Where’s my muse?

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Many years ago I took a copywriting course, and we were read a quote (I can’t remember the full quote or who it was from) attributed to a high profile professional copywriter that was along the lines of “Give me the freedom of a tight brief”. No they were not talking about their undies…but the [...]

I was in the Creative Women Can Summit!

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I was lucky enough to be invited by seriously super Shannon Bush the Creative Possibility Coach to be part of her awesome April telesummit “Creative Women Can Rocket in Business“. There were some amazing speaker taking part, I really encourage you to go along and buy access to the recordings to hear some of my [...]

Lone nut or gutsy follower?

Another wonderful TED talk ~ yes it is one of my MOST favorite resources…do yourself a favor, click here and subscribe to the audio, blog, video…you will be amazed and inspired by some of the content you are exposed to! This one is from Derek Sivers a creative entrepreneur.  He commentates and offers insights over [...]

Singapore invests heavily in arts education

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A warming headline I read recently on the ArtsHub newsletter that I subscribe to. I loved the quotes throughout the article, the rationale for the change in the structure of the school awards framework. “[is]…to encourage greater student participation and engagement.” “Head of the aesthetics department at Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ Secondary School (PLMGSS), Adeline Loh, puts it [...]

John Post a fabulous resource

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I strongly recommend a visit to JohnPost.us a wonderful site with some excellent ideas and resources from an elementary school art teacher. What I love is that he shows students artwork and gives a brief outline about the lesson and how it was produced. There are loads of ideas there that you can use in your [...]

Make it by hand!

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I was reminded by a post on the Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin, about the happiness from making something by hand.  Read the post here. I am embedding her youTube video because I think she does a great job of just explaining simply her joy in creating something by hand and implores all of us [...]