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Holiday Shopping Guide | Last Week for Christmas Delivery

Our shop is full and ready to ship. Above you will find some of our best sellers and customer favorites | My book The Painted Art Journal, custom made pigment cigars from Europe, handmade leather journals, vintage mineral watercolor sets, I am a Maker Banner, Natural Liquid Inks from Europe, custom made wooden bead bracelets, Boxed Oil Paint Sets from Europe, and Drawing Blocks from Europe. You can shop our full collection HERE. We look forward to wrapping up these …

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The Wait is Over | Instant Access to Poets + Misfits

Do you see beauty all around you? Do you gather words, nature, and objects that others toss aside? Do you create to bring new ideas to life and to also calm the stirrings inside of you? Are you open to what is and what can be? You are a poet! In this course we will take stitches, elements of nature, our mark making and create unexpected beauty. Use elements you already have on hand and often what others consider trash …

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I Am a Maker

    I guess I knew I was a maker almost before I knew anything else was true. Like breathing, I knew to make.   I was the maker on the sidewalk with chalk covered hands, in the front sunroom of the house on Center Street playing school, under the big pines writing in my journal imagining myself as an author, in the barn loft putting on a sold-out play, sketching in the backseat of the car, making up commercials …

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Proof of Life | Journal Entry No. 02

Proof of Life Journal Entry No. 02 Welcome to the Proof of Life journal entry series. Writing more in general, and specifically with you, is something I hope to continue throughout the year. Like many of you, life has become clearer over the past year and there are many things I have dropped along the way that I deeply desire to pick back up. In turn, there are things I never want to pick up again. From the very beginning, …