The Creative Life

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If you’re pressed for time and can’t manage a presence on every single site, where should you focus your energy? Ricë asked several top mixed media editors what they’d recommend–where do they go when they’re looking for new talent?

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Tweaking

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Before starting her current project of making a wardrobe by hand, Ricë would have told you there were two main stages in creating a series of work of any kind. Now she’s changed her mind.

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Podcast with Chris Malone

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Ricë’s friend Chris Malone creates amazing figurative sculptures, and in this podcast he talks about everything from learning to work with porcelain and mosaic to how he found his path to art.

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Art Journaling Prompts

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Just getting started with an art journal and need some jump starts? Ricë provides links to some sites with great art journal prompts that are sure spark ideas for those blank white pages.

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Creating Community

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The first meeting of #StitchLounge was exactly what Ricë hoped it would be: a chance to sit around and chat with others who love hand-stitching. No matter what kind of community you dream of, there’s a way to create one that’s right for you.

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Podcast with BJ Adams

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In this podcast, Ricë talks to BJ Adams, painter and fiber artist, who just completed a series of 80 canvases to celebrate her 80th birthday.

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Don’t Forget #StitchLounge Tonight!

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Join Ricë and Tonia and Melanie and a bunch of their friends for #StitchLounge, a brand-new global virtual sewing salon–tonight!

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Join us at #StitchLounge!

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If you’ve been wishing you had a community of like-minded creative souls to hang out with and create, this is your chance. Join Ricë and her friends on Wednesday night for a virtual stitching salon via Twitter. Here’s all you need to know to join in~~

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Podcast with Laurel Gibson

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Laurel Gibson creates amazing embroideries on used coffee filters–just amazing work. Ricë talks to her about her up-coming show at R Gallery in San Antonio.

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Choosing a Journal You’ll Love

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Choosing a new journal in a new-to-you format can be tough: what kind of binding will work for you? What kind of paper? How big? Veteran journal artist Diana Trout offers some really useful tips in this video and answers some of Ricë’s questions about journals.

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