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Creativity

Creativity=Radical Gratitude, Extreme Patience and a Will of Iron

August 31, 2010

Making things involves, well, everything.
When you commit to a creative practice-
when you say ” I can’t not make things!”, and mean it-
you take on a new lifestyle.
You expand your awareness
You develop dexterity and control.
You refine your ability to focus.
(or why would so many of you request my HA on Focus?)
You cannot not grow and change [...]

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Five Simple Directions Manual ready for you!

August 18, 2010

The Five Simple Directions is an interactive manual, a pdf, that combines text, hands-on and written exercises and online resources to help you master your innate creativity, get unstuck, and get things done.
Are you ready to take action on your own unique talents?
Are you ready to find out if you really are the creative force [...]

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What Box? Five Ideas for Innovative Approaches to your Creative Business

August 17, 2010

WHAT BOX?

> Five ideas for innovative approaches
to your creative business
Last week I offered my email list a free 7-page booklet “FOCUS”
Most of this email talked about you, me, creative coaching, and four places that I had opening up in my schedule for individual work with me.
The email below was typical of those I [...]

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Are You Ready? 7,551 Ideas for Creative Change

May 30, 2010

Are You Ready?
7,551 Ideas for Positive Creative Change
You feeling as discouraged by the news lately as I am? Things are a mess. Old ways of doing things, across the board, don’t work anymore. What we were promised would work has run past its ’sell-by’ date, and nothing to be done.
And you know what’s wild? [...]

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Got Meaning? Five Ways to Ground Your Art in YOU

May 17, 2010

Meaning. Growth. Yer Art.
Five ways to link meaning and expansion to your art.
Five ways to ground your unique perspective and purpose in your creative action.
The more personal you make these,
the more effective they will be. Look within.

ONE
• Use your creativity for a cause you personally support. Not a group action, your individual action.
Either give pieces for fundraising, [...]

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Chameleon Book Special!

April 3, 2010

“Polymer, the Chameleon Clay- Polymer Clay Techniques for Recreating Natural Materials”
is now on sale!
$15.00 + $3.00 s/h, $8 overseas.
(List price $23.95)

I am also offering a Collectors’ Limited Edition for $40.
- Signed for you
- Includes sample of properly baked translucent
- Includes also an actual sample of properly made and finished imitative ivory.
Each of the [...]

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Mailing list help needed

March 26, 2010

Do you want to be on my mailing list?
If so, would you please email me with Yes in the subject line? You’d really help me out.

I am streamlining all of these media and there are things that a quick email accomplishes better than any Facebook post.
Not everyone who’s subscribed is on my list. Thank you! [...]

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Friday Studio Update 3.5.10

March 6, 2010

Fridays bring an end-of-the-week summary to studio days.
Spring has swept into my Santa Fe studio, and settled in. I’m immersed in metalworking, new color palettes, and a compulsion to create forms inhabiting a different relationship to gravity. This week I made brooches.

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Winters’ Quality Shows

February 18, 2010

Today’s Territory :
Put Elise Winters into the craziness of Manhattan’s Fashion District, with the Museum of Art and Design just a few blocks away. What do you get?
Quality shows.
Elise Winters’ perseverance and talent- yes, Elise, talent- have enriched our lives. She brought about the Polymer Art Archive, and the Museum Project, which have solidified polymer’s [...]

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Refine and Expand

February 16, 2010

Today’s territory is creative style.
Some people refine they do,
some people expand what they do.
There are no wrong answers.
What is your primary creative activity?

We all do a bit of both, granted. But some of us are natural deepeners, and some are natural explorers.
Each brings with it special benefits and costs.
Recognizing these, and using the right [...]

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