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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? Creative Ideas Part II

June 8, 2010

Are You Ready? Part 2
Another 32,759 Ideas for Positive Creative Change
Everywhere you look, there are people adding their inspiration, energy and ideas to the creatively developing mix of our global culture.
As one of you said in a comment on my blog yesterday “You can either see the glass as half empty or half full – [...]

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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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Sunday Funnies 3.21.10

March 21, 2010

Remember the section of the newspapers that had  games and puzzles, and the comics, weird news, specials on stuff? The ink came off on my elbows. Sunday Pullouts is a weekly list of the things I run across on line that I get a kick out of, and put aside for you. See what you [...]

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Play and Risk

July 15, 2009

Today’s territory:
Play, and playing.
Invention, imagination and risk.
Immersion in another world.
A world of ideas and images, rules and goals, desires and successes.
A world that we create. A world that creates us, in turn.
Hmm.
Playing does many things for children. Turns out that adults derive just as much from playing as kids, physically, emotionally, cognitively, and socially. [...]

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Heads-up Belt Sanders On Sale

June 21, 2009

Today we are in special territory,
Belt Sanders on Sale!
If you like power tools, and especially if you do my imitative techniques, like making jade, agate, ivory and turquoise, you already know know you need a belt sander. Here you go!
This is not any kind of sponsored ad, just a heads-up-
Roberta Nevitt here in my Snow [...]

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Blossoming

May 5, 2009

Elise WInters – Red Ruffle Ruche Neckpiece

Today’s territory:
One special person,
one special blog
Elise Winters
visible in this issue of Ornament,
and other places.
Polymer Art Archives
Also: A small hiccup was had last week when my computer crashed.
(Not a Mac problem…go figure, iced tea is not compatible with laptops)
But we are both back, and glad to be chatting with you.
Last [...]

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Howdy!

April 19, 2009

Today’s territory:
Roadside attractions on the path:
Links to blogs I like.
A very idiosyncratic tour of some others’ territory.
Also I missed writing to you. Things have been going on that kidnapped my attention. I will write about them elsewhere.
And I am redoing my website to make it easier and more useful for us. Stay tuned for the [...]

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Artist wants feedback

January 9, 2009

I would love to get feedback from you all about the ideas herein.
Please email me at victoria@toryhughes.com
I read everything, whether or not you hear from me by email. I am new to this blogging format, and trying it out for a while, so the more info you give me about what works and doesn’t, the [...]

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Christmas Presents

December 24, 2008

Today’s territory:
For you!
Christmas presents! A book list-
In our house books were the best and most common present. All kinds of books.
Hard to disguise a book. Books are magic journeys Into, Beyond, and Back  Again.
There’s no frigate like a book. Emily Dickinson said that, I believe.
So I am giving you a list of some of my [...]

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