DIY Publicity for Artists
Today is the blog hop for the DIY PR course I wrote about last week—here’s the link for the course details: http://thecraftychica.blogspot.com/2011/05/online-class-diy-publicity-for-indie.html. As I had already discussed last week (“So, how did I get here?”), it was a worthwhile venture for me even though I have nothing currently to “sell.” Right now I’m all about connection and interconnectedness. Other classmates have had success with increasing their visibility as well as finding new venues for themselves and it’s been exciting to watch. As a kind of parting assignment for class, or theme for the hop, we were asked to write about what we wanted or expected to get out of this—I’d…
Sometimes it doesn’t pay to repeat the truth.
I collect Pyrrha wax seal pendants http://www.pyrrha.com/. They are beautiful pieces infused with meaning and symbolism, which I love, and they come with explanatory cards printed on lovely paper. I wear them like a gypsy–sometimes a lot at one time. This one is an eagle but at first glance can look like a phoenix. It didn’t occur to me until someone said something. Usually a phoenix is depicted with a greater wing span with more depth–this eagle’s wings look more like the muscle man at the circus when I think about it just now. At any rate, I wore it to a kid’s birthday party once and this mom came running…
It’s Christmas in July!
No, this isn’t the usual lame ploy to pretend that it isn’t a bazillion degrees outside or a poor excuse for a summer sale. It’s kind of how I motivated my boys to dig through their stuff and see it with new eyes. The allure of summer had been wearing off—the boys have been out of school since a week before Memorial Day. The older one was begging for a new notebook (apparently the ones with a couple of pages written in them are considered “done”) and the younger piped in saying that he needed a new activity book. “Need” is such a subjective term. There are a lot of…
It’s just a little scuff, honey…
We all think that we are good drivers. I know a couple of people who will fess up to being bad drivers, but they are in the minority. Then there was the time that my friend’s husband took her car to get an alignment and the mechanic asked what in the world he had done to the car—the husband’s response was, this is my wife’s car and she is pregnant; she said she hit the curb turning—don’t ask, she’s pregnant. She doesn’t really remember exactly what she did to the car, either. All she knew was it was really out of whack. There you have it. In Phoenix (but more…
So, how did I get here? (Talking Heads, anyone?)
I’m just wrapping up a fantastic online course, DIY PR offered by The Crafty Chica, aka Kathy Cano-Murillo. You can find out about her on either of her sites: http://www.thecraftychica.blogspot.com/ or http://www.chicawriter.blogspot.com/. This course has pushed me to write miscellaneous thoughts in a more public forum and forced me to really think about what I feel is important. My bio is a product of her course. She’s provided tons of valuable information—especially for those who have products or services they want to sell or just want to get their word out. I snuck myself into the course (I paid, of course, but here are all these artists…) because I love her and she’s a…
Happy 4th of July!
The boys were in the pool swimming and the 5 year old figured out that he can be under water and still breathe, if he took apart the pool cleaner and used its hose to get air. This isn’t really a new idea for him but it was the first time he used the hose to do this. It’s very long and awkward. As I watched him I was impressed with his ease of dismantling and off the cuff thinking (we don’t scuba or snorkel and we live in the desert). He noticed that I was watching him and wanted me to “feel his hot air” come out of the…
Let me introduce myself
Hello and welcome! I’ve started this blog as a place to keep the odd ideas and stories that either run furiously through my head or the ones that are gifted to me by people I know and love as well as those who are complete strangers. It’s something I’ve had been thinking about doing for a while but procrastinated because I was just put off by learning another piece of technology. I’m a pen and paper kind of gal, mostly because I love the feel and look of ink hitting the paper but also because I don’t want my ramblings to “disappear” because I pushed some sort of button. I’m…
