Warratahstree Art and Creative Inspiration

 This year is a new start for me.  I am starting to feel more like myself, excited about the year and what it has in store for me and my family.    The last 2 years have been tough ones for me.  I lost a family member to a long illness.  It took a long time to get back my creative flow without feeling depressed.  I always thought I knew what depression was till I went through a period of grief. It has only been a month since I felt like I have my creative energy back.     I decided to do a few online art courses to get me back into the creative flow again.  It is a course by Donna Downey , called Inspirational Wednesday (IW2017).  It is a weekly inspirational art journaling course.  Each week there are video's showing you a new technique.  As Donna is in the USA, I don't have all the supplies for each week, but I am sure I can substitute some of the supplies I have for the ones Donna uses.  My goal for the IW...

Great Inspiring Article about making letter writing fun and leaving your day job   Sometimes what you started out selling online, is not what is a successfull.  This is a really good article about one Etsy seller who ended up making their interest of letter writing to friends a successful online business.  "Think of each sale as an advertisement for your product." http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2013/quit-your-day-job-the-paris-letters-by-janiceartship/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Internal&utm_campaign=EtsySuccess_theparisletters