A few weeks ago I got a message from Jenny Swanson, telling me about a daily art project called the Retrieval Project. She and her husband and family have taken some wonderfully amazing leaps of faith (all in the name of art and living the life they dream of) and after several moves, find that some of their treasured belongings are being held hostage somewhere in Minnesota, while they are in the Bay Area.
Read about their journey and the their incredibly creative Retrieval Project. And see how a painting a day can fund the reunion of a family and their treasured belongings. This project started 1 August and will be going until 19 September.
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Have you been longing/thinking/hoping for a more professional looking blog? Lots of posts this past week about Niya Christine's 5 Elements of Professional Looking Blog Design, but here is one more. The live webinar (broadcast through Typepad's webinar series) was on the 12th of this month, but you can still hear the recording of the live discussion. Niya and Andy Wibbels discuss the best (oh yes, and the worst) of small business blogging, and use lots of great examples from the blogosphere.
Can I just say that this "webinar" is a wonderful resource if you are feeling some blahs about your blog, and wanting some great design input, theory and/or ideas about how to grow, enhance or change your blog.
Niya comes from a strong art background, and has an astute sense of design, an amazing way with words, a finely honed sense of marketing, branding and an inate know-how to spotlight a product, a person, a rabbit or an idea. I am just saying if you need a website or blog design or help with how to market your small business or promote yourself, she's your Girl, (oh and she's an amazing and wonderful friend too).
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So, this is something I have wanted to do for a while, start a new weekly "column" called Lovely Mentionables where I talk about the happenings in my world, and let you all know about artists, people, writers, art happenings and anything else that strikes my Mentionable fancy. Please contact me if you have something Lovely and Mentionable that you'd like me to share.
Thank you so much for the timely link! We're nearing the middle of our project, and it started off with a bang, but has greatly slowed down recently. This is great timing for another surge of visitors! And I love the idea of a weekly lovely mentionables post! I'll be checking in often! =) xo
Posted by: jenny | August 20, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Love the new column!
Posted by: Swirly | August 21, 2009 at 07:32 AM