. Evolved creators are just as curious
about their failures as they are of their successes.
Robert Genn, in his inspirational Painter's Keys e-mail newsletter. (Join by clicking his name.)

I got a call from a friend who was in Florida and stuck her nose into the house- there is a full dumpster (dammit, I don't get to take pictures of my own dumpster!) and the kitchen has been vanquished. Hopefully some of it ended up in the garage as we had specified. She didn't see any other work started yet- no hole for the gas tank, no ripped up pool decking, no holes for the new Atrium doors to the courtyard, and the bathrooms and floor were still intact. Looks like I won't be needed there for another month at the very least. Wish I had better news on this front.

Next project, after abandoning the 'He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not' red and white quilt because it is a (yawn) big bore at this point, I have resurrected a baby quilt I started long ago BECAUSE I MAY BE NEEDING IT NEXT FEBRUARY 20th! Not for me, dumbie, for our projected new grandbabee. I hope raising grandbabees is easier than raising granddoggies, because frankly they were a boring lot while I was tending the livestock the other day, allowing the rest of the folks to attend the Red Sox game. Cute yes, but ho hum- they didn't even want me to read to them.

So, my immediate future is cut out for me, gotta get serious with the wee projects without jumping in with both feet, using a bit of trepidation and lots of earthy good vibes that this all happens as it should.

And my last project has been to set up a Yahoo group for a virtual reunion for my too-lazy class. We are headed for the big one in a few years but we haven't had a real reunion since the 25th- and ya know, some of them were grandparent way back then. My jaw was dragging when I found that out, and using all my fingers and a few toes I figured out that many of my friends first wave of 'kids' are now in their early to mid FORTIES which can conceivably push my friends now into great-grandparent status. Gag me.